Pubic Lice - Scratching Is All You Can Think Of
submitted: Apr 7th 2008 |
by: ElizabethCampbell |
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Pediculosis is a lice infestation. Lice are ectoparasites that live at the skin level and draw blood from the human body for food. Human lice are highly transferable and reproduce very fast.
There are two types of lice infestation: the pediculosis of the head - the lice lives on the skin of the head, and are oftentimes found at the back of the head and behind the ears. Children are the ones more frequently afflicted, but adults can catch it, especially in they live together in a crowded house.
The second type of pediculosis is the pubic type. Lice are usually located in the pubic area, but they can also affect facial hair, eyebrows, chest hair and scalp hair but very rare.
Body lice lodge and lay eggs on clothes and transfer to the human host when they have to feed. They are blood sucking parasites that are equipped with needle-like mouths. During war or natural calamities lice can be carriers of fatal illnesses like typhoid fever.
Lice are really easy transmittable through personal contact usually. Infestation can be determined by three types of insects, meaning lice. The pubic pediculosis is determined by the mite called Phtirius Pubis. It is transmitted through sexual contact and it is highly contagious; most of the people are contaminated after one single contact with the infected individual.
The lice and its eggs can survive for a long time clinging on objects such as towels or sheets so that they are transferred from one location to another with great facility. Sometimes, a child diagnosed with this infestation could also have been sexually abused. Lice are tough insects and highly communicable and can be transmitted in so many ways, such as wearing items that have been used by individuals with lice.
Lice infestation commonly results to allergic reactions on the skin. The insects puncture the skin as they suck the blood to feed. The saliva could cause allergic reaction and skin inflammation and other secondary bacterial infections, which can develop within two days or more depending on the person's level of sensitivity and previous infection history.
The reaction can become severe if the person is allergic to the lice bites and its saliva.
In pediculosis of the hair, the lice are lodged on the hairs of the head and the nits (eggs) are white, round or oval shaped. They are tightly attached to the shaft of the hair and will not be removed by themselves. Inside the insect, the eggs are brownish, but when are laid, they turn light brown to white.
Pubic lice bites produce rashes or tiny flat lesions, blue-gray in color. The indications can stay on the skin for several months even after the infestation has been cured. It is a possibility that an infected Individual have other sexually transmitted disease as lice infestation is one of the symptoms.
Usually, the insects causing the rashes at the skin level are visible on the clothes rather than on the skin. The lice do not go away without a proper treatment, so the infected individuals should see a specialist.
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