Domestic mites are very common around the globe, so they can be found on absolutely every continent where a person has 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 themselves are very small. Some species can be recognized with the naked eye. Outwardly, they resemble forest counterparts. In apartments, up to several species from one hundred and fifty varieties can be found simultaneously. Domestic ticks very well accept the environment that a person creates with his life activity. Dusty places, fabric upholstery, carpets, mattresses, pillows, stuffed animals, wardrobes and clothes storage boxes serve as their homes. They are also attracted to human food. Therefore, ticks are found near food.
What are the dangers?
House tick bites can cause allergic reactions, redness and itching. On children's delicate skin, this manifests itself in the first place. Due to their invisibility andsmall in size, they do not attract the attention of people until they show themselves in bites.
Very quickly occupy new territories and master them. So, when moving to a new apartment, it is worth taking with you an object infected with ticks (for example, a chair, 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 fight usually ends not with the complete extermination of the parasite, but with a significant reduction in its numbers.
Domestic ticks can also penetrate from the outside - on clothes and shoes, on pets (especially dogs with thick long hair). Throughout their lives, ticks, like all living things, excrete waste products - feces, which contain many allergens. Since they live in the dust, it is there that the feces of ticks accumulate. When putting things in order in the apartment, the dust that has absorbed some of the feces swirls and floats in the air. When a person inhales, this dust settles on the mucous membrane, thereby introducing new allergens into the body. There is an irritating cough, sneezing, runny nose. If these symptoms appear, you should consult a doctor to determine the cause of the allergic reaction.
Folk ways
When household ticks are found, how to get rid of them at home worries most people, because they did not prepare for this in advance. The following are considered the most common, affordable and effective methods:
- bedding (pillows, blankets, mattresses),carpets, bedspreads must be taken outside in frosty winter for about 1-2 hours, and kept in the open sun in summer;
- minimize the amount of "dusty" things in the house;
- perform regular wet cleaning of premises;
- boil bed linen;
- carry out periodic ventilation of the premises and prevent high humidity;
- use mattress covers;
- change mattresses, blankets and pillows every 5-6 years;
- replace feather pillows with synthetic-filled ones so they can be washed.
Use of chemicals
Before removing household ticks with special chemical solutions, they usually resort to stripping by technical means. Among them are vacuum cleaners with a water filter and air conditioners. In modern industry, there are quite a few means to combat these arthropods. Basically, these are solutions, sprays and aerosols.
The use of chemicals also does not give absolute certainty in defeating them. At the same time, safety measures should not be neglected when spraying these funds. They should be used in the absence of people prone to allergic reactions, children and pregnant women in the room. After using toxic substances in a residential area, it must be ventilated and the surfaces treated with saline. Thoroughly wash dishes and kitchen furniture with detergents to prevent the ingress of toxic substances into the body. After proper processingindoors, the tick population plummets. This means that conditions have been created that are not suitable for living in such a species as house ticks.
A photo of such insects would not be informative without a multiple increase. Modern technology allows you to magnify and examine ticks and their metabolic products hundreds of times, understand their structure and see their abilities.
Food and diet
In most cases, the presence of ticks is not an indication that they will bite a person for food. This happens only when their number has increased and they are forced to find food. The "menu" of these arthropods includes human dandruff, exfoliated skin flakes, hair, feathers, mold and food - cereals, cereals, etc. Exfoliation of human skin flakes occurs constantly. And if you calculate how much time a person spends in bed, then a third of all dead skin goes to mites. Having enough food, they do not want to leave the human home.
House dust mites
A bed soaked in addition with the remnants of human sweat is an ideal habitat and feeding for a huge group of ticks. With a size slightly larger than dust particles, they are able to hide in the most hidden corners of the seams and make their way, if necessary, in any direction. Thus, a human bed, in addition to its main function - to receive tired people for the night, performs for uninvited guests the function of a bedroom, a dining room,toilets and even a cemetery where domestic ticks are buried due to hopelessness. A photo of such ticks looks rather unpresentable.
Recommendations
It's not easy to keep ticks out of your home. It is necessary to provide a large number of options for their migration. When stopping for the night, you should choose proven hotels with well-groomed rooms. Hospitable hosts should take into account that household ticks can visit their house along with guests. You should carefully comb your pets. Pay attention to redness and bites not only in the winter season, but also in the summer, when they can be confused with mosquito and midge bites. Do not purchase used furniture from strangers. Be careful with soft toys. Remember that fabric-covered chairs on public transport can also be their haven, a sort of staging post for house ticks.
How to get rid of such insects at home, we examined in our article, but attention should also be paid to the prevention of their appearance in the home. Everyday struggle with arthropods will not allow this population to spread to a critical size.
Conclusion
Summing up the acquaintance with domestic ticks, we conclude that such neighbors are dangerous for humans not so much with bites as with their secretions that can cause allergic reactions. He alth statistics provide disappointing data onhigh growth of the diagnosis "allergy". At the moment, this diagnosis has been confirmed in every tenth inhabitant of the planet.
The transition from allergies to bronchial asthma is facilitated by household ticks. How to get rid of frequent allergy attacks? The amount of dust in the apartment is an indicator of the number of mites. Dust in its smallest manifestations exists everywhere, even where it is not visually visible. And where there is less of it, there are less favorable conditions for such insects and, accordingly, the population of ticks 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 the methods indicated in this article.
