4- Abscess in Curves of the Body:

Such type of abscess usually happens to obese people. It appears under the arm-bits, under the breasts for women and in the curves of the thighs. In such cases, the skin becomes inflamed and red. In severe cases the inflamed skin excretes some kind of transparent substance and the patient suffers from painful prurigo.

Ways of Protection and Treatment:

Caring for personal hygiene, and avoiding being directly exposed to sun beams as possible as one can, and sitting in an open place (i.e. with good ventilation)

5 – Parasitic Infections:

Parasitic infections are a group of infectious skin diseases that are capable of causing different diseases. Such parasitic infections are widely spread in areas with hot weather conditions. They include:

A- Thigh Tinea:

It is an infectious disease that happens due to some parasitic infection. Patient suffering from this disease has severe itching between his thighs. The disease spreads through using the clothes or towels of an infected person. Also, great overcrowding in hot weather at the time of Hajj causes this disease to widespread among the pilgrims.

Ways of Protection and Treatment:

– Refraining from using the clothes and towels of others.

– Washing all one’s clothes in a boiling water and then ironing them to kill all parasites therein.

– Refraining from scratching the infected area with the bath sponge.

– Consulting the doctor to take necessary procedures.

B- Colorful Tinea:

This disease infects the pilgrims due to hot weather and extra sweat excretion. It takes the form of round rash whose color becomes light on taking a bath and then it darkens and becomes brown after some days. It spreads in the same way like thigh tinea.

Ways of Protection and Treatment:

– Taking a hot shower every evening for a long period that may amount to two months.

– Smearing the infected areas with anti-parasitic ointment upon the doctor’s prescription.

C- Herpes:

It happens due to infection with a certain kind of parasites. It appears in the form of groups of small bubbles around the mouth and the genitals. This is usually accompanied with hypertrophy and inflammation of the lymph nodes, and in most cases it is accompanied with prurigo. It is an infectious disease, which spreads through touch and use of a patient’s personal things. Jam overcrowding at the time of Hajj causes wide spread of the disease.

There is another form of this disease, which infects the nerves and appears as bubbles, which spread in one side of the body, especially in the face and trunk.

Ways of Protection and Treatment:

– Caring for personal hygiene.

– Abstaining from using others’ personal things.

– Seeking the doctors’ consult once the disease, especially the last type, appears in order to take the prescribed suitable medicine.

6 – Mange:

This is one of the commonest infectious dermatitis, which the pilgrims contract. It happens due to some parasitic infection. The symptoms of this disease are severe itching at night and the emergence of some scabies in the area that have been itched and in the areas between the fingers, in the heels, the palms and the abdomen. There may also be some red rash on the abdomen where the female parasite makes her course through the body. This disease is really infectious, so that it may spread among a whole group at once.

Treatment of this disease is nothing than washing the body, scratching it with warm water and soup; then smearing the whole body except the face and the head with the Bezanil cream or sulfur ointment or anything the doctor prescribes. This is to be repeated for two successive nights.

The same treatment is to be applied in cases of infection with lice etc..