Symptoms of pubic lice, the following four points will teach you how to identify

The existence of pubic lice forces us to place personal hygiene in an extremely important position. We should pay attention to controlling the source of infection and cutting off the transmission route in normal times. Otherwise, after infection, it will be transmitted to others. So, what are the symptoms of pubic lice?

1. The patient or his/her spouse has a history of unclean sexual contact, or became ill while staying away from home before the onset of the disease.

2. The main sites of disease are the pubic hair area and around the anus, and can also be seen in the armpit hair and chest hair areas.

3. Common subjective symptoms are severe itching, especially at night, which is mainly limited to the pubic area, but may also affect the perianal area, lower abdomen, armpits, eyelashes and calves. The spouse or sexual partner may have similar symptoms. Grayish-white sand-like particles (lice eggs) and slowly-moving pubic lice can be seen attached to the pubic hair. The pubic lice may half burrow into the skin and half remain outside the skin. The skin lesions are scratches and blood scabs, or scattered blue hemorrhagic ecchymoses, which are commonly seen on the inner thigh, lower abdomen and waist. This is because when pubic lice suck blood, their saliva enters the blood and denatures the hemoglobin. After the pubic lice are killed, these blue spots may persist for several months.

4. There are often brown blood spots on the patient's underwear, which is caused by bleeding from the pubic lice sucking blood. Excessive scratching can lead to secondary folliculitis, impetigo and furunculosis bacterial infection.