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How Scabies Work

2010-03-04 | 🔗

Scabies is a contagious skin disease with a bad reputation. Tune in as Josh and Chuck discuss this itchy condition -- from the mite that causes it to common cures -- in this episode.

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You can call me month, assume sucks, the tab under the weather? Yes, he's been green coolly right there, it's been awful yeah as as you may know, we got back from our Guatemala trip and apparently miss revenge can strike after you return yeah because you got background in the airport. When I got back was like Kimberly, didn't get sick and then boom the next day. The I was pretty. Joint about maintaining a watertight seal in my mouth when I was showering and being like a fat smoker, that's more difficult than you think. When you're watching your face her, I saw you. I think that
night out that she declined to go on drink in Rome on the rocks that it was the ice in the bar? Do you drink ice? I did there's your problem body here. Yeah. I bills funnels worth a dude again a jury had the ice is well and she's fine here, alright, ok, moving on I'm just gonna, come out and say My friend Mitch heads gave these. I was gonna, ask you why you pick this and a new. There was some reason out, praying that it wasn't you. It wasn't me now. Ok now, but after reading this, it turns out that the deep, deep shame that Mitch displays whenever he talks about this gave each year is, is maybe a bit misplaced. Yet it is not necessarily because he is gross and has poor hygiene or as or promiscuity promiscuous. He may be those things I don't know No he's not, but is it, has nothing to escape this right, which sounds grossly should change the name. If they want to get out of that realm of grossness, they should not call its gavi. Will they would
The change in the name of the might that creates the problem, a scale bees, the Sir Captain Skippy, I yeah yeah. That's what comes from, but I mean that such a cool name that there never gonna change stable through. They may call it like sex, rash right, right or dirty rash yeah. They call it one of those. But the probably sickness Davies instead right. Yes, so my dirty dirty friend match it turns out, wasn't so dirty and he's one of about three hundred million people annually to come down escapees worldwide, yeah a lot more people than you think he's no one talks about it for reasons that we mention right yeah. I think it's a lot of times equated with Weiss, yeah and really here when you catch cavies, you can be a very clean person, because the might the sarcophagus Scooby I what happens is the female boroughs down into the sky.
And once she's down there no Soper Waters can do anything. You can still do your eye. What he called the steel wool shower soap in waters. Yes, you can, you can do that told the cows come home and you're still gonna have the females under your skin laying eggs right. That's your stay visa break buddy boom, so that the reason why scatheless are so successful at infesting human beings is because once a female scaly enters your skin and dig stout and by the way I strongly recommend going on the site to read this article right, if not for the first image, Yet a little model of this gave a big full color, grossness yeah, so the females, Gavi Boroughs, India or skin, and begins to lay eggs and the eggs actually mature. They they reach sexual maturity within like fourteen,
phase, and so they start doing the same thing. So all it takes is one female scathing might write to create an infestation under skin problem? Is you don't really notice for up to a couple of months, usually a couple weeks after the first one gets a new can't hear that's where you really get in trouble, because not only can it really be manifesting itself in your own skin, but you can be spreading it to your face. We want it's in contact with you, sexual partners, obviously right you have because it takes prolonged, close contact right and that can be through spending the night with somebody it can be through sharing a towel with somebody letting monsieur anyway, no reason, Another one is, if you like Bartlett, say I want to borrow your when you're nice sweaters or your fancy socks that you were, which, once all your socks or faint, my socked engines, ox yes, Aachen interests argue and at the bar that, because the very magnanimous owner sadness,
in his bosom Saxony. That's right! But if we were to share clothing, which we don't do, then I could pick up your escapees short and be itching like crazy. Yes, amateur a couple weeks, you know the aging is from I do, but I want to hear it is a reaction from the the minds and their feces. That's really grow. Does it mean if you're mine, you gotta poop somewhere and if you're burrowed under somebody skin? That's where you gonna put it? So you have an allergic reaction that yeah that's the biggest item, symptom that you're gonna know that you have cavies is a rat because I'm itching right, you're gonna have a kind of a police like reddish bump your area, that like a larger, ran right, but it's one of those bumps generally represents a mite.
The average adolescent who has cavies has about eleven and they can be mistaken for other things like mosquito bite says why arrived misdiagnose, sometimes too, you know at the d give away as for scale visa. What's the mothers two of em sometimes there's a trail around your skin. That actually is represents the bureau that the female might has dug into you near the one real they give away is that your itching gets worse at night. Yes, right, stabilizer photo phobic like the light right, and so once the saying goes down and the lights go out, they really become most active. So if you have legal, a little painfully rash there is crazy, but really it is at night yeah. My friends, you have scape is yes, and if it's on your wrist, we should talk about here. You can get it anywhere on your body, but for adults the wrist is most
in and then the elbow armpit waste buttocks between the fingers and then the penis in the nipples penis. These have to be. There were still here. I can't imagine that's all I have to say I just can't imagine what kids actually Chuck gets cavies and slightly different areas. Like you said, adults elicited the adults with kids, it's common in the scalp area, the face right, neck palms, face cavies, penis cavies, which is worse loud and one other face cavies. Obviously, people going so my car, some embarrassment I put all my money and penis gave- is being worse. Fucker. I'm down with that Chuck Josh crusted Cavies is our you're Goin, Yes, crusted scale, bees, ok, a Norwegians cavies
I wonder where, if you wonder what the hell's going on with the Norwegian now they aren't common, which is a good thing, because its infinitely more gross, I think it's very severe and its identified by thick crusts over the skin and each of these cross can contain millions of the might scathing might write. Remember we said the adolescent ever data lesson was cavies has about eleven females. Gavi mites right with you have Norwegians gave, as you have like you said millions yet under skin year and picture you're, finally highly contentious, but they may not ich no it's one of the reasons why you you? You don't get. This gave his wretch from what I took from the article you get. This gave his rash in large part from scratching. Like from scratch your skin over an already adequate and you you don't get there.
Ass in one of the reasons why people who get Norwegians cavies don't have that kind of rash eyes they get scaly. Skin is because, in fact, people in large part who can't each physically yeah like the paralyzed paraplegia, so Can you imagine, though, like in my baby, at not being able to avoid you have sensation now this good question somewhat Byron and tell us so check, one of the reasons why escapees are so insidious, you might say is because they spread fairly easily and because the moment that females Gavi Stew laying eggs? You are contagious right so
Even if you don't know it right right, yeah because, like we said it can take weeks in up to a couple of months for the symptoms of first appear, but the whole time you're being invested in infested, investing if right, but you're still contagious and it spreads fairly easily so places where people living close quarters prisons. Yeah nursing home gayer institutions for the criminally insane shudder island right. They are they you can have Davies outbreaks fairly easily out things are so what happens if you suddenly have a simply rash on your penis? That starts its really badly at night. Well, after you, shriek and a terrifying pain in shock and horror, you should go to a doctor. Obviously, first things. First, and the doktor will most likely prescribed. A scape aside, prescription strengths gave aside and this
Usually topical will be like a lotion. What say you to put all of your body lay around for like six or eight hours with his lotion on your body and hopefully that are cleared up yet there is the most readily prescribed scale beside is called Elamite or Elamite. Ah, there very clever declared was farmer companies on there's another one called the lindane and both of those are pharmaceutical topical scale. Besides right and both me, I had to leave on for hours. Usually overnight living you wake up, you wash it off right, an usually both are effective after one treatment. Thank honourable thing about gave his is the itching can continue for for weeks after right, so you're still freaked out like didn't work, didn't work right right. Are you really have the kind of white knucklehead after you cover yourself assured? I think, and I hope that it worked, but while you can do stuff about the itching to, though- and we should point out
that, like hell, am I motion in these things that you would get for like poison, ivy or something that will help the itch, but that doesn't do anything to eradicate this cavies, no teeny, the one to punch. It seem with cool bats, that's a prescribed to help alleviate the horrible horrible. Ah, but yeah. It's not can do anything to eliminate this Davies right. So you ve got a couple of pharmaceutical options what's more arm, since it is very easy to spread, you shouldn't be the only one with the Lindy Aigner Ella might write. All of your family members.
Do the same treatment. Yeah you're bedding should be dousing gasoline and set out a fire natur at the very least ass to be washed on the hottest setting. Yes antis, we have a sanity setting undervalues quite a bit at our house area. No one that force gay be hills, anything we have animals. You know the paean, something so awash nonsense, and you can also take it to dry, cleaner and when I read that line in this article, I started to think yeah. That's true. Dry cleaners actually have fairly dangerous job like this stuff. It gets brought them here that, if you're bringing your stay, these unfair close scale, these infested close to your dry cleaner, what else is some other guy bring into an Yonah? Well yeah? I never thought about that. You ve got your family on lockdown everybody's covered in oil in bed is on fire in the back right at the very least its own. At a and in the laundry and you realize
You know what I'm not really the kind to use highly toxic pharmaceutical ointments right. What options? This person, like me, have Josh. There are a couple of options. There is something called the meme tree native to India and extract it's a paste made from extract from a tree, and in studies in this isn't just little. You know I'll shocks, home remedied, accident studies and found in it Ninety seven percent effective, and it's not toxic. So that's it up a little closer to home. Teachery oil yeah: well, that's the one that we have that in our house we get a that's a great anti fungal antibiotic antibacterial, it's good for a lot of stuff right by if you're going to use it some sort of ointment you wanted dilute, dilute dilute as adherents of Doktor browner familiar with because it will burn your skin yeah you're gonna be real careful with that. Actually the stuff we use, I didn't think, was too diluted.
Its strong right. You want to delete it yourself. I will we Don T Robin skin, like in large part, not large portions, like I have like a pimple and Emily who put like some teachery on it gets radiation. So just like a little love, dabble d, as they say you can also use sulphur yeah. I saw that sulphur ointment, not that's good, for treating kids. If you're honest, your kids in the toxic chemicals. Another study found that the sulphur ointment was just as effective entreating children risque bees as the prescribed ointments right. So it does work via the most of the other folk remedies out there aren't gonna. Do anything would alleviate itching right well, which is get them? Oh yeah. You want that too, but you also want to get rid of this cavies infestation, yet so shock, Josh, true or false scale. Bees,
Reich's all races indiscriminately. True false really for some reason that no one knows yet. African Americans are not nearly susceptible escapees, as everybody else look for them in the courts so that, when listening to worry about, let's get shuck, true or false jiggers escapees are the same thing faults. That's right. Figures are different, and but they also well now they dont borough under the skin. That is a falsehood. People think they do. They actually feed on top of the skin, but they do dig the skin inject you with something to kill your tissue and a chronic enzyme in a crowded getting on the yet. Basically, they vomit that on yours and to kill the tissue, and then they feed on the tissue brought and have it everyone tat triggers. If you ve been linked to the beach. I don't know that before the ape I haven't, you might camping and the words you prior triggers, or they got a bitch in feeding process, yet grass, and they it's like crazy to how many.
Father, it's their scratching right now. You notice that when you're reading the article that you it's a little I'm itching right now, it's like the contagious, yawning one right, contagious, itching and then shock true or false. False arrived, the fifty could go and you haven't yeah scale. These means you're a dirty person, a fault coarseness doesn't mean you promiscuous, no Mitch, although they do point out that intercourse is a common way, because that means prolonged physical fiscal contact. Well put Chuck yes very tidy. Thank you. Also. It means in a lotta cases, if you're, not just some jerk You are sharing the bed together to an bedding, as we ve seen as one way right, you can get scapegoats and maybe sharing a towel, maybe so it's like a sexy next morning as well or if your very clean persevere, afterward, so scale visa gets right, they're, gonna,
Mitchum. When was this, he's he's gonna murder By the way for that was recently now as a while ago, then he's a good guy finer did. He gets gave a son, I'm sure he did. He say: yeah he's clean. I right, he's not thirty in any other way their goods, for, as you know, and yet his does in our economy, no I'd. He wanted. To knowing where it evaluates the we're gonna get emails from people, they're gonna say you know I had scarcely. I heads babies and don't tell anyone. I hope I hope chucks through this. We ve gotten the point across their view Sk Davies, don't be ashamed. If you know somebody who's heads cavies saw their big of a deal, Garcia, Doktor cassettes. One reason it can get worse. Has you you're so named you'll, try to like knock it out at home without going to get the scale besides, it is sucking up. Doctors have seen it all they do have. We have one in a million shot down exactly what you have more questions.
Stay visa. You want to see a truly truly cool picture. I type hints, These are there. Any search bar has therefore sat com, since I just said that everybody! You know it means it's time for listener mail. Yes, it is Josh, and before I read this, I do want to say quickly said emails will stop we. I have been schools and we know now the amish people love their Walmart. Everybody knows we didn't know that apparently- and in theory John, Amazon, Georgia in theory I want to support the mom and pop that is within their their mindset, but apparently they dig the hallmark as hundreds of people have written in an apparently in Lancaster. We ve also directed unhappy announced that they are. They have buggy sheds at the Walmart in the in the shade where they can type there buggy through, and so the horses can can relax it's nice for the horses and they said that they are in their. Digital cameras. Looking at them and have you
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by a user of any system, despite the fact that greater rail is more commonly scene? I think it is good to begin with great one braille, especially for children, as it ensures that they will have the ability to spell later on when using contracted, break You dont spell outwards falling learn how they were spelled if it weren't for grade one Braille. Another thing I thought was interesting, the lack of Braille on the current in the: U S, hearing Canada, there is actually the rail system on the currency we had the numbers, but a different number of full Braille cells on each bill. So, for example, the five has one full sell, the tin, his two etc. I have noticed, however, that despite the effort rail eventually becomes faded and unreadable. So rail currency, it's a good idea in theory, but it only works in the short term and blind people back to folding bills before too long. So thanks for the interesting in sight of a quarter listing the more and that's from Stephanie
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