Tick Bites

Symptoms A tick bite is usually harmless. A local allergic skin reaction with itching may develop within hours to two days after the bite. Rarely, a dangerous anaphylaxis is possible. The transmission of infectious diseases during the tick bite is problematic. Two diseases are of particular importance: 1. Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused … Tick Bites

Insect Bites

Symptoms Three different main courses can be distinguished: 1. A mild, local reaction manifests as burning, pain, itching, redness of the skin, and formation of a large wheal. The symptoms improve within 4-6 hours. 2. in a moderately severe course, there is a more severe local reaction, with symptoms such as reddening of the skin … Insect Bites

Lyme Diseases: Causes and Treatment

Symptoms The disease has traditionally been divided into 3 stages, which, however, cannot be clearly distinguished from each other and do not require patients to pass through them obligatorily and sequentially. The staging has therefore been abandoned by some experts in favor of an early and late phase or organ-based classification. Borrelia initially infect the … Lyme Diseases: Causes and Treatment

DEET

Products DEET is most commonly used in the form of a spray, but is also sold in other dosage forms. Among the best-known products in many countries is Anti Brumm forte. Some products are combined with other repellents. DEET was developed by the United States Department of Agriculture for the military in the 1940s and … DEET