You probably know the word «pediculosis». That's right: it is behind this medical term that hides such «Shameful» sickness. However, like any ailment, the pediculosis is not so much. Moreover, he can fall on his head can each of us. And not only on the head ..
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Eternal satellite of man
Pediculosis or stuffiness is a man's infection with bloodsowing insects - V.
Switch - Eternal Satellite of Man. It is mentioned even in the Bible. Archaeologists found the remains of this insect on ancient mummies. Almost 500 years before.NS. Herodotus wrote that the Egyptian priests and the painters have always been thoroughly chumped heads, so that no lunch or other unclean creature could climb them when they serve the gods. However, not only the priests, but also by pharaohs, kings and nobles in ancient Egypt, Babylonia and Assyria heads and chin were shaved. In Europe, the outbreak of pediculosis is regularly observed for 200 years. The peak of morbidity falls at the beginning of autumn when children return home from camps and boarding houses.
Adults and children of both sexes are susceptible to pediculosis, regardless of age and social medium. A big mistake is the view that pediculosis is the result of uncleanness. Studies held in recent years in Europe showed that the loss loves clean hair and is not afraid of water. Moreover, she knows how to swim well, and therefore it is possible to infect pediculosis in the pool. In addition, it is possible to pick up this disease everywhere: in kindergarten or camp, at school, in transport, in the store and other places where a large number of people are going.
Types of pediculosis
Although in nature there are more than 400 types of lice, only three of their species can cause pediculosis in humans:
- Head lich;
- Lobcovaya, or, as it is also called - a falcon;
- cootie.
Head loss causes a podiculosis of the scalp. This is the most common type of pediculosis. Infection of a head login can occur directly - with direct contact of an infected person with healthy or through infected clothes, hats, hair brushes, comb. You can even get infected with a strong impact cut, which takes several hairs with insects. The heads of the Wrench migrate when the heads come into contact, and most often it happens during children's pranks. Outside the host, the headwash can live 55 hours. Head owls can be seen with the naked eye or under a magnifying glass, but find it is not easy. Loku is very mobile and constantly migrates on the surface of the scalp. Easier to detect eggs in lice - nits. They can more often be seen in the temporal, occipital and parotid areas. Unlike dandruff, which easily flies from the hair, the nits are held hard, as they attach to the root of the hair using the adhesive secret.
Lobkovy Vershitsy (fir) cause pubic pediculosis. They are larger in size than the heads of the lice, prefer a wet environment, moving little. Infection is possible with a close domestic contact - through the general bed, towels, but most often the pubic loss is transmitted in sexual.
It is amazed, as a rule, the pubic area, although sometimes these insects were found even in the area of eyebrows or beard. Lobo-loss to detect is easier than the head, as it can be in one place for several days.
Harding Pediculse is widely distributed in times of large wars and mass migrations of the population, when people do not bathe and do not erase clothes. Washing lich lives in the folds of linen and goes out for a short time, only to eat. If the appearance of a head or pubic chrite does not depend on the purity of the head or body, then the presence of a wrench is more often the result of untidiness, since it is in dirty clothes that the female puts eggs. You can get infected in the places of large cluster of people, where the wrench can go from one person to another. Handling loss also superior to the sizes. It can be seen in the lumbar region, on the shoulders, neck, on the surface of the top of the back, on the stomach, in the axillary depressures.
Of all three types of lice, only wrapping can carry infection. It transfers rapid appendels. Therefore, epidemics of this disease are also more common during military conflicts. As for the head and pubic lice, they are not infection with infection. However, the parasitization of these insects causes itching, and when a person affected by the lice begins to be, then he appears raschers, which can then be infected. So it is so important to get rid of parasites immediately after their detection.
And more important prevention: personal hygiene, frequent head and body washing, regular linen change and clothing. As a public prevention, a regular inspection of people in the places of their forced cluster or long-term accommodation (hospitals, children's institutions, schools, kindergartens, preferences, etc.).
Therefore, after a summer holiday, do not be lazy to inspect your children for pediculosis, so that there are no unpleasant moments when an annual examination at school or kindergarten.
