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In a hike, on a picnic and even in our own yard, mosquitoes and ticks await us. Insects-parasites not only spoil the impression of summer rest, but also seriously endanger our health. Every year the list of diseases carried by them becomes more and more long and awesome.

To encephalitis and Lyme disease, tropical infections that were not previously heard in the US - Zick viruses and West Nile fever - were added. The situation is further aggravated by the fact that this summer in America there is a real invasion of mosquitoes and a significant increase in the population of ticks.

How to protect yourself from mites?

The danger of ticks is that they can tolerate a serious disease - the encyphalitis, which pushes on the central nervous system and leads to paralysis.

Favorite places of sucking ticks on a person: behind the ears, on the neck, under the armpits, in the groin.

The mites are a brick-red body with a dark brown shield on the back and an elongated proboscis, the total body length is 2.5-4 mm, the males are smaller than females and do not exceed 2.5 mm. The attached mites grow in size as the bloodshot grows, they become pink, subsequently gray, the size of a small pea on the body.

Dogs of the UK die from a disease that the mites suffer

Dog owners are warned of the deadly disease found in the UK, which is carried by ticks. Now, the state health authorities are figuring out how four dogs that have never traveled outside of Britain could become infected with dog babesiosis. One dog is reported to have died, and the rest are in serious condition.

How is an allergy to dust mites treated?

How is an allergy to dust mites treated?

Measures to treat allergies to dust mites include:

• minimization of contact with allergens, for which it is necessary to carry out measures for the destruction of dust mites;

• use of medicinal products as prescribed by the attending physician;

• Desensitization - measures to reduce the perception of the body of allergens contained in domestic dust.

The bite of mites can cause allergy to meat

Mites - a real scourge of US residents. Especially those who like outdoor recreation. Even if they do not carry the infection, then the process of removing the tick from the skin is laborious and painful. As it turned out, the mite Amblyomma americanum has another very unpleasant property - its bite can "award" you with an allergy ... to meat.

How to get rid of dust mites?

How to get rid of dust mites?

If suspicions of tick-borne allergy and, especially, when confirming such a hypothesis, a number of actions are shown that make it possible to alleviate the condition of an allergic and minimize the harmful effects of parasites on his organism:

Dust mite - allergic

What is an allergy to dust mites?

Allergy is an immune reaction of the body, which, due to its hypersensitivity, responds with a malfunction, a violation of certain parameters of vital activity upon contact with the stimulus. Irritant in this case is the feces of mites and parts of dead individuals. The former contain enzymes Der p1 and Der f1, and the latter contain chitin, which, when inhaled into the air, irritates the mucous membranes of the respiratory system, upon contact with the skin, causes a reaction on their part, and sometimes also enters the gastrointestinal tract, triggering Mechanism of food allergies.

Dust mites than they are harmful?

Why are dust mites harmful?

A close, if not invisible, interaction with dust mites is fraught with the emergence of an allergy to a person with a possible overflow into bronchial asthma. The allergen is not contained in mites, or in domestic dust, but in their excrement, more precisely in their component of the digestive enzymes Der p1 and Der f1. At the same time, the chitin of deceased parasites becomes the irritant of the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract.
If physicians distinguish three varieties of allergies, then barn mites cause them all, even individual manifestations of food:

Dust mites

• What is a dust mite?
• Varieties of potentially dangerous dust mites for humans

Man constantly interacts with other living organisms, including the simplest ones - microbes, bacteria, parasites. Some of them trigger pathogenic processes in our body, without some, the normal vital activity is impossible, and the third category is formed by the so-called conditionally pathogenic organisms, whose harm occurs only under certain circumstances.

In the US, a child died of Spotted Rock fever: how to protect yourself

In Indianapolis, a two-year-old girl died. The exact cause of death is not yet established, but doctors suspect that the child is ill. The spotted fever of the Rocky Mountains is a disease that is carried by ticks.

As the aunt of the deceased Kenley - Jordan Clapp - all began with a temperature of about 38 degrees. The hospital did not find anything suspicious and advised to drink plenty of fluids and rest, but when the temperature of Kenly rose to 40 degrees, doctors gave her antibiotics. It did not help, the temperature did not sleep on the fourth day, and then the girl had a light pink rash that later darkened to a dark purple color.

America Carefully, the mites wake up!

With the onset of Summer, ticks are being activated in the United States, transmitting a number of deadly diseases to people, including Lyme Disease. The victims of these insects annually become about 300 thousand Americans. Fortunately, most bitten people turn to doctors on time and receive timely protection from the spread of the infection. However, hundreds of people die or remain disabled for life.

Doctors warn of the appearance of encephalitis mites

There have come warm days, and many Americans are trying to spend a weekend away from the city bustle. Going to nature, do not forget about mites - a serious threat that can be waiting for you in regions with lush vegetation. 

WHAT IS DANGEROUS FOR A CAT'S EAR MITES?

Often food about the diseases of dogs, but cats do not rightly ignore attention, you need to correct this defect. A few days ago I met an interesting cat, Which had several diseases and one of them - a cat's ear mites, you can see it in the first photo at the beginning of the post.

It is interesting that the animal is about 5 years old and all this time the owners thought that it had just dirty ears. Indeed, the cat's ear mite can be confused with ordinary dirt.