How does itch scabies cause disease?

Meet the itch manch (tick). In Latin - Sarcoptes scabiei. He has almost invisible to our eyes the size, but very quickly makes itself felt: his female gnaws in the stratum corneum of our skin moves, lays eggs, and after a week there appears up to 20 adults.

The tick lives in the skin and feeds on it, causing a very contagious disease - scabies. About it, we'll talk in more detail.

Symptoms of scabies

The illness is transmitted by contact from the patient or through contaminated objects. As a rule, this occurs in places of special crowding of people, in violation of the norms of hygiene.

But the way the scabies will look depends on the state of the human immune system, as well as on the stage of development of the tick, caught on the skin of the infected person. If there is a mature itch itch, then within a day there will be signs of illness, and if the larva, then only on the fourth day, when its maturation is over.

Clinical picture of the disease

In typical cases, itching occurs, especially at night. This is due to the fact that the tick actively moves at this time of day.

On the skin, you can consider curved whitish lines up to 7 mm in length. This is the course in the stratum corneum, which was laid by the female zudna. At the end of each stroke there is a tiny (with a pinhead) bubble. If it is carefully opened, then inside you can find the culprit of the disease.

Movement of the tick on the moves makes us strongly itch, that's why on the skin there are point or linear combs, and they form purulent-bloody crusts.

Most itchy itch likes to settle where the skin is more tender and thinner: on the chest, buttocks, around the navel and between the fingers.

Types of scabies

There are several types of scabies. So, for example, "scabies of cleanliness" has a small amount of rashes, itching at night does not bother so much.

Nodular scabies are manifested in the form of red-brown nodules, which arise under tick movements. At the same time, education data are quite resistant to anti-scratch therapy.

A cortical (Norwegian) scabies - the most contagious, supported by human immunodeficiency, because of which throughout the body will form crusts. Itching may be weak, and therefore the mite unhindered spreads throughout the body of the patient. Nails, hairy parts of the head, elbows and knees are affected in this form of the disease.

Scabies mite. Treatment

For those who suspect the presence of the described ailment, it must be remembered that the itch itch will not disappear by itself. This can only be helped by the correct and timely treatment! Otherwise, the symptoms will bother you for months and even years.

In modern medicine there are effective means for getting rid of this disease. They are safe and relatively inexpensive. These are, as a rule, antiparasitic and antiseptic drugs (for example, the means "Spregal", "Bensokryl", "Suprastin"). Widely used in our country is sulfuric ointment (10-20%), which is rubbed during the week into those places on the body where the itching is localized. Before the procedures start, you must thoroughly wash out to remove the ticks and pathological microflora on the skin.

Fulfillment of all appointments of the doctor will help you get rid of such an unpleasant illness, keeping working capacity and not getting complications. Be healthy!