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Pubic Lice
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Pubic Lice
How common is it?
- Every year, millions of people get Pubic Lice.
- Estimated 3 million cases per year.
Diagnosis
Preventions
Type & Definition
- Usually a women and men diagnose themselves
- But a health care provider can help you.
- Like the staff at your local planned parenthood health center, health clinics, health department.
- Also, private health care providers can diagnose pubic lice and help you get any treatment you may need.
- Medicine is available without needing a prescription from any drugstore.
Methods of Transmission
- Pubic Lice is a type of STD.
- Its tiny insects that attack themselves to the skin and hair in the public area.
- They're also identified as "crabs"
- Pubic Lice are easily spread during sexual contact.
- Sometimes they spread through other kinds of close physical contact.
- Very rarely they are spread from contact with infected beeding, clothing, uphoistered furniture and toilet seats.
- There is no protection.
- Only one thing that can reduce your risk of getting pubic lice is limiting the number of people when you have intimate or sexual contact.
Symptoms
Complications
- People don't start having symptoms until having pubic lice for 2-4 weeks.
- Symptoms include:
- Intense itching in the genitals or anus
- Mild fever
- Feeling run-down
- blue-coloured spots on your skin where the lice are living, such as on your thighs or lower abdomen (these are caused by lice bites)
- Irritability and inflammation to the infected area caused by scratching
- The presence of lice or small egg sacs that are called nits in pubic hair.
Treatment
- Infections can usually be treated with a louse-killing lotion or gel.
- But, a pubic infestation may sometimes lead to complication Such as:
- Discolored skin- pale blue spots may develop where pubic lice has been feeding continually.
- Secondary infections- Itchy bites can cause you to scratch yourself and if raw these wounds can cause you to become infected.
- Eye irritation- children or anyone who has pubic lice on their eyelashes may develop a pink eye.
- Treatment is available with certain antibiotics or by applying shampoo into dry pubic hair and surrounding area for at least 5 minutes, rinsing well, combing the pubic hair with a fine-toothed comb to remove eggs (nits), and applying vinegar to pubic hair before combing may help loosen nits.
- Most people need only 1 treatment. If a second treatment is needed, it should be done 4 days to 1 week later.
- Common brands over-the-counter are available such as A-200, RID and Nix.
- Stronger prescription medicines are also available with permission from your health care provider.
- Shaving, hot baths other than home remedies will not work.
- A pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and infants must use products specially designed for them.
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