On May 5, Tian Tian received treatment at the General Hospital of the Northern War Zone. Photo courtesy of the hospital
Ticks sting in the flesh for 5 days! It's hard to get it...
The grandmother of the child introduced that on May 1, the family went to a forest park in Fushun to play, and took the child to climb mountains and walk through the woods.
The child's grandmother: At that time, the grass of
appeared, piece by piece, and stopped in the grass, but there was no abnormality in the child at that time. Back that night, the child did not cry, but occasionally scratched his neck.
Adults see Tiantian's little hands always reaching the back of his head, but the child can't reach the place, and he can't fully express his intentions. Maybe he feels uncomfortable but can't tell the adults, and the adults don't understand what the child's actions mean. It wasn't until four days later that the child's uncle discovered the clue.
The grandmother of the child:
On May 5th, when my uncle was playing with the child, he saw a small meat ball in the hair on the back of Tiantian's head. It didn't look like an ordinary scabies. Gather over and take a closer look.
Grandma had heard about tick bites before,
hurriedly took the child to the local hospital in Fushun,
But because the tick had been in the flesh for 5 days,
It was difficult to remove the worm by conventional methods,
The doctor suggested to go to Shenyang for treatment.
has grown dozens of times larger, and I have to cut the flesh and get the worms.
Every day my family brings me to Shenyang to seek treatment in several hospitals, and finally I came to the Burns and Plastic Surgery Department of the General Hospital of the Northern War Zone (Heping District).
Liu Zhongbo, attending physician of the Burns and Plastic Surgery Department of the Northern Theater General Hospital:
When he was first admitted to the hospital, the skin on the back of his head was red and swollen, and the ticks were as big as rice grains. We speculate that compared with the original size of the tick, it has increased dozens of times, and it turns out to be the size of a millet. "
Size of tick from larva to adult.Data picture
According to reports, normal ticks are only the size of millet grains, and they usually like to bite the skin covered with hair, so they are not easy to be found. But as the tick continues to grow in size as it feeds on blood, the average person will soon discover a tick bite. But because Tian Tian is a 2-year-old child, he has not yet formed mature judgment, so he will delay the treatment until the fifth day.
Because the ticks on Tiantian's skin are already very large, the conventional treatment method of
is no longer effective. In the end, the hospital performed an operation on Tiantian, and
removed a small piece of meat where the tick was located.
doctor also found:
removed ticks from the body,
but still alive.
On May 8, Dr. Liu Zhongbo changed the medicine every day. Liaoshen Evening News reporter Ji Xiangqian photo
After surgery, there is no infection every day, and he is recovering well.
Dr. Liu Zhongbo:
The hospital handles about 10 cases of tick bites every year, but most of them are adult patients. The youngest patient was seven or eight years old, but it was the first time that a 2-year-old child was bitten.
Doctor Alert! Be stung, don't drag, don't shoot
Ticks are arachnids and are a type of parasite. It is characterized by a long oval shape, flat back and abdomen, wearing a reddish-brown or dark-brown coat, generally as large as a sesame or rice grain, and swells like a soybean after sucking blood.
The mouthparts of the tick are divided into two claw feet and a middle lip. You can see that the enlarged lip is like a barb, so it can be firmly hooked on the skin and will not loosen due to anesthesia. Even if the tick dies, the barb doesn't "let go."
Tick bite. Data map
According to Dr. Liu Zhongbo, under normal circumstances, after being bitten by a tick, it can be treated with alcohol or paraffin immediately. Alcohol numbs the tick and causes it to fall off.Paraffin can seal the tick, suffocate it, and then shed it on its own. But don't pull the tick out by hand, and don't slap the tick directly on the skin. Because this will cause part of the tissue of the tick to stay in the skin, which will continue to release toxins, which may cause infectious diseases such as forest encephalitis, and there is a certain fatality rate.
reminds citizens that the active time of ticks is from May to November, so when going out in summer, pay attention to wearing long-sleeved clothes. If you find a tick bite, deal with it immediately.
Source: Liaoshen Evening News
