Home ticks are very common around the globe, so they can be found on absolutely every continent where people built housing. For a long time they have been accompanying people, receiving from a person not only a house, but also food.
What are these insects?
Ticks per se are very small. Some species can be recognized with the naked eye. Outwardly, they resemble forest counterparts. In apartments, up to several species of one hundred and fifty species can be found simultaneously. Home ticks very well accept the environment that a person creates with his life. Home for them are dusty places, fabric upholstery, carpets, mattresses, pillows, soft toys, wardrobes and drawers for storing clothes. They are also attracted to human food. Therefore, ticks are found near food.
Why are they dangerous?
Mite bites can cause allergic reactions, redness, and itching. On children's delicate skin, this manifests itself first. Due to their invisibility and small size, they do not attract people's attention until they show themselves in bites.
Very quickly occupy new territories and develop on them. So, when moving to a new apartment, it is worth taking an object infected with ticks (for example, an armchair, pillow or bed), and they will spread throughout the new territory. And then it becomes difficult to fight an enemy that is not visible, and this struggle usually ends not with the complete extermination of the parasite, but with a significant reduction in its number.
Domestic ticks can also penetrate from the outside - on clothes and shoes, on pets (especially dogs with thick long hair). Throughout their life, ticks, like all living creatures, secrete waste products - feces, which contain many allergens. Since they live in dust, it is there that tick feces accumulate. When restoring order in the apartment, the dust that has absorbed part of the feces, whirls and hovers in the air. In humans, when inhaling, this dust settles on the mucous membrane, thereby introducing new allergens into the body. An annoying cough, sneezing, runny nose appears. If such symptoms appear, you must consult a doctor to determine the cause of the allergic reaction.
Folk ways
When home ticks are discovered, how to get rid of them at home, most people worry, because they did not prepare for this in advance. The most common, affordable and effective methods are the following:
- bedding (pillows, blankets, mattresses), carpets, bedspreads must be taken out in the winter in the cold for about 1-2 hours, and in the summer to keep in the open sun;
- minimize the amount of "dust-collecting" things in the house;
- produce regular wet cleaning of the premises;
- boil bedding;
- periodically ventilate the premises and prevent excessive humidity;
- use covers for the mattress;
- replace mattresses, blankets and pillows with a frequency of approximately 5-6 years;
- replace feather pillows with others that have synthetic filler to wash them.
Use of chemicals
Before removing home ticks using special chemical solutions, they usually resort to stripping with technical means. Among them are vacuum cleaners with a water filter and air conditioners. In modern industry, there are quite a lot of tools to combat these arthropods. Basically, these are solutions, sprays and aerosols.
The use of chemicals also does not give absolute confidence in the victory over them. In this case, you should not neglect safety measures when spraying these funds. They should be used in the absence of people prone to allergic reactions, children and pregnant women. After using poisonous substances in a residential building, it must be aired and treated with saline. Thoroughly rinse dishes and kitchen furniture with detergents to prevent toxic substances from entering the body. After proper treatment of the premises, the tick population drops sharply. This means that conditions were created that were not suitable for living such a species as ticks.
A photo of such insects would not be informative without a multiple increase. Modern technology allows hundreds of times to increase and consider ticks and their metabolic products, to understand their structure and see their abilities.
Nutrition and Diet
In most cases, the presence of ticks is not an indicator that they will bite a person for food. This happens only when their number has increased and they are forced to find food. In the "menu" of these arthropods appears human dandruff, exfoliated skin flakes, hair, feathers, mold and food products - cereals, grains, etc. Exfoliation of human skin flakes occurs constantly. And if you calculate how much people spend time in bed, then a third of all dead skin goes to ticks. Having enough food, they do not seek to leave the human home.
Home dust mites
The bed, saturated in addition with the remains of human sweat, is an ideal habitat and feeding place for a huge group of ticks. Having a size slightly larger than dust particles, they are able to hide in the most hidden corners of the seams and make their way in any direction as necessary. Thus, the human bed, in addition to its main function - to take tired people for the night, performs for uninvited guests the function of a bedroom, a dining room, a toilet and even a cemetery, where house mites are buried due to hopelessness. A photo of such ticks looks rather unpresentable.
Recommendations
Avoiding getting into the house of ticks is not easy. It is necessary to provide a large number of options for their migration. When stopping for the night, it is worth choosing proven hotels with well-kept rooms. Hospitable owners should take into account that house ticks can visit their house with guests. Carefully comb your pets. Pay attention to redness and bites not only in the winter season, but also in the summer period, when they can be confused with mosquito and mosquito bites. Do not purchase used furniture from strangers. Be careful about soft toys. Remember that chairs with fabric lining in public transport can also be their haven, a kind of transshipment point where house ticks can be found.
How to get rid of such insects at home, we examined in our article, but you should also pay attention to the prevention of their appearance in the home. The daily struggle with arthropods will not allow this population to spread to critical sizes.
Conclusion
Summing up the acquaintance with home ticks, we conclude that such neighbors are dangerous for a person not so much with bites as with their secretions, which can cause allergic reactions. Health statistics provide disappointing data on the high growth rate of the allergy diagnosis. At the moment, this diagnosis is confirmed in every tenth inhabitant of the planet.
Transition from allergies to bronchial asthma is facilitated by home ticks. How to get rid of frequent allergy attacks? The amount of dust in the apartment is an indicator of the number of ticks. Dust in its smallest manifestations exists everywhere, even where it is not visually visible. And where it is less, there are less favorable conditions for such insects and, accordingly, the tick population is minimal.
We hope that you will never encounter this problem, and you will learn about bites from scientific articles. If, nevertheless, such a problem appears before you, then you can solve it only by applying those methods that are indicated in this article.