Can I go on vacation despite being bitten by a tick?
I think I got a tick on Friday without knowing it. When I took a shower on Saturday morning, I saw the tick and removed it with my hands without it bursting. Its head was still there, with no major damage.
The small red dot is still there and has healed.
As far as I have read on the internet, the risk of becoming infected with TBE in Brandenburg is low.
Still, I'm wondering if I'm allowed to travel with it. The illness is certainly exhausting, but I've spent money on it and don't want to cancel it all because of the tick bite.
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TBE is a problem that only through the advertising of the pharmaceutical industry is so inflated that everyone immediately thinks about it at tick. This is a rare disease and Brandenburg is not a risk area.
BUT: Your real risk is borreliosis. It is far more than a thousand times more common than the TBE and there is no possibility of vaccination. Because you can't earn anything with this, there are no advertising revenues and our quality media rarely report about it. Lyme disease first affects your skin and can then spread to your muscles, heart or brain. It is possible from fever and low symptoms to extensive damage to the nervous system.
The skin attack is shown in about 80% of the cases with a so-called walking roast (see picture example). If you see this, you need to start with effective antibiotics as quickly as possible. You can now prescribe this, if necessary on private recipe (Doxycycline 200 mg, 10 tablets cost 10-13 €). But there were some delivery problems, so I always have a pack at home for such cases. You don't have to take it yet, but if the bite changes or you get a fever, you should have it. Then there is little way for a holiday – but doxcycline increases the light sensitivity of the skin – a sunburn becomes much more probable and you may have to protect yourself against it. Image source Wikipaedia
So vacation could I cancel?
No, just take the antibiotic with you. If you do, you don’t have to run around for a recipe
Otherwise beautiful holiday
Thank you very much!
I hope the medicines will help me. I live in Falkensee and the ticks around Frei just happened unexpectedly to me. You are planning a lot for the holiday and then this little accident happens to me.
These ticks are really pale.
If you were to get FSME, it might be fatal.
But there is also medical care where you go on holiday.
There are not only FSME, but also borreliosis.
You should keep watching the place. If an ever increasing red ring is formed, you should also go to the doctor at your resort.