How to Treat Scabies

in #health6 years ago


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Scabies is also known as (scabies) is a skin disease that is very disturbing physical appearance because it will leave a mark of black spots. This disease is caused by a scabies lice attached to the skin that will make the skin injured and can spread to other parts of the skin if not addressed immediately.

Patients with scabies will also experience daily itching on the skin of this scabies, the itchiness caused by this disease is very disturbing the activity of a person even the skin that was previously smooth will become rough and cause minor injuries and the most severe to issue such as pus fluid.

People who suffer from scabies often scratch it due to the itchiness caused by this scabies lice, but actually when we scratch this scabies can easily breed into other skin parts. Therefore try not to touch anything if it already touches scabies and is advised to wash hands using antiseptic soap.

Often a person with scabies will feel less confident, especially if the scabies attack on the open skin such as feet and hands. Therefore if the scab has already attacked the skin then we need to act quickly before it breed and spread to other skin. Scabies most often we see attack on the legs in because the environment is less clean so that scabies can easily stick to the skin of our feet, especially in children.


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The cause of scabies

Fleas or scabie sarcoptes mites are a cause of scabies, these ticks have round and 8-foot-like features that live on human skin epidermis, having a very small and fine size of about 0.5 mm. When this louse has entered the skin layer it will multiply in it by leaving the eggs and then will hatch before it becomes larvae about 3 to 10 days, and able to live in the skin layer for months and even years.

Transmission of scabies

As we have seen from the causes of scabies caused by the mite type of mite sarcoptes scabie automatically mange has the contagious nature of one to others. How does scabies excite? There are several ways of scabies can be transmitted to others such as in direct contact with people affected by scabies, using clothes such as towels belonging to people who infest scabies. Diseases known as scabies are also often in dirty places such as muddy soil so that usually children are often tetular through this environment.

Treatment

Scabies will not go away by itself. It can only be cured with a drug that kills mites. Treatment of ointment that is applied to the affected area of ​​the scabies is highly recommended, the doctor may prescribe pills to treat scabies. Treatment takes up to three days, depending on the medication used. We recommend using a powerful scab disease to kill scabies and this medication will minimize itching in the healing period so that the spread of scabies mites can be prevented.

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