The disease can lead to other, more life-threatening situations. In general, it is essential for the patient to receive treatment as soon as possible for the condition to reduce the risk of spreading it. Areas where the patient has been should also be carefully vacuumed to minimize traces of the disease. To minimize the chances of this happening, the patient should not share clothes, bedding or other personal items with other people. The condition is also very contagious, so people who develop it may have caught it from someone else or they can pass it on to other people themselves.
TINY BALLS ON SCALP SKIN
The skin can also be examined carefully to see if there is any evidence of a burrowing mite. Further tests such as a skin biopsy can help to provide a conclusive diagnosis.
The sooner the disease is identified and treated, the faster the risk of spreading the highly infectious condition is minimized. Sometimes the disease can be mistaken for other skin conditions such as eczema and psoriasis which can look similar. However, in comparison to the more common form of scabies, it does not tend to cause itching. The skin beneath the crusts is red raw as well. The skin becomes crusted with grayish colored flakes which can disintegrate when touched. The disease creates blisters and sores in one or more places on the body due to mites. Sarcoptes scabies – the mite that causes Norwegian scabies.
It can take up to 14 days for a fully grown mite to develop. The female mites burrow into the skin of the patient and can lay up to three eggs each day for her lifetime. There are usually around 5 to 15 mites on the body in the case of common scabies but in this complication of the disease there can be thousands and sometimes millions of mites. It is a much more extreme version of scabies. The condition can, however, be found anywhere in the world. Norwegian or crusted scabies is a parasitic, infectious disease which obtained its name when it was first referenced in mid-19 th century in Norway.