Can pubic lice be infected

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At ordinary times, everyone of us should pay attention to hygiene, and often wash their bodies, so the probability of being infected by pubic lice is very small. So to protect themselves from the risk of infection, then there are patients who ask whether pubic lice can be infected.

Can pubic lice be infected

First, the mode of infection of the pubic lice and its diagnosis and treatment are very simple, with few complications. Through contact with human body, the pubic lice quickly transfers to the short hairs of genital organs, and the beard, eyebrows and eyelashes can also be affected.

Second: the spread of pubic lice is inseparable from the eggs and lice, because these are not easy to wash off or brush off in daily life. Most patients seek medical advice when the lice do not reproduce for several generations. Pubic lice make the affected part itch, especially at night. A few patients with pubic lice may have moderate fever, muscle pain, or enlargement of cervical lymph nodes.

Third: the spread of pubic lice is first of all easy to spread in human sexual intercourse due to close physical contact, which is a kind of sexual disease. In addition, people can get infected by bedclothes, toilets, or clothes of infected people, such as borrowing other people's clothes or trying on new clothes in shops.

matters needing attention

With regard to this, I would like to remind you: whether family members have concurrent infection, if they have direct contact with their loved ones, they must be treated at the same time, no matter whether they have symptoms or not. Pubic lice regardless of age, so even children should pay attention to isolation, so as not to be infected.