If after the next walk the dog began to scratch, perhaps, it was bitten by a hypodermic tick. In order to avoid infection with infectious diseases which sources is this insect it is necessary to take measures for extraction of the uninvited guest.
It is required to you
- - alcohol;
- - gloves;
- - tweezers;
- - thread;
- - brilliant green;
- - iodine.
Instruction
1. At detection of a tick on a body of a dog as soon as possible show her to the veterinarian. It will remove the carrier of infections much quicker and more safely, than you. Besides, the veterinarian will process a wound, will define whether the tick managed to infect a dog, and will appoint treatment. If the parasite bit your pet far from settlements, or you have no opportunity to leave to the veterinarian without loss of time, try to save situation independently.
2. Surely put on hands of a glove or wrap up them in tissues, otherwise you can be infected with encephalitis. If near at hand there are tweezers, process it and a wound alcohol or cologne. Take tweezers a little body of a tick as it is possible closer to a skin of an animal. Before beginning to pull out, try to loosen slowly and very carefully a tick here and there. Then the unscrewing movements accurately take an insect.
3. If the tweezers did not appear, find a thick thread. Wrap up in it a tick at the basis of a sting and pull for both ends, loosening a little body of an insect here and there. Pull out a tick very slowly and accurately, if you break off an insect, and the head with a proboscis will remain in a body of a dog, the risk of infection will not decrease. It was not succeeded to pull out the uninvited guest entirely? You do not press an insect fingers at all. Without the assistance of the veterinarian in this situation not to manage.
4. If the insect is taken completely, at once burn it then wash up hands with soap. Disinfect the place of a sting at the pet iodine or brilliant green. At the first opportunity show a dog to the veterinarian. Can happen so that the animal already managed to be infected with a dangerous disease. And disturbing symptoms – weakness, high temperature, vomiting - can be shown even a week later after a sting.