Body lice
DEFINITION
Body lice are tiny insects, about the size of a sesame seed. Body lice live in your clothing and bedding and travel to your skin several times a day to feed on blood. The most common sites for bites are around the waist, groin and armpits — places where clothing seams are most likely to touch skin.
Body lice are most common in crowded and unhygienic living conditions, such as refugee camps and shelters for the homeless. Body lice bites can spread certain types of diseases and can even cause epidemics.
Clothing and bedding that have been infested with body lice should be laundered in hot, soapy water and machine dried using the hot cycle.
CAUSES
Body lice are similar to head lice, but have different habits. While head lice live in your hair and feed on your scalp, body lice typically live in your clothes and bedding. They travel to your skin several times a day to feed on blood.
The seams of your clothing are the most common places for body lice to lay their eggs (nits). You can become infested with body lice if you come into close contact with a person who has body lice, or with clothing or bedding that is infested with body lice.
SYMPTOMS
- ადამიანის ტილების ნაკბენები იწვევენ ძლიერ ქავილს.
- მიმართეთ ექიმს, თუ ჰიგიენის გაუმჯობესების მიუხედავად თავიდან ვერ იშორებთ ტილებს. აგრეთვე მოითხოვეთ სამედიცინო დახმარება თუ თქვენ ჩამოგიყალიბდათ კანის ინფექცია ფხანვის შედეგად.
