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*Once an area is selected, apply a small amount of liquid paraffin. Then, stabilise the skin by streching it between thumb and finger and, using a size ten blade, gently scrape the surface of the skin with your other hand.

*Once an area is selected, apply a small amount of liquid paraffin. Then, stabilise the skin by streching it between thumb and finger and, using a size ten blade, gently scrape the surface of the skin with your other hand.

*If you are looking for burrowing mites, you will need to take a deep skin scrape, which means scraping until you can see capillary ooze (tiny amounts of blood become visible on the skin). The material that you have scraped off the surface can then be spread on a slide for viewing under the microscope. </font>

*If you are looking for burrowing mites, you will need to take a deep skin scrape, which means scraping until you can see capillary ooze (tiny amounts of blood become visible on the skin). The material that you have scraped off the surface can then be spread on a slide for viewing under the microscope. </font>