Scabies mites: symptoms, treatment, photos
The itch mite belongs to the species of blood-sucking parasites, the habitat of which is the surface of the skin of the carrier. However, many of the subspecies of mites do not feed on human blood, and its flaking scales of skin, the stratum corneum.
The itch mite has a small size that does not exceed the poppy seed, and can be considered under a simple magnifying glass.
How is the infection
The probability
In addition to the household way of infection cessationism mite, the infection passes through sexual contact.
Parasite under magnification resembles the shape of a turtle. The moves in the upper layer of the skin paves the female tick. Such moves can have a length up to 5 mm., One female in its lifetime can lay over 50 eggs. Life expectancy of scabies mites is less than two, two and a half months.
Important! In addition to human skin, itch mites may be present in natural tissues, wooden items, and in house dust. This is due to the fact that the treatment of scabies always runs with full insecticidal treatment of habitat of the patient.
If a female tick is remove from the scabby stroke in the skin, it remains alive for up to 15 days, and all this time poses a risk for infection.
Now define the most common factors that contribute to the infestation of scabies:
- Heavy sanitary and hygienic conditions.
- Dirty skin
- Excessive sweating.
The symptoms of scabies
The first manifestation of scabies, which indicates the penetration of the parasite is the formation on the skin small bubble. It is a place of penetration of the bubble into the skin. Few people notice and pay attention, considering just a minor inflammation or just taking a pimple.
The main symptom of scabies is always the strongest itching, which is amplified to the night hours, it was at this time the ticks were particularly participation in the establishment of new moves in the upper layer of the skin. To the rest of the symptoms that occur with scabies include:
- Rash in the form of points, which are represented by nodular-vesicular type.
- Rashes may be arranged in pairs.
- On the skin are visible dotted strokes, itch moves.
- Scratching in places of severe itching. Brought to the blood.
With regard to the localization of scabies, the more often it occurs in the skin folds between the fingers and sides of fingers. It is here that the infected are most often bring themselves to the bloody scratching. In addition, localization is found at:
- The inner side of the wrist joint.
- On the extensor joints.
- On the front of each of the side surfacesbody.
- Armpits.
- On the circumference of the nipples on his chest.
- In the umbilical area on the belly.
- Calf, buttocks, thighs.
- On the penis.
The choice of all these habitats for the tick explained simply enough – the thinness of the layer of the skin. For the mites are required as thinner skin of the carrier to easily chew it moves.
Important! The itch mite, the child selects a few other locations, capturing of the foot on the inner edge. In addition, ticks embedded in the skin of the head and face, hips and buttocks.
Sometimes scabies is a manifestation of the symptom Gorchakov-Ardi. It is characterized by the appearance on the outside of the elbow are small lesions that are similar to papules. They are all covered with crusts. Tick for oxygen it is necessary to dig a hole to the surface, so the rash covered with bubbles dotted with scabs of blood.
Treatment
Before proceeding directly to treatment of the disease, we will note three main postulates that are right for the disease:
- Mange itself is not held, this is not the type of problem that the body can handle. Scabies can last months and years, in waves then Danny smiled, puzzled, again disturbing the person.
- For complete healing required the complete destruction of the mites and all the eggs that can be easily achieved in the treatment process. Therefore, referring to the first point, treatment must!
- A common treatment for scabies does not imply, uses only local funds.
In the treatment of scabies involve drugs in several categories. It may be of synthetic nature-based balms or preparations based on sulfur. Used to great effect means for the destruction of parasites, insecticides in the form of ointments and creams, soap, shampoo. Often in the treatment an excellent job with the destruction of scabies and the means of non-traditional medicine.
To use any of the above methods, the patient needs to take a shower, thoroughly wash the skin that will help to remove most ticks from the surface, and to remove the microflora created by the parasite.
The selected remedy is rubbed into the skin, and the rubbing is around the skin surface, not only in the field of localization.