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Chapters

0:00 Introduction
0:50 How to remove ticks
1:30 Signs and Symptoms of Tick Bite
2:44 Tick-borne Diseases
3:10 Treatment



• Be very cautious while getting rid of a tick, if you jerk off its head might be left embedded in your skin leading to some infections or diseases.
• Grab your skin as tight as you can and pull it out carefully.
• Another useful method involves using tweezers.
• If you or your pet has one latched to their skin the easy way is to get a hold of the tick by sterilized tweezers, grab it gently and pull out slowly making sure no body parts are left behind.

Signs & Symptoms of Tick Bite
• You are most likely to get ticks if you have spent some time outdoors in the trees, grass, or shrubs.
• Their host is you and your pet, and they can pass between the two with ease.
• Two bites of ticks are harmless without causing any prominent symptoms,
• however, they can cause some allergic reactions that can lead to certain dangerous symptoms or can even be deadly.
• You may experience some of the below symptoms if you are sensitive to tick bites:
➢ A rash
➢ Burning feeling
➢ Pain or swelling
➢ A hard bump
➢ Panting in serious cases

Some examples of tick-borne disease are:
➢ Full body rash or irritability
➢ Vomiting
➢ Headache
➢ Chills
➢ Neck stiffness
➢ Pain in joints or muscles
➢ Swollen lymph nodes
➢ Fever
➢ Fatigue
➢ Sleep disturbance or night sweat
➢ Cognitive Decline
➢ Vision changes
➢ Sensitivity to light
➢ Skin outbreaks
➢ Neurological problems
➢ Regression in children
➢ Mood changes

• These symptoms might appear after days or weeks of the first bite.
• If you experience any of these symptoms consult your doctor and let them know about the tick’s bite.

Tick-borne Diseases
Some tick-borne diseases are:
• Tularemia (infectious animal disease)
• Lyme disease
• Colorado Tick Fever
• Ehrlichiosis (bacterial illness-causing flu-like symptoms)
• Rocky Mountain spotted Fever (viral infection)
• Powassan
• Anaplasmosis
• Babesiosis

Treatments
• These symptoms can lead to legs, arms, or half-face paralysis if not treated.
1. Lyme Disease
• With any Lyme disease, symptoms one must take at least take:
➢ three weeks of oral antibiotics

• with every week if symptoms return you need a new batch of antibiotics.
• If antibiotics are taken within 72 hours of the bite it can decrease the risks of Lyme disease.

1. Rocky Mounted Spotted Fever
• These symptoms show up from 2 days to 2 weeks.
• It can cause serious illness and long health complications.
• Antibiotic Doxycycline is recommended by doctors in this case.

2. Ehrlichiosis
• The symptoms show up 1 to 2 weeks after the bite.
• This is also treated with Doxycycline.

3. Tularemia
• Patients usually recover by taking antibiotics, but the symptoms can last for weeks.

4. Babesiosis
• Usually treated with a dose of antibiotics or a mix of anti-parasitic drugs.

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