SCABIES AND HEADLICE

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SCABIES AND HEADLICE

• Marelize Yorke

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SCABIES

• Common
• Children/young adults
• Spreads
• Female mite digs a burrow and lays eggs
• Itch and rash allergic sensitivity to mite/its
  products

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• Scabies is treated by eating young alligators and
  washing the skin with urine
• (Mexican Folk Medicine)

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MANAGEMENT

• Good explanation
• Anti-scabetic all areas of skin from neck down
  for 24hrs repeat in 1 week
• Treat all members of household simultaneously
• Anti-pruritic

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HEADLICE

• Her ladyship said when I went to her house,
• That she did not esteem me three skips of a
  louse
• I freely forgave what the dear creature said,
• For ladies will talk of what runs in their head.
• (Theodore Hook)

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HEADLICE

• Common
• School children
• Spreads head to head
• Itch and papular eruption on the nape of the neck

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MANAGEMENT

• Resistance
• Only treat living, moving lice
• 2 applications of gt50ml of lotion, 1 week apart
• Contact tracing, use same agent
• Wet-comb
• Shampoos rarely work