It has been said that personal hygiene has nothing to do with the apparition of scabies, because people of any condition, age and race may suffer from it. Every year occur million cases worldwide and for 2,500 years the scabies have affected people.

Symptoms

The most obvious symptoms that characterize the scabies are:
Intense itching especially at night and a red rash that occurs where the skin has been scratched. With the infection progressing the skin may become crusty. If you examine skin closely in an early infection you may find pimples, red bumps, tiny bites. Scabies affects body’s folds and crevices: the armpits, belt line, beneath nails, around the nipples for women, between the fingers, elbows, on the penis for men, wrists, inner tights, buttocks. In little babies the head and the neck may be affected.

Children have itching on the palms of the hands, scalp, soles of the feet, another symptoms are: irritability, sleeplessness, tiredness.

Complications
Treatment is difficult when large areas of the body are affected hands, feet are covered with crusted the scabies is named crusted scabies. Under these crust there are many eggs and mites and the cycle is continuing.

But, it has been observed that this type of scabies occurs mostly in patients with AIDS and among the elderly. Scabies is transmitted in close contact like: shaking hands, sleeping together, personal contact, or contact with clothes, towels. Try to avoid overcrowded living conditions. Watch out for the kids playing together, roommates, sexual partners, soldiers, elderly people in nursing home, prisoners, because the mites of scabies can survive for a long time on clothing, towels or bedding those must be washed and cleaned often.

Diagnosis
There are recommended several test such as: Microscope test is used to determine if in the tissue there are eggs or larvae, feces of scabies. Itchy rash may appear also in eczema.

Ink test is used on the affected portions of skin and has a high specificity, if there are mite burrows the ink is absorbed in them and the skin is coloured in blue or black.