PEDICULOSIS (PIOJOS)

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PEDICULOSIS (PIOJOS)

Pediculosis (lice)

Cutaneous inflammation caused by tiny parasites (lice) that live in the body and the clothes.

Affected parts

It can affect any vellosa part of the body, specially the hairy leather, the genital eyebrows or zones (Pediculus capitis); skin, specially where the clothes are in contact with the enemy with the skin, like shoulders, the waist, the genitals or the rumps (pediculus corporis).

Age

It affects both sexes, all the ages, being more frequent in the children and people with social problems.

Prognosis

In general it is cured with creams, curativos lotions and champús.

The symptoms can disappear 5 days after the treatment.

The lice usually repeat themselves.

Complications

The infection in the site of the infection caused by energetic rascamientos can cause diseases like the typhus (rarely).

Diagnosis and treatment

DIAGNOSIS:

They are possible to be seen liendres (like tiny white balls of rugby) around the hairs. File and physical examination by a doctor.

TREATMENT:

General measures

The following measures are applied to all the members of the home and to all the sexual pairs of the components of the familiar scope:

Use the champú, cream or lotion that prescribe the doctor to him.

Washing in the washing machine ALL its clothes in water and dryer I warm up.

Iron the clothes to dress and house if it can.

The washing clears the lice and the ironing destroys liendres.

If it does not have washing machine, it irons all the clothes and guárdela in sealed plastic bags during 10 days, to eliminate the lice and liendres.

Boil combs, rollers, brushes of the hair and pins.

It does not have to shave the hair.

Medication

His doctor can prescribe creams, lotions or champús antilice (pediculocidas).

Apply to the zones infected according to the instructions.

In order to use champu ':

Wet the hair.

Apply a spoonful of champú.

Do foam during about 4 minutes, rubbing well the hairy leather.

If it enters to him champú the eyes, clarifies well with water immediately.

Clarify the thorough hair abundantly and you dry with a towel.

Wash the towel before returning to use it.

Repeatedly pass the comb from the roots towards outside until they are not left liendres.

In more of 90% of the cases, an application of the champú is enough.

It does not use it more than what it is recommended because the champú can cause to irritation of the skin or being absorbed by the body.

If the lice infect the eyelashes, the doctor will be due to clear carefully.

The mentioned curativos products do not have to enter the eyes or the eyelashes.

After take off it can use petroleum jelly in the eyelashes during 7 or 8 days.

In some cases one second application to the 10 or 14 days is necessary.

Activity

Without restrictions.

Diet

Without restrictions.

Warn its medico if

You or their sexual pair or some of their familiar scope has symptoms of lice, or the symptoms are repeated after the treatment.

Factors of risk

Hacinamiento or insalubridad.

Familiar antecedents of lice.

Sexual relations with an infected person

Prevention

Frequent baths and champús.

Avoid to wear the same clothes more than one or two days.

Frequent changes of the bed clothes.

It does not share combs, brushes nor hats.

Signs and symptoms

Picores, intense in sites sometimes, generally covered with hair.

Eggs (liendres) in the stems of the hair.

Fragile inflammation of the hairy leather and hairs and parties.

Inflammation of the lymphatic glands in the nape of the neck or ingles (sometimes).

Red marks of punctures.

Causes

Tiny parasites (3 to 4mm) that they prick the skin to obtain food (blood).

The punctures cause to picores and inflammation.

Some lice live in the skin, although they are not easy to distinguish.

Others live in the clothes that are in contact with the enemy with the skin.

The eggs (liendres) adhere to the hair.

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