The tick causes a lot of misery. Nature lovers, dog owners and others who go out a lot this summer can request a free drawing pass from Landscape Noord-Holland this year. This is a debit card sized card for safe tick removal. Each year, more than 1.5 million people are bitten by the tiny creature and this can have dire consequences. For example, Lyme disease is passed on by the tick.
Ticks are active in the summer. Now that it is almost tropically warm and it will become warmer due to climate change, people will experience more nuisance from ticks, which thrive in warm weather. At this point, you don’t have to have made a long trek through the woods to be bitten by the critter. You can also get a tick bite in your own backyard or after an afternoon of mini golf.
Free sign pass
The drawing cards that you can now request for free from Landscape Noord-Holland will fit in your wallet. The card has a notch, so that you can easily remove a tick. But prevention is better than cure; to avoid being bitten, it is best to wear closed clothing, long sleeves and long pants. But it is always important to check your clothes and your body when you get home.
It is a myth that ticks are high in the trees and would fall on animals or people. Ticks are in the woods, park, moor, dunes or in your own backyard. There they often sit near trees, shrubs or tall grass and dead leaves. They are also common on the moor. There is even a Lyme route on the Bussumerheide. There are six signs along two kilometers with information about the tick and Lyme disease
Lyme
The tick can cause a lot of trouble; Lyme disease is transmitted by ticks. The tiny ‘nymph’ – immature tick – is probably the main vector of this disease. After the tiny animal has sucked blood from small animals or birds, the tick can already become infected. About twenty percent of the ticks in the Netherlands are infected with the bacteria. If the tick sucks blood from people, the Lyme bacteria can be transferred to humans.
You can recognize a tick bite by a discoloration of the skin, which gets bigger and bigger, at the spot of the tick bite. The discoloration or circular shape can appear up to three months after you are bitten.
Within 24 hours the chance of being infected with Lyme is small. The longer the tick is on your body, the greater the chance of infection. If you are unlucky enough to get infected, not everyone gets the same symptoms. Common symptoms are fever and possibly muscle and joint pain, but joint complaints, skin complaints, nerve complaints or heart complaints can also arise.
Most likely in Drenthe
Although you also run a high risk of a tick bite in North Holland, the risk is greatest in Drenthe. In ten years time,tekenradar.nl has received 80,000 reports of tick bites throughout the Netherlands. Most reports came from Gelderland, North Brabant and North Holland, but Drenthe has the highest number of tick bites in relation to the size of the population.
2023-07-20 12:29:57
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