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Can A Person Sustain With Chronic Scabies Infection Without Treatment For Years?
A family member has suffered with eczema for over 25 years, he also has asthma and multiple environmental allergies and food allergies. He was told by an Infectious Disease professional (MD?) that he has a chronic scabies infection which is not contagious. He may have contracted it 25 years ago in the Fiji Islands. I am a nurse and disagree with the diagnosis. His IGE is 6700. Do you agree with his diagnosis? I find it difficult to believe anyone could live with a parasite infection for 25 years without treatment.
Tue, 19 May 2015
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I really appreciate your concern, look as long as the skin disease are concern it need clinical examination and without it diagnosis may not be exactly possible but from the history given just it can be assumed likely possibility of near diagnosis, it is kind of looking art of looking at the lesion and making diagnosis, any way this could not be scabies but could be chronic reactive disease of the skin may be gene related, some time for proper diagnosis biopsy may needed, hope this information helps, take care.
Well come to HCM
I really appreciate your concern, look as long as the skin disease are concern it need clinical examination and without it diagnosis may not be exactly possible but from the history given just it can be assumed likely possibility of near diagnosis, it is kind of looking art of looking at the lesion and making diagnosis, any way this could not be scabies but could be chronic reactive disease of the skin may be gene related, some time for proper diagnosis biopsy may needed, hope this information helps, take care.
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