Tunnels in the skin, about 1 cm long, creating Sarcoptes scabiei, which are parasitic in the skin and cause disease in humans with low hygienic standard – scabies. The galleries are located on the palm side of the wrist, fingers and between them, on the navel, breast nipples and external genital organs.

Corridor on the surface of the skin topped with a light red pimples the size of a pinhead.Pimples tend to their often uncomfortable itching rozškrábány.

Problems do mainly female mites, which come out in the evening and at night from the deep burrows and lay their eggs (which are the source of other mites!), Because you’re lying under a blanket and mites are sensitive to heat. At that moment, it will also be the most itchy. The male is smaller and lives on the skin surface or drilling only minor surface corridor.

Therapy

Scabies is a highly contagious disease transmitted through direct body contact, because we see him more often in communities before the war, and today is also a professional infection among medical staff. They must be treated immediately to the skin or infectious department 20% sulfur in petroleum or benzyl benzoate.

After several days of fighting such ointments patient bathes. Part of the liquidation of the mites is also linen and clothes.