Bam Scabies !!

Bam!!---Scabies: /

Attention All Teens: there is a disease called scabies going around I know you’re wondering what scabies are stay tuned I’m going to explain it all.

Scabies is an easily spread skin disease caused by a very small species of mite.

The mites that cause scabies burrow into the skin and deposit their eggs, forming a burrow that looks like a pencil mark. Eggs mature in 21 days. The itchy rash is an allergic response to the mite.

Now You’re wondering how this disease is spread well Scabies is spread by skin-to-skin contact with another person who has scabies.

Here are your symptoms of scabies teens so WATCH OUT!

 •Itching, especially at night

•Rashes, especially between the fingers

•Sores (abrasions) on the skin from scratching and digging

•Thin, pencil-mark lines on the skin

The effects it can do to baby’s are:

Mites may be more widespread on a baby's skin, causing pimples over the trunk or small blisters over the palms and soles.

So that right there teens should let you know it can’t only effect you it can affect baby’s as well.

In this picture it’s red like pimples on the skin when untreated

This is scabies on the the hand and it made it hard and ate into the layers on skin because it was untreated.

This is untreated scabies in the head on the baby you see the baby is now bald in a spot.

Now here is this treatment if u ever gets it and don’t want to look like the untreated scabies –

Prescription medicated creams are commonly used to treat scabies infections. The most commonly used cream is permethrin 5%. Other creams include benzyl benzoate, sulfur in petrolatum, and crotamiton. Lindane is rarely used because of its side effects.

Creams are applied all over the body. The whole family or sexual partners of infected people should be treated, even if they do not have symptoms. Creams are applied as a one-time treatment or they may be repeated in 1 week.

Wash underwear, towels, and sleepwear in hot water. Vacuum the carpets and upholstered furniture.

For difficult cases, some health care providers may also prescribe medication taken by mouth to kill the scabies mites. Ivermectin is a pill that may be used itching may continue for 2 weeks or more after treatment begins, but it will disappear if you follow your health care provider's treatment plan. You can reduce itching with cool soaks and calamine lotion.

To prevent Scabies Avoid contact with infected persons or another way is to stay clean no sexual contact with infected people as well. Stays clean make sure you change your sheets at hotels as well.

There you go that’s what scabies are now teen’s adults everybody stays clean watching your surroundings because this disease is spreading FAST!

BE SAFE!!

By Darin Jones