Background On Health Problems in Rempang

Malaria is transmitted by mosquitoes that bite from dusk to dawn. Symptoms can develop as early as six days or as late as several months after exposure. Early symptoms are usually "flu-like", characterized by fever, chills, muscle aches, and headache. Cycles of chills, fever, and sweating that recur every 1, 2, or 3 days are typical. There can sometimes be vomiting, diarrhea, coughing and yellowing (jaundice) of the skin and whites of the eyes. For more information go to, http://www.medicinenet.com/malaria/article.htm

Scabies refers to an infestation by the small eight-legged itch mites (in contrast to insects, which have six legs). They are just 1/3 millimeter long and burrow into the skin to produce intense itching which tends to be worse at night. The mites which cause scabies are not visible with the naked eye but can be seen with a magnifying glass or microscope. These mites are very fastidious. They can only live off of a host body for 24 to 36 hours under most conditions. Transmission of the mites involves close person-to-person contact of the skin-to-skin variety. It is hard, if not impossible, to catch scabies by shaking hands, hanging your coat next to someone who has it, or even sharing bedclothes that had mites in them the night before.
Scabies produces small bumps and blisters in the webs between the fingers, on the wrists and the backs of the elbows, in the groin and on the knees, and on the buttocks - not every bump is a bug.

In most cases of scabies in otherwise healthy adults, there are no more than 10 or 15 live mites even if there are hundreds of bumps and pimples. Itching is the most common symptom of scabies and is insidious and relentless. For the first weeks, the itch is subtle. It then gradually becomes more intense until, after a month or two, sleep becomes almost impossible.
The "nocturnal" nature of this itch, emphasized to every doctor and nurse in training, can be misleading. All itching is worse at night, at least in part because there is not much going on to distract people from thinking about it. For more information pse refer to, http://www.medicinenet.com/scabies/article.htm