SCABIES
SCABIES IS AN EASILY SPREAD SKIN CAUSED BY A VERY SMALL SPECIES OF MITE.
Ø SYMPTOMS
· Scabies only affects the skin, outside the body.
· Scabies causes extreme itching, which is usually worse at night.
· Rashes, blisters, or bumps may appear.
· Rashes and itching may last for 2-3 weeks, even after being treated.
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Ø WHERE SCABIES MAINLY FOUND
· In between the fingers
· Around the head and neck
· Wrist, nipple, elbow, waist, armpit, buttocks, penis, shoulder
·Hands and feet (especially in children)
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Ø HOW DOES SCABIES SPREAD–
· Scabies is passed from one person to another:
· Through skin–to-skin contact,
· By touching an infected person’s items
·(such as clothing),
· Through sexual contact.
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·Remember! Until you are cured, you can continue to pass scabies on to others.
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Ø PREVENTION-
· If you know somebody who has scabies, try not to touch their skin.Do not share clothes with an infected person.
· Wash bedding in hot water and dry at high temperatures (130 degrees Fahrenheit) for at least 20 minutes.
If not able to wash something, sealing it in a plastic bag will kill the bugs.
Ø HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT-
· ARSENICUM- Eruption in the bends of joints ; pustular eruption, burning & itching ; better from external warmth
· CROTON TIGL.-itching & painfull burning, with redness of skin ; formation of vesicle & pustules ; desiccation, desquamation and falling off of pustules (testes)
· HEPAR SULPH- fat, pustular& crusty itch
· SULPHUR-main remedy ; voluptuous tingling itching in the bend of joints & between finger, as soon as he gets warm in bed, with burning & soreness after scratching ; skin rough and scaly, with formation of little vesicle & pustules
· DULCAMARA-PRURITUS ALWAYS WORSE COLD, WET WEATHER
· COMOCLADIA DENTATA- ITCHING WITH REDNESS ALL OVER BODY
· ALUMINA- INTOLERANCE ITCHING WHEN GETTING WARM IN BED
· PETROLIUM-ITCHING AT NIGHT
· RHUS TOX-RED, SWOLLEN, INTENSE ITCHING
· RUMEX-INTENSE ITCHING OF SKIN, ESPECIALLY LOWER EXTREMITIES; AGGRAVATE EXPOSURE TO COLD AIR WHEN UNDERSSING
· SARSAPARILLA-RASH FROM EXPOSURE TO OPEN AIR ,DRY ITCHING COMES ON IN SPRING
· SEPIA-ITCHING NOT RELIEVED BY SCARTCHING, AGGRAVATE IN BEND OF ELBOW AND KNEE
· NAT PHOUS-ITCHING IN VARIOUS PART, ESPECIALLY ANKLE
· MERC SOL- ITCHING AGG. WARM OF BED
· LYCOPODIUM-VIOLENT ITCHING, FISSURED ERUPYION
· CHRYSAROBIUM- VIOLENT ITCHING IN THIGH, LEG, AND EAR
· CALADIUM-ITCHING IN GENITAL ORGAN,SWEET SWEAT ; MOSQUITO & INSECT BITE BURN AND ITCHING
· KALI BI- ITCHING AMMELORATE COLD AIR
· CAL PHOUS- ITCHING EATING AFTER
· AGARICUS- ITCHING COITION AFTER
· RUTA-ITCHING MEAT AFTER
· MEZERIUM-ITCHING OLD PERSON
· BELL- MORNING ITCH WITH URTICARIA
· ARS.ALB- INTENSE ITCHING WITH REDNESSAND BURNING
· APIS-ITCHING FROM SWEAT WITH URTICARIA, BURNING AND REDNESS
· NAT MUR- ITCHING IN SUN LIGHT
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