Dangers while hiking in Crimea
About 15 years ago, our employee fell ill with encephalitis after catching a tick in a pine forest on the outskirts of Simferopol.
But not everything is so sad. I recently read in one local newspaper that many Crimeans received a natural vaccination against encephalitis. If you remove a tick before it has burrowed deeply, then the person receives a micro dose - and this is a kind of vaccination. At first I laughed at this, but then I remembered the incident. One summer I came home after work and just fell on my bed, exhausted, even though I had a job without physical exertion. It was difficult to even raise my head. And the temperature is under 40°. There were no other painful symptoms. And in the morning everything was normal. And doubt crept into my mind, maybe this is how I got the vaccine?
How to deal with this? The most effective remedy for ticks is to tuck your trouser legs into your socks. 90% of the ticks that were removed from me were on my ankles. Of course, regular examination is necessary, every 3-4 hours. In the evening for sure! You need to pull out the tick with tweezers. Pull, but not too hard, so as not to tear the head off. If it doesn't come out, grease it with oil. Please try again in 10 minutes. Lubricate the place where the tick was with food or alcohol. Burn the tick! The media recommend going to the emergency room. The only thing they will do, after removing the tick, is to determine whether this breed (about 20 species) is a carrier of encephalitis and will register you. They are not able to determine whether your specific tick is the carrier. They will also instruct about the signs of encephalitis - weakness and high fever. To be sure, you can get vaccinated. On the forum of the tour club "Mangup" the coordinates were given where you can get the anti-tick vaccine. Deterrents are now available for sale. There is no information about their effectiveness.
A couple of interesting cases related to ticks: A couple of days after the gathering in the Krasnolesye area, a good friend of mine began to itch in an interesting place. How upset he was when he discovered a tick deeply embedded in his *egg. I had to go to the emergency room. He went there as if to execution.
Once, coming from the forest, I found a tick on myself. After I pulled it out with tweezers, I accidentally dropped it on the carpet. At first I was confused, because it was impossible to find it on the carpet, and a tick in an apartment was like a cocked time bomb. But I didn’t panic for long, but started fishing “with live bait” - I stood on the carpet, in the place where I dropped it, with my bare feet. Not even 10 minutes had passed before he was sitting on me.
Excerpt from a note in the newspaper "Southern Capital" dated 07/09/06
...About 500 people contacted us about tick attacks in the first five months of 2004, and the same number in just the sixth month. Unfortunately, the first case of tick-borne encephalitis this year has already been registered in Crimea. At the beginning of June, a resident of Simferopol was picking mushrooms near the village of Opushki, Simferopol district. Returning home, the man discovered a tick embedded in himself. A couple of days later, he developed a high temperature, headache, muscle pain, and general weakness—symptoms characteristic of tick-borne encephalitis. The suspected diagnosis was confirmed by laboratory tests. Now the victim has already completed the necessary course of treatment and has been discharged from the hospital; his condition does not cause concern among doctors. However, infectious disease specialists are currently monitoring two more people with similar symptoms. One of them was attacked by a tick in the forest near Belogorsk, the second - near Bakhchisarai.
Another quote from "Southern Capital" dated 03/12/05
Last year (2004), 1,768 Crimeans turned to doctors who had the misfortune of experiencing first-hand what it was like to be bitten by a tick. At the same time, in 22 people the consequences of the bite were such that doctors suspected infection with tick-borne encephalitis. In two cases these fears were confirmed (the victims underwent long-term inpatient and outpatient treatment and are now completely healthy).
Burning bush
She is also holoscolumnar ash. Mentioned in the Bible. Here is what the Great Soviet Encyclopedia reports: YASENETS (Dictamnus), a genus of plants of this family. Rutaceae. Perennial herbs with unpaired pinnate leaves, similar to ash leaves (hence the name). The flowers are irregular, 5-membered, large, pink, white or purple, in a raceme in the inflorescence. The fruit is a deeply five-lobed capsule. 6 species (according to other data - 2), in temperate and subtropical. belts of Eurasia. In the USSR - White Yam (D. albus), found in the south of Ukraine in the steppes, light forests, shrubs, Caucasian Ya. (D. caucasicus), in the south of Europe. parts and the Caucasus. Their inflorescences secrete a lot of essential oil (in hot weather, the air around the plants can catch fire from a lit match); When touched, essential oil causes skin burns. When I was young, I once walked through the forest in shorts. I didn’t notice where I got in (given his height - up to a meter), and there were burn marks on his leg all season.
Here's a story they recently told me: In the late 70s, in the village of Krasnolesye, a girl went to a nearby forest (in the cold) to prepare for exams. And she inhaled so much essential oils that she died from pulmonary edema.
Danger of getting lost
It really exists only in Karabi and in the forests between the Inner and Main mountain ranges, and in heavy fog on the mountain plateaus. Everything can be decided by purchasing a liquid compass. If you do not know the road, you should always give preference to traveling along ridges rather than riverbeds. Almost all ridges have roads or trails, albeit very rarely used.Thirst
The danger of being left without water often follows from a previous danger, or can be caused by errors on the map. In addition to simple cartographer errors, some springs disappear during the dry season. They can also dry up due to hydrogeological reasons. There is another serious reason - human activity. Many springs in the Greater Yalta area, indicated on maps and having their own names, have been captured. (Concreted with water drainage through pipes to populated areas) If you do not have reliable information about the springs, do not be lazy to ask the tourists you meet, shepherds and foresters. I recommend having an emergency supply of water - 0.5 liters per person, and for Karabi at least 1 liter.
article from the site Unknown Crimea - neizv.crimea.ua