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Ticks: Small but mean
Tips for everyday life Ticks: Small but mean – How can you protect yourself? – Permanent damage caused by a tick bite: accident insurance helps. A tick is small, silent and dangerous. With TBE - a dangerous form of meningitis - and Lyme disease, it transmits diseases that, in the worst case, can be life-threatening. Mild winters and rising temperatures also cause the pests to become active earlier and earlier. Anyone who spends time outdoors must expect tick bites. The pests feel particularly comfortable in bushes, in sparse undergrowth, on the edges of forests and in tall grass. What is particularly insidious is that the tiny parasite often goes unnoticed...
Ticks: Small but mean
Tips for everyday life
Ticks: Small but mean
– How can you protect yourself?
– Permanent damage caused by tick bites: accident insurance helps
A tick is small, silent and dangerous. With TBE - a dangerous form of meningitis - and Lyme disease, it transmits diseases that, in the worst case, can be life-threatening. Mild winters and rising temperatures also cause the pests to become active earlier and earlier. Anyone who spends time outdoors must expect tick bites. The pests feel particularly comfortable in bushes, in sparse undergrowth, on the edges of forests and in tall grass.
What is particularly insidious is that the tiny parasite often nests in the host unnoticed. In humans, the bloodsuckers prefer to settle in the armpits, groin, knee bends, belly button and hairline. There they pierce the skin of their victims and suck themselves on. The secretion that they inject into the wound has an anticoagulant and anesthetic effect. It can take several days for a tick to get fed up.
Bitten and then
Pathogens are usually not transmitted immediately after the bite, but often hours later. A targeted tick search after spending time outdoors helps to find the annoying bloodsuckers and remove them quickly: Experts recommend touching the parasite up close with tweezers or tick tweezers in order to then twist it out with as little pressure as possible. The head must not get stuck. – You should stay away from old household remedies such as glue or oil. They don't help, but rather harm, because in its death agony the tick often injects pathogens into the wound.
A vaccination protects against TBE. HUK-COBURG Insurance also warns against Lyme disease: a bacterial infection that can lead to permanent health damage, including disability. That's why you should keep an eye on the injection site for about four weeks. As soon as red spots appear, a doctor's appointment is important.
If an illness results in permanent damage, it is good to have precautions. Private accident insurance helps. However, not every contract automatically includes a tick bite and its consequences. To be on the safe side, you should ask your insurer about the extent of your insurance coverage.
With over 13 million customers, HUK-COBURG is the largest insurer for private households with traditionally inexpensive offers, from motor vehicle insurance to liability, accident, property and legal protection insurance, as well as private health, life and private pension insurance. With premium income of around 10 billion euros in 2024, it is one of the ten largest German insurance groups. The traditional focus is motor vehicle insurance: with 14 million insured vehicles, it is the largest German car insurer. It is one of the largest providers on the market in household contents and personal liability insurance. HUK-COBURG, based in Coburg, employed a total of over 10,000 people at the end of 2024.
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HUK-COBURG corporate communications
Kerstin Dirtler
Willi-Hussong-Strasse 2
96444 Coburg
09561-96-22609
www.huk.de
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Karin Benning
Willi-Hussong-Str. 2
96444 Coburg
09561-96-22604
www.huk.de
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