ED-3220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Antivenom, Visual Impairment, Hobo
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Scrape away with a card or use tweezers. Use gloved hand to grasp it with tweezers. Do not use petroleum jelly or nail polish to remove it. Place tick in jar with rubbing alcohol to kill it. Monitor the site periodically after: rocky mountain spotted fever. Microscopic bacteria from the wood or dog tick to its host. Call a health care provider: cont"d, babesia infection. Caused by bites of infected lone star tick. Spread by deer tick and black legged tick. Tick must remain in skin for 36-48 hours to transmit the disease. Can spread up to 7 inches across. Center may be light color, outer edges red and raised. Similar to flu (fever, chills, weakness, pain) Mosquito bites west nile virus: cannot be passed person to person, signals. Spider bites and scorpion stings: bites of black widow or brown recluse can be fatal, northwestern brown (hobo) spider is also dangerous, signals.
