What are the signs and symptoms of scabies
Those signs and symptoms include:
- * Bumps on the skin and small blisters, thin and irregular.
- * Severe itching that usually worsens at night.
The scabies mite creates pencil – like tracks and marks most often in the folds of the skin. The most common places where the mite may be found are:
- * Breasts area
- * Male genital area
- * Inner elbow area
- * On shoulder blades
- * Armpits
- * The waste area
- * Between fingers
- * On buttocks area
- * On knees area
- * On the inside area of the wrists
- * On the soles of the feet
Checking and diagnosis
For a proper diagnosis of scabies, the doctor thoroughly examines the skin for signs and marks of the mite and its burrows. The presence of the mites or eggs can be determined only by a microscopic examination of a scraping of the skin from the area where the burrows were found.
One of the symptoms of scabies – rash
One of the first symptoms that appear in the case of scabies mites' infestation is the scabies rash. Just as all the other symptoms of the scabies, the rash is generated by the parasitic organisms' secretions: saliva, feces, eggs and larvae. Those toxic elements affect the human body and produce irritation, rash, scaling of the skin, blisters and inflammations, severe itching and a state of discomfort.
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Categorizing The Symptoms, Putting The Diagnosis and Treating Scabies
Scabies is a skin condition determined by a microscopic parasitic mite called Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis. This disease is highly contagious and the mites can be transmitted by direct contact with an infected person or indirectly, through contaminated objects. Scabies is spread mostly among children and old people but it can also infect other people because it is not related to gender or age.
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