Lice or lice - is a contagious disease caused by a parasite on the body of a man three kinds of lice. lice danger that insects can be carriers of some serious diseases - typhus and relapsing fever.
Causes of head lice
Pediculosis cause three types of lice:
- Head lice live on the scalp, mustache, beard, eyebrows and eyelashes,
- lice, live on the body and in the skin folds, concerning clothing,
- pubic lice or ploschitsy, live in pubic hair.
Lice can proliferate only under conditions of heat during cooling below 15-10 degrees they die. Pubic and head lice lay nits on the base of the hair, body lice lay eggs in the folds of clothing. After a week of them hatch into larvae, which mature and eating blood. Adults live up to 40 days.
Methods of infection
The source of infection - the only person lice transmission is through close contact in organized collectives, public transport, use of common things, and a bed for pubic lice - infected sexually.
The incidence of head lice everywhere, especially high chances in the low sanitary culture of the country. incubation period of about one week at pediculosis, the intensity of symptoms depends on the degree. Manifestations arise from the skin lice bites on the head or the body, resulting in symptoms of head lice occur.
symptoms of lice
head lice
- manifested by intense itching in the head, due to which the patient is constantly scratching his head.
On examination of the scalp revealed patches of skin lesions on the site of the bite with a bright yellow "honey" crusts and signs folliculitis - inflammation of the hair follicles, ekzemopodobnye skin lesion on his head, at the temples and behind the ears.
can be identified lymphadenitis the ears and neck. With long-term neglect and lice formed mats of hair, matted and glued purulent wounds.
In patients with head lice when viewed head on the hair can be found nits - eggs laid by insects. They may be full, whitish or yellowish, crush between the nails they click. Empty nits appear gray.
Photo: site of the Department of dermatology Tomsk Military Medical Institute
pediculosis corporis
- affects the fate of the skin under clothing on the shoulders, back, underarms, neck and abdomen, lower back and groin.
In place bites rashes arise small type mosquito bites with a dark spot in the middle. As the elements of cyanosis occurs, pigmentation, often due to scratching join pustular lesions.
Prolonged for pediculosis corporis leads to thickening of the skin and melasma (brown color), peeling at places bites. At the site of scratching and purulent lesions formed scars.
pubic lice
If pubic lice bothering minor skin itching bites occur on the ground round or oval patches of gray-blue color up to 1 centimeter. When pressed on the spot, they abruptly fade. Ploschitsy have low mobility, they can be detected in the hair root.
Photo: site of the Department of dermatology Tomsk Military Medical Institute
Diagnostics
Diagnosis and treatment holds a dermatologist. The basis of the diagnosis - the typical complaints of itching and scratching on the head, body and pubic skin. First of all, inspect the head, body and groin. On the head detect nits and scratches in the site of the bite. In other cases, the typical clinical data.
Head lice can be combed over a sheet of white paper, for the rest of diagnosis - Clinical.
differential diagnosis
By lice is necessary to distinguish scabiesWhich is also manifested by itching skin and vulgar impetigo, Streptococcal skin lesions.
lice treatment
lice treatment is carried out at home, and it is obligatory to all contact persons. Use the tools to kill lice and nits in various forms - shampoos, sprays, lotions and emulsions.
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If head lice are applicable:
- sostriganie nalyso hair
- Head lice and nits special comb antiv,
- malathion shampoo or lotion 0.5-1%
- preparations of permethrin (Nittifor, para-plus, Reed, sumitrin, phenothrin)
- 20% water-soap emulsion benzyl,
- boric ointment
- pedilin.
If pubic lice are applicable:
- shaving the pubic hair,
- skin treatment and hair medifoks emulsion of 20%
- treatment of benzyl benzoate 20% emulsion,
- lontsida solution, followed by a dip and linen change.
- solution aerosol-vapor-plus-pax spray.
When pediculosis corporis mainstay of treatment - treatment of all things, and thorough body wash in the shower with soap and a washcloth. Clothes and accessories patient boiled or steamed, failing processing temperature - was placed in a tight package with aerosols protivopedikuleznyh means - (malathion, sulfidos).
Funds from lice
- Permethrin: carefully wipe the scalp undiluted preparation, waiting for dry hair (do not wipe or wash). After 2-3 weeks, the hair is washed, dried and treated, if necessary, re
- Reed shampoo is applied to the affected area for 10 minutes, then washed with a conventional shampoo or soap. Hair treatment is carried out within 10 days
- Shampoo Anti-bit: the hair is wetted with water, applied to the preparation and rubbed into the hair roots for 3 minutes, then washed and the procedure repeated. A second course - only for 2 days
- Phenothrin (Ithaca): lotion is applied to wet hair, rubbed, then thoroughly wash is applied once again, waiting 5 minutes, then the hair is thoroughly washed and vychosyvayut toothed comb. The next day, repeat the procedure. The aerosol is sprayed over the scalp 20-30 times, waiting for 30 minutes, then thoroughly washed and vychosyvayut fine-tooth comb; the next day, repeat the procedure
- Attention: drugs destroy lice, never used for the treatment of lesions of the eyelashes!
- Lice of the eyelashes and the eyebrows usually removed with tweezers. Eyelashes lice can kill or weaken a simple Vaseline.
Prevention of head lice
Should regularly monitor the condition of the hair and body hygiene, avoid casual sex to prevent pubic lice. In transport, women are advised to remove hair in a ponytail or under clothing.
It is forbidden to use other people's hats, hairbrushes and combs, barrettes and rubber bands, wearing someone else's clothes.
