PUBIC LICE

CAUSE

• Often spread during sexual activity
• Rarely, public lice can spread through contact with objects such as toilet seats, sheets and blankets.
• Greater risk is you have many sexual partners, sexual contact with an infected person, share bedding or clothes with an infected person.

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• Pubic lice are tiny insects that infect the pubic hair area and lay eggs there.
• Therefore it is a parasite.

SYMPTOMS

• The symptoms are the same for both male and female.
• Skin reaction that causes skin to turn bluish-gray in color.
• Sores in the genital area due to bites and scratching.
• The most common symptom is itching.

TREATMENT

• Pubic lice is often treated with medicines that contain a substance called permethrin.
• You should also wash all clothing and bedding in hot water and spray items that cannot be washed with a medicated spray to prevent the lice from coming back.
• Pubic lice is curable.

COMPLICATIONS

• Due to scratching the skin may become raw, or even cause a skin infection.

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• 1 in 90 people have pubic lice in the United States.
• Estimated there is 3 million reports each year.

WORK CITED

• http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/p/pubic_lice/stats.htm
• https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000841.htm

REVIEW QUESTIONS

• What is one cause of pubic lice?
• How many cases of pubic lice are there yearly?
• Is this disease curable?