What is Scabies
Scabies is an infectious disease caused by parasitic skin due to mite infection. Mite is invisible to the naked eye of the skin parasite, the size of the adult is about 0.3mm, parasitic on the cuticle of human skin, the parasite will dig under the skin tunnel, will leave eggs and feces caused by the skin of the play itch, if contact with others, easy to cause infection.
Routes of transmission
Scabies is mainly through close contact with the main infection, including direct contact with people or share towels, sheets, quilts, underwear, etc., mite left the human body about two weeks before death, so the mite infection latent clothing in two weeks will also infect others. Commonly living together, the most contagious, often see a family in the home or group living infected with the family, or children from the nanny infection and children and children with each other infection. In addition, the school, the army, the maintenance courtyard, the prison and so on is the scabies good hair place. Scabies can violate anyone, regardless of their standard of living or level of knowledge.
Clinical Symptoms
The skin can be found in millet large small papules, its color slightly red to crimson, visible small blisters or small pus blister. These rashes can cause itching, especially at night, so scratches, crusts or small pigmentation are seen on the skin, resulting in secondary bacterial infections or eczema-like changes as a result of scratching.
Mite like skin folds and soft place, such as finger seam, elbow joint flexion side, wrist joint, armpit, navel around, buttocks, female breast especially nipple, male lower body and surrounding skin especially scrotum, wrapping, glans, serious even skin will infection.
Scabies Diagnosis
Because the mite is invisible to the naked eye, it is necessary to have an experienced dermatologist from head to toe for careful skin examination and detailed interrogation, and ask for symptoms (such as nocturnal itching) and medical history (same symptoms in family or group life) that usually diagnose most cases, and if the doubters sometimes add a simple check, Microscopic observation of the lesions at the light of the skin crumbs, if you see mite worm or eggs, you can diagnose.
Treatment Methods
According to the doctor's instructions smear anti-scabies drug, the patient must bathe every day, the whole body smear once, 8-12 hours after washing off, for a week. And on the "Eighth day" repeat the second course, all treatment time at least two weeks.
Scabies drugs are not available for infants, pregnant or lactating women or for epilepsy and neurological disorders. If there are complications, such as infection, can be cast antibiotics, eczema changes, can be given to antihistamines and short-term steroid ointment. It is noteworthy that people who have the same condition in their family or group life must be treated at the same time and take preventive measures to avoid contagion.
How to prevent
Scabies is an infectious disease, in addition to treatment, must do disinfection, will not infect others or themselves, prevention work as follows:
First, personal clothing, sheets or sheets with hot water (60. C above) Hot 10 minutes or boil, then clean.
- Second, quilts or can not be hot clothing can be placed under the sun exposure or static two weeks do not use, to mite natural death.
- Third, when the disease does not share with others the bed linen, towel, underwear.
- Four, not during the onset of public places (such as hotels, restaurants) overnight, or naphthalene warm.
- Five, Caregivers: care must wear gloves, have been contaminated should be replaced at any time, if there is suspected of the same symptoms, caregivers need a disease to dermatology outpatient treatment
- Six, infected: pruning nails to avoid scratching the skin caused by two degrees of infection, carefully collected nail crumbs and drop skin crumbs, double plastic bags sealed to avoid others contact and often wash their hands.
Conclusion
First of all to the scabies care should be clean in time, especially for the contaminated clothing, daily necessities to thoroughly disinfect, and to avoid excessive scratching, timely pruning nails to prevent infection, cleaning medicine, bathing and changing clothes must be found in the first time to deal with. Early detection of early treatment is the prevention of Scabies begotten.
