Infectious disease doctor Irina Davydova told what consequences can occur after a tick bite. Discuss
Ticks are carriers of life-threateninginfections - tick-borne encephalitis. This disease is fraught with serious consequences: cerebral edema, paralysis of the respiratory muscles. Tick-borne encephalitis can cause various severe and life-threatening complications, but the most dangerous are cerebral edema, paresis and paralysis of the respiratory muscles with the development of respiratory failure up to respiratory arrest, the formation of severe pneumonia.
The first signs of tick-borne encephalitis arefever, weakness, muscle pain, severe headache, vomiting. The classic clinical symptom is damage to the central and peripheral nervous system.
“The insidiousness of tick-borne encephalitis lies inthe fact that the pathogen is transmitted even with a short-term suction of the tick. Unfortunately, the removal of a tick does not relieve a person of the risk of contracting tick-borne encephalitis, since already in the first portions of the saliva of a hungry tick there is a sufficient amount of viral particles for the development of the disease, ”the doctor emphasized.
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