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torsdag 28 juli 2011

Vital Tips That Are Essential To Understand If You Contract Scabies

By Neville Stanley Xavier


Perhaps, more often than not, scabies are easily spread by those who have been infested the very first time. This is possible because, even though you are contagious, the symptoms of the infestation may not appear for from two to four weeks after the initial infestation. So, of course, the infested person has no clue about the condition. The infestation will be easily transferred by prolonged, skin-to-skin contact. Be that as it may, there are certainly other ways that someone can become infested with mites other than direct bare-skin contact. We will explain some of the fundamental facts about the scabies mite, and other topics of interest, in our report.

For a reliable diagnosis, your health care provider has a simple, pain free test they can do to verify if you have scabies. It's important to identify anyone you know who might have the same intense itching that you are experiencing. The initial symptom your doctor will see will usually be a red rash. Your doctor may also observe little blemishes that resemble pimples. The test is only a matter of your doctor carefully scraping the top of the rash area and regarding it with a microscope. The size of a mite has been compared to a grain of pepper so it's easy to understand why it's necessary to view the sample under magnification. As expected, as with most other diseases, you can incur complications to your scabies infestation. The major symptom of a scabies infection is extreme itching. This is the body's allergic response to the invasion of the mites. One unfortunate result of the intense itching is that people cannot help but scratch the infestation and, as a result, they develop skin sores. Sometimes it is not only possible, but probable, for these skin sores to become infected with bacteria. Impetigo is a type of bacterial infection that can happen in a person with scabies and can produce red, dry, scaly, irritated areas of skin. Antibiotics are the only recourse you have to get rid of the bacterial infection. These are taken along with the scabies medications.

Once the mites are in your skin, and they are able to find a way to grow and thrive, they will continue to do so until it is not possible to continue. Although scabies can breed virtually anywhere, there are a few locations on the body that they are able to multiply much more easily. Both genders are candidates for scabies infestations, yet men and women host scabies more productively in different locations.

Men and women alike share a common fate of potentially hosting scabies in the buttocks area. Beyond that, you can see the gender differences with distinction. In men, the genital area is a suitable location for scabies to survive. Women need to be very leery of the nipple area and the sides of the breast in regard to scabies manifestation.

If you are sleeping in someone else's bed who has scabies, you may get the mites because of your contact with the sheets for several hours. Scabies can also travel on objects, and because they can live for 36 hours away from a human host, they can travel in this manner as well.

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