Pubic pediculosis

Description:

The pubic pediculosis is the parasitic disease of skin caused by pubic louses. Pubic louses prefer a genital zone (a pubis, a scrotum, a crotch), hair around an anus, axillary hollows as in these areas a large amount of apocrenic glands to which sense of smell of pubic louses is specifically oriented is located. Less often moustaches, eyebrows, eyelashes and hair on the head of children are surprised.

Symptoms of the Pubic pediculosis:

The pubic pediculosis begins with an incubation interval when there are no symptoms yet, but pubic louses already lodged on a body of the person. The incubation interval of a pubic pediculosis lasts usually about a month.

After the termination of an incubation interval the pubic pediculosis is shown by several symptoms, the most indicative of which – a skin itch on site implementations of louses in the patient's skin. Most often it is a pubis itch, but other body parts also can be involved in process: hips and a trunk (especially at people with excessive pilosis), and also a beard and moustaches. Intensity of a skin itch can be various: sometimes the person does not even notice him, and sometimes, especially at night, the itch happens intolerable. The itch in the field of defeat by a pediculosis usually leads to the fact that the patient combs skin, and because of it there is an irritation and erubescence, eczemas develop, through raschesa consecutive infections get into an organism.

Except a skin itch, the sign of a pubic pediculosis can be considered the blue or shadow spots with a diameter up to 1 cm arising on skin which quickly disappear. Can be the cause of their emergence or small hemorrhages at blood exhaustion by louses, or adjournment of a secret of their sialadens. Such spots most often appear on a stomach, a breast, the side surface of a trunk and hips that is where not dense and spots it is easy to notice indumentum.

Sometimes allergic rash is added to symptoms of a pubic pediculosis. An undoubted sign of a pubic pediculosis – detection on skin or linen of pubic louses or their larvae.

Reasons of the Pubic pediculosis:

Pubic louses cases are transferred in the majority at sexual contacts when insects from one partner creep on another.

Also, according to researches, a louse, having unhooked from the person, there live no more than one day, and here her larvae keep viability nearly a week. So you easily can catch a pubic pediculosis through a towel, bed linen and clothes. Also there is a possibility of infection in a bath, the pool, a sunbed, and even when using of a public toilet.

Pubic louses parasitize only on the person, it is absolutely impossible to catch them from animals.

Treatment of the Pubic pediculosis:

Treatment of pubic louses local. Apply antiparasitic ointments, creams, solutions and shampoos. In parallel it is necessary to check whether you have other venereal disease.

Bed and underwear has to be carefully washed and ironed

Hair on a pubis usually recommend to shave off.

Efficiency of treatment of pubic louses very high at observance of all rules.

It is necessary to remember that it is necessary to process carefully clothes, bedding, upholstered furniture, mattresses as at contact with them the cured person gets sick repeatedly also.