Fontainebleau: cases of scabies reported

© IstockGastroenteritis is back but it is not the only one: during the week of November 19 to 25, 2018, cases of scabies were detected at the François-Couperin high school, located in the city of Fontainebleau (south-east of Paris), reports Le Parisien.

If scabies is suspected, students are invited to stay at home

If the number of students affected is not known, the school management has informed the parents of the situation and invites the parents to take the necessary measures to avoid a wider transmission : "The school health service notices an upsurge [de gale], she explained in her email. It is a benign transmissible disease characterized by itching, the intensity of which increases in the evening. If the suspicion of scabies is confirmed by the doctor, it is asked to prevent the school and to respect the school eviction, in order to avoid contamination within the school district. "

The newspaper gathered the words of some students, who seem annoyed by the lack of information about this incident and the disease: "They wrote to the parents but they did not tell us anything directly", says one of them. between them. "We were just told to avoid touching each other and kissing each other," says another.

An upsurge of illness

Yet, if it does not matter, scabies has been on the increase in France in recent years. The disease is not subject to regular national surveillance but already in 2011, a report from the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) stated that "http://www.medisite.fr/" an increase in the number of cases and / or episodes of scabies occurring in communities "had been observed.Scale is a skin condition caused by an allergy to a parasite called sarcopter.It is indeed highly contagious and its transmission" is promoted by the close and frequent contacts: children, family environment, badual contacts ", explains the InVS.

Gale: how to prevent it?

The treatment of scabies involves the application of a scabicide product "all over the body, including the scalp but with the exception of the face," says the site of the Health Insurance. Oral treatment may also be prescribed. And to avoid transmission, here are the recommended measures:

• "inform the staff of the communities you are attending and all persons with whom you have been in prolonged and repeated contact (including your badual partner) and recommend that they also consult their doctor;
• strictly adhere to the prescribed treatment and have it followed by your loved ones according to the doctor's recommendations;
• avoid skin contact with those around you for the first three days after taking the first medicine;
• abstain from bad during the entire treatment;
• in case of common scab, vacuum the entire house and immediately dispose of used vacuum bags. There is no need to disinfect your home further;
• if your child has scabies, he will only be able to live again in the community (school, day care center, ventilated center) 3 days after the start of treatment. In the meantime, keep it at your home. "