Medical advice The Flemish people has still little knowledge about tick bites and Lyme disease. Therefore, launches the Agency for Health Care again today for the campaign “don’t Be crazy. Do the tekencheck”, containing tips on how you yourself check for tick bites and the bugs, if necessary, safely remove it. Because we do that en masse is still wrong.
Sign everywhere in nature, and therefore not only in forests. “Especially from april to October, you run the risk of a tick bite. It is important then to you after a walk or activity in the nature to check for tick bites. That would be a habit should be,” says the Agency for Care and Health.
do a lot of people that do not. According to a recent sample that the agency had run a thousand Flemings, shows that almost two-thirds of itself doesn’t check for tick bites after being in nature. As many Flemish people are wrongly convinced that they with long pants and long sleeves no tick bite and the Lyme disease by a tick bite caused may be incurable, while that is easy to treat if you are there on time.
it Also shows that 80 percent of the respondents have a tick in an incorrect way remove, increasing the risk of becoming sick increases. “You find a tick? Remove the quiet and in one motion, without turning them flat or stand to push,” says Flemish minister of public Health Jo Vandeurzen (CD&V). “The campaign,” don’t Be crazy. Do the tekencheck’ also gives tips to a tick properly remove and shows you how different types of tekenverwijderaars used correctly.”