What to do if you get bitten by insects

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Where there is summer, there are insects. Where there are insects, it itches and hurts. After being bitten, you can sleep well and not suffer from the consequences if you follow some rules.

The best help against insect bites is protection and prevention, but it is impossible to spend the summer sitting by the river in a protective suit, not to walk in the evenings away from working fumigators, not to run barefoot on the grass. This means that you will be bitten.

There are a few basic principles that apply to all insect bites.

1. Antihistamines and special ointments that are applied to the site of the bite help from itching and swelling: "Fenistil-gel", "Rescuer", take "Suprastin" or "Zodak" (or any drug for allergies) inside.
2. Most bites require only disinfection, wash the place and treat with Miramistin.
3. Anything that hurts badly or for a long time should be shown to a doctor.
4. You can not drink anything alcoholic, so as not to increase the edema.

Allergy sufferers! Talk to your doctor about prescribing drugs that should be given urgently if a severe reaction develops. And always carry them with you in the right dose, even if you have to learn how to give injections to do this.

Otherwise, proceed as appropriate.

Mosquito

At night, listening to the disgusting squeak, many are ready to agree to bites, so long as no one interferes with sleep. In the morning, the situation changes, and severe itching haunts. The best remedies are all the same antihistamines.

it is recommended to wash the bite sites with a solution of soda or lubricate them with herbal juice: lavender, parsley, mint, plantain. As a last resort, look in the refrigerator and use fermented milk products.

Bee

Bee stings are easily identified by severe pain, a burning sensation at the site of the bite, and an abandoned sting. It must be removed first of all in order to stop the flow of poison into the blood. Just grab the sting with your fingers or squeeze it out, because this way the risk of destroying the capsule with the poison is higher and getting a full combat charge.

If you understand that it is impossible to pick up the sting with tweezers without touching the poisonous bag, take any hard and flat object (a plastic card will do), firmly press its edge against the skin and brush away the sting.

Then proceed with general and local therapy. Wash the bite with ordinary soap, salt solution (a teaspoon in a glass of water), treat with an antiseptic and apply a cold compress. Inside - a remedy for allergies and more liquid.

Wasp

Unlike bees, wasps do not leave stings in the wound. On the one hand, this is a plus, since it does not need to be deleted. On the other hand, the wasp can sting more.

Wasps have behavioral features. If one is aggressive and begins to sting, others may join her. Therefore, the first aid for a wasp bite is to leave the scene and not become bait for a wasp swarm.

Everyone's reaction to wasp poison is different: the temperature may rise and nausea or vomiting may appear. To neutralize and remove this poison, you need to drink more, preferably warm tea with sugar.

And apply cold compresses to the site of the bite, treat it with a solution of soda or infusions of calendula and plantain.

Gadfly or horsefly

Large flies bite very painfully. But the problem is not this, but the huge number of bacteria that gadflies and horseflies carry. The bite site swells a lot, hurts, and can fester. Therefore, the bite must be treated with an antiseptic, an antihistamine must be taken. If the swelling develops severely, cover it with a thick bandage or cold compress.

Any pain reliever, for example, ibuprofen, will save you from discomfort at first. If the wound is festering, you need to go to the doctor for an antibiotic ointment. Among other things, the gadfly can lay a larva in the wound. The chance is extremely low, but there is.

But plantain leaves will definitely not help. They are unlikely to be sterile, and adding new bacteria to the bite is not worth it.

Mite

Everyone is afraid of tick-borne encephalitis, but little is afraid. Therefore, they go to the forest in unsuitable clothing, which does not protect against tick bites. However, it is possible to find tall grass, in which a small colony of arachnids lives, within the city limits. In the summer, for prophylaxis, after walking in parks and squares (and even more so after walking in the woods), examine the skin, especially in natural folds. Ticks bite imperceptibly, so they are detected when it becomes difficult to get a bloodsucker. If you're unlucky and you still find it:

1. Do not pull out or smear anything with oil. Go to the emergency room, there they will remove the tick without any problems and without the risk of tearing off its head, leaving it in the wound. At the same time, the tick will be sent to the laboratory to find out if it has suffered diseases. Doctors will tell you what and how to do next.
2. If there is no way to quickly go to the doctors, find such an opportunity.
3. When you decide to postpone the visit to the doctors, take out the tick. For extraction, special medical tweezers have already been invented, with which you can remove the tick without leaving the head in the wound. If there is no such device, use your fingers. Be sure to wrap your fingers with gauze, grab the tick as close to the skin as possible and pull it out, turning it slightly around the axis.
4. Disinfect the bite site. If a black dot remains, do not try to remove it.
5. Did you manage to get the tick alive? Put it in a jar and go to the laboratory to take the bloodsucker for analysis.
6. Keep a close eye on the bite site and your condition. An increase in temperature or the appearance of a round red spot around the wound is a reason to postpone all business and rush to the doctor.