What are pubic lice?

As people's quality of life improves, personal hygiene conditions have also improved. Many small insects that appeared due to poor personal hygiene in poor times are no longer common. Lice is a kind of parasite that can suck blood and live in people's hair. There is a kind of insect with a name very similar to lice, called pubic lice. What are pubic lice? Pubic lice are a kind of parasite that lives on people's pubic hair or anal hair. Let's learn about it in detail.

Pubic lice is a contact-transmitted parasitic disease in which pubic lice live on the pubic hair and body hair around the anus and bite the nearby skin, causing itching. It is more common in women and is mainly transmitted through close contact, with couples often getting the disease one after another. Pubic lice lay eggs at the roots of human hair follicles, and a small number live in the armpits. Adult lice are the size of sesame seeds. When people have sexual intercourse, pubic lice will leave their original host and parasitize on the other person.

Pubic lice have flat bodies and look like dandruff from a distance, but look like small crabs when you look closely up close. Their colors are generally grayish white or rusty. Newly hatched lice are mostly grayish white, and turn into rust or dark red after absorbing human blood. Pubic lice have powerful large claws that tightly grasp the roots of hair. If the patient does not have obvious itching symptoms or does not examine carefully, it is generally difficult to detect. At the same time, pubic lice can cause inflammation and spread diseases such as relapsing fever and typhus.

To prevent and control them, we need to do the following: First, we must maintain good personal hygiene, change clothes frequently, wash our hair and take a bath frequently. In addition, we must also maintain the hygiene of our home environment, regularly clean the floors and carpets, and clean every corner of our home. Second, use high temperature to kill lice. So when we find lice, the adult lice can be killed after 15-30 minutes at a high temperature of 65 degrees. If it is larvae and eggs, then this will achieve the purpose of preventing and controlling lice. The third is drug fumigation. We need to carry out this method under the guidance of experts and cannot use it casually. Commonly used drugs include methyl formate and other drugs. This type of drug is relatively safe for humans and animals, but its dosage and period of use need to be carried out according to the guidance of experts. There are also some Chinese medicines that can be used to kill lice, and the insecticidal effect is very good.

Therefore, you can distinguish between head lice and pubic lice according to the location of the affected area, and then provide symptomatic treatment to effectively control and eliminate them. People who have lice on their bodies usually do not pay attention to personal hygiene. Lice like the smell of human sweat and certain dirty smells, and like to lay eggs in the "dead corners" of clothes. To solve the problem of lice, people who come into contact with lice must change their clothes and bedding at the same time, take a shower in time, and thoroughly take care of personal and public hygiene. Then, scald the clothes they take off with boiling water to kill any lice, and then wash the clothes and bedding.