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An allergic response to mites that lay eggs under the skin. Scabies are spread through linens, clothes, or close contact with people, and are treated with prescription lotions or soaps.
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an infestation of mites in the skin characterized by small pimples that itch.
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| scabies |
a highly communicable skin disease caused by the itch mite. Symptoms are papules, vesicles, pustules, burrows, and intense itching resulting in eczema.
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| scabies |
The organism sarcoptes scabiei is transmitted via skin to skin contact. Crowded homeless shelters are conducive to their transmission. Like lice, scabies is treated with permethrin cream 5% coupled with an anti-pruritic agent. Secondary bacterial infections are common.
Ãâó: www.med.uottawa.ca/homeless/tools/glossary_e.html
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| scabies |
Scabies also known as "the itch" is an intensely itching rash caused by a tiny mite (bug) that lives in the skin. Since it is only 1/60th inch long, the scabies mite is almost impossible to see without magnification. The rash usually involves the hands, wrists, breasts, genital area, and waistline. In severe cases scabies can spread to almost the entire body, but rarely the face. Scabies often resembles other rashes. ...
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