On May 5, Tian Tian received treatment at the Northern War Zone General Hospital. Hospital supply picture
Tick bites in the flesh for 5 days! Want to take, it is difficult …
The child’s grandmother introduced, on May 1, the day the family went to a forest park in Fushun to play, with the child climbing through the woods.
The child’s grandmother.
At that time, the grass are emerging, a piece of it, in the grass also stay, but at that time did not find the child has any abnormal. When I returned that night, the child did not cry, but occasionally scratched his neck.
Adults saw that Tian Tian’s little hands were always reaching for the back of his head, but the child could not reach the place yet, nor could he fully express his intentions. Maybe he felt uncomfortable but could not talk to adults, and adults did not understand what the child’s actions meant. Until four days later, the child’s brother-in-law discovered the clues.
The child’s maternal grandmother.
On May 5th, when my brother-in-law was playing with the child, he saw a small fleshy ball in the hair at the back of Tian Tian’s head, not like ordinary scabies, etc. He shouted to come and take a look, and only then did we gather to take a closer look.
Grandma had heard of tick bites before.
In a hurry, the child was taken to the local hospital in Fushun.
But because the tick had been burrowing into the flesh for five days, it was difficult to remove the tick by conventional means.
It was difficult to get the tick out by conventional methods.
The doctor suggested going to Shenyang for treatment.
The tick has grown dozens of times, and the flesh must be cut to remove the worm
Tian Tian was taken by his family to Shenyang to seek treatment in a number of hospitals, and finally came to the Northern War Zone General Hospital (Heping Hospital) burn orthopedic department.
Liu Zhongbo, attending physician at the burn orthopedic department of the Northern War Zone General Hospital.
When Tian Tian was first admitted to the hospital, the skin on the back of his head was red and swollen, and the tick was already the size of a large grain of rice. We presume that compared to the original large of the tick, has risen dozens of times, the original is also the size of small grains of rice, right.”
According to reports, normal ticks are only the size of small grains of rice, and usually like to bite the skin covered by hair, so it is not easy to be found. But as the ticks continue to grow larger in the process of sucking blood, the average person will soon find the tick bite. But because Tian Tian is a 2-year-old, he had not yet developed mature judgment, which is why he delayed coming in for treatment until the fifth day.
Since the tick on Tiantian’s skin was already large, the
conventional treatment methods were no longer effective.
The hospital eventually performed surgery on Tiantian to
A small piece of flesh where the tick was located was removed.
Doctors also found that
the removed tick was detached from the body
But it was still alive.
On May 8, Dr. Liu Zhongbo changed the medicine for Tiantian. Liaoshen Evening News reporter Ji Qianqiang photo
After the operation, Tiantian did not appear infection, and is now recovering well.
Dr. Liu Zhongbo.
Hospital each year to dispose of about 10 cases of tick injuries, but the majority of adult patients, the smallest patient before there are seven or eight years old, but 2-year-old children were bitten is the first time encountered.
Doctors remind! Don’t tug don’t shoot when you’re bitten
Ticks belong to the arachnid family and are a type of parasite. Its characteristics are long ovoid, dorsal and ventral flattened, wearing a reddish-brown or blackish-brown coat, generally as large as a sesame grain or a grain of rice, and swollen like a soybean after sucking blood.
The tick’s mouthparts are divided into two sides of the chelicerae and the middle of the pendant lip, which can be seen enlarged like a barb, so it can be firmly hooked on the skin, and will not be loosened by anesthesia. Even when the tick dies, the barb does not “loosen its mouth”.
Dr. Liu Zhongbo introduced, usually, found by the tick bite, you can immediately use alcohol or paraffin wax for treatment. Alcohol can anesthetize the tick and make it fall off. Paraffin wax can close the tick, causing it to suffocate and then fall off on its own. However, ticks should not be yanked out directly by hand, nor should they be shot dead directly on the skin. This is because it will cause some of the tick’s tissue to remain in the skin, which will continue to release toxins that may cause infectious diseases such as forest encephalitis, and there is a certain degree of lethality.
As a reminder to the public, ticks are active from May to November, so be careful to wear long-sleeved clothing when you go out in the summer. If you find a tick bite, treat it promptly.
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