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Scabies Causes Symptoms and Treatment

What is Scabies?                                                                     Scabies is a common skin disease caused by a very small species of mite or small itchy bumps. Scabies not always transmitted sexually. Scabies can also be passed between members to members or by shared clothing, skin to skin, bedding and towels. Scabies can affects all ages of people and often affects several family members at same time. The scabies rashes frequently found between ankles, wrists and fingers. It may infected by other bacteria or further problems. Causes of Scabies : Scabies is an infection caused by an infestation with the scabies mite that is spread by direct skin-to-skin contact with a person, sleeping in the same bed with or touching someone who has scabies. Mites may live only for several days but usually spread through skin-to-skin contact; it burns very vastly under the skin. In a female mite lays 3 to 4 eggs per day into the skin and creating small, threadlike tunnels that