How to treat pubic lice in men

Pubic lice is a common infection in the male genitals. It is usually caused by men not paying attention to personal hygiene and genital infection. Pubic lice can be transmitted through sexual contact or direct contact. Moreover, if you have pubic lice, you need to treat it for a long time, and you must pay attention to hygiene at ordinary times, otherwise it is easy to relapse. So, how should men treat pubic lice?

1. How to treat pubic lice in men

Pubic lice mainly hide in pubic hair, causing repeated infections, so when treating them, you first need to shave your pubic hair. You can use pevisone smears and malathion lotions to keep clean and hygienic. You must be careful when using medication to treat them, and do not use excessive amounts to avoid affecting the skin.

2. Transmission of pubic lice

1. Transmission through sexual contact: Sexual behavior often creates opportunities for pubic lice to find new hosts and infect new hosts, so pubic lice are often spread during sexual promiscuity.

2. Direct contact transmission: refers to other direct contact transmissions other than sexual contact. Due to limited living conditions, crowded housing, poor hygiene conditions, sleeping in the same bed with patients with pubic lice, close contact, this disease can also be transmitted.

3. Indirect contact transmission: Pubic lice and lice eggs are often contaminated by fallen pubic hair, underwear, towels, bed sheets, toilets, etc. Other people are infected by touching these items contaminated by pubic lice.

3. The harm of pubic lice

1. Pubic lice have a strong reproductive capacity and can reproduce 40-50 lice a day. If they are not known or treated for a long time, it may lead to lice and secondary infection of other systemic diseases.

2. Since pubic lice can move freely, if they are not killed for a long time, they can spread to other hairy parts of the body, such as the hair, armpits, etc., increasing the difficulty of treatment. At the same time, because pubic lice are highly contagious, they can cause collective infection of couples, friends and family members, causing group illness.

3. At the same time, because pubic lice survive by sucking human blood, biting other human bodies and then infecting each other, they are bound to transmit some communicable diseases. Therefore, after discovering pubic lice, you must treat it correctly and actively treat it.