Is scabies easy to cure?

There are many bacteria and insects that are invisible to the naked eye, but if the hygiene is not clean, it will create an environment for the survival of these insects and ants. Therefore, the place where we live must be cleaned and disinfected regularly, so as to effectively control the reproduction of harmful substances. Scabies is a kind of infectious insect that is harmful to the human body. So can scabies be cured? Below I will give you a detailed introduction to what scabies is.

1. How long does it take to treat scabies?

Scabies is a disease transmitted by scabies and is a contact infection. In 1983, the World Health Organization classified the disease as a communicable disease. Most patients seek treatment in the dermatology department. This disease often occurs between the fingers, on the breasts, genitals and thighs, and can also occur on the head and face in infants and young children. Skin lesions are brown-red in color, bean-sized, slightly loose, and itchy, which are prominent clinical manifestations. Scales and tunnels can be seen on the surface of the lesions. Patients often have difficulty falling asleep at night due to severe itching, and constant scratching causes their bodies to be covered with scars, blood scabs and pigmentation spots. Slowly, secondary suppurative infection or eczematous changes may occur, so there is a popular saying: "Scabies is like a dragon, which first goes up from the hands, circles three times around the waist, and finally camps in the hollow of the thighs."

Scabies is transmitted by the scabies mite. The worm body size is 270-380 microns, and there are two types of male and female. The female worm is larger and barely visible to the naked eye, while the male worm is half the size of the female worm and is difficult to see if taken orally. People with high mobility, poor living conditions and poor hygiene habits are more susceptible to scabies. Autumn, winter and spring are the peak seasons for the disease. Visiting relatives and friends during holidays, sleeping in the same bed with patients or shaking hands with each other create favorable conditions for the spread of the disease. Unclean sexual life can be directly transmitted. Scabies mite crawls very quickly on warm skin, covering up to 2.5 cm in 1 minute. There are two causes of the disease: one is the mechanical damage to the skin caused by scabies digging tunnels in the skin keratin; the other is that the toxins secreted by scabies mites stimulate the skin and cause itching.

Once scabies is diagnosed, it should be treated actively. It is easier to treat when the condition is not very serious. Usually use 1% r-666 cream to apply all over the body and wash it off after 1 day. Be careful not to let it come into contact with eyes and dry membranes. This medicine is forbidden to be used by infants, young children and pregnant women. You can apply 10% sulfur ointment all over the body or take a bath. For nodular scabies, apply coal tar gel every night, and the nodules will disappear after 2-3 weeks. For those with obvious purulent infection, oral antibiotics, especially erythromycin, can be taken. For those who still have persistent itching after treatment with scabiescidal drugs. For patients whose work is affected, they can take oral prednisone tablets for a short period of time, 30 mg per day, divided into 3 times. It can produce significant anti-itching effect in 7-10 days. As long as the medication is used properly, the disease can be cured in a short period of time. To block the source of infection. During the treatment, it is strictly forbidden to contact such patients, and all items used by the patients should be boiled and disinfected; those that cannot be boiled can be ironed; items that cannot be boiled or ironed, such as plastic products, should be placed separately for more than half a month before use, in order to completely eliminate scabies and prevent the reproduction of eggs. The face washbasin or bath basin can be soaked in a bactericidal solution (such as 1‰ Sanisol solution) to kill scabies.

Scabies is a widespread infectious disease, so we should take active measures to prevent it. Clothes and bedding should be washed and dried regularly, and good hygiene habits should be developed. If there is someone with this disease at home, direct contact with him/her should be avoided absolutely. Children should not let the patient be held around, sleep in the same bed, or share bedding with the patient. One of the spouses is infected with scabies. Regardless of whether the other party shows symptoms or not, one course of preventive treatment is required; if other family members have any doubts, it is best to go to the hospital for examination, timely diagnosis and treatment.