What to do if a pregnant woman is bitten by a tick

Fresh air is extremely important during pregnancy and for women who just gave birth, after walking in a park or park, their vitality, immunity, and mood increase. However, a simple walk through the park area with trees can bring some discomfort. A tick bite during pregnancy often scares future parents. Do not panic, the main thing is to do everything in accordance with the general rules.

What is the danger

Ticks relate to parasites that not only dig into the body, but also carry serious diseases, from which a person can even die. A tick bite during pregnancy can have various consequences, it all depends on what the studies of the extracted specimen show.

Ticks are dangerous what can cause such diseases:

• encephalitis;
• borreliosis;
• anaplasmosis;
• ehrlichiosis.

There are other diseases, but they are extremely rare. With the above, problems arise with the nervous system, the first symptoms are redness of the skin around the site of the bite, poor health, temperature rise, nausea, vomiting, dizziness. Such symptoms in combination or separately oblige you to consult a doctor who will prescribe further treatment.

What to do if a pregnant woman is bitten by a tick

Recently, a lot of blood-sucking individuals have divorced, they are attacking people more and more often. After a boardwalk, a tick becomes a frequent guest on the body.

Panic should not be raised; if such a tenant is found, there are two ways to go:

1. Go to the nearest emergency room. The patient will receive first aid and immediately you can go home.
2. The second option looks different - try extract the parasite yourself at home. After all, you still need to go to the laboratory at the medical institution so that the extracted tick is examined for infectious diseases.

On a note!

If there is no self-confidence, it is better to refuse to independently remove the tick. Qualified healthcare providers can do this in minutes.

Self-extraction will require some skill and skill. You can not pull out the parasite, so it just bursts. Take out the tick with special fixturethreads syringe, tweezers, swinging slightly from side to side. After extraction the bite site is being processed iodine, alcohol or hydrogen peroxide.

The consequences of a tick bite during pregnancy

A tick bite of a pregnant woman with timely removal of the offender will not cause any pathologies or diseases in both the expectant mother and the baby. If clinical studies have shown that the parasite was not a carrier of disease, there is nothing to fear. Depending on the results tick analysis from the laboratory recommend:

• In case of encephalitis virus, inject pregnant women with immunoglobulin in the next 96 hours after being bitten. Research on this tool is still underway, so the decision is to enter or not to enter immunoglobulin during pregnancy, depends on the attending physician.This measure applies only to those who did not vaccination in medical facilities.
• If the tick has bacterial pathogens, contact with an infectious disease specialist during pregnancy is inevitable. As prophylaxis, light antibiotics can be prescribed or the pregnant woman will simply be observed for 2-7 days.

Important!

It should be understood that Tick-borne Encephalitis poses a threat to the life of both the pregnant woman and the fetus. Often tick-borne infections of the mother provoked miscarriages and other complications during gestation and childbirth.

Tick ​​bite and breastfeeding

In the case when a nursing mother was bitten by a tick, a call to a specialist even after self-extraction of the parasite is mandatory. Only the studies of the tick and consultation with the infectious disease specialist will allow you to choose the right treatment. Breastfeeding after a bite is undesirable, but this is decided by the attending doctor. Official medicine has not recorded a single case of transmission of bacterial infections from person to person with mother's milk. The negative consequences for the child will not be from the disease itself, but from the drugs taken by the mother for treatment.

On a note!

Studies have shown that encephalitis can be transmitted from mother to baby with breast milk. In such cases, the attending physician of a nursing mother may insist on refusal from breastfeeding.

Timely contacting specialists or self-extracting a tick will help women in pregnancy and lactating mothers to avoid many difficulties if the parasite is fully investigated. It is better not to risk either your life or the baby’s life and strictly adhere to the doctor’s recommendations if the tick still bites.