How do men get pubic lice?

When suffering from pubic lice, the patient will feel unbearable itching, especially at night, which seriously affects sleep. To treat male pubic lice, the first step is to shave off the patient’s pubic hair, armpit hair and other itchy hair. Clean and disinfect the patient's underwear with boiling water. In addition, sheets, quilts, towels and other items used by patients must be managed and disinfected. Others cannot reuse them, otherwise they will also be infected.

What causes pubic lice in men

1. What causes pubic lice in men?

1.1. Sexually transmitted infections

During sexual life, pubic lice often create opportunities to find new hosts, resulting in pubic lice infective partners. Therefore, pubic lice disease is often popular among sexually promiscuous people.

1.2. Immediate infection

Refers to other direct contact infections that are not non-sexual. Due to restrictions on food, clothing, housing and transportation standards, residential congestion, and poor sanitary conditions, people who sleep in the same room with patients suffering from pubic lice can also be infected with pubic lice through sheets, quilts, cotton towels, etc.

1.3. Indirect infection

Pubic lice and nits often accompany the fall of male pubic hair and contaminate underwear, towels, sheets, toilets, etc. Others may become infected by touching these items contaminated by pubic lice.

2. What are the symptoms of male pubic lice?

The basic harm of male pubic lice is that they initially appear as tiny dark red pimples of different sizes, spread alone or in clusters, moist and soft, nipple-like, comb-shaped or cauliflower-like raised, bright red or dark gray, with pedicles often appearing at the roots, and easily producing erosive exudate, which can easily bleed when touched. Purulent secretions often accumulate in the gaps between skin lesions, causing a foul smell, and secondary infections may occur due to scratching.

Pubic lice that occur in the urethral orifice or anterior urethra are generally difficult to detect. Pubic lice that occur in the anal opening are easily confused with hemorrhoids. However, pubic lice that occur in the anus are difficult to observe without an anoscope, and sometimes the instrument shows bleeding after defecation. The skin around the anus has many wrinkles and a lot of friction when walking around, so once pubic lice occur, they often occur multiple times. At the beginning, most of them are papules, and then the warts grow and develop in the form of excrescences. They can appear as large pedunculated cauliflower-like excrescences, and a large number of soft spots are flat and have small papillae on the surface.