Lice — Body Lice

Among homeless persons who can’t change clothes
  • Itchy excoriated papules any- / everywhere on the body
  • Bugs found in clothing — Spread the seams for lice & nits.  Don’t search the person’s body for them 

Treatment — new clothes.  Nothing else works or helps.

Some Pictures:

Body Lice Rash, with Secondary Folliculitis

Invert the Sock to Find the Lice

To Diagnose Body Lice: Check the Seams for Nits

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