How to treat scabies: characteristics and treatments

When infected with scabies, symptoms first appeared just a redness, little knob and severe itching. Followed by the formation of nodules, small bubbles, and these small nodules and boils broke out on the surface of the skin.Scabies is a disease caused by insects. Patients often reported in areas where populations live crowded, cramped, poor hygiene conditions, accommodation is not clean ... Children are subject to high risk of suffering from scabies.1. Characteristics of the species of scabiesScabies scientific name Sarcaptes scabiei causing itching on the skin and is often called scabies. Common scab infection was discovered and circulated widely around the globe.Small step size 0.2 - 0.4 mm and almost impossible to see with the naked eye. In fact, almost the whole life scabies parasites in the skin and in human skin. To grow, develop and lay eggs; scabies burrow winding tunnels in the skin. These tunnels day long by about 1 - 5 mm and can be seen on the skin of the thin spiral as long as a few millimeters (mm) to several centimeters (cm). Development time from egg to adult scabies can at least take about two weeks.Parasitic scabies can live in the human body from 1 to 2 months. If you leave the host parasites, scabies only able to survive for several days. Scabies is characterized by common parasites in the thin skin folds such as the fingers, next to the hand, foot, elbow, knee folds, penis, breast, and shoulders. In children, scabies can also be seen in the face and elsewhere.2. Disease transmission and symptomsScabies is usually transmitted directly by close contact between people with the same people as those who sleep in the same bed.Most transmission of scabies occur in nature because if a family member of the scabies, the ability of others in the family will suffer from scabies.When infected with scabies, symptoms first appeared just a redness, little knob and severe itching. Followed by the formation of nodules, small bubbles, and these small nodules and boils broke out on the surface of the skin. So should people suffering from scabies itch to scratch often lead to bleeding and fluid in the vesicle scabies, scabies can spread conditions.The scratching scabies more regular and constant cause multiple infections or secondary infections such as boils with, pus pimples, eczema. A round of scabies enter rushing typical cause allergies can develop in areas of the body that normally are not infected with scabies such as the buttocks, around the waist, the shoulder blades.When infected with scabies, symptoms itching and spreading unclear, after about 4 - 6 weeks before clinical symptoms appear clearly. For those infected with scabies for the first time, the development can spread in just a few days.Common method to determine the scabies infection is to use sharp knife, small to pry out some skin infection, take swabs transferred to a slide plate and the detector on the microscope to detect. Oil can be used to collect and check the scabies infection. Another method is to use the ink applied to the infected skin and then rinse off, the test will detect the parasitic row.3. How to treat scabiesRecently, the drug Ivermectin, a drug used to treat tapeworm cysts and lymphatic filariasis detected also effective treatment for scabies. Drugs were treated with single doses of 100 to 200μg for 1 kg of body weight.Conventional treatment methods is the use of conventional chemical insecticides such as benzyl benzoate 10% aqueous anointed, lindane 10% aqueous anointed, Crotamiton 10% cream and Permethrin 5% cream. Permethrin is currently recommended chemicals used to treat scabies because it works well and has few side effects.After successful treatment, sometimes itching still continues to happen but eventually goes away completely. The chemicals can be used to anoint the skin in all parts of the body from the neck down, not only at the site of the itching.Principles used to effectively after anointing chemicals, the next day will be washed away. The treatment can be dressed about 15 minutes to the chemicals have time to dry out. Most of the treatments are to respond, patients can be cured, but sometimes it takes treatment phase two ways a later time ranges from 2-7 days.One thing to be cautious not to treatment with chemical insecticides too much because it will be affected by the toxicity of some compounds. Since scabies is a contagious disease spread nature of the family should be the treatment for both is needed to prevent the problem re-infected with scabies.

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