SCABIES
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SCABIES
SCABIES is a skin condition where a mite makes your skin itch and causes a rash. It is infectious and is usually caught by contact with someone with the condition or with infected clothing, towels or bed linen. Scabies can be effectively treated with special skin lotion.
The first symptoms include intense itching, (especially at night, caused by the allergic reaction to the mite in the skin), raised pimple-like red spots called papules that can become crusted if you scratch them and thread-like burrows in between your fingers, wrists and forearms. It may occur elsewhere on the body but not usually on the face (though this can happen in babies).
The whole bodies of infants - from their heads down to the palms of their hands and soles of their feet - can become infected.
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