Advice for students

PREVENTING REINFECTION 
All family and close contacts should be treated at the same time, even if asymptomatic. After treatment has 
been applied or taken, (or directly before treatment if you are careful and wear gloves) cleaning of 
environment should occur. A person can easily be reinfected with scabies. 
Without a host, scabies mites can on average survive up to 48-72 hours away from human skin. As in cases 
of Crusted Scabies, they can survive much longer, up to 7 days. Therefore it is recommended, after 
treatment, to wash all material (such as clothes, bedding, and towels) that has been in contact with all 
infested persons in the last three days. 
All household members should be treated at the same time and cleaning must be thorough and simultaneous. 
Either isolate long enough for the mites to die in a plastic bag for at least 1 week, or clean or freeze 
overnight. 
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Vacuuming floors, carpets, and rugs. 
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Disinfecting floor and bathroom surfaces by mopping (this only needs to be done after the first 
treatment). 
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Daily washing of recently worn clothes, towels and bedding in hot water and drying in a hot 
dryer. 
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Hot drying pillows for 30 minutes. 
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Overnight freezing, in a plastic bag: stuffed animals, brushes, combs, shoes, coats, gloves, hats, 
robes, wetsuits, etc. 
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Quarantine in a plastic bag for two weeks: things that cannot be washed, hot dried, frozen or 
drycleaned. 
Drycleaning: things that cannot be washed, hot dried or frozen or quarantined.
 
 
 
ANTHROPOMETRY 
is a method used for the determination of the human's physical 
characteristics in anthropology. Mainly in this method, the weight, the body dimensions, the strength and 
the movement limits of a person are measured. In addition to other aims, anthropometry is also used in 
health field. 
There are five organizational levels of body composition: Atomic level, molecular level cellular 
level, tissue-system level and whole body. There is a well balanced relation among compartments of body 
compositions. Among same and different compartments of the body composition level, there are stable 
quantitative relations. Data obtained from anthropometric measurements on whole body, allow getting 
knowledge about body compositions in different levels. Illness and ageing affect the quantitative relations 

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and anthropometry gains importance on scanning the changes. Through the anthropometric data one can 
infer about risks, present situation and undergoing of the illnesses and life expectancy.