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Spice deterioration holiday
"They attacked suddenly: middle of the night when you sleep soundly during a romantic walk in the woods or an innocent swim with a mask and flippers to the colorful corals. Their tentacles, teeth, spines and proboscis will try to reach out to you in any way - to drink blood or inject poison - and then disappear, leaving you with a corrupted by health, mood and leave. Redigo tells about unpleasant creatures with whom it is better not to meet during the holidays, and gives a brief educational program, how to be saved, if you're in trouble already.
Ticks
These tiny arthropods, armed with claws and pincers, live throughout Russia - from Kamchatka to the Volga region. There in the Crimea, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and other European countries. Dangerous not all ticks, but only those that are carriers of tick-borne encephalitis virus. The bite of the tick can be fatal: a man starts a fever, begins intoxication, then there is damage the spinal cord and brain.
How to escape: the inhabitants of Siberia, the Urals and the Far East (that is where wandering army of infected ticks) have long known that no vaccinations against encephalitis nature is better not to leave. If the vaccination is not, you will save the vigilance carefully inspect clothing and body during and after forest walks, hold paths, use repellents (in their composition should be diethyl toluamide (DEET) or permethrin). If you are still under attack by the tick, remove it, try to wriggle out of the movements (most importantly - do not crush, first, you can smother the insect, brushing wound oil) and then go to the doctors with little body of the tick that physicians can determine whether or not he encephalitis.
Mosquitoes
Stumble on these furious bloodsuckers during a beach vacation - simple. Mosquitoes are found in the tropics and subtropics, love warm and humid jungle, and happily snapped at people during meetings. Annoying insects are carriers of many diseases - from fever mosquito (Africa, India and the Balkans) and Carrion's disease (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia) to skin ulcers (Afghanistan, Brazil, Peru, Saudi Arabia and Iran).
How to escape: mosquito nets on the windows, as well as creams and sprays against insect bites - best friends while relaxing in the tropics. Before traveling in potentially dangerous countries - Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and tropical sub-Saharan Africa - it is desirable to vaccinate against hepatitis B and yellow fever (in some countries vaccination certificate is mandatory, in others is a recommendation). During a tour of the jungle (eg hike to Mount Roraima or rafting on the Amazon), wear long-sleeved clothing, pants, and shoes with black socks.
Medusa
It is believed that in the tropical waters of the box jellyfish (its other name - the sea wasp), as well as its ruthless sister, nicknamed "the Portuguese ship" killed the same number of swimmers, divers and surfers as sharks and crocodiles together. Their stinging tentacles are deadly. They contain millions of stinging cells that are fired at an incredible rate as a sacrifice. At first one feels injections in different places, then - very sharp pain. The scars from the bites of jellyfish can remain for a lifetime. These nasty creatures live mainly off the coast of South-East Asia and Australia. Recently, "boats" got into the habit to swim on the beaches of Phuket.
How to escape: do not go into the water immediately after the storm - jellyfish (or snatches of their tentacles, which can be dangerous, too) often washes ashore powerful wave. If you avoid encounters with these creatures did not succeed, you should know that after the bite in any case can not pull or rub the sting stung place a towel, as even more stinging capsules discharged into the skin of the victim. As long as you hurry to medical care (unfortunately, the bite of the sea wasp medicine most often powerless), neutralizes poison homemade vinegar or dilute acetic acid.
Sea urchins
Sea urchins seen anyone who looked under water corals. These prickly creatures like nap on the sand among the rocks, hiding behind a piece of shell. The main danger is posed by their needle - up to 30 centimeters long (some - with the monstrous notches) that dig into the legs for those who inadvertently stepped on sea urchins underwater. There were times when these creatures literally "shot" his spikes in swimming by humans. In tropical species urchin needles are poisonous (fortunately not fatal), but even without the poison thorn poison guaranteed vacation. The affected foot swells, a person temperature rises, begins the inflammatory process. Remove the thorn from the wound is extremely difficult - fragments may remain at the foot of a few months, until dissolve.
How to escape: the whole colonies of sea urchins live on the bottom of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, as well as off the coast of New Zealand, North and South America. Carefully inspect the bottom, when you go in the water (or vice versa - landfall) and be especially vigilant during diving. Hedgehogs live mainly in the rocks, so on the sandy beaches of their much smaller. From needle hedgehog can save and rubber slippers, although there were times when easily pierced with thorns sole. The process of extracting the needle from the wound is extremely painful, and without the help of physicians is indispensable. However, there are extreme athletes who pull the needle yourself: first hit the place where got a thorn, with a heavy object to crush it into small pieces, and then the wound is filled with lime juice, which dissolves the needle for a few hours.
Mote
Wherever you decide to spend a vacation - for fishing on the Volga, or in stuffy Brazilian tropics, in the forests of Scotland, or dacha in the suburbs - be ready for the regular attacks of mosquitoes that inhabit all continents except Antarctica. These tiny bloodsucking Diptera adore heat and dampness, so the clouds are found in ponds and humid jungle. Biting midges cause a lot of trouble: bitten place swells and itches terribly (midges do not drink blood like mosquitoes and gnaws a piece of flesh that causes inflammation), allergic reactions are not uncommon. In addition, the midges are vectors of serious diseases - such as river blindness causing eye damage (in Africa).
How to escape: you will certainly be useful insect repellent ointments, lotions and sprays. If you do not hesitate to walk with a mosquito net on his head (look in stores that sell paraphernalia for hiking) - and use this method of protection, especially because it is considered one of the most spectacular. Bitten place, try not to comb; lubricate it with ammonia or baking soda solution. If the tumor grows - see your doctor.
Fish lionfish
Lionfish (their other name - the fish-lions and zebra fish) are considered as one of the most unusual creatures in the Indian Ocean. They have a bright color (body painted white stripes) and large veeropodobnye fins, which cover works well - they hide sharp poisonous spikes. Especially these needles stabbing fish lionfish nobody wants, using them as a defense: stumbled on a thorn, you can get under the skin of poison sverhnepriyatny charge. In some cases, the dose is small, and the person feels a twinge. However, sometimes meeting with disheveled Rybina can end paralysis of skeletal and respiratory muscles, and then choking and drowning swimmer.
How to escape: watch the lionfish from afar and do not disturb their peace. These 30-centimeter fish never attack first, to the last taking a wait and see position. Diving with a mask or engaging in diving, beware lionfish like to watch the prey, disguised as a bright coral, and it is difficult to notice at first glance. Naporovshis a dangerous spike, consult a doctor immediately.
Viper
Family Vipers great, but the most dangerous to humans is considered to be the common viper venom, which is home to many European countries (Italy, France, Switzerland, Greece, Bulgaria, Great Britain, etc.). In Russia, this gray-black reptile with a zigzag pattern on the back is found in Siberia, the Far East, Sakhalin and the Urals, namely in the forests, the mountains, fields and marshes. When attacking viper bets at lightning fast, and if it misses, hit repeated again. Check that the snake is going to attack, quite simply, before a series of attacks reptile makes himself comfortable, rolling in the ring and pulling the neck. This adder is quite loud hisses and pofyrkivaet. Like most snakes, adder does not attack the first person, but rather tries to crawl away quickly when he heard the sound of approaching footsteps. Angry animal can only be stepped on or strongly frightened. Then the viper show all that capable. Not much is different, who is in front of her, the viper can be continuously applied to 30 strokes. There were times when an angry viper Dolby lying in front of her stone or a thick branch, smashing his head into the bloodstream.
How to escape: if you saw a viper - better to just leave without coming close, and in any case it is not trying to provoke. Despite the fact that the viper bite is rarely fatal, the affected person should immediately seek medical help. If the hospital is far and the way to the nearest doctor will take a few hours, you suck the venom wound through the victim, first picking up a mouthful of water, and then carefully spitting. Note that in the mouth should not be wounds (and the teeth - are not damaged by caries), otherwise poison can penetrate into the body. When the bite you need to drink more water, if possible - to eat hot soup.
From itself: A friend's wife was bitten by a viper in the country, when she (the wife) came to her in the grass. Crick was a lot of ... My friend on the car and into the city in the "fast" ... The city has already begun to suffocate his wife, but in time. In hospital for three weeks. The doctor said that time because the wife discovered intolerance kako crap, which gave effect to the breath
Ticks
These tiny arthropods, armed with claws and pincers, live throughout Russia - from Kamchatka to the Volga region. There in the Crimea, Spain, Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and other European countries. Dangerous not all ticks, but only those that are carriers of tick-borne encephalitis virus. The bite of the tick can be fatal: a man starts a fever, begins intoxication, then there is damage the spinal cord and brain.
How to escape: the inhabitants of Siberia, the Urals and the Far East (that is where wandering army of infected ticks) have long known that no vaccinations against encephalitis nature is better not to leave. If the vaccination is not, you will save the vigilance carefully inspect clothing and body during and after forest walks, hold paths, use repellents (in their composition should be diethyl toluamide (DEET) or permethrin). If you are still under attack by the tick, remove it, try to wriggle out of the movements (most importantly - do not crush, first, you can smother the insect, brushing wound oil) and then go to the doctors with little body of the tick that physicians can determine whether or not he encephalitis.
Mosquitoes
Stumble on these furious bloodsuckers during a beach vacation - simple. Mosquitoes are found in the tropics and subtropics, love warm and humid jungle, and happily snapped at people during meetings. Annoying insects are carriers of many diseases - from fever mosquito (Africa, India and the Balkans) and Carrion's disease (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia) to skin ulcers (Afghanistan, Brazil, Peru, Saudi Arabia and Iran).
How to escape: mosquito nets on the windows, as well as creams and sprays against insect bites - best friends while relaxing in the tropics. Before traveling in potentially dangerous countries - Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and tropical sub-Saharan Africa - it is desirable to vaccinate against hepatitis B and yellow fever (in some countries vaccination certificate is mandatory, in others is a recommendation). During a tour of the jungle (eg hike to Mount Roraima or rafting on the Amazon), wear long-sleeved clothing, pants, and shoes with black socks.
Medusa
It is believed that in the tropical waters of the box jellyfish (its other name - the sea wasp), as well as its ruthless sister, nicknamed "the Portuguese ship" killed the same number of swimmers, divers and surfers as sharks and crocodiles together. Their stinging tentacles are deadly. They contain millions of stinging cells that are fired at an incredible rate as a sacrifice. At first one feels injections in different places, then - very sharp pain. The scars from the bites of jellyfish can remain for a lifetime. These nasty creatures live mainly off the coast of South-East Asia and Australia. Recently, "boats" got into the habit to swim on the beaches of Phuket.
How to escape: do not go into the water immediately after the storm - jellyfish (or snatches of their tentacles, which can be dangerous, too) often washes ashore powerful wave. If you avoid encounters with these creatures did not succeed, you should know that after the bite in any case can not pull or rub the sting stung place a towel, as even more stinging capsules discharged into the skin of the victim. As long as you hurry to medical care (unfortunately, the bite of the sea wasp medicine most often powerless), neutralizes poison homemade vinegar or dilute acetic acid.
Sea urchins
Sea urchins seen anyone who looked under water corals. These prickly creatures like nap on the sand among the rocks, hiding behind a piece of shell. The main danger is posed by their needle - up to 30 centimeters long (some - with the monstrous notches) that dig into the legs for those who inadvertently stepped on sea urchins underwater. There were times when these creatures literally "shot" his spikes in swimming by humans. In tropical species urchin needles are poisonous (fortunately not fatal), but even without the poison thorn poison guaranteed vacation. The affected foot swells, a person temperature rises, begins the inflammatory process. Remove the thorn from the wound is extremely difficult - fragments may remain at the foot of a few months, until dissolve.
How to escape: the whole colonies of sea urchins live on the bottom of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, as well as off the coast of New Zealand, North and South America. Carefully inspect the bottom, when you go in the water (or vice versa - landfall) and be especially vigilant during diving. Hedgehogs live mainly in the rocks, so on the sandy beaches of their much smaller. From needle hedgehog can save and rubber slippers, although there were times when easily pierced with thorns sole. The process of extracting the needle from the wound is extremely painful, and without the help of physicians is indispensable. However, there are extreme athletes who pull the needle yourself: first hit the place where got a thorn, with a heavy object to crush it into small pieces, and then the wound is filled with lime juice, which dissolves the needle for a few hours.
Mote
Wherever you decide to spend a vacation - for fishing on the Volga, or in stuffy Brazilian tropics, in the forests of Scotland, or dacha in the suburbs - be ready for the regular attacks of mosquitoes that inhabit all continents except Antarctica. These tiny bloodsucking Diptera adore heat and dampness, so the clouds are found in ponds and humid jungle. Biting midges cause a lot of trouble: bitten place swells and itches terribly (midges do not drink blood like mosquitoes and gnaws a piece of flesh that causes inflammation), allergic reactions are not uncommon. In addition, the midges are vectors of serious diseases - such as river blindness causing eye damage (in Africa).
How to escape: you will certainly be useful insect repellent ointments, lotions and sprays. If you do not hesitate to walk with a mosquito net on his head (look in stores that sell paraphernalia for hiking) - and use this method of protection, especially because it is considered one of the most spectacular. Bitten place, try not to comb; lubricate it with ammonia or baking soda solution. If the tumor grows - see your doctor.
Fish lionfish
Lionfish (their other name - the fish-lions and zebra fish) are considered as one of the most unusual creatures in the Indian Ocean. They have a bright color (body painted white stripes) and large veeropodobnye fins, which cover works well - they hide sharp poisonous spikes. Especially these needles stabbing fish lionfish nobody wants, using them as a defense: stumbled on a thorn, you can get under the skin of poison sverhnepriyatny charge. In some cases, the dose is small, and the person feels a twinge. However, sometimes meeting with disheveled Rybina can end paralysis of skeletal and respiratory muscles, and then choking and drowning swimmer.
How to escape: watch the lionfish from afar and do not disturb their peace. These 30-centimeter fish never attack first, to the last taking a wait and see position. Diving with a mask or engaging in diving, beware lionfish like to watch the prey, disguised as a bright coral, and it is difficult to notice at first glance. Naporovshis a dangerous spike, consult a doctor immediately.
Viper
Family Vipers great, but the most dangerous to humans is considered to be the common viper venom, which is home to many European countries (Italy, France, Switzerland, Greece, Bulgaria, Great Britain, etc.). In Russia, this gray-black reptile with a zigzag pattern on the back is found in Siberia, the Far East, Sakhalin and the Urals, namely in the forests, the mountains, fields and marshes. When attacking viper bets at lightning fast, and if it misses, hit repeated again. Check that the snake is going to attack, quite simply, before a series of attacks reptile makes himself comfortable, rolling in the ring and pulling the neck. This adder is quite loud hisses and pofyrkivaet. Like most snakes, adder does not attack the first person, but rather tries to crawl away quickly when he heard the sound of approaching footsteps. Angry animal can only be stepped on or strongly frightened. Then the viper show all that capable. Not much is different, who is in front of her, the viper can be continuously applied to 30 strokes. There were times when an angry viper Dolby lying in front of her stone or a thick branch, smashing his head into the bloodstream.
How to escape: if you saw a viper - better to just leave without coming close, and in any case it is not trying to provoke. Despite the fact that the viper bite is rarely fatal, the affected person should immediately seek medical help. If the hospital is far and the way to the nearest doctor will take a few hours, you suck the venom wound through the victim, first picking up a mouthful of water, and then carefully spitting. Note that in the mouth should not be wounds (and the teeth - are not damaged by caries), otherwise poison can penetrate into the body. When the bite you need to drink more water, if possible - to eat hot soup.
From itself: A friend's wife was bitten by a viper in the country, when she (the wife) came to her in the grass. Crick was a lot of ... My friend on the car and into the city in the "fast" ... The city has already begun to suffocate his wife, but in time. In hospital for three weeks. The doctor said that time because the wife discovered intolerance kako crap, which gave effect to the breath
