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28-year-old Miss Xu is a member of the North Drift, in 2010 she embarked on a dream journey, in 2018, 8 years later, she finally got a well-paid job, but also has her own small apartment, career and life has been quite happy, in August 2018 through the matchmaker introduction, Miss Xu met her boyfriend who was two years younger than herself, Miss Xu was very satisfied with the man, and after knowing each other for more than a month, Miss Xu and her boyfriend began to live together.
After living together for more than a month, Miss Xu suddenly found that her private parts always had inexplicable itching, and she always couldn't help but want to reach out and scratch it when the itching attacked, but because of the occasion, Miss Xu had to hold back, and because it was a private part, Miss Xu didn't dare to make a noise, even in the face of her boyfriend.
In the case of constant itching, half a month passed, Miss Xu found that there seemed to be "small blood spots" on her underwear, at this time Ms. Xu panicked, afraid that she had a venereal disease, she hurriedly ran to the hospital to do relevant examinations, the doctor first observed the small blood spots on Ms. Xu's underwear, and found that it was not bloodstains, but like blood-colored solid particles, after physical examination, it was found that Ms. Xu's vulva had no obvious abnormality, but the genital hair grew vigorously, and carefully observed the root of the pubic hair, and found that there were white eggs.
At the same time, several white movable bodies with a short body size were found in the hair body and hair roots, shaped like crabs, and according to the color and shape of the unknown organism, the doctor concluded that they were pubic lice, and then Ms. Xu was diagnosed with pubic lice. Through tweezers, the doctor even pinched out 9 pubic lice from Ms. Xu's pubic area and swept out many eggs.
Ms. Xu wondered why so many small bugs suddenly grew in her pubic area, and what kind of pubic lice were, and then Ms. Xu asked the doctor these questions.
The doctor told Ms. Xu that pubic lice are parasites that can live on human hair, and because the pubic hair is vigorous, humid and constant, pubic lice often parasitize on the genitals, and pubic lice will feed on human blood, so after eating, they will discharge dark red or black granular feces, and when these feces fall on the underwear, there will be small blood spots like Miss Xu saw.
The pubic lice sometimes even parasitize on the eyelashes, when it is parasitic, it will hold the hair shaft tightly, and its head will be deep into the hair follicle, on the one hand, it is convenient for it to eat and absorb blood, on the other hand, it is difficult to be found by the host, although the host is itchy and unbearable, but often does not think that he has been parasitic parasitism, but a lot of time he feels that he has folliculitis, with some anti-inflammatory ointment for treatment, and because the medicine is not right, often suffer from pubic lice for a long time.
So how to identify whether you have pubic lice or folliculitis, in fact, it is very simple, the doctor told Ms. Xu that although pubic lice and folliculitis will cause the skin to bulge, pubic lice will make the skin show pimples, nodules, small pimples, and you can see that there will be obvious blood spots the size of the tip of the needle, the itching is very strong, and the irritation to the skin is great, but although folliculitis will show some small bumps and small bumps, there is no blood, and there will be no itching to the touch, at most there is a slight pain.
At this time, Ms. Xu can see obvious small blood spots on her underwear, which is the excrement of pubic lice. Also, sometimes small white eggs or small live worms can be seen at the base of the pubic hair.
After figuring out what pubic lice were, Miss Xu asked how she could be infected with pubic lice because she had always loved hygiene, and the doctor told Miss Xu that pubic lice are very infectious, and there are three ways of transmission, namely sexual transmission, direct transmission and indirect transmission.
First of all, because the living part of pubic lice is on the hair of the pubic area, even if you wear a condom, you can't effectively block the contact of the hair, and intimate sex will make the pubic lice transfer from the pubic hair of the infected patient to the pubic hair of the uninfected patient, so generally a patient suffers from pubic lice, then his spouse is likely to also be sick, and Ms. Xu's boyfriend is like this.
Secondly, because of direct sexual contact, even if there is no intimate sex, crowded living conditions, and poor hygiene, including sleeping in the same bed with an infected person, can cause pubic lice to transfer to healthy people, and pubic lice parasitism occurs, which can lead to infection and disease.
Finally, indirect contact will also lead to the infection of pubic lice, pubic lice or pubic lice eggs may fall off, if they fall on the clothes and towels will cause contamination, at this time contact with healthy people to the patient's underwear or towels, and sleeping sheets, the eggs or pubic lice stored in it will take the opportunity to attach to the hair of healthy people, resulting in pubic lice infection, so for other people's underwear or towels, we should also pay attention to avoid contact.
After understanding clearly, Ms. Xu asked the doctor: Then I go home and take a thorough bath, and wash the pubic area with shower gel can solve the problem of pubic lice parasitism? The doctor smiled and said: Haven't you taken a bath recently, if the bath is useful, you have already washed it off, then you still need to come to the hospital? The feet of the pubic lice have hook-shaped claws, which can be tightly attached to the hair, and the eggs also have special substances like glue, so you can't get pubic lice in the bath!
Ms. Xu panicked, did she have to be with this hateful little thing for the rest of her life? She hurriedly asked the doctor what she should do, and the doctor did not sell it: she told Ms. Xu that the treatment of her pubic lice is actually very simple, and she does not even need to spend money in the hospital, as long as she is at home, through three steps, she can effectively solve the problem of pubic lice infection.
Destroy the living environment of pubic lice
Pubic lice live on human hair, after we find ourselves infected, we need to shave the hair of our affected area, and for the remaining hair roots, we should use a small brush and other items to carefully clean up, the purpose of this is to sweep away some of the remaining eggs, so as not to grow pubic lice parasitism after the hair grows out in the future.
And it is best to burn the removed hair with fire, so as to prevent the pubic lice in the hair from infecting other people or re-infecting yourself. When the hair is removed, there will be no place for pubic lice to live, so it will be much easier to deal with it in the next step.
Kills pubic lice and its eggs
In and around the part of the hair, you can use the corresponding detergent to kill the adult insects or eggs, such as clomitron cream, compound calamine lotion, etc., which can not only effectively kill pubic lice, but also can eliminate itching and pain, but it must be noted that these drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor, for example, the use time of clomitron cream should not be too long, and other drugs also have their own precautions for use.
Avoid cross-contamination again
Finally, after completely eliminating pubic lice, we need to avoid cross-infection, pay attention to personal hygiene, previously used towels or bed sheets and intimate clothing, can be allowed to discard the discarded, and inconvenient to discard the pubic lice should also be scalded at high temperature, and disinfected with disinfectant, if there are inconvenient to clean the bedding, etc., you can be exposed to the sun for two days, because the pubic lice will die after 48 hours after leaving the human body.
Therefore, we should pay attention to personal hygiene, but also to avoid infection, if infection, we should be careful not to have sex, so as not to cross infection, according to the above three steps to completely cure the disease, get rid of the trouble caused by pubic lice.