SCABIES: MEANING, SYMPTOMS, CAUSES AND CURE

What is SCABIES?

Scabies is a skin infection caused by a mite known as the Sarcoptes scabiei. Untreated, these tiny mites can live on your skin for months. This condition causes an itchy red patches on the skin.It is a highly contagious condition that can easily be passed from one person to another through direct skin contact. Although scabies can be bothersome it can usually be treated effectively. Treatment often consists of medications that kill scabies mites and their eggs. The scabies rash may start anywhere but it is usually between fingers, on wrists, inside the elbow, around the waist and under armpits.

What are the symptoms of SCABIES?

After the initial exposure to scabies, it can take up to six weeks for symptoms to appear. The main symptom is continuous and intense itching that worsens at night. RED Blisters like rashes are seen in the affected areas.
Common sites for scabies in older children and adults include the:

  • Wrist
  • Elbow
  • Armpit
  • Private areas
  • Waist
  • Buttocks
  • Areas between the finger
  • In infants and young children, common sites of infestation usually include the:
  • Scalp and in the head.
  • Palms of the hands .
  • Soles of the feet.
  • Cause of Scabies

    The eight-legged mite that causes scabies in humans is microscopic. The female mite burrows just beneath your skin and makes a tunnel where it deposits eggs. The eggs hatch, and the mite larvae work their way to the surface of your skin, where they mature and can spread to other areas of your skin or to the skin of other people. The itching of scabies results from your body's allergic reaction to the mites, their eggs and their waste.
    Close physical contact and, less often, the sharing of clothing or bedding with an infected person can spread the mites.

    How can SCABIES be Treated?

    Scabies needs proper treatment and proper medications can easily do the job. For the medications on Scabies see the medications section, good medicines are provided by Alvizia HealthCare.
    Now there are some precautions that must be followed:

  • The best way to prevent getting scabies is to avoid direct skin contact with a person known to have scabies
  • It’s also best to avoid unwashed clothing or bedding that has been used by an infected
  • Make sure to wash all of the following in hot and soapy water: clothing, bedding, towels and pillows
  • Medication

    ALVIZIA HEALTHCARE provides medicine for the treatment of any type of parasitic problems. Atmoburn Plus Suspension by (ALVIZIAHEALTHCARE) is a very good medicine for the same.

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