Scabies in adults: symptoms, photos first signs, treatment

Disease refers to the most common skin parasitic diseases and is easily transmitted from the patient to the healthy.

The first signs of scabies appear a few days after contact. Below are detailed photos to know exactly what the scabies look like in an adult, its symptoms in the initial stage and how to treat it.

• The microscopic parasite scabies mite causes the disease, namely, its females. Once on the skin of a person, they immediately begin to penetrate into the epidermis, making moves. These moves can persist for one and a half months.

The female lays up to three eggs a day. Two weeks later, the hatched larvae themselves become capable of multiplying. The males die after mating.

The life period of ticks consists of two periods:

• reproductive( path from the egg to the appearance of the larva);
• metamorphic( development from larva to adult).

Methods of infection with scabies

Scabies are transmitted only by contact, from a sick person. Sometimes you can get infected through common household items - towels, bed linens.

Infection is possible only at the metamorphic stage, when young individuals are able to move from person to person and for a short time to exist in an external environment. Dust, natural cloth, wood are most favorable for their preservation outside the person.

However, indirect( indirect) infection through household items is still not so common, due to the small viability of the mite. If sanitary norms are violated, especially in public places, bathhouses, trains, hotels, infection is likely.

Symptoms, photo first signs of scabies

The main characteristic symptom of the disease is severe itching, resulting in combs, blisters and rashes on the skin. Itching is worse at night, after a hot shower.

The degree of manifestation of a symptom depends on the number of parasites and individual characteristics of the patient - the sensitivity of nerve endings and the degree of resistance to the products of mites( feces, oral fluid, the secretion of the oviduct).

Combing the skin, the patient can infect it further, which leads to pustular inflammation, microbial eczema, dermatitis. Other complications include septicemia, erysipelas, abscesses, lymphadenitis.

On close examination of the surface of the skin, you can see the sinuous thin whitish moves made by ticks. They are not located everywhere, but in certain parts of the body.

The presence of the hair cover( it should be absent or minimal) is important, the degree of keratinization of the skin( the more dense the epidermis layer, the more likely it is to hatch all the laid eggs), the lowered temperature of a specific area.

Typically, the disease affects primarily areas of the body with the most thin skin - the elbows, the groin, the surface around the navel, the interdigital areas - hence the onset of symptoms of scabies( the onset of itching).

In young children, the localization is different - palms and soles, face, buttocks. At an early age, the first signs of scabies can easily be confused with urticaria or atopic dermatitis.

If you do not know how to treat scabies or do it wrong, then a disease complicated by pyoderma can lead to sepsis and death.

Usually for diagnosis enough symptoms and visual inspection. Sometimes in doubtful cases a microscopic examination of the scraping is required. Under a microscope, adult mites, excrement and eggs become visible.

So is a variety of scabies - children's, nodular, pseudotochia, Norwegian.

Treatment of scabies in adults

By itself this disease does not pass - for treatment of scabies in adults, topical agents are used - special ointments and solutions.

Before applying anti-scabies, in the absence of pustules, you must take a hot shower. This promotes softening of the horny layer of the skin and better penetration of the drug, and also removes parasites from the surface of the skin.

The scabies are made on the basis of benzyl benzoate, thiosulfate and hydrochloric acid, sulfur, tar, permethrin, ivermectin. The choice of drugs will depend on the age, neglect of the disease, the presence of complications and their severity, pregnancy.

It is more expedient to apply the medicine in the evening, when parasites are more active. In addition, the night time will be enough to kill the itch mite.

Do not rely on home treatment for scabies folk remedies, it can be useless and lead to an increase in the disease. Special ointments are inexpensive and effective, it's simply unreasonable to neglect them.

For the complete destruction of the parasite , it is necessary to adhere to certain rules:

• to treat everyone living with the patient;
• does not abbreviate the course of treatment;
• shortly cut nails, where the eggs of mites accumulate when combing the skin;
• medicinal preparations should be rubbed into the body with hands, as there are many itch moves on the hands;
• means the entire body is treated, with the exception of the scalp and face, and in children up to the age of three they are also treated;
• can be washed no earlier than 12 hours after treatment with the product.

In parallel with the treatment of scabies, the skin needs to be treated and clothes, the patient's linen is washed or boiled. Other things that can not be washed, ironed with a hot iron, air for a week in the fresh air.

Sometimes it becomes necessary to process the room. For this purpose, an aerosol is used based on esdepaletrin and piperonyl butoxide, affecting the nervous system of the scabies mite.

After the course of treatment, the results are monitored within one and a half months.

Prophylaxis of scabies

If a patient is identified at any stage of scabies, measures are taken to prevent the disease of persons who have been in contact with the patient. To do this, it is sufficient to treat the skin with anti-maltreatment preparations only once.

The incidence of scabies does not depend on the level of hygiene, the mite is not susceptible to soap. Therefore, daily use of the shower does not reduce the likelihood of infection and further development of the disease with possible contact with the patient.

This disease does not have a spontaneous relapse - the resumption of the disease is possible only with a second infection.