A 2-year-old boy in Liaoning was bitten by a tick on the back of his head. How serious is the boy's injury?

A two-year-old boy in Liaoning was bitten by a tick on the back of his head. How was the boy's injury? Let's take a look.

As the temperature rises, everyone is going outdoors for activities. But this is also the season when bugs are most common, especially ticks.

This bug can cause a lot of damage. The vampire is only the size of a lion and will be completely invisible to you and your family. You simply can't see them with the naked eye. Recently, a two-year-old boy in Liaoning suffered from a particularly large piece of flesh on the back of his head. It was painful. Later, after a doctor's examination, it was discovered that this kind of insect had got into it. After five days, the insect had actually grown ten times larger. Live well.

The child's grandmother said that on May 1st, they went to Fushun Sankuishi to climb mountains together, walk through the woods and cross the grass together. No problems were discovered at the time. When I got home that night, the child had no reaction and just scratched his neck.

Perhaps the two-year-old child’s original expression ability is not strong. I already feel very uncomfortable, but I can't express it. Four days later, the child's brother-in-law discovered the problem.

On May 5, the child’s uncle was playing with the child and found a small meat ball in his hair.

At this time, the grandma hurriedly took the child to the hospital, but by this time the tick had been lurking in the skin for five days. Conventional methods failed to fish it out, so the child came to Shenyang.

According to the attending doctor of the Department of Burns and Plastic Surgery, the child's skin was obviously red and swollen when he was first admitted to the hospital, and the ticks were already the size of rice grains. A normal tick is only as big as a millet. Ticks continue to grow as they feed on blood. Most people will notice a tick bite very quickly, but because the child was only two years old, he was not caught in time.

So the hospital finally performed surgery on the child to cut off the small piece of flesh where the tick was. I believe there were no other symptoms after the operation and the child recovered well. Looking at the energetic, lively and active children, grandma finally smiled.

I would like to remind everyone that after you find yourself bitten by a tick, you should immediately use alcohol or paraffin to treat the wound. Alcohol has an anesthetic effect and can make the ticks fall off. Paraffin seals the tick in the skin, causing it to suffocate and then fall off on its own. However, you cannot directly pick out the ticks with your hands, nor can you slap the ticks to death on the skin, because the residual venom will still remain in the skin, which may cause extremely harmful infectious diseases such as forest encephalitis. In severe cases, Can cause death.

So I would like to remind everyone to pay attention to the physical condition of your children when traveling outdoors. If you find any abnormalities in your children, you should check them as soon as possible. It will be bad if you delay the opportunity for treatment.