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What Parasite Lives In Your Tissue And Excretes Larva Onto The Skin?
Question: What parasite lives in your tissue and excretes larva onto your skin
Brief Answer:
Yes. It's called "Scabies". It's an interesting "tick".
Detailed Answer:
Dear XXXX,
"Sarcoptes Scabie" is an evil creature that causes scabies, that's itching all over, that manifests most predominantly at night, or when you go to sleep. This lives in the burrows that it creates. It's a "mite", just like "ticks" and "fleas" on animals. This then lays "eggs", in these skin burrows. These are clinically and technically not "larvae". It's an insect. It's called as an "arthropod". A fly or a spider or a mosquito is also an arthropod. Paradoxically lobsters are arthropods too.
The difference is though, that some people eat lobsters, and Scarcoptes Scabie causes skin infections that eat the peace of mind of some people, who are infected by it.
There are other infection models, perhaps tapeworms, called "Taenia", clinically, but they lay eggs "larvae" in your muscles, brain and the like, not the skin.
To get rid of scabies, kindly buy permethrin soap. This is available where you live without a doctors prescription, and if you use it just like this... keep the foam on for 3 minutes, and then use your regular soap, you'll be free of scabies within a
net period of three days.
Regards,
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar
Yes. It's called "Scabies". It's an interesting "tick".
Detailed Answer:
Dear XXXX,
"Sarcoptes Scabie" is an evil creature that causes scabies, that's itching all over, that manifests most predominantly at night, or when you go to sleep. This lives in the burrows that it creates. It's a "mite", just like "ticks" and "fleas" on animals. This then lays "eggs", in these skin burrows. These are clinically and technically not "larvae". It's an insect. It's called as an "arthropod". A fly or a spider or a mosquito is also an arthropod. Paradoxically lobsters are arthropods too.
The difference is though, that some people eat lobsters, and Scarcoptes Scabie causes skin infections that eat the peace of mind of some people, who are infected by it.
There are other infection models, perhaps tapeworms, called "Taenia", clinically, but they lay eggs "larvae" in your muscles, brain and the like, not the skin.
To get rid of scabies, kindly buy permethrin soap. This is available where you live without a doctors prescription, and if you use it just like this... keep the foam on for 3 minutes, and then use your regular soap, you'll be free of scabies within a
net period of three days.
Regards,
Dr. Neel Kudchadkar
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