Scabies

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1. MartySQ says:
   January 25, 2012 at 2:19 pm

   I wrote on here before, I was looking for something other than the permethrin creme as it didn’t work for me. I had the site bookmarked. I tried several things people were touting as ‘works’. Really, none of it worked. I think folks keep itching because they are allergic to them and are easily re-infested once they get them the first time. My spouse who sleeps next to me every night never got them once and I’ve been through it twice before I found what works for me.

   I went to the Whole Foods Store and found Need seed oil. I put it on straight the first few applications and then bought another small bottle and added it to olive oil with some melaluca( sp?) tea tree oil. this I applied as long as I itched.

   Now when I feel an itch that isn’t dissipating as quick as I think it ought to… (I’m paranoid about it, was a bad experience) I reach for the Neem seed oil and apply to just that spot 2-3 times and I’ve not been re-infested for 2 years. I also use borax on our whites/sheets in the washer on hot just as a precaution because I do think there is something to the enzyme theory, but didn’t try a whole house extermination with enzymes like they say you should. Neem is sure a lot cheaper than a lot of stuff out there!
2. Max do do says:
   January 16, 2012 at 7:58 pm

   Just go with MSM powder pill. you won’t regret it. Use internally & orally. it will be good for ya.
3. a reliable source says:
   January 14, 2012 at 12:03 am

   I’ve been using an oil called tea tree oil for a few days and already less itching and some rashes healing up.
   I’ve been told its even more effective and much safer than using the permethrin.
   Believe me people you have to try it, its working wonders for me.
4. Jules says:
   January 10, 2012 at 11:06 am

   Scabies……now up to my 1st year anniversary!
   To those on this site who wrote we are crazy and that its a “simple” matter of using X product and washing your clothes etc….
   YOU KNOW NOTHING PEOPLE!
   Thus far have had Lyclear, Quedella, Ascobicol, IVERMECTIN and Still have Scabies !

   Wash clothes EVERY night in highest hot water even soaked them in BOILING water, Use the Dryer every day on the hottest cycle for 2 hrs 3o mins then iron clothes with steam iron at highest temperature and still have them. Threw away my mattress now sleep on a PLASTIC covered lounge, using an emergency accident silver sheet to sleep on cause nothing burrows or sticks to it.
   Each night wear a cap on my head head soaked with treatment as I found some black specks in my scalp. now have marks on my face, along with the red festering bumps all over.

   Been to 3 Medical Practitioners and one Skin Specialist who diagnosed Lupus, but has not cured the scabies. For some reason the doctors are more worried about Lupus than scabies.
   I can live with Lupus but I cant live with scabies its driving me mad. I have medication to help me sleep (more importantly not scratch) am on anti histimens as well. the “once a day” version but specialist has me taking it twice a day. There have been days when I have had 3.

   Put Vaseline over eyelids and brows as they have been in my eyes (one GP warned me this could happen)

   Wearing socks to bed with feet covered currently trying Neem Oil. Ayzurvedic treatment, Indians have been using it for 5000 years. I am using it as much out of desperation but hopeful it will work. I have been coating myself in Neem for 5 days (smells like garlic and onion so keep perfume ready to spray over your clothes to mask your aroma). There are nights where I am calling out to God ” I have had ENOUGH”. Over my lifetime I have had many many operations…but nothing comes close to how bad Scabies is.

   We need a cure and FAST. I will try and upload some photos of my ruined skin. up until 12 months ago I had wonderful skin but now its crap. I pinpoint the time I first felt the “bite” or burrowing and there was a dog at my house who a friend bought over for one day while we were socializing. I later found out the dog had mange. that dog sat on my lounge/walked on my carpet and shortly later I ended up with scabies.

   The medical profession needs to do some SERIOUS research into this awful condition. I have now given up on the drugs/lotions as they didnt work. I am putting my life into the hands of NEEM oil and soap and if this doesn’t work. I am not sure what would be next to try I shaved my arms and legs to ensure no eggs can attach themselves. as I saw little white eggs on hair follicles in the initial stages. Good luck and God Bless to each and everyone of you.
5. worriedmomma says:
   December 27, 2011 at 7:26 pm

   3 months ago my now 5 month old son broke out in a terrible rash we have had a horrible experience! Seen two dermatologist an allergist 4 different pediatricians and then a hematologist ( yeah they thought he had a rare form of cancer!) Finally we seen a ped dermatologist who did a skin scrape!

   Needless to say everyone who had held him is infected so everyone who held him had to be treated we have done treated with the perm 5% twice but I don’t know how to tell if its gone and I don’t want to over treat him cause he has to have it on his head and face because he is infected there! I’m so ready to have this go away all my son has known his whole life is this horrible itching I’m w want him to be able to enjoy his childhood and be over this!
6. tiredofthissh** says:
   December 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm

   well well, this is something most of us would have never of known about until it happened to us, why isn’t it getting more attention?? something is seriously fishy here, doctors act like its nothing, give you some bs ointment that is crap, like there trained/brain washed to do I’m sure. this is some kind of superbug epidemic going pretty much ignored, i felt insane these last 6mo until i researched scabies online and found this site, it does give me some relief knowing others are going through the same stuff i am, these marks are crazy they seem to scar up so quickly, which sucks because it looks like some druggy picking at there body all day.

   i just recently found out my “bed bug” problem was scabies so I’ve only had the chance to use the permeth cream for two weeks realizing its not doing much, possibly even worsening it. i thinks these bites are changing/weakening my skin because it had become super sensitive and vulnerable when it used to be very tough. I’m going to say screw the doctor and try the sulfur pills/blue star ointment/glycerin route, and ill let you know how that goes. call me crazy but i fell like there might be more to this than just a bug that bites and itches, i feel like its been changing my body, mind, and spirit and pushing it to the limits, and perhaps that’s its intended purpose? who knows…

   I’m going to go outside the box a little too and recommend some more unorthodoxed treatments along with your usual ones, which is what i plan on doing once i get them, couldn’t hurt, right?

   Try ordering a “Zapper” online (don croft terminator zapper is cheap and works awesome i hear), it puts a small electric current in your bloodstream kills parasites and much more, wear it on your leg or somewhere for a month, people have even used this to treat there morgellons with success, getting relief from there itching crawling feeling associated with that.

   Also, Im gonna start a regimen of “Colloidal Silver”, you can order some online or make it at home both aren’t too hard. you can use it topically or internally, silver has been around forever as sort of a cure-all and harmless to the body, but you research that more for yourself to see all it offers. the bumps are an allergic reaction and you want your body in top shape to get rid of this.

   the reason i suggested the last two treatments is because i honestly feel this is an abnormal issue were dealing with here, possibly created like small pox or something who knows, but those are some of the more alternative methods that the medical community would never offer. or you could just get a 10 lb tub of Permethrin cream and set it by your bedside and apply it until you die of cancer, ya know?

   so anyway, ill be trying this routine out myself and report back in a few weeks on here, i have confidence that this can be taken care of, i just need to nip it in the bud before i get even more scars, hate the scars, Good Luck! if u want you can contact me at kilaxxx@gmail.com
7. they r easily killed says:
   December 15, 2011 at 9:54 am

   all you have to do if you have scabies is use permethin 5 % from chin to toe. Leave it on for 8 hours and wake up then wash it off. After this you wont be able to pass it on and your cured. Now you will still itch for about 2-3 weeks after treatment is used. That’s OK and the itch will get better day by day. It mite effect others different. Some peoples scabies might get aggravated and will scratch harder but it’ll get better in 2 days a start going down from there. Everyone who has scabies will be fine so don’t be so hard on yourself. Also make sure 1 week from the day you used Permethin 5 % cream that you use it 1 more time. Also if you are staying with your family make sure they are treaded. You use it twice while they use it once. Thanks hope i was helpful!
8. losing my mind says:
   December 11, 2011 at 12:38 pm

   My husband and I have been battling scabies for about 2 months now with very little success. We have tried the permethrin cream 3 times and ivermectin. The itching got less severe but the bites/pin pricks kept coming. I was covered from head to toe with the black dots which I am still not sure if it is mite debris or actual mites. You could rub your hand down my side and it felt like sandpaper from all the black specs. Last night I tried the Blue star ointment someone had posted about.

   It burned like hell and actually made me itch but this morning when I woke up the side that I applied it one was almost normal again and the side which i didn’t apply it to remained like sandpaper. I just applied it to the other side and on the rest of me. My skin is on fire and itching like Mad, but I think that is a good sign since the same thing happened last night when I tried it. I will post again tomorrow and see if I have made any process. I PRAY I can end these suckers lives because I’m losing my mind!
9. Hunter says:
   December 8, 2011 at 2:40 am

   Ok, I don’t know if this will help anyone in the world or not, but I just went through a very stressful ordeal and kinda feel the need to share my story with others in an attempt the ease some minds on certain issues, as well as just share my story so y’all can take it or leave it.

   Here goes (keep in mind that I’m a 22 year old recent college graduate, and this happened during my final term at my University):

   A couple months ago I noticed an…………..odd………..lesion on my naughty parts. Of course, I freaked out like I figure most would in my position. I went to the doctor and he asked me describe my sore. I told him and he asked me if anything had been leaking out of it or anything and I told him that yes, it had been seeping some kind of clear liquid from it the day of my appointment. Without even looking at it simply told me “It’s prolly herpes.” He asked to look at it and with a simple guess was just like “Yeah, that’s herpes. We’ll take some blood and git back with you.”

   I was devastated!!!!!!! I had just gotten out of a relationship where I had only been with the same girl for over year, yet I had just taken a new sexual partner after we broke up. Now I kinda figured that had my new partner HAD herpes, she would have told me, so I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt. I had no idea where a herpes infection could have come from, so I was just blown away by this diagnosis. I waited and waited and did hours upon hours of research, but nothing I read seemed to suggest where a herpes infection had come from. My long-term partner was slightly prone to cold sores, which I new were a strain of the herpes virus, but we were always very careful and had never done anything while she had an outbreak, etc. The only way I can describe this absolute stress and depression.

   Now, idk how many of you have had similar things happen to you, but when this happened to me I started looking up pictures of different std’s etc and honestly, most std’s that cause dermic lesions really kinda look the same when you look up pics of them. Well, something told me to look up pics of scabies. I’m not a very religious person, but I honestly don’t know why I had this notion. The only time I had ever heard of scabies was when I was in the military 4 years before this little ordeal. Anyway, I did some pretty extensive research and noticed that a lot of my symptoms were parallel to those of scabies. So that made me feel a little bit better.

   Well, about a week after I went to the doc I couldn’t stand waiting anymore so I called and asked about the results of my blood work. The nurse told me they came back negative and I was ecstatic!!!!!! However, my little “problem” was still there. My main focus then was “why did that guy jump to the conclusion that I had herpes?!?!?!?!?!?!” I do understand that I was a 22 year old college guy, but really?????? Just all of a sudden “You have herpes”. No, Doctor, no sir!!!!

   Through the course of events, finals and graduation and such, I didn’t have chance to go back to the doc for about 6 weeks, but literally the monday after my graduation on sunday I had gotten a cold and had to go back to the doc. So when I went this time, I, armed with the knowledge that my ($500, btw, if anyone ever has to have a herpes test they ain’t cheap, especially for a broke college student) test had come back negative, confronted him with the results and the still present lesion, plus some more that had popped up over the course of the past few weeks. He asked to see it again, so I told him “Look, I have an idea of what it may be but I wanna here what you have to say first.” So he looks at it and goes “Well, what do you think it is?” I told him “I’m not sure but I think it may be scabies.” His response: “Nah, I don’t think it’s that.” Okay then what is it then? When will it go away, and when can I use it again? “I have no idea what it is, we’ll send you to a specialist.” Thanks Doc, more money outta my pocket.

   So, a week later I go to a specialist and he, as expected, asks to see it. He asks me if it itched and if I had any anywhere else. I told yes, it had woke me up at night itching and that I had a few more coming up on my legs and wrists and a few other places. He quickly informed me “Well, son, don’t worry, you don’t have herpes, you have what’s called scabies.” “I told that damn doctor that and he didn’t believe me!!” was my immediate reaction. “Well, that’s what it is and it’s real easy to treat, just rub this cream on it once now and once in a week” I was elated that I did not have herpes and that I had something simple to treat that would, in fact, go away.

   Now, the question was where did it come from? I had spent the summer before this school term working on a pipeline job in Laredo, TX, where I know that all kinds of bugs and parasites thrive (I’ve also spent some time in Mexico, so I know the nasty little bugs they harbor in that part of the world). We had been staying in a motel, which is standard for most kids my age just getting started in the pipeline industry, and had also had our laundry done by a laundromat since we didn’t have time to do it ourselves.

   According to most of the research I had done, primary symptoms of scabies occurs 4-6 weeks after the actual contraction of the nasty little might. I looked at a calender and realized that the time of the first lesion occurred around around 6 weeks after I had got back from Laredo. So, all that being said, all I can figure as why my scabies case occurred when and where it did is that possibly it was in the sheets, or maybe whoever did my laundry one day had them and they got in my underwear and managed to find their way into my junk. Atleast, that’s all I can think.

   As far as treatment, I just applied my second round of permethrin cream last night, and the bites seem to be getting significantly better. They are not gone yet, but they do seem to be getting much better.

   So, that’s my scabies story. As a disclaimer, if anyone reading this HAS herpes, I do not mean to offend anyone by any means. I think we all know how we feel about it know that it’s not a fun concept to think of. I also don’t blame anyone for “giving” me scabies, as I know that no one did it on purpose and from what I’ve seen so far, it really isn’t that big of a deal. But, then again, I’m more laid back than some but I really can’t git pissed at someone for accidentally giving me scabies. In that part of the world, I could have just as easily gotten lice or something similar, I just wish it had started in a…………………..less stressful area on my body. I hope this helps!!!!!
10. Lori says:
    December 7, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    YES YOU CAN GET SCABIES BY COMING IN CONTACT WITH AN ANIMAL THAT HAS SARCOPTIC MANGE!!! I don’t care who is saying that it is a myth because, I can assure you, it’s not. I found a stray puppy and brought him home only to find out that he had sarcoptic mange. We took him to a vet and it was confirmed. We couldn’t afford the care so we gave the puppy to a no-kill shelter that could get him the care he needed. Well the next day my husband had a red bumpy rash all over his body and then I got it too. He went to the ER and was prescribed Ivermectin. We couldn’t afford to fill the script at the time so we used over the counter permethrin 1% and washed everything and sprayed and bombed the house. Seemed to help but then it came back. So we treated again with the otc permethrin and we also treated our children. Our kids did not show any signs for several weeks. My oldest then proceeded to get the rash and we got the prescription permethrin and treated us all. It helped my kids but not us. We were finally able to get the Ivermectin and now are hoping and praying that it works. This really sucks because we have been alienated from our family and friends and I am tired of these little parasites.

    P.S. we tried every other “home remedy” we found on the internet too. I hope we are not in for months of dealing with this. If anyone has had any experience with scabies from sarcoptic mange PLEASE HELP!!!!
11. Basics says:
    November 30, 2011 at 12:12 pm

    My kids got it from their father’s house. At first one of the kids was itchy and had bumps. Took him to the doctor they said he had eczema (BTW I’ve had eczema my whole life and it looked nothing like what he had.) Then my other child started itching and having curious bumps so I took them to another doctor. He said they had scabies, and gave me permethrin. I treated them with permethrin every 3 days for 12 days and washed everything in my house sprayed everything that couldn’t be washed with lice spray daily by the end of the month they were both cured. Unfortunately, my son recently came back from his father’s house itchy and with bumps. As soon as we arrived home everything went in the washer, the lice spray came out and my son was given a bleach bath. Their father is going to have to start hanging out with kids in a neutral area because he isn’t bringing bugs to my house and I’m sick of my kids getting attacked at his.
12. Julie says:
    November 17, 2011 at 9:54 pm

    My family has been struggling with this for about 2 months. I would like to say that anything that has sulfur is the best at killing them so far. We did the whole mattress wrapping, emptying our dressers and closets. I saw on an earlier post someone who mentioned pure MSM capsules and how they had worked for them.

    I ran down to the local health food store and got enough for the whole family. This is a sulfur product so if your allergic don’t take it. The first day you will feel wiggly movement under your skin but the sulfur kills them so just hang in there. I am only on day 3 and I feel human again. You can’t get rid of them in your environment until you can stop them from reproducing on you.

    I also really like the dermacil products although they are a little pricey. They also have some dips and shampoos for animals. I have some ordered and will let you know how those work on a later post. For now we are just bathing our cat in a bath with a cup of vinegar and use flea and tick shampoo. Seems to take them off of him. I don’t recommend the sulfer lome dip as it made my cat sick and was an expensive vet visit. So to sum up take MSM capsules. Mine say up to 3 a day so I’m taking 3 throughout the day, morning noon and evening with a lot of water.

    Take a hot bath with one cup 20 mule team borax and one cup Epsom salt. Be sure to soak your hair also. I’ve been using sulfur soap from dermacil which you can also order from Amazon. Just be sure to keep up with the baths everyday along with the MSM. You will feel much better soon. It’s like a weight has been lifted. God bless and hoping everyone is successful in this war on the horrible scabies bug.
13. jqm says:
    October 17, 2011 at 1:17 am

    I believe these things are rapidly becoming resistant to permethrins.

    A clothes steamer (the kind with a hose and a vacuum type head) seems to work better than permethrin spray which didn’t seem to do much. Steam everything..especially the bed, carpet, chairs, couches, curtains, all the clothes. I even steam my computer keyboards and mouse pads. Some areas (like bed and car seat) may need to steam every day for awhile. Fogging the house and leaving for a few days or a week helps too.

    It defiantly takes some time to steam everything, but if you don’t get rid of these things from the environment they will keep coming back no matter how much you treat yourself. I tried a number of things but found Cayenne mixed with baby oil (yes, it does burn a bit) applied after a Epsom salt/Arm and Hammer powdered detergent bath to be pretty effective. They are some tough little buggers and not easy to get rid of. I would also suspect they don’t know a whole bunch about them and there are probably many types of related mites which differ in some way.

    No more laundry mats for me.
14. Chelsea says:
    September 29, 2011 at 1:04 am

    I recently went to the doctor for rashes everywhere on my body, and they told me it was scabies and gave me Permethrin Cream 5%, and I used it all over my body including my face, just not my scalp. I noticed my scalp is starting to itch a lot. Could I have scabies on my scalp too? And would it be safe to put it on my scalp even though I already did the treatment for my body? I would really like to know, I don’t want to have to go through the treatment over again.

    Thank you,
    Chelsea
15. Jay Byrd says:
    September 24, 2011 at 8:10 pm

    Hey Yall! I’m havin a 10th Year Anniversary!

    I constricted Scabies Mites back in ‘02.. The entire decade of my thirties have been spent with my scabies. I got them from a couch. They went up my #1 unmentionable spot and barricaded my ability to make Special “P”, if you know what I mean. I didn’t know what was in store for me. I called the hospital asking if I should go #1 if blood was coming out. They said to try. So, I did. Then, I had no idea. I thought it was cool ‘cause all the cool guys scratched their balls every once in a while.

    I finally figured out I had some sort of itch bug infestrinated in my skin. Getting frustrated itching all the time, I said f@!k it, I’ll just throw some gasoline on and see! LOL I bout gave my mom an aneurysm that night! I tried all the home remedies I could think of: bathing in Epsom salt, gasoline spill, swimming, scratching, Coca Cola spill, grapefruit spill and wrap, Vaseline and wrap, Olive Oil and wrap, duck tape wrap, sand and dirt rub, hot water hot as I could stand it, Bee Sting ointment, Bug Off with deet, etc. It seemed like everything I tried made them madder! LOL Now I will reveal the… Big Incident!!…

    The Big Incident!
    Then, I tried shaving. I never felt a pain as great as I did one 4 am. morning. I woke up literally screaming at the top of my lungs, like in that movie, “The Fourth Kind”, and had a new ridge line around my behind so thick, raised, and red, I thought I was finding out why baboons look the way they do! LOL I had successfully given myself crusted scabies, also known as Norwegian Scabies. It was time to try some professional avenues. I got some crab medicine, lice medicine, nonprescription pyrithrin, etc. Nothing was working. Then… my jewelsack could not be un-itched for more than 2 seconds. I was really getting worried now. This was cutting close to my reproductive organs. I thought my children were going to fall on the ground and I would accidentally step on them.

    So, I brought them over to Immediate Med. I dropped my drawers and the doctor almost fainted. He said he’d never seen such a severe case of scabies and immediately wrote me a prescription for permethrin. I proceeded to apply the lotion and could feel millions of scabies biting their way through my skin as if they were trying to get away from the poison. I yelped in agony as I tried to rub it in. I just couldn’t take this pain! Then I started getting into Lindane’s and online sprays and ointments and tea trees and neems and lavenders and wondered how much poison, money, and time I was going to have to go through just to cure a common case of scabies. Actually the Lindane worked seamlessly. It didn’t sting. It worked immediately. I liked the smell (in a strange way). But, I didn’t know how the re-infestations were perpetuating. I thought I had done everything the doctor said: bomb the house, apply from the neck down, wash everything, etc., but they just kept coming back. One evening, as I was laying on the kitchen floor with my legs in the air, I decided to go do some research on scabies down at the library.

    Fascinating creatures, these 8 legged cousins of the spider. There are different styles of all kinds of human skin parasites. But as far as scabies, they are born into adulthood as baby nymphs. Their mission: Get as much scabie sexual activity they can whilst feasting on their host’s blood! Yes, that’s right, blood! Turns out that scabies mites can live on the oxygen in your blood, which explains why they didn’t drown. (And I tried drowning them numerous times) But not only that, they are laying eggs too. They must have laid so many eggs in my skin I bet its astronomical! (the egg count.) They also go through 3 stages of growth, which brings me to the small incident!…

    The Small Incident!
    One day I was in the shower working with some crab lotion my boss told me about and I held hands full of it over my rucksack. As I did, I could feel them moving from one region to the other as I followed them with my sea (handful) of poison. I kept repeating and chasing them as I felt them running around in my underground (underskin) labyrinths and tunnels (on my balls!) (or in balls depending on how you look at it), until finally, they all emerged out of an initial tunnel entry point (on my left testicle) and proceeded to walk slowly out in a single file line, stop, and die. LOL (It wasn’t the whole problem but it was a battle won for my nether regions.) Upon closer examination, I couldn’t believe it.

    These things were all sizes! I estimated one being over a millimeter in length, big and fat! I ended up becoming obsessed with them and spent a lot of time using scotch tape to lift them off my skin and making examination evidence for the doctors who never looked up close with the scrape test and thought I was mental. I think the whole mental thing came into play as a result of what he described as “Ghosted Scabies”! LOL But, in a nutshell, (LOL) all that is is when you think you feel them after a successful treatment. (It’s really skin healing itself) But in my case, I had plenty to go around.

    One time, I took some online scabies spray and made plastic diapers with duck tape to lock it all in and ended up at the emergency room from an allergic reaction. I killed 99% of them, but I had my nuts wrapped in it’s own plastic wrap, so as not to let the spray affect my unborn. My skin swole up and sent me into agony. Another time, I was riding down the road on my bicycle in a thin pair of shorts in the winter. There were 4 queens in 4 red bumps on my left testicle. As I road through the freezing cold air, the 4 queens would burrow as I pedaled.

    I looked down and there was blood dripping from each bump. (I had to change my shorts!) I started noticing animals, when I met them, would be at peace with nature. I would proceed to pet them. Then, like immediately, they would start scratching the hell out of themselves. About a week later, I would revisit the same animals (cats and dogs), and they would have a raisd blue area and mange setting in. (And they couldn’t get their head out of their ass! LOL) (licking and knawing their testicles and assholes.)

    My mom’s own dog got a blue area around the ass and it kept getting bigger until half it’s body had become enveloped and the dog became tired of munching it’s skin all the time. Thankfully, I managed to apply some “Revolution” dog drops at the base of her shoulders. Within a week, results could be noticed. But, it was too late. The dog (a Shetzu) passed away soon there after. Then, 2 of 3 died, all taking their scabies to the grave. Now she has 1 left and he has a raised bare spot right above his tail (on his back) and he is constantly scratching and chewing his privates. I told mom to get revolution online for penny’s on the dollar. But, she insisted on going to the vet!…

    The Veterinarian!
    First of all…The cost of Revolution was like $45.00 for a small dog and treated for 6 months. The vet’s bill was $150.00 a visit and recommends monthly visits. Now, I’m no rocket scientist, but the math on that was simple. Only, my mom believed the vet over me. Also, the vet said that dogs don’t get scabies and that they can’t give them to people. He thinks its allergies. (And so does my mom now! LOL) Now, the dog is still chewing himself. I have to spot treat myself for scabies constantly. Mother doesn’t say anything. (But I know she is scratching.) And the whole ordeal is running rampant as she lives in denial.

    I’ve found that hitting the scabies with a routine of washing, vacuum sealing clothes/bed/shoes, bombing, and applying medicine cuts down the population enough to be able to work with them until you only have to make spot applications (of your choice) in between healing times. I supplement my diet with Astaxanthin. As the story unfolded, I realized a gal I was seeing at one point (early in life) had clothes laying around in garbage bags, had a technique of washing where she would lather herself with shampoo and use baby powder (which by the way GoldBond powder is pretty relieving), and had even asked me to take a pill in which I didn’t know what it was. Now that I look back on it, she and her family had been struggling with scabies and they didn’t want me to know.

    I always thought it was Ivermectin. But anyways, people don’t like to “tell all” on these kinds o things and it helps perpetuate the little varmints. Another scenario I heard about was how this Mayor started charging money for people to go to the dump. As a result, the whole town started dumping rubbish all over. The insects were living it up! LOL A whole house couldn’t get rid of these things and had to be demolished. My friend was using high shelf vodka on a rag and holding it over his bumps. I, to this day, will wipe my posterior with rubbing alcohol, followed by a smattering of GoldBond.

    Moral of the Story!
    Some simply deny. Some actually subvert innocent in pursuit o money. Some hide the fact. And some try to do the right thing by others. I may still be having healing sensations, or, “Ghosted Scabies” given that I once had “Norwegian Scabies”, but my skin has become so hyper-sensitive that I can feel a scabie bight at any given moment. I run into a lot of places where I know the scabie has perpetuated and I know instantly what the deal is. I’ve become a bit of an expert with all the research and experience I have. I’m still trying to get rid of them. I’d even consider following a career in helping and taking in victims to help heal up from these things and erradicate them.

    But, I have more important interests. Plus, I haven’t officially gotten rid of them. Sometimes my population gets out of control, in which case I apply a spot treatment of Ascabiol crème (Google-able). But until we as a people can cooperate with one another… we have a lot of itching to concentrate on.

    By the way, itching actually kills and keeps populations down. Some people can’t handle it. I saw a funny segment on Late Night with Conan O’Brien one night when Jim Carey came on and pretend killed a scabie by spitting on it and rubbing it with his finger real fast! LOL
16. Chris says:
    September 24, 2011 at 4:03 am

    Just recently been diagnosed for scabies by my doctor. At first I thought they were mosquito bites, then realized I was getting too many bites for the type of weather that was occurring (cool & dry).
    I feel the pain and frustration all of you are going through and wish I had a definitive solution to give.

    This is my first bout with scabies and hopefully my last. My doctor prescribed a 1% lotion of Lindane. I put it on the 1st time last night. Will do a second application in 1 week. Whether this works remains to be seen. If it doesn’t I will try something else as Lindane is really expensive. I know I am doing my part to keep the drug companies afloat, ha ha.

    Will be doing all necessary precautions, washing clothes, cleaning furniture, the bed treatment and so forth. Also will be keeping a positive attitude to beating this. I always have a firm belief that a positive attitude goes a long way in fighting any health problem. I would have been dead a long time ago if I didn’t. Like the old saying goes “mind over matter.”

    After reading all the posts I am amazed how some go to excessive extremes and others who have such a cavalier approach. It also seems that one treatment (drugs or herbal treatment) works for some and not for others. I don’t have an answer for that other than to say that everyone’s metabolism is different. I’ve learned a lot by reading them.

    What cripes me the most about some these posts is when describing certain home-made remedies and leaving out info such as how much of one ingredient is mixed with another and what it is being diluted with. Not to mention the fact that it could be hazardous to some.

    If you are going to post a remedy/solution get all the facts and info stated. Its a waste of your time and the readers time to do otherwise.
17. Melissa says:
    September 16, 2011 at 1:53 am

    Reading all this made me cry.. My 5 month old baby acquired scabies at her sitter, or maybe I acquired it at a NH I worked at recently. Either way we both have it. I got the permethrin cream 5% and have applied it twice now to both of us. Her pediatrician diagnosed it and prescribed her the cream. One tube treated both of us twice.

    Then I called my doc and he gave me a tube of the cream with a refill and some lice treatment I did my hair tonight and will continuously treat me and my baby with the cream. I will try some of your suggestions. The sulfur, tea tree oil, bathing in vinegar and borax, taking Vit c and sulfur pills etc. seem the most promising. I am a nurse and work at the hospital now.. Reading this all I could do was fall on my knees and cry out to God for help. I cant face this.

    I’m a single mom and I have to work.. I just cant spend months or years fighting this. I will seek to kill it with all the force I can right off and pray pray pray. I feel for all of you and will say a prayer for your struggles.
18. Trisha says:
    September 7, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    I worked in a group home while I was pregnant with my twins…..the administration would not treat their consumers. I now have scars on my thighs, breasts, legs, butt, abdomen, hips, and waist. That was 7 years ago. I wish I would have filed a lawsuit against the company. Does anyone have any advice on how to get rid of or significantly reduce the scars?
19. Jen says:
    September 3, 2011 at 12:25 pm

    James,

    Send me your photo at badspiderbites [at] gmail.com and I will get it posted for you.

    Jen
20. James L. Riley, MD says:
    August 31, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    I have a good photo of a scabies lesion, but I don’t see that you have an email address to which I can send an attachment.
21. nicolle says:
    August 20, 2011 at 9:37 pm

    I stayed in this place where many many people that I didn’t know slept in that bed and I slept there 2 times is there a chance I can get scabies?
22. Sarah says:
    August 20, 2011 at 2:33 pm

    I can’t believe some of the comments here. The medical & drug company conspiracy accusers are way over the top — just ridiculous. Also it’s amazing what people put on their skin — products meant for animals!? bleach!? You’re playing Russian roulette with your health & nervous system. Those little “bites” aren’t bites, they’re part of the allergic reaction to the scabies. The scabies burrow, not bite like mosquitoes & spiders. The persistent itching is probably mostly from dried out skin from all the treatments. Here is a very good common sense web site worth reading:

    http://www.dermadoctor.com/article_Scabies_74.html

    According to this site, the itching can continue for up to 6 weeks after treatment, so if you keep using different products/treatments, it’s going to go on and on. For those who used prescription permethrin and continue to have problems months later, are you sure you used it correctly and covered every square inch of your body (except head & face) and of course did all the hot water laundry, vacuuming, etc? Personally, I would recommend two treatments with prescription permethrin just to be sure. Also, can’t hurt to get a prescription for ivermectin pills.

    I’m on my second episode of scabies which I believe came from a nursing home my husband (with Alzheimer’s) was at. They treated him twice with permethrin (probably didn’t do a very good job of that) and once with ivermectin pills and is now “cured.”

    So don’t believe everything you read on the web. There’s a lot of misinformation.

    Good luck!
23. ToriiDally says:
    August 18, 2011 at 5:52 pm

    How Long Should A Scarbies Person Be Quarintined After They Have Gotten Their Medicine?

    Would They Be Okay To Go Out In Public To Like A Fair Or Amusement Park?

    Is Scabies Able To Be Caught Through Clothes To Clothes Contact?
24. LYNN says:
    August 5, 2011 at 6:41 pm

    Trust me, scabies doesn’t go away after just one treatment. The doctor should recommend a repeat treatment one week after the initial treatment to insure that the next life cycle are eradicated, if any are left living on your body or environment after the initial treatment. Most people aren’t told to do a repeat treatment, thus the re infestation. Whether you choose to do a more traditional doctor treatment with the chemicals, or the natural alternative treatments that work just as well, but are more time consuming, you always repeat the treatment. I used sulpur soap and sulphur cream/grease and had immediate relief.

    The soap 10% sulfur, worked well @ killing them, and the cream, which was simply the hair grease with sulfur, eradicated them. Hot baths, not good for the rash, you simply need to use lukewarm/tepid water when washing with the soap and leave the soap on for several minutes. I showered 2 & 3 times a day, & reapplied the sulfur lotion. I washed my sheets & bedding daily. Putting aside all heavy comforters, etc. that were difficult to launder. AFter the initial laundering & drying in a high heat dryer I put them away for at least a 2 week period. Hopefully this has helped. Many companies try to sell you expensive “alternative” treatments that can easily be picked up @ a health food store for a lot cheaper or a agrisupply store.

    I paid $2 for the sulfur soap, $7 for the sulfur ointment which is in the hair dressing area, and I bought plastic mattress covers for $10. The tea tree oil and lemongrass essential oil for the bath soaks with epsom salt were only $5 a bottle. So don’t waste your money on expensive labeled items, research the cheaper alternatives. Dermisil advertises a scabies treatment for the laundry and bath for about $30 which is only tea tree oil and lemongrass essential oil, you can buy these for less than $15 @ a health food store. Good luck!
25. TifOhSoScared says:
    August 3, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    ok so like I had gotten these really small, red, itchy bumps on my hands like two nights ago. But before that I had one itchy small bump on the side of my wrist. Now, I admit I was freaking out!!! The weirdest thing happened the other night. Okay, I was sitting in my room and was on my laptop. And I had my right hand placed on my floor where I was sitting and leaning. Then I had felt this weird chill through my body.

    So then I suddenly got a itchy feeling from my top right hand. I quickly started to scratch it and then as I was closely watching my hand I could start to see other small, red, bumps forming close to the one bump I scratched. The itching it not a joke! I don’t have anything like this on my other hand really. I did but it like went away. From time to time it itchiness a little too much if you’ve asked me. But I’m making a doc appointment tomorrow to see what it really is and it really sounds like scabies to me. Ill be re-posting the results tomorrow as well.
26. Marilyn says:
    July 30, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    I was misdiagnosed with scabies about a month ago. I have some sort of mite, been to 8 drs., they know nothing, even took bugs in a bag with me. I had to leave my apartment, landlady thought i was crazy, i am sure this is some sort of bird mite, as i heard birds in the ceiling months ago. On my second round of ivermectin and all the cream in the world hasn’t helped. I am living with my friend that has it, he got it from just mowing my yard. I really don’t want to live like this. The bugs are getting smaller but still a bunch of them, they look like little pieces of wood, weird. My whole family thinks i am nuts, i am sure. Cant see any one in my family, miss my kids and grand kids.

    Hope this nightmare is over soon. The only thing that helps is lots of olive oil, makes it not itch and suffocates these bastards. I have to go back to work next week, cant afford to lose my insurance, although the drs not helping anyway, most thought i was crazy. Is there any help for all of us? I feel sorry for all of us. God bless…
27. gabby says:
    July 28, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    I had a small case of scabies after my daughters friend slept over and sat on my couch and of course that’s where I fell asleep that night! What you want to do it is go to your natural food store and buy tea tree oil, neem oil, oregano oil, black walnut, and french clay soap. Then go to your local grocery store or walmart…buy borax mule 20, couple bottles of peroxide, throw away latex gloves,olive oil and 2 spray bottle.

    take 40 drops (or ask your natural food person at the store)( but mine is also a nutritionist )of black walnut oil mix with a small thing of juice 2x times a day for at least 8 weeks.
    use rubber gloves to do all laundry…use 2 different pairs with clean and dirty laundry and throw the away.put in a grocery store bag tie them up…put a 1/2 cup of borax and however much laundry detergent…if you have a sanitary cycle on your machine use that ….I know its 2 hrs but worth it…make sure its on the extra hot cycle. Use the hottest cycle on the dryer. Then make sure your using a clean basket…don’t use the same basket for clean and dirty. Also I have kept all my clothes I have worn in the past week separate from everyone’s and put them in a spare bedroom floor with no carpet…

    To clean everything mix 1 cup of borax and water in a spray bottle, you will have to keep shaking it up.Spray everything floors, couch, chairs,mattress, car, bathroom, etc…..wait an hour if you have a steam cleaner use that and then vacuum…make sure you throw the vacuum bag away after using it or clean out the bagless ones with borax. if you can bag or shrink wrap your couch chair or whatever do it. Don’t sit on anything that you think is infested for a week….get yourself one chair and sit on that and of course spray and vacuum …I use a wooden chair…..

    mix a 1/3 of the olive oil and 20 drops of tea tree oil in one spray bottle….

    Take a bath in 1 cup borax and 1 cup peroxide for 4 night’s in a row in as hot as you can handle bath. Make sure you rub your tea tree and olive oil mixture around the neck and make sure you get into the ear hair line area also your back hair…basically anything that is not going to be in the water….

    at the end of the bath I quickly duck under the water holding my ears closed so nothing gets into them. Don’t use Vaseline it will dry you out.

    Then I take a hot steamy shower..wash with your french clay soap (reg soap with dry you out no matter what kind it is).I use 2 different towels. one for my hair and my body…Also depending when you wash your hair take your reg shampoo in the palm of your hand and mix a couple drops of tea tree in it.

    after you have dried off spray yourself with the tea tree and olive oil, making sure you get every single place on your body….then I slept on an air mattress if you have anything on it except plastic or whatever put a plastic mattress cover on it…

    If you have spots on your body already in the palm of your hand mix. a nickle size measure of neem oil, a drop of oregano, and a drop of tea tree…put those on the spots that have appeared. You wont smell to good but it works!
    Make sure if you scratch and area wash your hands right away or you can carry the bug to another spot on your body….I cut all of my nails off just for now.

    Also always wear your hair up if its long try to keep it off your body….I keep mine up in a bun.

    Every day I get up deflate my mattress spray it with borax take my laundry put it in the wash…..I go back to my mattress ….wait and hour , steam it…and then vacuum it put it away….on my pillow its already covered in plastic I spray it steam it and vacuum it and then bag all my stuff…..after that is away I spray my floors steam them and then vacuum in an hour…..my furniture I spray everyday steam it and vacuum it……you should do this for at least 6 weeks …if none is showing any signs then most likely you caught them in time! Also I bought clorox cleanups I use them on everything I touch. Make sure your cleaning your cell phone, computer and mouse, and steering wheel in your car.
    Also if you are dealing with a small child make sure you ask your nutritionist at the health food store how much black walnut they can take….mine said my 3 yr old granddaughter who weights 35 lbs can take 10 drops…..but I would check….Good luck and hopefully this helps
28. itchy and scratchy in MO says:
    July 23, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    I’ve had this crap 4 times. Bleach is the only thing that I’ve found that’s cheap and gets rid of them. Here’s how I got rid of them.

    1. wash all bedding and clothes in hot water, hot dryer- use disposable gloves until you are rid of it for 2 weeks or more

    2.take a hot bath in 2 cups bleach and full tub of water with a scotch scratcher pad. Scratch the bugs and eggs out of your top layer of skin. or mix in a spray bottle – 1/4 cup bleach 3/4 cups water, spray yourself after shower. You will smell like bleach after shower.

    4.bathe 9 days in a row if you want to make sure it’s gone. I tried 5 and had to do it again.

    3.don’t wear clothes twice without washing, bedding doesn’t have to be washed again if you take the shower or bath before bed

    4.you’ll know you’re rid of it when you no longer have the bumps spreading. You will still have bumps for weeks or months, depending on how long you’ve had it.

    5.eggs hatch in 1-4 days. You need to know this.

    6. use lotion for your dry skin or you’ll itch worse.

    You probably wonder how I got them 4 times in 2 years. It was from 4 different people living in the same area. I sat next to them, and didn’t touch their skin. I don’t know who the first person was, but the other 3 were friends, and an Arby’s employee when he handed me my food. If you see someone with sores all over their arms, avoid them.
29. natalia says:
    July 23, 2011 at 6:02 am

    Greetings everyone,

    After trying all the known remedies…natural/pharmaceutical, I came across a small article on the net which was published in a Brisbane newspaper. The story claimed that clove oil was far more effective in eradicating Scabies than Tea Tree oil. So after a couple of months of absolutely agonising frustration in trying to eradicate the little buggers, I decided to purchase undiluted clove oil which is relatively inexpensive and mixing it with some tea tree and olive oil.

    The results were absolutely amazing. My daughter who was previously infected all over her body has now only sporadic outbreaks which are almost gone and I feel like we are keeping on top of the problem and winning the war. My husband’s scabies has almost cleared and I am almost too. We too, spent a lot of money at the doctors and misdiagnosed several times before I took the bull by the horns and decided to find my own remedy which works. And yes, our power bill was high because of the hot wash cycles and clothes dryer, but believe me, just keep on persevering with the clove oil and it will work for you too.

    Natalia
30. Trish@oz says:
    July 22, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    Trish@oz, Hi again just to verify I do have scabies from the tick bite.
31. Trish@oz says:
    July 22, 2011 at 7:49 pm

    Hi everyone, I had scabies 36 years ago from a horsehair mattress. I got rid of the mattress as you could see on close inspection the pin pricks of blood on the bed sheets and was given a lotion and after two treatments they cleared up but also did the usual things as hot washing, ironing vacuuming.

    I recently started scratching again but as I am looking after my mum who has to crush fractures to her spine and dementia I had let it go for a few weeks before seeing a Doctor who found the legs from a tick buried in my back. Gave me Lyclear and was surprised at how little effect it had so started looking at sites for information on natural remedies. I told my Mum’s nurse about being given a treatment from 36 years ago and and as soon as she said ÄSCABIOL LOTION” I knew it was the treatment I used all those years ago. I have had one treatment and the itching has vastly improved and the red welts have gone down but will be doing a follow up treatment in 5 days. The other suggestion the Nurse made was to use a lice spray and get rid of sofas if they are very old .

    I am in Australia and it can be bought in most of the bigger Chemists particularly in NEW SOUTH WALES. YOU ALSO NEED TO READ THE WARNINGS IN REGARDS TO CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY AS THEY HAVE EXTREMELY FRAGILE SKIN. TEST THE LOTION FIRST THEN BREAK IT DOWN IF NECESSARY. BEST OF LUCK TO EVERYONE
32. Janay says:
    July 14, 2011 at 10:39 am

    Coconut oil and olive leaf are amazing for this and so many things, but you must do your research, we are each so different and olive leaf is very strong medicine. If you are toxic, you will experience some die off effects.
33. thaumasina says:
    June 23, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    my cousin has scabies and we took her to the pool and they went away yeah and i had scabies 2 years ago and i went in to the pool but first i put cream on then went to the pool and they went away!!!!! i was so happy for that:)
34. Julie says:
    June 22, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    I have a 9 year old that broke out in bumps and it was not going away I brought him to the walk-in and they said it bites for fleas than 2 week later my 3 year old broke out and my 8 year old and than I said this not normal I brought them to my family doctor and said it was scabies I almost fell over we my doctor gave us kwellada-p and its working so far but wow lot of work to do I don’t know if you guys tried that but it does really work.. How my son got it was from school the mother not treating her kids and sending them to school and because it’s not a health concern nothing the school can do I don’t think that is right cause everyone contacting them and over 20 students now have it sad and not fair that anybody should suffer there very ugly and leave scars I said I rather have head lice but I hope there something out there for you guys and wish the best.
35. winningthebattle says:
    June 7, 2011 at 7:52 pm

    I’m adding to a previous post here. It’s very easy to get reinfected from your environment. I discovered that you can get thin plastic painter’s dropcloth material at Home Depot in a huge roll, 12 ft x 400 ft, like a big roll of Saran wrap. I cut it into widths to cover my car seats, chairs, etc. and change these frequently. I try to sit in a different chair every day (I have six dining chairs) so that the bugs in one chair die before I sit on it again. I also figured out that it’s not enough to cover your mattress and pillow with plastic covers; you have to disinfect them every day (I wash the sheets and pillowcases every day). I also put a hand towel inside an empty pillowcase and lay that on top of my pillow, which adds an extra layer of protection that is easy to change. I’ve even changed bedding and showered in the middle of the night when I couldn’t sleep from the itching, and it did help me sleep a bit. I started wearing different shoes every day as well, and plan not to wear the same shoes again for about a week so that the bugs die before I wear them again.

    After using the prescription cream, I got reinfected by doing the laundry, so now I use BBQ tongs to handle dirty laundry, and always carry it in a basket, never in my arms. I’m still using Vaseline all over my body at night. It’s greasy, but when I shower in the morning (using a rough exfoliating washcloth), my skin feels a lot less itchy. Vaseline is cheap, nontoxic, and doesn’t smell, like some other items recommended here. It may not kill the mites, but it seems to incapacitate them, and sometimes I can even catch them. They feel like little grains of sand, but when I look at my fingers, I can’t see them.

    I have also gone on a low-allergy diet (no wheat, peanuts, processed foods, artificial colors, preservatives, etc.) because the itching is caused by an allergy to the mites. I figure the less other allergens I’m exposed to, perhaps the less I’ll itch. Little by little, the itching is going away.
36. Concerned2 says:
    June 6, 2011 at 10:27 am

    The Seven Year Itch Mite, the Scabies Mite, be cautious on taking in foster children who can expose your whole family to health problems.

    Years ago, the B.C. (Canada) Children and Families Ministry, brought four (4-children) from the same family, siblings, into my home, and did not reveal this family had a previous history of scabie infestation, repeated. They also excluded extreme emotional problems, and that the children all had been raped by their natural father. The schools refused to take any one children into their schools, as any one children could disrupt the entire school. And imagine, I am a new foster parent, no experience and I have four of these children, that seven public school principals stated these children needed a new community. Not even their own relatives would take them past a visit of a few hours. The schools had more then one person to supervise these children. I was a single foster parent and lived four miles outside of the City. I was most vulnerable and a breach of my contract, which was no difficult children who had temper fits, be placed in my home. There was not immediate assistance if these children went wacko, as was evidence of seven public schools.

    The Ministry of Children and Families allowed for these four children repeated, reexposure to body mites to these children. Why. The MCF worked closely with the city Health Unit, who had a policy of no disclosure of body mites. Why? This was simply because body mites is not a fatal disorder, or a reportable disease, or questionable environments, that needed fumigation to end repeat infestation of body mites, of any kind. However, advanced skin diseases and chemical treatments may lead to another’s death, if the person is vulnerable, like older persons or babies.

    If the children were returning to their own home environment which was not treated for this spider mite, they became reinfested and their clothing, too. The Ministry of Children and
    Families returned these children every weekend, to exposure, when they knew one treatment was not a healing, and reexposure meant treatment all over again, and this was being done weekly by past foster homes. What I did: I used bathing and washing of clothing and bedding daily and more so, after the children went to visit with their mother, which was over done, twice a week. The care was exhausting.

    These poor four children were used by a joke by the Ministry and Families’ social workers, and the Ministries doctor and the children family doctor. This was because all placed children without warning on prevention means to the foster home. No one was fired, but the government did compensate me, after I did get the evidence my home had been infested by the scabie mites by not being able to protect my own home environment, on the day the children were brought into my home by a statement of bad faith, no full disclosure of past health or emotional problems of all the four children. They knew they covered up a criminal sexual rape charge not told, making these children vulnerable not only to the scabie mite, and other lice problems, but to various STD’s which must be tested for by blood tests, not opinions of doctors or the social workers.

    Many other foster homes went through the inconvenience of fumigating their homes, washing clothing, use of chemicals on their bodies. Some of the chemicals dry out the skin pours, and if you want hair removal, then use the Lindane, your body hair cells will be permanently damaged, and your skin will look prematurely aged, aligator skin. Look at the instructions and note ask why the application is from the neck down. It is because you will soon be balding after the application to your delicate hair fociles on your scalp.
    While the scabies mite is a fact, it is often treated like a joke when you are told to go see a doctor, as only they have the magical eyes to see the scabie mite, or the skill. Not so. The scabie mite must be diagnoses by a skin scraping and looked at by an experienced person that can identify parts of the mite or its eggs. It simply cannot be diagnosed by looking at the markings on the skin. This is because the scratching of the skin becomes infected. When the source is sexual contact, the scabie infection can also be confused in its appearance as masking syphilis, so children or adults coming from a questionable background also require a STD test, by a blood test, to rule out contributing sources of rashes. The diagnoses must be likely both tests, and certainly, the microscope indentification for the mite or its eggs. You can’t see these mites as they become translucent, concealed even walking on the surface of the skin, but they generally bury themselves beneath the skin, as they don’t like heat or light. They are active mostly at night, then you scratch and scratch. It is the female burrowing under the skin and laying eggs.
    What must be done:
    1. Just like hosptials, jails, institutions of any kind, hotels and motels, fumigate on a regular basis, so must the individual home, be fumigated. This fumigation should kill emerging eggs, and soft surfaces need this exposure, computer keys, books, clothing, and so forth.
    2. Read the label, and this becomes a doctor’s little joke, that they ask you for anyone you have come in contact to be treated, too. This is even if they show no symptoms. Now, here is the joke doctors know about: It is the chemical solution that rapes the mind, body and soul, that you are treated like a looney that you are seeing scabie mites, dots, everywhere, when you can’t see them, outside of a microscope, a skin scraping, or from surfaces. The chemical treatments work down into your central nervous system, and cause you agitation. So you must take with the chemical treatment, if you subject yourself to the harsher chemicals, a tranqulizer. Then after you wash off the Lindane or other harsh chemicals, you must apply a lotion that stays on the surface of your skin, to stop the sensitivity. Again, you cannot see a scabie mite or egg, as the mite itself, because is is translucent on the skin or clothing or surface of anything, this is its size: (.) or smaller. You will need to use a microscope, even if you can remove a dot off the shower wall. This I did, applied a solution, but rather then 7 hours leaving it on my skin, I left it on for only 7-minutes. I had scrubbed down the shower and walls before, so spotless, not a speck a dirt on it. After the seven minutes, I showered, and low and behold, I saw specks on the shower wall. I used scotch tape and almost fainted when I looked at the dots under a child’s microscope. I saw a tiny almost invisible spider mite, which can be similar to a tiny foul mite. The mite is called as to the creature it is found on, by scrabings, a dog mite, foul mite, but they are all spiders with eight (8) legs. With the evidence, the Children and Family in BC, the government, compensated me, almost $8,000.00 for the level of care for the four children, and expenses of fumigating my home. They had known the history of these children, and kept that a secret not only to me, but past homes, that had their home inconvenienced.

    Question the integrity of your doctor, and expose them when they deceive you and do not do the two tests, to save money to any health insurance or public health plan.
    So doctors saying by looking at you, yes, you are exposed, is a liar. Any doctor saying ‘no’ you are not exposed, and treats you with chemicals and creams or drugs, or thinks you insane, is a liar too, for insufficient investigation.

    STD exposure, even by a handshake or sharing clothing, towels, or beds:
    The truth is no doctor or health environmentalists (not doctors) can be sure if the rash is an STD without a blood test. And you may have both STD and the mite, too, at the same time. So both have to be treated, at the same time. The alert is that any untreated STD going into the third stage may cause you problems later in life. Any spider scratched can become infected that you could be at risk of more serious conditions, and will need antibiotic treatments too, for any third stage infection of this spider mite, once the sore on the skin is so agitated. It is not impossible to get very serious infections, even the dissolving skin tissue disorder, if you leave out thorough infestation of the source of your skin irritation.
    Did I have the problem resolved? Yes, finanally, and this was a year later. I had to have tranqulizers and the lotion to cover on my skin to stop irritations, it was a solution that contained Yogurt. Did I have on-going problems of my skin. Yes, the hair folicules were destroyed, and I have premature aging of my skin, tiny wrinkles, and slight balding on the to of my scalp, as a result of the harsher chemicals, used, like Lindane. It is toxic. Now the labels are insufficient, and doctors use their Medical Law, one of the original writings of the Oath of Hippocrates. In the 1979, World Book Encyclopedia, it states on page 227, that doctors are not to tell the secrets (or little inside jokes of failure to do proper investigation, and drive their patients insane) to no one, outside of their own sons and those sons of my sons teachers, and rto disciples bound by a stipulation and oath, according to the law of medicine, but to none others. Note the Oath is male gender biased, no women were to be informed, and women today, who take that Oath, if they are allowed into the medical profession and join their groups, and not their own interest group, keep this Oath.
    You can sue the medical colleges, academies, and their private groups, for unethical teachings or biases, as they do know better, and how to rule out a disorder or to find the real causes, which, again, can be multiple caused, STD, Scabies, or advanced infections as a result of improper care or early diagnoses. The animal doctors do more thorough investigation and use of the microscopes then do human doctors. Animal doctors can be more quickly charged and lose their license if they are found guilty of deleterious and mischievous attitudes, to a dumb animal. Human doctors are more inclined to come under State protection by the Justice Officials. You will find it difficult to have a lawyer seek compensation, as they fear large organized medical groups, and fear for their own well being, if they seek criminal negligence charges that put their patients in harms way of harsh chemical treatments, without first imopaerting their known knowledge. The chemical treatment if given to a baby, as rubbing all over their skin, such as the case of a baby having a dia0per rash can cause the death of the baby by Lindane application and left over night. The Coroners will never investigate the Foster Home, that often treat their foster children, with solutions added to their bath water. So some Foster Homes when they have a death of a baby, are not investigated for under-the-table protection of their own homes, if they are brought children of questionable environments that can bring in both STD on infected skin, or spider or other mites on their clothing. The first duty to the child, taking the child for a medical examination are not followed. Rather the foster homes are expected to do the clean up of the child, first, before medical examinations are properly done. The foster homes become vulnerable for any lack of medical advise of giving foster children any kind of treatment for body mites, of any kind, of self-protection. The best protection is not to receive any foster child, on any emergency placement, for that emergency placement will, undoubtly conceal past environmental exposures of the children to STD’s, and to various body mites, that can also be multiple, like head lice, which can be visually seen, and the invisible scabie mites.
    Good luck in prevention and clean up of your environment. You are not insane. You do not have to sell your home, your furniture, but you will need to fumigate it, thoroughly, attics, basements, car, and so forth. You will need nerve tranqulizers. You will need a covering on your skin, a lotion that stays on, all day, the Yogurt lotion. It must stay on, because your skin is now very sensitive to anything touching it, even a hair falling on your skin, can cause a fear reaction. So do find out about the Yogurt lotion that stays on all day, after you shower. Put it everywhere.
    Blessings,
    Be that done that, so I am sharing the deception and liars in the medical and drug professional groups. Don’t set aside of criminal charges that involve putting you in danger of bodily harm by the instructions and what is failed to be told, of lack of due diligence. Socities and the Medical Colleges can be taken, too, to a criminal court. They are fined, not sent to jail. Under the criminal code, the Doctors can be fined, sent to jail or required to do community services if they failed to do due diligence and failed to do all testing they had skills and knowledge they ought to have done. Often the U.S.A. eliminates criminal charges if civil financial compensation is made. In Canada, both civil compensation is allowed along with a criminal charge of consequences to the corporation, a fine. The individuals can be taken to criminal court, for medical lack of due diligence that put the patient uin harm’s way.
    D.Y.
37. winningthebattle says:
    June 4, 2011 at 10:49 pm

    My daughter got scabies about three months ago, and I started itching about two months ago. I got the pyrethrin cream, but it only worked for a few days, then itching came back. I have been using sheets, blankets, and towels, washcloths only once, then washing everything every day. I found one thing that really cuts down on the nighttime itching is coating myself with plain Vaseline every night after I shower, then showering again in the morning, using a very rough exfoliating cloth. Of course it’s a bit uncomfortable due to the greasiness, but it cut down on the itching right away, and I could sleep. I started to get better after about three days of use. I’m going to continue with the vaseline for a while, hoping it will smother and starve the mites. I think several of the remedies people have mentioned on this site contain oil or vaseline, and I think it might be the coating action of the oil that works, not so much the cayenne pepper or tea tree oil itself.

    In addition, I rubbed down my chairs and my car seats with the pyrethrin cream. I think the itching comes back because of reinfection from something I come in contact with. I’ll have an itch-free day, then itching again the next day. I’m also starting to consider that my shoes or purse could be contaminated with the mites. Since they die within 4 days, if I use different shoes/purses daily and don’t wear the same ones for at least four days, perhaps that will help.
38. LaLa says:
    May 31, 2011 at 2:51 pm

    I’ve had these things since November so 6 months i went 4 of them not knowing what it was. Now I did 2 treatments with the permathin on myself my son and his father and were still battling them. I need to find a cure they’re driving me insane. Please if anyone finds a home remedy please email me.

    laurenderr [at] rocketmail.com
39. jo says:
    May 26, 2011 at 12:46 am

    My doctors have me on anti depressant saying its dermatitis and that I have a habit of picking and that’s why they wont go away. But I say he’s wrong because my arms are healing but my butt is not and I have no idea why. I know they are bites but he says no they aren’t. Even my husband is starting to think I’m crazy. I see where you all write your story and what your going through and what you’re doing to fix it but I see no real fix on here. How can we tell for sure its scabies? I tried the cream and it didn’t work so the docs say its not it. help
40. Monica says:
    May 13, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    I just wanted to say I feel everyone’s pain i guess it doesn’t matter how clean you are you could still get scabies my six year old came home with scabies and i had no clue what it was until i took her to the doctors and they told me what it was now were all on a lock down I’ve just been cleaning my house from head to toe with clorox wipes , spraying lysol , using sanitizer for our hands, i got every one there own bar soaps, washing everyday. and using oxy booster and hot water to wash our clothes so I’m hoping that it will go away soon but everyone just remember if you have scabies just stay home so you wont contaminate anyone else. when i have to leave the house for something we all have long sleeve sweats on and we sanitize our hands before we touch anything and after we touch it so keep in mind the way we were mad and upset that we caught it imagine how the other person who doesn’t have it gonna feel so wash your hands frequently and don’t spread it
41. David says:
    May 8, 2011 at 12:23 pm

    The only cure for scabies is Doctor prescribed Permerthin Cream 5% rx. Re-treat 2 or 3 days later. Clothing: Raise the water heater temperature to over 130 degrees. Use only hot water. Once full of hot water, stop the cycle for 30 minutes also use borax. Mattresses: Buy an air tight mattress cover from Dermisil and keep it on for months. Furniture, carpets and cars: Use lots of 91% alcohol in a sprayer and borax. Some topical soaps, creams, oils say that it will treat scabies. They do not work. Multiple above treatments over time will eradicate. Bombs and pesticides do not work. I know this special little hell. Good luck!
42. A troubled person says:
    April 30, 2011 at 5:05 pm

    My dad got scabies at least 6 moths ago. He went to many doctors and they all said that it was some allergic reaction and they just prescribed a bunch of antihistamines and topical steroids. A month ago one doctor finally figured out that he had scabies and since then our whole family has been using permethrin cream. We gassed our house and my mom has been cleaning the house 24/7. My dad is practically exiled to a different room and sleeps on the living room floor(I know I kinda feel bad for him) His scabies seems to have gone away but my mom seems to have caught it. She sees small red itchy spots on her body and she has been treating herself with permethrin cream.

    I have just begun to see my face develop a red rash-like spot that covers my cheek, but it doesn’t itch at all. I exfoliated my face and applied permethrin cream, but it doesn’t seem to be changing. I have very sensitive skin and I don’t know whether this is just some allergic reaction( I get those often). I also have eczema, so I’m really confused as to what I should do now. I’m too scared to stop the permethrin because if it is Scabies I don’t want it to spread, yet I don’t know whether the permethrin cream is harming my already sensitive enough skin. Please Help!!
43. Mark says:
    April 28, 2011 at 7:38 pm

    I started itching one day and it never stopped, all over my body, eyes , head, face, ect. had to leave work because it was so bad, plus its not fair to others, and it would start fights! …. my insurance company DENIED my doctors papers for sevire peruitus(itching) my doctor thinks I want to go on disability!!! ya right ! I loved going to work, made 1600$ clean desk job.. cant be around anyone, go to party’s, anywhere… he says its just my imagination ! ya right I think he is on drugs…. doctors are so corrupt $$ very unprofessional.., doctors should take drug tests ! and any criminal can be a doc. the FDA history is crooked, people just don’t know or are apart of it. they are just money hungry since they are in 150,000 dept. when they get out of school.. they make billions on us !!!! they have infected people for hundreds of years ! so now I am broke, had to sell my house, and he wont sign ODSP papers… he says I have OCD ! lol because I am trying to figure this out.. after knowing him for 15years and being honest didn’t get me help… he sent me to his “friend” dermatologist .. she didnt even do a skin scrap !lol told me to leave.. asked me if I ever smoked pot that was the cause..lol right haven’t smoked in years.. I just started smoking pot to help me to relax and sleep. They make pot legal because it helps with lots of different things, cancer patents, pain, on and on and on… but the FDA doesnt make $$$ because it comes from a seed ( free)!! why do they percribe if its bad… now they are making a pill THC (pot pill) that has the exact same THC strain as bud. ( pot ) lol they came out with oxcotton in 2004 because they new people would get so addicted…its heroin… they pescribe to everyone.. then spend 8 Million DOLLARS A DAY !!! in Canada on methadone to try” and get them off..lol that’s where the crime comes from.. FDA and there drugs !! anyways if theres a will there’s a way !! be calm and persistent… ask your doctor to take a drug test, or if he has been charged..so many doc’s have been cherged and are very bad greedy evil people, I hope for the worst. peace out !

    Mark P
44. terrics says:
    April 27, 2011 at 11:21 am

    Sorry to anyone who has had scabies for a very long time. I didn’t realize that permethrin does not work on a small percent of persons infected. I am now on the path of fighting these horrors. I wash everything and then cook them in the dryer. I would be washing stuff forever so I am now cooking the bed sheets every night. Sorry to all. I didn’t know what a true nightmare these things are. I was crying last night. I am on my way to Sears to get hepa filters for my vacuum. I read that after you vacuum you have to through the bag out. Someone here said that put a dab of something on his/here skin each time they feel something stirring. I decided to do the same with the permetherin. We are probably all poisoning ourselves with ‘a cure’. Good luck to all of us. I hope someone writes that he/she is scabies free after treatment. I am not sure where I got these things.
45. itchy girl says:
    April 27, 2011 at 2:29 am

    I am 20 years old and I have had scabies for about 3 weeks now. It is the worst thing that has ever happened to me. If the constant itching day and night isn’t enough I am treated like I have a plague. Virtually all my friends are avoiding me at all costs and I have little to no social life left. I think the psychological effects are worse than the itching. I constantly think about if I have cleaned everything and spend about an hour a day searching for new bumps… which of course is hopeless because I already have millions. It spread to my face and I don’t even want to go out in public. Like clockwork I wake up every night at 5 am to the most unbearable itching known to mankind. I didn’t sleep for 4 days straight and started to go in and out of consciousness. I just got oral medications for the itching and they ease my tension a little but do nothing to cure this. I did the permitherine cream about 4 days ago and was told to wait a week for a second application. I am slowing loosing my mind here. The itching is driving me to question my sanity and I just want these gone. I feel for anyone in the same situation. I heard that tea tree oil helps so I’ve started applying that to the infected areas and I will be adding it to my twice daily baths. Good luck
46. terrics says:
    April 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    I’ve had a fear of scabies for a long long time. (i saw someone with a bad case). My fear is now realized. I scratched for about 2 weeks thinking i was nervous. I also used cold packs and benadryl. I was only itchy at night; not at all during the day. I went to MD. She said it was scabies and prescribed permethin cream 5%. I put it on a few hrs. ago. I’ll let you know. I found another site where the folks had a lot of crazy ideas. Some had scabies for yrs. One guy was washing his clothes and bed sheets everyday but never got treated himself..oh well

    p.s. i checked the CDC site and you can’t get scabies from animals.
47. Jonathan says:
    April 22, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    To all of those currently suffering,

    I’m sure many of you before the scabies worry can think back to the itch reaction. When someone tells you “Somewhere on your body you are itching.” you probably start itching, it’s just like “you are now actively breathing.” ~ I think the psychological aspect can drive people mad wondering if they still have the mite after going through a phase of nuking the bugs with permethrin, tea tree oil, neem oil, carpet bomb, and anything else they can think of. If you treated for scabies give it time to see if you still have it after a full treatment. I drove myself nuts with repeated treatments for a month in a row then stopped for a bit and started to moisturize my skin like there was no tomorrow, and the itching over a week or two got drastically better.

    Keep in mind the huge difference with scabies and post-scabies (in my case) is that scabies is persistent, and will keep you from sleeping ~~ post scabies can have itches and pimples here and there, and at times it seems worse (2 day episodes every week or so), but you can actually sleep at night.

    The worst case scenario is after a couple weeks of not treating is that you’re in the same spot you started out, but at least you can be much more certain one way or the other.

    Best of luck to all suffering this, it was the most miserable experience I’ve ever had.
48. Jackie says:
    April 19, 2011 at 9:20 pm

    I have battled this once before and both times it’s from getting a new puppy, the best thing you can do is skip going to the doctor the creams they give you only make it worse… Get dog shampoo and dog dip and shampoo and dip yourself every few days and it will go away…
49. Brandon says:
    April 14, 2011 at 2:43 am

    Now I can’t see any of my friends.. I can’t be intimate with anyone, and I have to draw back from hanging out with anybody. I’m not sure if I got it from my friends shirt, or him his-self, but I wasn’t sexually active for the longest time, and the only person I knew who had previously had it was one of my best friends. My guy friend. And now it itches to the point where I can’t take it. No one will help me buy anything… and it’s just terrible… my fingers.. my hands.. my inner upper thighs, wrists, my bottom.. the back of my knees… It’s so hard to deal with it… Only after taking an extremely hot shower do I feel temporary relief from such a horrible and depressing thing. Please.. someone help me… :’(
50. WRP says:
    April 12, 2011 at 2:13 am

    EVERYONE! YOUR ATTENTION !!!

    DON’T EVER USE PERMETHRIN OR MALATHION OR OTHER PERSCRIPTION DRUGS!

    THEY ALL CAUSE SOME FORM OF CANCER AND SHOULD BE AVIODED AT ALL COSTS!

    USE YOUR HEAD! USE ONLY HOME REMEDIES YOU CAN GET AT THE HEALTH OR DRUG STORE AND ONLINE ONLY! USE ONLY NATURAL INGREDIENTS!

    THE DRUG COMPANIES ARE GREEDY AND WANT YOU TO SPEND MONEY ON USELESS AND VERY HARMFUL SO CALLED MEDICINE TO CURE SCABIES! DON’T LISTEN- IT WONT WORK!

    THE DOCTORS
    DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HOME REMEDIES OR HOW TO CURE THE DREADED MITES!
    DO YOUR RESEARCH…. FIND NATURAL REMEDIES.

    FOR EXAMPLE:
    DIATOMACIOUS EARTH FOOD GRADE WILL HELP KILL AND DEHYDRATE THE PESTS!
    USE NATURAL ACIDIC REMEDIES… LIKE LEMONS, ORANGES, VINEGAR, ECT.
    USE TEA TREE OIL TO SOOTH IRRITATED SKIN… NEEM OIL IS ALSO USED IN THE MIXTURE. BALSAM OF PERU IS A GREAT ANTISEPTIC/DISINFECTANT TO USE.
    EUCALYPTUS OIL IS GREAT FOR SOOTHING AND PESTS DONT LIKE IT!
    BUT MOST OF ALL… IS THAT THIS POWDER OR SUBSTANCE HAD BEEN USED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS TO FIGHT ALL KINDS OF PESTS, YET MOST COMPANIES DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT – SULFUR SUBLIMED POWDER!

    VERY EFFECTIVE IN RIDDING YOURSELF OF THESE PESTS FOR GOOD!
    BUT YOU HAVE TO GET THE RATIOS RIGHT. SULFUR IS VERY STRONG AND CAN BE HARMFUL IF OVER USED! 10% OF IT INA MIXTURE IS THE HIGHEST DOES RECOMMENDED. BUT USE ONLY HUMCO BRAND.
    YOU ALSO HAVE TO DO EVERYTHING ELSE RIGHT… CLEAN YOUR BEDS, COUCHES, EVERYTHING THAT WILL OR MIGHT TOUCH YOU OR YOUR CLOTHING. HEY THESE THINGS LAST OR LIVE FOREVER.. I MEAN THE EGGS CAN SIT DORMANT FOR A LONG TIME. THEN COME ALIVE AGAIN!
    BUT SULFUR CAN AND HAS CURED THIS IN 24 HOURS! BUT MORE LIKELY IT WILL BE MORE LIKE 3-5 DAYS FOR MOST PEOPLE! THAT’S STILL GREAT! YOU HAVE TO KEEP USING IT AT LEAST A WEEK AFTER TO MAKE SURE YOUR RID OF THESE DEMONS!

    PEACE OUT-
51. Cathrine says:
    April 2, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    I have a heavy secondary infestation on my scalp face and chest. I think bleach baths for the mites and 12% cream hair peroxide on bumps and anywhere you feel crawling or pricking for the larvae. Watch what happens when you rub a little peroxide on a bump, it starts to corrode the larvae. I think I found a big 1cm nest on my face after rubbing peroxide on a raised area where I had felt crawling it, wasn’t even itchy. In fact I found many burrows on my face half of them under normal looking skin. I have about 30 bumps on my chest which are dried up now after rubbing with peroxide. There are burrows under normal skin which is a bit of a worry.
52. Lizzie Alexander says:
    March 28, 2011 at 5:50 pm

    I HATE scabies. We moved into an apartment in August when I started experiencing little “bug bites” all over my arms and legs, I didn’t think much of it but kept complaining to my boyfriend of how awfully I itched. I let it progress for 3 months until it was literally everywhere on my body, even on my forehead, leaving me covered in scabs and crying every night because I itched so bad.

    We went to the hospital and they gave both of us permethrin cream. We did the treatment, and washed everything TWICE in hot water. About a week before leaving to visit my family in Europe I started noticing a bite, but it didn’t multiply so I didn’t think much of it. Once I was there, I realized I had been re-infected while I went through all the symptoms again.

    My mom went to a pharmacy and bought me a tube of Eurax (a cream intended for the treatment of Scabies) I applied it everywhere but it was definitely not very effective however I hoped to at least keep my family safe from this nightmare. When I returned I made an appointment with my docter, she gave me more permethrin and I did two treatments and cleaning. Lo and behold it didn’t leave, I returned again, got re-diagnosed and was given another tube of permethrin. I did the treatment THREE TIMES (once each week) and cleaned everything.

    Now I’ve started breaking out in hives every time I get a bite, without even itching anything my arms will start swelling up on their own and am seeing it also on my legs. I returned to the doctor’s office, where a different doctor told me I didn’t have scabies at all and had a skin infection. So she prescribed me a antibacterial lotion, antibacterial cleansing stuff and antibiotics. Nothing changed. So now I am still itchy, still breaking out in hives and extremely unamused. If there is a pill to cure this I don’t understand why I have not been given it and I am SO tired of having to go through the process every time of sanitizing my entire apartment.

    I have spent more money and time then I would’ve liked to and with summer coming up I am covered in blotches and scarred bites everywhere. If anyone has a natural remedy that doesn’t include smelling like a rotten egg for two weeks please let me know!!
53. Cathrine says:
    March 26, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    I think I picked up scabies from a hotel room in Bali. I tried borax, bleach etc. I gave in and tried a chemical based treatment benzyl benzoate (ascabiol) all over my body, this burned like hell but allowed me to get on top of them. For the next week I kept the bottle beside my bed and at night I would spot treat.

    I never really itched again after that but I could feel them crawling. I would agree with another post on here that not all people are allergic to the bites because I know they are on my body but I dont itch anymore. After the treatment they seemed to have gone. Then a week or two later I frequently felt crawling sensations in my hair ( they had moved to my scalp) then bites appeared on my face and chest. This time I whacked them with eucalyptus oil.

    I would syringe the oil through my hair rub it into my scalp and put a shower cap on and also rub it over my entire body except face. It doesnt irritate my skin at all. I would then go about my business at home for about 4 hours. I also bought a tube of Lysol 5% permethrin cream to spot treat my face. I also keep the tube beside my bed to spot treat any crawling sensations I get at night. I am also trying the clear nail varnish on bumps as another poster on here is doing. This should suffocate them. Ive done the eucalyptus 3 days in a row it does work but I think new mites hatch and so I need to keep treating until the population of eggs and mites is minimal. It is summer here and I can sit around covered in eucalyptus.

    The oil dries and so does not leave an oily film on your skin therefore does not stain. In fact eucalyptus is used as a stain remover. As it is summer I use a sheet on my bed and a cotton duvet cover (with no duvet) as a blanket as it is easier to wash everyday. Ive put plastic on the 2 chairs in the house that I usually sit on. I definitely think changing bed linen and treating your head are important to avoid re-infestation. I have read eucalyptus fries fleas and head lice.

    I have used the oil to spot treat fleas on my cats and head lice on my daughter and it works instantly. I cant see why the scabie mite should be any different. So far I feel like Im slowly getting on top of them.
54. C Whozat says:
    March 22, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    I itched for almost TWO YEARS! One dr only said, hmmm. another one said to use cortisone. Like I couldn’t come to that conclusion by myself or was just mostly brain-dead.

    It itched so bad! and it kept spreading! It could feel something crawling, but I couldn’t SEE anything. I tried anti-acne peroxide lotion, different antibiotic creams, two different anti-fungals, cortisone, powder w zinc. Nothing made any difference. It was maddening! Woke me at night!

    I scoured the internet. AHA! the description of the symptoms of Scabies sounded just like what I was experiencing. Some people reported using the physician-advised insecticide products. I, personally, am not comfortable spreading poison all over my body, so I continued searching.

    Here it is and it works:

    Wash your body with Sulfur soap and take sulfur in the form of MSM.
    I have been taking 500 mg capsules of MSM 2-3 times a day and washing with the soap twice a day. After you scrub your skin, rub a layer of the soap lather on your skin and let it dry. I also sprinkled my mattress with diatomaceous earth which kills bugs by poking them with tiny sharp edges.

    The VERY FIRST DAY!!! the itching was GREATLY lessened. It has now been about a month and it is almost gone. Finally! two years!
55. rene says:
    March 19, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    We had a house fire on Christmas morning 230a, lost everything we owned. Our insurance pd for 6 months in a brand new apartment and they provided rental furniture. New pillows, bedding, linens and such. We were donated clothing from various places, I washed everything b4 bringing it into the new apartment. Some how a few weeks later I started itchy and noticed bites on my forearms and on my face. I was sure it was bed bugs. So I had exterminator come out, no bed bugs. So I assumed it was mites or something. No one else had any problems. Then my 6 yo started scratching and itchy welts went to doc and got the tube permethin (msp) and was told to use all over body wash all my stuff and dry in hot water and heat. Had my apt sprayed professionally and shampooed. After I first noticed the bites I threw out my brands new pillows and got all new ones. My doc didn’t tell me to apply a week later!!!! This site has me scared to death that I will never get rid of these bugs and I don’t want to move them into my new home when we get it rebuilt. Please help.
56. ginna says:
    March 18, 2011 at 12:35 am

    Scabies is the most horrible things in the world to get on your body, and one of the hardest things to rid from your body- this is tried n true and works like no other.

    BLUE STAR OINTMENT will get rid of the scabies and is lots safer than the poison that you get from the DR that may or may not work.

    just rub the blue star all over, I even rubbed that stuff on my top sheet.. took about 3 to 4 days, and then I waited a couple of days/week and repeated it.. boom clear!
57. Paul says:
    March 14, 2011 at 3:21 pm

    I have been itching for two weeks and I didn’t start itching until I bought some new used seats for my car and I had enough and finally went to the doctor today and he said I have scabies and I believe my seats in my car are the culprit. My question is how do I get rid of these darn scabies in my seats? I just had my seats steam cleaned last week because they are cloth and I had this feeling I had fleas on my seats, but turns out it’s scabies. Help please I need to get these seats clean and get these scabies outta here
58. Jim D, says:
    March 12, 2011 at 10:13 am

    My dogs acquired mange and I somehow transfered it to my coccyx (tail bone), I ignored it until it started to spread around my belt line and bum area. During this time, nodules appeared in the bum area. The infection took off after that, infecting arms, legs and everything but my chest, hands, face, feet and most of my back. I contacted a Dr and He prescribed ivermectin, but the medication was very expensive so I tried using Ivermex 1.9% horse wormer paste. This worked, for a while. I later tried injectable Ivermax (ivermectin 1%) orally and as a lotion.

    This helped a lot. But as soon as a quit the doses ( every 2-3 days, 2-3 cc ) the bugs would erupt. I’m starting to think that I have multiple hives, or infestations with different gestation periods, It may also be possible the cocooned insects will not hatch when ivermectin is present. My recommendation, kill them early with a scorched earth policy. I feel I may have them on the run by not taking ivermectin for short periods until I feel the bugs then a complete washdown ( I use ORVIS and/or pemectrin wash ) then topical ivermectin 1% injection on the skin as a lotion.
    Good Luck, They are the worst.
59. Darrell says:
    March 12, 2011 at 12:59 am

    I last posted on May 30th, 2010, if you desire to get the backstory.

    I am happy to report that, after dealing with scabies (or possibly bird mites–I never have been quite convinced, one way or the other) from Feb 2010 till about Sept 2010, I seem to be free of the affliction. I say this to encourage the many discouraged readers, of which I was once one!

    I used two tubes of Permethrin cream, a couple of weeks apart, as prescribed by my doctor, and it helped, but I was stupidly re-infesting myself. Once cannot battle scabies with the typical, “Write me a prescription and let’s be done with it” mentality. One has to do battle with these parasites using intelligence.

    I live in an apartment, so daily washing of everything in hot water is not always possible, but did wash often, at the laundromat, with very hot water, and used a hot dryer.

    Took the borax baths 3 times weekly for weeks on end, used tea tree oil on a spot basis for new tiny bites. They say tea tree oil can’t kill the mites, but in my case, having used the two tubes of Permethrin, I had to do something, as the doc wouldn’t prescribe any more right away.

    I believe tea tree oil has more effect than some physicians say. Started with tiny, half-ounce bottles from CVS pharmacy, in the nail polish remover area, for $6.99, but later found a 2.0 fluid ounce (60ml) bottle from Wal-Mart for just a bit more, about $8.00. It is 100% pure Australian tea tree oil, not the diluted verson which can be found in the ethnic hair products area in stores. It has to be the good stuff. Being without Permethrin, I gained great peace of mind, just having the tea tree oil in the residence. I have some now, and don’t foresee a day when I will not have a bottle on hand, as scabies can be such a mental and emotional battle.

    I believe the solution was a combination of the following:

    Feb thru May 2010
    1) Did laundry often, and with borax added to the water, using hot water and hot dryer settings
    2) Simplified life by using very limited sets of clothing, putting a lot of clothing and towels in quarantine in an unsued room, in tied plastic trash bags. 3) Vacuumed often 4) Slept on couch for a time, avoiding the bed 5) Borax baths 3-4 nights a week. I had a TV in the bathroom for weeks on end. 6) At times, avoided upholstered furniture entirely, sitting only on wooden chairs, wiped with Clorox wipes 7) Constant scrutiny of body for new bites, treating them with Tea Tree Oil. (Unfortunately, it’s easy, while scrutinizing the torso and legs for new bites, to become obessed with scratching the old ones, so I have scars from the scabies lesions which are far worse on the lower legs, and fronts of the thighs, than on my back or other harder-to-reach areas.)

    May thru October 2010
    1) Quit the baths, but kept using tea tree oil. (Never used another prescription product, after the 2nd tube of Permethrin, in about May) 2) Began using the freezer. Before going to work, put the bedsheets, pillowcases, and the pillows themselves, in the freezer. Upon arriving home, take bedsheets out, and put sleeping clothes in freezer till bedtime. 3) In desperation, May 27th, stood the mattress on end and wrapped it with 3 layers of commercial grade plastic food wrap, to keep any buggies in the bed from emerging, and re-infesting. 4) At bedtime, wiped the now plastic-wrapped bed with bleach water solution and let dry under a fan before taking sheets from freezer and placing them on the bed. (Did not use a mattress pad, during this time. Or bed skirts or bed ruffles. They have no place in this battle. You’d think the plastic, with no mattress pad, would make the bed sweaty, but it was not too bad, as I was seeing progress in the infrequency of itchy bites!) 5) Had the carpets steam cleaned. 6) Had a pail of bleach water solution in the bathroom at all times, and would take a cotton dishtowel and wipe down hard surfaces. 7) Drank more citrus juices, to make myself more toxic to the bugies. Had a spray bottle of light bleach solution, too, and sprayed it on everything. 9) Had not itched for months by now, and was very happy. I was discouraged that occasional new, tiny bites would appear, but it was at a rate of only like two per week, and the tea tree oil seemed to have great effect on them.

    After many sleepless nights in Feb and Mar, from the itching, and in April, from coming to terms, mentally, with the fact I had a “parasite,” I had been sleeping very well from May forward. (applause) I would put my freshly borax-bathed body on the toilet seat, treat spots with tea tree oil, slip into sheets that had been in the freezer all day, and sleep very well.

    In about Sept / Oct 2010, I began to feel the problem may have abated, and flirted with the occasional “Let’s not put the sheets in the freezer before going to work today,” and coming home to a bed with sheets already in place, LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE DO! My God! What a luxury it is, to not redress the bed every single night!

    In November, scarcely daring to believe I was “cured,” I wrapped the matress with several more layers of commercial grade plastic food wrap, in large rolls, from Wal-Mart, just as a precaution, in case the first layers had become compromised in six months of having a 220 lb fellow turning over, etc. In November, I also dared to put the foam rubber mattress topper back on the bed, for a softer mattress, and used a mattress pad! LIKE REGULAR PEOPLE!

    Take heart, sufferers with scabies, bird mites, or other parasites. Wage warfare with your entire mind, not expecting a single tube of Permethrin, or any other single thing, to be a quick fix.

    I am never going to be careless about this, but am relaxed now. Have not taken a borax bath for at least six months. Never did treat the car upholstery, other than a good vacuuming, once. Do not wash the sheets any more frequently than before the plague. Am not living in bondage to paranoia.

    But at the same time, if I had an itchy bite, I would calmly treat it with tea tree oil, and put in place some of the above, not all, and fight the battle.
60. Tonya says:
    March 10, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    (mix cayanne pepper with clove make a paste the scabies will pour from your body)..was an answer I received from some other victim of scabies.

    The truth is I did it all, the constant cleaning, the pill and the cream, oiled my body with olive oil mixed with Neem Oil and tea tree oil every night (which gave me relief and comfort). Sometimes I would mix the cayanne with olive oil and apply it as well. I also did a Vinegar bath or two (do this before you apply the oils). The thing no one tells you (and which is honestly the hardest thing to do when you have scabies) is you have to let your body do it’s magic. This means you could have already killed them and it’s just the after effects, and you are still over doing it.

    The last thing I am going to tell you is very important. What ever you do…never ever put the permethrin on your face! It has changed my skin. I was always a very very clear skinned person, and since I put that cream on and left it on overnight, my face has broken out and developed a look like rosacea. Use anything other then that on your face; and by the way it kinda changed the skin on the rest of my body as well.
61. RKC says:
    March 5, 2011 at 1:44 am

    I caught these scabies from a woman at work.We all sit in the same material chairs,and it has been hell for the past 9months.I have tried just about everything,and when I think I am cured,more bites and bumps appear in a few days.I have washed my sheets,clothes,and everything so much that soon they will be paper thin. I have tried the following and I still can’t rid of these beasts.

    Stromectol and Permethrin cream 6 times..neem oil/w teatree oil,hot baths with borax,peroxide,epsom salts-orange oil,listerine(citrus),straight bleach on cotton balls applied to affected areas,scabies killer oil/enzymes online,kleen green enzyme cleaner,and nothing healed me of these things..I decided to finally use Kwell/lindane hoping this would kill these scabies for good..I was willing to take the risk because I can’t stand them anymore.After applying Lindane from my neck to my feet,I thought let’s take out the big guns now. Hard to believe,but about 5 days later,the scabies were back.I have never dealt with anything like this.

    I wish I would read something on this website that says I am Cured.If I try too many more things,I will be poor and have no skin left.Good luck in trying to cure these creatures.I hope I find something that will kill them for good!
62. kristie says:
    March 4, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    Still suffering after trying the Sulfer…. Permethrin… Ivermectin…route again. I put the permethrin all over my body,then 8 hours later I covered myself in a sulfer vaseline mixture I made myself. And in between I have been dosing myself with the Ivermectin 1.87% paste. I am still feeling them especially on my legs.

    It feels like the meds are working but only about 70%. My skin is extremely burned up from the sulfur…but if I stop putting it on…even for one day…I will be completely infested in a matter of hours! People cannot even begin to know how horrible this is unless they have experienced it first hand. I am not a dirty person at all. If anything I am a germ freak…and carry germ x with me at all times. I just cannot believe I got this disgusting scabies from some scumbag that was to lazy to wash his own ass…and now I have to pay the price!! He rented a room from my mother…and when he moved out…I moved into his room and kept the mattress he used… I slept on it for a few days and then I started feeling bugs on me!!

    These mites FEEL like huge bugs…so it’s crazy that they are microscopic. That’s why I treated for bedbugs at first…I never even heard of scabies. I just cant believe that I cannot get the proper treatment for this…and I am shocked about the way I have been treated by all the Doctor’s I’ve seen. I have been laughed at….told I have mental issues….called a drama queen…and told by the ER doctor that there’s nothing they can do for me..and not to come back! Everyday it’s like I’m fighting a war. Somedays I have the strength to I pray that we can get help for this!!!

    My next step is to order Benzyl Benzoate 25% from an online pharmacy and I’m going to buy the K9 Atvantix (44% permethrin)..and keep taking the Ivermecton. I pray for anyone who is going threw this HELL! It’s good to know there are others that feel my pain. Good luck and God bless Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.
63. Arlene says:
    March 3, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    A remark about nail polish helped…As a kid we painted chigger bites with nail polish and they disappeared…I started covering the little white egg sac things with clear nail polish and they dried up and disppeared…now I hit each little sting with clear nail polish for an inch around…I think this is working…each day no new spreading in that area… I am having a very comfortable day…I still wash
    everything, change sheets every day, but slowly…it is better.
64. Kristie says:
    February 26, 2011 at 3:53 am

    I got scabies in October last year from a mattress that was used by a man my mom rent a room to. When he moved out of my mom’s house, that same day I moved into the room he was in. The mattress looked fairly new so I just put new sheets on it and went to bed. That’s the day my life changed from happy and healthy….to completely awful Within a week I would feel little critters running up and down my legs…and I would jump out of bed and look at my legs and didn’t see anything. I Felt like bugs were crawling me…but I don’t see them! Am I going crazy? I never heard of scabies in my life so I had no idea what the hell was going on!! So I thought…it must be bedbugs! Treated the mattress with bedbug spray over and over. But the spray can said you can see the bedbug.

    I saw no bugs on the mattress or on me so I was completely freaked out! In the mean time the scabies were getting worse because I’m not getting treatment because I’m treating for bedbugs. Finally I made a Dr. appt and he said you have scabies. I said OMG! Dr…help me….get these things OFF me..he gave me eliminate. I thought okay…I’ll put this cream on…and this nightmare is over!!! Boy was I wrong…the nightmare was just beginning. I used cream…did not work..call Doc…he gives me more…again didn’t work. So he sent me to a Dermatologist. Okay…this guys gonna help me. Get to appointment..explain my symptoms to him in tears almost begging him to help..I cant take it anymore. He said I don’t think you have scabies. I said “say what!” Are you serious?? “I think it’s all in your head” I burst out in tears right there. I could not hold it in. I said how could you say it’s all in my head…you didn’t.

    even do a skin scraping? He didn’t want to here anymore..and told me.. maybe I have some mental issues! I said maybe you should not claim your an expert in skin diseases…Because you KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SCABIES! I had to beg him to give me Elimite..and he actually gave me 2 tubes of plus 3 refills (which i told him didn’t work) but it was better then nothing! I walked out of his office totally hopeless because if a skin specialist cant help me….who will?? So it continued for months…seeing different dr’s who treated me like I was some dirty peice of crap…no empathy or compassion for my pain. My outlook on Drs totally changed after this experience…I almost felt a hatred for doctors at that point. After being treated the way I was so many times! Once I told a doc…if your so confident that I don’t have scabies…would you put my jacket on right now? He wouldent of coarse. So I decided I have to help myself.. these Docs are USELESS!

    I tried Eurax (crotamatin) dident work. Malathion….dident work. Lindane…nope.. Ivermectin.. nope. Iverpaste horse paste…nope “Sublimed” sulfer( it calls for”precipated” sulfer) but could only find “Sublimed”..nope. Even order Sulferated Lime dip..its for dogs with mange & IT STINKS..and

    dident work. Then I ordered “ScabieKiller “and “Dermasil” online. Paid a lot for that stuff…no results. The devastation I felt after using all them…and getting the same results. Nothing was working! Getting scabies has changed me into a diffrent person. I am depressed..cry all the time. Emmence feelings of hopelessness, I dont go out with friends anymore – Just obsess over these scabies..and getting rid of them!! I want my life f**king back!!! Sometimes I feel…I’d rather be dead then live like this. This is torture! But i’m NOT giving up!! My next step is to try the permethrin, sulfer oinment, and Ivermectin route again. That combo seemed to be the only one that I had the best results with. So i’ll try it again and hope for the best. To all the people out there..you are not alone…and I am so glad I came across this site. All the stories I read made me realize that there are others out there that feel the same way I do. And I can relate to there pain. God bless you….and good luck to all!
65. Kristie says:
    February 25, 2011 at 5:51 am

    I have been fighting scabies for one year now and I am at my wits end. I have tried everything-Permethrin 5 and 10%, eurax, lindne, ivermectin, iverpaste horse paste, sulfer ointment, sulferated line dip, and ordered “ScabieKiller” and “Dermasil” online. Nothing works and it’s absolutly devastating when I try something new and it fails. I have seen so many doctors and everyone of them have been very rude, called me delusional, treated me like dirt.

    One was a dermatologist that specializes in skin diseases, he told me I do not have scabies….and maybe I have a mental problem!!! I could not believe my ears! The one person I thought would know about scabies…NEW NOTHING!! I was telling him my symptoms and he actually told me it was “all in my head”. He kept saying that over and over!!! I left his office in tears…totally devastated and completely hopeless! If a doc that specializes in skin diseases wont help me….who will?? I have used soooo much permethrin on my feet that they swelled up so HUGH that I could not walk….and now I have nerve damage in my feet and have excruciating pain when I walk.

    I am so depressed…this has destroyed my life. This is torture! but I am so hopeless and sad all the time. I need HELP!!!!!
66. Kristi says:
    February 22, 2011 at 4:10 am

    My Grandmother was in and out of hospitals and rehab’s all last year. She passed away mid-December 2010. Since August of last year she had “an itch” that she could not get rid of. She had seen a doctor who took a skin scrape which came back negative for scabies. They chalked it up to dry skin or eczema. Hundreds of dollars of bottles and bottles of lotions later and a prescription for anti-itch (which we called her itch pill) still no relief was given to Grandma other than eternal rest.

    Approx a week after Grandma passed away Mom came down with “the itch”..and then an aunt. My Grandfather got the itch a few weeks before Grandma passed..it wasn’t until after 2 weeks of her passing that I came down with “the itch”. Phone conversations with family were of grief over Grandma’s passing then discussions over “the itch” and if you had it or if you still had it. It’s been extremely stressful as of late and having the itch make it feel like some cruel punishment.

    Many hours of Googling when Grandma had it made me think it wasn’t scabies + her test came back negative. The little red bumps look nothing like the Google images of scabies.

    Oohh how my mind has been changed…I have bruises from digging and scratching at my self at night…and only at night?!?! Oh I get the occasional itch during the day – but nothing like it is at night.

    It started on my wrists..and one between my pinkey finger and ring finger..then around my waist where your belt would go..mostly around my belly button..then under my breasts. I would dig and scratch all night. I would go to bed no problem but come midnight or 1 am I’m waking my self up scratching. Having reached my limit I grabbed what I could..

    Ice pack – it worked on my arms at first – soothing the itch
    Vicks Vapor Rub..ahh the cool feeling also helped sooth the itch

    Being up and wide awake from “the itch” I decided to Google and have come to the conclusion that this is in fact scabies.

    Mom’s itch is gone – she said she used an antibiotic ointment (neosporin) on her itch and now its gone. I warned her that it may come back after researching the life span of the scabies and its eggs…its been a few weeks and still no itch for her.

    Grandfather tried the cream prescribed by the doctor but said it burnt his skin – he did a test spot and hasn’t used it since. He’s still in misery and now his back has broke out with them.

    What I have tried and done to sooth this itch!
    Bag Balm $7.00 – for the large can – I bought mine at Safeway behind the pharmacy counter (non-prescription, OTC)
    bagbalm. com
    The active ingredients of Bag Balm are 8-hydroxyquinoline sulfate 0.3% (antiseptic) in a petroleum jelly USP and lanolin base.
    Ointment base no real odor – trying to suffocate these little bastards or slow them down so they can’t “walk” spread them self around. The sulfate base is rather low but could act as somewhat of a repellent though (quoted from another website). I use a rubber glove to apply this stuff all over the itchy area’s for relief at night while sleeping – waist line and under breasts. approx 3-4 days later Relief!!! no more itch and no more bumps!! I rubbed on a think layer each night before bed.

    HOT SHOWER
    If you have one of those shower wands – get the water as hot as you can stand it and hold it over the area that itches – you’ll notice that it will REALLY STARTS TO ITCH – then it stops. I imagine the little scabies bastards freaking out – twitching around from the heat – then finally dying. Not sure if this is true or not – it makes me feel better. Scabies die at 122 degrees – human skin burns at 130 after 2 minutes so be careful!!! I only held the hot water over the area until the itch stopped..approx 20-30 seconds.

    Itch is gone from under my breast and waist and arms…but now its on the inside of my thighs!

    TEA TREE OIL – Safeway – $10 – $12 for tiny bottle of oil.
    Applying bag balm and adding a drop of Tea Tree Oil now to my thighs.
    Put your glove on – scoop out about a tbsp of the Bag Balm and add a drop of Tee Tree and smear it on. Apply a rather thick coat – your cloths will stick to you but its better than itching all night.

    EPSOM SALT – also at Safeway –don’t remember cost but couldn’t have been more than $2- $3 dollars.
    I’ve also added taking daily hot hot hot baths with Epsom Salt and a few drop of Tea Tree as well.

    Washing and DRYING Bedding and clothes- Avg Dyer gets to be 140-160 degrees – again scabies die at 122 degrees.

    Understanding now, how this little mites migrate and re-appear – I have wash all of my bed clothes, limited close contact with my dog and fiance, sleeping in separate room. I washed all of my bedding and dirty clothes yesterday. As soon as I’m done wearing anything it gets walked down to the basement and put in a corner away from traffic area -if its not washed right away. I wore some jeans last night but only for a few hours -when I took them off I put them in the dryer for 30 minutes on high heat. Same with my bedding each night – takes a trip in the dryer before I use it again.

    Thigh is clearing up nicely – I have noticed an itch or two in one arm pit and a few more itches around my belly button again. I have reapply more bag balm to the old areas as well as the new area’s just to be sure. I don’t feel that I will be complete done with “the itch” for another week or so – for the rest of my life if I develop an itch ..lets say from dry skin – I will be forever reminded of this hellish experience and fear its return – that is if it ever leaves.
67. Confused Man says:
    February 17, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    I’m sorry for such a long post, but here’s my situation. Just randomly I started getting these rashes on my hand. At first, just kinda figured they were typical rashes and would go away. They didn’t, and within a few days I started experiencing itches that only you guys could relate to. So, I started suspecting bedbugs. A friend of mine had them previously, and I sat on his couch. I started doing research on the internet, and have never been the same since (psychologically-wise). I threw away my carpet, bed, and many of my clothes. Also bombed, and sprayed (supposedly) poison for bedbugs all around areas I felt they could be, or could enter. I did vacuum, but not as thorough as I probably should’ve. It says it should keep killing them for three weeks. But, I was still getting bites/itches. So, I went to the doctor (not a Dermatologist), which told me she didn’t know, but I suggested it may possibly be scabies, and she prescribed me the Permetherin cream. I put it on the other night, and washed everything that could still be contaminated (hopefully).

    They say it’s natural for me to still itch, but there seems new bites are appearing. It’s freaking me out, I already suffered from paranoia before this! And, I’m still not 100% sure if it’s scabies or bedbugs or not! The symptoms are nearly identical, from what I gather. I haven’t seen any bedbugs yet, but that doesn’t mean anything. The bites I get are random, and match both infestations. Sometimes they’ll be clumped together, sometimes they’ll be spread. Sometimes they’ll be raised and like a rash, and others it’s just like a flea bite. The only reason that lead me more towards the possibility of scabies is because how long the rash lasts. It’s been roughly two weeks, and they’re still there, although, seem to be mildly clearing up. I would like to thank all you that mentioned alternative methods of curing if the problem persists. I’m still searching for bedbugs like crazy, but in the meantime I can only assume it’s scabies. If so, I guess I either shook hands with, or hugged an infected person. Who that could’ve been? I seriously don’t have a clue. I wish you guys luck, I’ve only experienced this for two weeks, and I can not even fathom dealing with it anymore than I already have.
68. I will win this war says:
    February 14, 2011 at 6:13 am

    It breaks my heart soooo many people are having the same battle as we are!!! This all started with my infant son approximately 9 mos ago. After repeated, numerous dr visits, FINALLY a diagnosis. After 6 mos! But too late. Now my other 2 daughters and I both have it. I am mortified at the suffering my infant son has had to endure through most of his life thus far. I hope what I have learned can help someone. I have found that colloidal silver spray or gel (health food store) helps to relieve the itching. It seems to work best with any raised bumps or when that pin pricked feeling comes around. Tea tree oil is what we are getting the best immediate results with in killing them. .(Half tea tree oil, mixed with half olive oil…try a tablespoon of each…apply EVERYTIME you get the itch or bumps ALL OVER if possible. Spray the silver first for the itch then apply. Apply the tea tree after your shower, preferably at night because smell is strong unless you don’t have anyplace you have to be in the morning. Soak in a tub with a capful of tea tree if you can). Lemon oil combined with tea tree oil is what we are using on our belongings, 1 cup of water, 20 drops of each in a spray bottle. Lemon oil is supposed to be highly effective in killing them. I am cautious to apply topically because it will cause photosensitivity.
    I have recently learned that taking Vitamin C is very effective…Vit C helps to clean out toxins in your body. (Maybe why Lemon oil is so effective?) Sulfur soap, or sulfur-lavendar combo soap if you can find it, can help. (Lavender is a deterrant for scabies.) By the way, tea tree oil kills scabies more effectively than permethrin according to many studies. We all took our doses of permethrin and are simply getting worse. However, I gave up on the permethrin to take effect-I have a life I want back- and gave my son the 1st treatment of tea tree oil using the olive oil when he was about to lose his mind from scratching. I saw immediate results within a few hours!! Black Walnut oil is what we are using to kill them internally. (Dab a few drops behind baby’s ears if you have a little one instead of giving internally. The body will absorb it that way.) I have also read and will be attempting a treatment using Aquaphor (can purchase at Walmart or Walgreens, generic has same ingredient.) mixed with Sulfur…read that it suffocates them. That way you don’t have to go around smelling like tea tree in public. I just don’t know the right combination just yet. I also refuse to sleep on my mattress til we are all cured. We are sleeping on air mattresses that can be wiped down immediately with our tea tree spray then we launder clothes immediately in the washer or place in a bag. As you can see, I am a mother at war. I am battling continuously til we are no longer sufferers of this relentless parasite. I am also very sympathetic to all of you out there who have turned to the medical profession with little to no answers for your EXTREME desperation for help. These are the remedies that are working for all of us. I personally am feeling less and less activity inside, biting is getting weaker, my kids are all sleeping right now. I hope this helps someone. Take care.
69. HR says:
    February 13, 2011 at 7:13 pm

    Wow, most of you people are nuts!!! This is easier to cure than the flu. (flu lasts longer and there is no cure) Please don’t go crazy about these little bugs. Keep in mind, you probably only have 8-10 actual bugs on your body. First of all, keep your body and house clean. Take care of your pets. Pretend that you have common sense. Take showers regularly like clean people do. Take care of yourself. Stop picking, destroying your body, and going nuts, take care of the problem. Grab a couple red-bulls or your favorite energy drink and clean up the house.

    It’s difficult to test for and hence, most doctors won’t believe you or help you out. Plus, dr visits and prescriptions are expensive and should be avoided whenever possible since doctors and pharmaceutical companies have no interest in healing you. They make more money when you are not healed, so always eliminate the doctors and prescriptions whenever possible.

    Most everything I’ve read on these comments are bull and we all know that 99% of all diseases are psychosomatic, so we not only need to fix the problem (extremely easy) but we also need to find emotional and mental peace. Meditate, pray, or whatever you have to do. You will be cured almost immediately.

    Some items commonly used will work great to fix the problem. Keep in mind, you don’t need to go nuts. I know constant itching and knowing that bugs live inside you can make you crazy, not to mention the insomnia that intensifies this.

    I’ve had bad backne and breakouts on my arms and all over my body for at least 8 years. I’ve seen the doctor and they never helped. I finally decided to try treating for scabies and within days i felt better, within 2 weeks my acne was under control and now for the first time in 8 years, I don’t feel ashamed to take my shirt off. I can actually go swimming now, and it only took a couple bucks and a few days to fix.

    here’s the roundup…

    -Alcohol… VERY BAD FOR YOUR SKIN. Alcohol is used for prep when using injections, pricking for diabetes tests, things like that. Never ever ever use alcohol on your skin for any other reason. It’s very bad. It will dry out your skin and cause other problems. If you really need some type of astringent, use witch hazel. Never use alcohol for treating acne of any other skin condition. Just like momma always said… alcohol makes your problems worse.

    -Epsom salts… it’s always good to soak in Epsom salts (magnesium sulfate) from time to time. it refreshes your skin and draws out impurities. This doesn’t need to be part of the scabies treatment, but keep this product in mind as it’s always refreshing and healthy to take an occasional hot bath with Epsom salts, especially after a hard day. it tends to loosen up your muscles and relieve stress as well. Natural mineral springs have this same affect, due to containing this same mineral.

    -Sulfur… always keep some sulfur powder in your house. it’s a natural antibiotic, anti-fungal, and pesticide. Farmers use it to dust crops and it’s been used for hundreds of years for infections. If you get a cut, clean your cut and rub some sulfur on it. Keep it dry, never use products like neosporin that will only keep your skin soggy and take forever to heal. Neo is a terrible product. Keep your cut dry and use a little sulfur. it will stop the bleeding and kill any bacteria. Sulfur soaps are nice to have in your bathroom. You can make it or buy it, either way, sulfur soap is great for your skin.

    -Tea Tree Oil… another good item to keep in the house. It will kill most fungi including nail fungus, ringworm, athletes foot, etc. Refreshing smell and cooling feeling when used on the skin. Full strength Tea Tree Oil will cause a burning feeling similar to alcohol if used on sensitive areas. Make sure you dilute it with mineral oil or glycerin. it will also kill lice, bugs, scabies… many other things.

    -Permithrin… DO NOT USE ON CATS!!! YOUR CAT WILL LIKELY DIE!! Never use anything on your cat unless isn’t specifically made for your cat.
    Synthetic Pyrethrin Insecticide. Pyrethrin is made from dried Chrysanthemum flowers. Very low toxicity in humans, dogs, and most farm animals. A 1% solution typically doesn’t work to cure scabies. A 5% solution should kill all scabies on your body almost immediately. After 15 minutes, your skin will break it down and absorb it and it will stay in your skin for a long time even after washing.

    ————————
    Here’s the quickest way to get rid of scabies. You have to repeat this process 2 times only, unless you have a person or animal that reinfects you.
    Buy some pyrethrin (or synthetic permethrin, which is better). You want no more than a 5% solution on your skin or it can have adverse affects. Even though it’s a very safe product, too much of anything can be bad. You can get 10% perm from the farm supply, pet store, or buy it on amazon. Permectrin-II works great and 1-quart is only $16. Mix 1/2 cup with 1/2 cup of your favorite lotion, This gives you a 5% solution. You can put a few drops of Tea-Tree oil in it if you like, but you don’t need to.

    Day 1
    Take a shower and dry off with a clean towel, just like you usually do every morning. Take your cup of 5% perm/lotion and put in on your whole body. Watch out for your eyes and try not to get it in your mouth, it tastes like crap. Rub in the lotion. You don’t need to get your body gooey with it, use it sparingly and rub it all in like you would normally. Go ahead and put on some clean clothes and go about your day like normal.

    You do need to wash all of your clothes and bed clothes (sheets, blankets, pillow cases). Spend the day cleaning up the house and washing clothes. Follow the instructions on the permethrin and spray your house with it. Spray the carpet, furniture, clothes, linens, spray everything, it’s not going to hurt. Wait an hour or so for it to dry before your kids play on the carpet. Same for young pets. Personally, I cleared out my closet, sprayed the whole closet with the perm spray following the instructions on the container. Scabies don’t live very long without a warm body, so this is just a precaution. By the way, keep spraying the perm in and around your house every 6 months to help control flees, spiders, ants, and every other insect. You’ll never need am exterminator because this is the same thing they use.

    Make sure your animals are treated. Take them to the vet and tell them that he was exposed to mange and needs to be dipped… or you can follow the animal instructions for dipping on the perm container. Your pets are the most likely cause of being infected in the first place, so make sure you take care of them as well.

    Day 2-6
    The scabies are most likely gone!!! But there can still be unhatched eggs. Use your new sulfur soap when you take a shower every morning. Use a clean towel every time like clean people usually do. Wash your bed clothes regularly. Don’t wear clothes multiple days, and don’t hang worn clothes back in the closet with the clean clothes.

    Day 7
    Repeat everything from Day 1. Use your lotion, dip the dogs, wash your clothes, spray the house…

    Your done. Say goodbye to bugs and be at peace knowing that you are bug free. Take preventative measures. Stay clean. Shower daily, vacuum at least every couple days, dust your house regularly, wash your clothes and bed clothes regularly, and do everything else that clean people do. Good personal hygiene and keeping your house clean will make your life so much better. If you have undesirable or questionable company, spray off the couch or bed when they leave. Living a clean lifestyle drastically reduces your chances of being dirty. Keep your pets clean and healthy. Make sure they are on bug/worm medication/treatments all year around. if you get the itchies again, use your lotion. Continue to wash with the sulfur soap regularly, it’s good for your skin.

    Remember, you didn’t have any scabies after Day1. They were dead 15 minutes after you applied the lotion.
    If you think scabies still live in you, put your head in the microwave, because that’s where the problem exists.
70. jj says:
    February 10, 2011 at 8:17 pm

    Dunno why you wash your bedding each day, microwave them. Just stick shoes one at a time in the microwave for one minute if they have no metal on them,hats, and socks. You think these guys can live after being microwaved for a minute or two?

    Plastic coat your bed and pillow and just nuke them it saves a ton of washing

    I am actually considering just nuking the clothes i am wearing ever two three hours.

    Had a cotton hoodie that had a burn mark on it after about 15 seconds…. but with power on 60% i just left it in for three minutes…. might set my alarm clock to wake me up in the middle of the night so i can nuke my sheets and pillow case.

    Don’t microwave your clothes, some clothing can take it. Microwaves concentrate their waves at the rotating plate so it is possible for the bugs to survive if they are above that area.

    if you do try it though make sure your clothes are wet so it turns into steam. You might as well just boil them.

    watch out for sheets and clothing though they can burn rather fast…

    I would try 15 secs on then turn off
71. Ashley says:
    February 5, 2011 at 5:20 am

    I work in a retirement home as a nurse and one of the residents had classical signs and symptoms of scabies, she was treated with the cream and behold 3 months later she still is itching and a rash is still present. Since her treatment 3 more people have been treated for it. The management won’t call the health department, the head nurse doesn’t think that it is scabies because a doctor has never verified the diagnosis under the microscope!!!! I’m soooo terrified about getting it. I wear gloves when ever in contact but i feel like scabies could be on door knobs and stuff. What should I do?? This is bad.
72. Tortugita says:
    February 2, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    I just got diagnosed with scabies yesterday:( GROSSSSSSS So the gave me these pills to take. Has anyone taken the pills before and do the work fast. I only have few spots that are broken out, but the itching is horrible and i don’t think i can stand it much longer.
73. jon wakefield says:
    February 2, 2011 at 2:30 pm

    Don’t let a diagnosis of Scabies get you down! I have been itching since summer of 2010, originally thinking it was due to a “heat rash.” I have been to three doctors and actually quite surprised that the first two had no idea what I had! The first doctor (a dermatologist) said I had “contact dermatologist” and prescribed some ridiculously expensive steroid foam. That didn’t work so went to an allergist who diagnosed me with “fungal infection.” Hence more creams that didn’t work. Then I went to a third doctor – another dermatologist – who immediately knew what it was (bless his heart). However, I have had three treatments of Permethrin (elemite) with no positive results-in fact, my itching seemed to get worse–it was very excoriating.

    I then went online and started doing some research and discovered that SULFUR kills the little B$#%*&ds! As soon as I put on a 5% cream, the itching stopped by the next morning! So I would recommend to ignore the expensive creams and go with the natural solution. Good luck.
74. Deba says:
    January 29, 2011 at 9:28 pm

    Hi I work at a nursing home as a nurse’s aide and scabies is a big problem. They do prescribe the 1% pemethrin bodycream for people who get it. Well in my experience to prevent myself from getting it I can tell you that cream does not work.

    This is what I do..take a bath in Apple Cider Vinegar a little on the strong side. Let It soak through your skin. Then use a perfume free body wash or soap. Afterward I put Oil of Oregano on anything I think may start looking like red bumps or blisters. Oil of Oregano is a very good natural Killer of mites. You can start feeling the tingling immediately. Wash all bedding, clothing, replace deodorant, use every thing new…you should hopefully start feeling less itch and the skin will start healing soon. As far as the scars if you don’t itch when the scabies attack you wont have scars but if you itch it makes a scar…then you would have to use Biotin or something to soothe the marks. They will eventually fade. Its a Nasty Problem To Deal With. The key is to see that you have no more break outs…then you know its working…
75. Cured says:
    January 29, 2011 at 11:07 am

    I want to share how I got rid of them. I read on another site about this method and it worked. I’ve had them twice now, so I’m getting to be an old pro. Here are my tips and the method. I had them for 8 months the first time and thought I would go out of my mind. I tried every dumb doctor’s method. I had them for 3 weeks the second time after listening to the other wonderful person.

    1) For 10 days in a row, take 3 parts water, 1 part bleach, and after your daily shower spray and wipe it all over from the hairline down. If you prefer baths, put bleach in HOT bath and soak for at least 15 minutes. Water should smell like an over chlorinated pool. Completely air dry before putting on clothes. Use a kitchen scratcher pad to exfoliate eggs under skin. Wash it after shower. I did this twice a day for the first 4 days.
    2) If you have it in your hair, take turpentine and spot treat each sore on your head.
    3) I took my showers at night, because I didn’t have to wash my sheets every day that way. I washed them the first day and about day 4. Never again during treatment and I’m healed.
    4) You will still think you have them for as long as a year after treatment. The itch is the feces coming out of your skin. You will have pimple bumps for a long time. If you have burrows, you are not healed.
    5) Never wear the same clothes two days in a row. Wash everything. If it can’t be washed, put it in an airtight bag for a week or longer. I also just put things in the dryer on hottest setting for 30 minutes.
    6) When doing laundry, wear latex gloves. One pair for loading machine, different pair for pulling out clean clothes.
    7) Go to the CDC’s website. It helps you understand how they produce. Eggs are hatched ever 1-4 days.
    If your chair is infected or car seat. Spray with Raid spider spray.
    9) Vacuum often.
    10) Don’t infect others if you can keep from it. They will just give it back to you.
    11) Keep a calendar journal.
76. susan says:
    January 14, 2011 at 8:56 am

    I am a midwife in Nicaragua and have treated several babies and children with scabies. My husband and I as well as a toddler had scabies more than 20 years ago. Go down to hardware store and buy some sulfur powder, usually in animal section. Mix a couple of tablespoons in a jar of Vaseline. Cover your mattress with a sheet of plastic and put on old sheets. Cover every square inch of your body with the sulfur/Vaseline mixture and wrap up in another old sheet. Do this for three nights. If you can, set your mattresses outside in the sun for a few hours, wash your pillows and bedding in hot water with just a little bit of Bleach. Wash all stuffed toys too. It should clear up, if not, repeat. You will eventually go mad or it will go away. Start taking b-complex as this helps your immune system. Some one with a good immune system can sleep in a bathtub of these mites and never feel it. I hope this helps
77. Rod says:
    January 12, 2011 at 4:30 pm

    Scabies and crabs can be eliminated by taking an hour long hot bath in flea tick shampoo once a day.
78. rachel says:
    January 5, 2011 at 1:48 am

    hi everyone,

    I have had scabies now for two weeks. I caught it early, and started treatment right away. I have found a few things very helpful with the itching. First I take soak in a bath with tea tree oil, sulfur and neem oil. Neem not only deals with the scabies mites naturally, it also soothes the skin, numbs the pain, relieves the itching, reduces the inflammation and redness, and heals any secondary infection that might have occurred because of scratching and open lesions. Sulfur also helps with itching. It works by killing the mites which cause scabies symptoms, but it is generally considered safe for topical use by humans. After I take a bath, I apply petroleum jelly mixed with sulfur from head to toe. This keeps the skin from drying out.
    Note: If you cannot afford go to the doctor you can get sulfur( its called nu-stock for animals) and permethrin (which is the actual Rx doctors give) at a animal feed stores, tractor supply stores etc. Because they will be for animals (cows etc.) they are much stronger strength. Make sure to test them first or dilute them.
79. john says:
    January 4, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    I have had this same symptoms like that since April of 2010. I still haven’t gone to the doctor since I thought it was from my dogs being around me to much but to this day it has calm down. I still itch every now and then and I also got those bumps on my wrist and in between my fingers. I still have the scar marks where my elbow bends but I noticed when there was a cold front I wouldn’t itch as much. As soon as the hot weather came back it started acting up again. I don’t no if it was cause the scabies act up more with the warm then the cold can anyone help me please I don’t no how to break it down to my girlfriend about it and its real embarrassing to tell her. Can anyone give me some advice?
80. scott T says:
    January 4, 2011 at 4:05 am

    I had gotten diagnosed with scabies about 3 maybe 4 weeks ago now. I had then for a while before actually going to the doctor. I thought it was something like flea bites or bed bugs, but when I got the diagnose I know EXACTLY how I got it. After some research I got it from a kitten with mange I had not slept around or anything so that had to be it. I got the permethrin cream 5% prescription, the instructions just said to apply and leave on for 10 hour and wash off and repeat in 3 days. I did that exact thing 3 times and I noticed difference after the 2nd time and then after the 3rd major difference and so It was good. Well I have spots where the breakouts were, but I don’t THINK I have any new bumps but I read that I may still get bumps but that does not mean that I still have it. It could just be the healing and just my body disposing of the feces and what ever was left behind. But no not getting woken up to severe itching anymore, but I got worried and done another application today because I found like 2 or 3 bubble looking bumps on the in side of 2 of my fingers so I would assume that its just still healing. I’m HOPING that’s’ what is is because I live with a few people and no one is complaining that they might have it. But I think I will try out the bleach bath stuff just in case. What should I do I’m DESPERATE, I don’t want to have to worry that I may still have it. Please ANYONE email me at legendarybod@aim.com yeah I made this email at 14, but PLEASE any suggestions cleaned linens and clothes in hot washers setting
81. Kristina says:
    December 23, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    My ex gave this to me. It was his last torture that I am still battling. My legs have horrible scars that I fear will never go away. I feel like I have the plague. I feel diseased. I’ve treated or them several times. There is a spray that kills them on surfaces but its kind of hard to find and expensive. I probably still have it. I definitely feel like I’m going insane. I want to torch my mattress and all my clothes. I’ll sleep outside on the ground for a week just get this off of me.
82. Sue says:
    December 22, 2010 at 3:25 am

    To all suffering with scabies and can’t get rid of it! It may be Follicuitis!
    My oldest son brought home scabies July of 2010. My entire family also started to get bumps by August! It was a disaster, emotionally draining, financially exhausting and just a very horrible time. We cleaned for weeks, bagged clothes, washed bedding every day, vacuumed cars the whole nine yards. We were all treated, family of 6, but my two sons, sister and myself still itched and have spots off and on for 5months still after the treatment! Still getting the spots and going insane with this itch and spots on our body! My husband and youngest son were fine after treatment still itchy but no spots.Many tears were shed with no results from any docs and probably used 30 tubes of cream between all 6 of us in the family for the 5 months. We were giving up and depressed so bad it was hard to even function.
    My son started to research the internet and found out about a skin disorder called Follicuitis! Inflammation caused by your hair follicles and they can get infected causing theses red bumps, pimple like sometimes with puss.I went to the doc it was treated with an antibiotic and I don’t itch or have any abnormal spots anymore! Amen! Thank God! Its been about a week since I finished my prescription and I feel great! I hope this helps it often can happen after scabies because we itch then cause irritation and infection! with the original diagnosis of scabies. I know the crazy your going through! God Bless and I will be praying for you all. Sue
83. worried says:
    December 19, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    There needs to be an investigation into this by someone reputable enough that has alot of money

    Maybe with a reward to a scientist who finds out what alot of people are not delusional about

    and would gain a patent on the only known cure. Entailing huge profits which would gain alot of attention of investors world wide to jump aboard. Super Bug is all I can fathom or something not known to science yet? Imagine America being warned by National News that scabies has evolved as incurable and highly contagious. One such news story did do a report on US soldiers returning from Iraq and Pakistan with drug resistant skin parasites.
    Pay attention to Jesse Ventura’s (Conspiracy Theory that comes on History channel) I just watched a report he did on the Top Secret Military Research Labs in America alleging the government does have biological labs studying insects and god only knows what else? The show I watched was about one of the labs located in Lyme Connecticuit (on some island out there) which is a conspiracy theory on the development of Lyme disease -that comes from ticks. He also uncovered that this military lab was the first of its kind and America obtained the top scientist from Nazi camps to be its founder and top dog. Look whats happening to that Wikileaks guy and how many governments are involved with his captivity.
84. Still Itchy says:
    December 18, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    Still suffering like everyone else here, going on for about five months. I believe this is an indictment of the medical system – after all, we’re talking about a flea here, not cancer, for God’s sake!
85. ebony says:
    December 16, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    THIS THING WE CALL SCABIES IS NO JOKE!! I BEEN INFECTED WITH THIS FOR ABOUT 4 MONTHS NOW!! WHEN I FIRST STARTED TO BREAK I WENT TO MY DOCTOR AND WAS GIVIN CREAM BECAUSE IT WAS SO CALLED FROM THE WEATHER CHANGE!! WELL THE WEATHER CHANGE ACTUALLY WAS SCABIES NOW I AM TREATING MY SELF WITH CREAM AND I HOPE I DOES GO AWAY !! AT NIGHT TIME I JUST FEEL LIKE CUTTING MY SKIN OPEN ..
86. james says:
    December 13, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    To all of you, I feel your pain. My Doctor gave me a pill (STROMECTOL) 3mg. Worked like a champ, killed them all. I hope this information helps.
87. Christie says:
    December 13, 2010 at 12:01 pm

    My husband & I have been battling scabies for a year & a half. Our 2 yr old son has it too. We saw a Dr and she gave us permethren cream & it didn’t work so we went back. She gave us the same cream & it didn’t work so she gave us an antibiotic & the same cream again & it didn’t work that time either. Finally we got a different DR. We have tried a million things over the past 8 months to no avail. We bug bombed our house & washed everything in Epsom salt (it contains sulfur) & hot hot HOT water. We sprayed all of our mattresses with a mixture of Epsom salt HOT water & bleach, vacuumed everything that could be, & wiped every surface that we could with bleach wipes. Finally after no prescription working we went to a herbal store & bought sulfur capsules & acne soap that contains sulfur. So far so good we have been doing this self treatment for a week & it seems to be helping. The only other thing we can do is move from where we live. I am about to the point where I would dive in to a pool filled with sulfur to get rid of these things. Anyone have any other suggestions?
88. jamie says:
    December 5, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    tunga penetrans….aka sandflea

    I think many people could be infected with sandfleas. Scabies treatments don’t work on them.

    Google tunga penetrans.

    I am applying nail polish to the bites………since I’ve done this, no new bites!
89. Meg says:
    December 3, 2010 at 12:43 am

    Tonight I mixed one part K-9 Advantix (dog flea-and-tick treatment) with four parts A&D ointment and rubbed it over my body. K-9 Advantix is 44% permethrin so I figured I brought it down to about 10%. I’m not giving it to my daughter though. If she gets an outbreak, she’s only getting the stuff prescribed by her pediatrician…
90. Tonya says:
    November 29, 2010 at 10:07 pm

    In reply to ( help us all!!! )

    Did the cayenne pepper really work for you? I have been wanting to try the baths and mixes, but want to make sure it was gone for good for you first. Please email me at champaign6_9@Yahoo.com and let me know. Thanks
91. Mel says:
    November 28, 2010 at 5:39 am

    I am from Sydney Australia. I hate Scabies so much. We got infected after my daughter had a rash and kept getting diagnosed with allergies and school sores. My husband and i started to have an insane itch and we finally found a doctor who diagnosed us with scabies. After treating washing and disinfecting our whole house for 3 days and than retreating again 5 days later we thought we were free of them. WRONG…We were still breaking out and itchy so saw another dr who told us the first lotion we were given is not very effective so we were prescribed Lyclear lotion. Have treated twice and stripped the house and washed and cleaned for 2 weeks, got new pillows, steam cleaned all furniture and mattresses, bombed our cars with Flea bombs, froze wallets and purses, sprayed everything i could with surface spray. I am going insane. My husband thinks i am crazy. I wish we never got these mites. They are a nightmare.
92. Meg says:
    November 27, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    My boyfriend was diagnosed with scabies three months ago. He lives about an hour away and I live with our daughter at my parents’ house. The first time he got it I wouldn’t let him come near me or the baby until he was treated. Low and behold, he treated himself, but didn’t do his laundry between his first and second treatment. About two months later the bumps reappeared on him, and we were still intimate, because he thought it was spider bites from his old apartment building. Of course, the bites became itchier and more numerous. I went to our daughter’s pediatrician and got two bottles of permethrin, one of him and one for me and the baby. My left shoulder has been itching for over a week now, and I see bites, although my mother thinks I’m just being paranoid. I can’t find borax at the grocery store, but I bought lavender oil, and plan to wash everything and then treat myself and my daughter. I’m so scared that I’ll be battling this for months! I could scream at the top of my lungs!
93. Nicki says:
    November 26, 2010 at 5:43 pm

    I just found out I got scabies, we not sure if we got it from our new puppy who has mainge but I started getting like pimples on my stomach. I have noticed that once you have a bath they show so much more, I have my son and boyfriend scratching but they have not broken out like I have. It has traveled that bad I have them on most parts of my body. This is horrible, I am embarrassed. How and what is the quickest solution for this since I started a new job and don’t want to take any time of.
94. lisa says:
    November 23, 2010 at 8:44 am

    Thank you all for sharing your stories.
    Trevor, I especially admire your thought process and expression!
    I’m not happy that u have to go through the extras but well put, when you said that it will
    be a growing experience!

    I was itching a lot last night and found some bites on my wrist…. so just researching.
    So did you solve your issue with the Natural way? Please share!
95. jaxxx says:
    November 18, 2010 at 12:11 pm

    Hi I got scabies in April and like most of you thought they had gone but have had a few more dots on different parts of my body they started in my hair and legs but I haven’t had them as bad looking as the ones in the pictures!! I did use 6 bottles of Malathion and premetherin thought that would work but obviously hasn’t!!
    My worst parts though was my backside and my bottom lip that was so disgusting having your lip look like it was going to fall off!!Now also one day I was taking my nail polish off and about 20 of the little mites came out of just one toe so I have now done it again but didn’t find anything, but I have more dots on the top half of my body this time which isn’t nice,but i feel they are still around my head so I’m now going to re-treat this and also they have to be only on me as I closed my house down for five months after steaming,washing/drying at high temp,wrapping things up and putting it in a cupboard.
    I have noticed someone mentioned lemon in one of the statements above/below as the funny thing is since I have been drinking fresh lemon juice in hot water I have found quite a few dead looking ones on my bed so I got a bleached covered cloth and collect them and throw them in the toilet quick! Didn’t and still don’t know if this has helped but I’m going to carry on doing it until I see no more in my bed or dots on my skin.I hope this has helped some of you and please keep letting us all know if yours have gone,I wouldn’t wish this on any one!!!!!
96. NoJOKE! says:
    November 3, 2010 at 6:03 am

    FIRST, I want to send all my heartfelt compassion and sympathy out to EVERYONE who is suffering from SCABIES, or any awful rash condition very similar. This is a dreadful misfortune that can happen to ANYONE-so don’t feel isolated and depressed and singled out. This is (for whatever reason you may believe) something that happened-now inevitable- and the best way to approach such a seemingly crippling (physically, emotionally, socially, etc) condition is 100% honesty with yourself, with your friends, family, loved ones, and a battle-face of optimism to triumph this wretched parasite. And EDUCATE YOURSELF on the: 1) facts-clinical research which has been done and proved, 2) the fiction-there is (I believe) a lot of misinterpretation and misdiagnosis for Scabies, and 3) what I feel is the most important- listening to personal stories of the trails and tribulations of us sufferers of Scabies. Everyone’s story is a little different and it should be because we are all different individuals with different physical, chemical, biological, and spiritual constitutions and insects are a lot smarter than humans know, therefore they are going to have different life strategies for each individual person. The bottom line though is that is sucks!!! It is so awful, but I am seeing this Scabies invasion experience as a personal transformation opportunity. I am not a dermatoligist or an osteopath, but I have a University of California degree with background in biology, chemistry, entomology (the study of insects) and ecology. So here is what I have to say about my experience:

    -I came into close skin-to-skin contact with a person who had an unknown rash
    -1.5 to 2 weeks later I began to notice minute “mosquito” like bumps on my stomach and forearms
    -I saw a doctor about 3 weeks into these symptoms (not much but some itch by this point)
    -The MD said it was dry skin (definitely NOT Scabies) “moisturize and come back if it gets worse”
    -It got noticeably worse that night and I RESEARCHED!!! Only to self diagnose myself with SCABIES!
    -The next day I find out my friend had been diagnosed with Scabies and I saw my doctor that day too.
    -I tell the Doc A, B, and C=SCABIES-duh right?
    -She denies it, says maybe its fleas or “something else”-real comforting.
    -I tell her I want the topical Permethrin cream immediately. She says “Okay, if you do have Scabiest or dont the permethrin most likely wont hurt to apply it.”
    -I follow all the standard Scabies eradication procedures of cleaning and drying clothing, bedding, shoes, chin-toe application of Permethrin all night (about 14 hours) and I sleep in a sleeping bag and one pillow which were re-washed immediately the next day.
    -I felt relieved cuz I was under the impression I was done with this humiliating process.

    -THE RASH HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE! Zero signs or receding bumps and zero subsidence of itching. It has spread to my entire body now, even my head and face.
    -I have had Scabies for about 1.5 months now and it is definitely the worse it has been.
    -Multiple sources conclude: itching can continue (because your body is still reacting to the foreign material lodged deep inside your skin) for up to 4 weeks after Permethrin application-even though the mites are dead. But you should NOT see new bumps and breakouts!
    -Well I saw nothing but new breakouts and worse itching.

    Now my logic tells me that a) if indeed the insecticide is effective (Permethrin-the most widely prescribed treatment) then some or many of the mites should have died with proper application-and believe me, I got every inch spread thick ‘n’ plenty from my chin down. b) If some or many of the mites did indeed die with the permethrin application (which they should have if it is “proven’ to kill mites) then there should have been a subsidence in my bumps and itching breakouts. There was zero subsidence!

    Now, from studying some of the detrimental effects of agricultural insecticide use, not only does it have dramatically known and unknown negative impacts on the local ecosystem, but QUITE OFTEN the insects build an immunity to the insecticide. The reason for this is because there is usually a few insects in a giant insect population who have a few recessive genes which are resistant to certain chemicals (just like humans) and end up surviving after all the other ones die and then they reproduce with each other, and yes folks “evolve,” to a new strain of “POISON” resistant/immune insects which continue preying on the agricultural crops and have zero problems with the high, then higher, and higher quantities of insecticides the farmers continue applying.

    So, I believe (in my case at least) that this is exactly what has happened. I have contracted a Permethrin resistant Scabies mite. So what am I going to do? No more insecticides! My body is already pissed at me for suffering once through Permethrin. My next logical insight comes from the past: learn from history.

    Scabies has been around for hundreds, if not thousands of years. As a species, it is growing, adapting to regional climates and micro climates, thinking, eating, shitting, and yes evolving. But, people didn’t have the insane chemical insecticides we posses more than 50 years ago. So, what did people do? There were lots of remedies, some maybe better than others and some among cultures which may have been very effective but unknown to us today. The point which I am trying to make is people have had Scabies for centuries and have dealt with it and cured it through natural approaches. After all Scabies is a naturally occurring insect so logically something which nature produces (or a combination of them) should be able to get rid of them.

    I am not cured yet by any means. But, I have abandoned the harsh chemical approach and I am going to look at my body as if it is an ecosystem a little out of whack and I am going to use history, stories, natural remedies which have worked for others, consultation from acupuncturists and Naturopath’s, a sharper more conscious exercise and diet (after all immune system is key to fighting foreign bodies within any biological system) regime to get it back self sustaining and rid of this unwanted foreign invader. BTW, Don’t believe anybody who says not to exercise because the mites like body heat. Stay healthy, optimistic, honest, and most of all in tune with your body throughout this entire battle. That, I believe, will be the key to a successful, and swift, eradication of Scabies.

    These are some of the approaches I am going to try over the next few weeks:
    1) Epsom Salt and Cayenne baths every day (20 min) with scrubbing exfoliating sponge.
    2) 15 parts olive oil, 1 part tea tree oil, 1.5 parts neem tree seed oil-lather ENTIRE body. Sleep in it.
    3) Camp out at night alone from my room and house for 5 days. Use 2 sleeping bags- 2 sets of clothing-one always fresh for the next days use. Coming home every morning to bathe and apply oils.
    4) wash ALL my clothes yes. But, I’m not going to go ape stuff like a lot of other people seem to do with the chemical products and vacuuming on every square inch of their life. If the mites don’t have a HUMAN host for more than 72 hours they DIE! Sure to be safe, give it a little more than 72 hours, but that still about 3-4 days. So to play it safe I’ll do 5 days of the most basic out of contact lifestyle with everything I come into contact with accounted for and washed and my body naturally killing off the mites from a particular natural remedy to come.

    I know everyone is different and everything works different. And believe me, I have felt plenty of the embarrassment and anxiety and shame and regret from having this atrocious pest on me-the same as everybody else. But, I truly believe that with the attitude of optimism, focus, attention to detail (inside and out), RESEARCH, determination, patience, honesty, and opportunity for more self-love, Scabies will leave your body. My heart goes out to everyone suffering from Scabies. You are not alone and you WILL get better. I send out prayers for you to feel more openness and spaciousness in your life, to lift that cramping distress and anxiety that traps us in our own minds and blocks us from feeling free.

    Peace and Love,
    Trevor
97. Tom says:
    October 22, 2010 at 10:22 am

    I got the cheapest permethrin 10 from eBay but I don’t see it for sale there right now. I do see it on google’s shopping. I put a shot glass full. Its containers dual top is about that to measure. I put the shot glass full into a empty Windex glass cleaner container and just mixed it with water. I used this as a bug spray on clothes after washing. And sprayed lightly directly on bites. I sprayed bedding and vehicle seat. I also showered washed with hartzx ultra guard rid flea and tick in the shower according to the directions on the container. The hartz contains phenothrin .2%. do not get it in your eyes. I also have got 20 mule team borax from walmart and am using that as directed as an laundry additive. I have seen fibers emerge from skin under permethrin and am sure to use something qtip tissue to remove them from body when seen. I have had this for 2 years and am feeling not itchy right now.
98. j luck says:
    October 19, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    i have gotten scabies last about late April didn’t notice it until July when i could not sleep because of the itching so bad i got permethtin and lindane and used sulfur bars tea tree oil wahed all clothes and sheets but i always get these small pink pimples like scabies and they go away when i use the sulfur bars but they go away for a week and show up again i don’t not if there scabies i went to see the doctor but i used soap before and then he didn’t see anything i also was told after decades of using theses lotions the mite has been more resistant and the meds have been less effective so i always flip out when i see these little pink dots because they itch but hard to tell if they are scabies how can i tell please help I’m giving up on life!? Please help.
99. deanna says:
    October 17, 2010 at 9:40 pm

    Hi sweetie,I am a mom to 5 grown children and I have 9 grandchildren and I wish I was there to help you. I do not think I would want a boyfriend who did not stick with me in good times and bad times.I think I have scabies but have been to 48 doctors and they do not know squat. I think the best thing to do is wipe your purses down with clorox wipes and spray the inside of your car with maybe lice spray . go vacuum your car out and spray it good. I am just more worried about you, scabies is horrible. It can take a toll emotionally and you need support. Call a feed store and ask them. They would know how to kill scabies because they sell products to kill them on animals.Ivermectin is the only thing I know that kills them but not the eggs.I know if you keep oil on your skin they will suffocate when they hatch. The mom in the above post has it down pat.Find you someone who will stick by you no matter what.
100. deanna says:
     October 17, 2010 at 8:59 pm

     The boy may have had scabies and scratched but as far as looking like cigarette burns it sounds like he got impetigo which some people call the cigarette burn rash ie scar it is a wonder he is alive because that can shut down kidneys if left untreated.I have been to 48 doctors and no one can tell me what it is. I asked to be treated for scabies got Ivermectin, used permethine spelled wrong I assume , dam. doctors should only be paid if they can treat you . I think I picked up impetigo because of scratching and all this started from a bug bite last July. They say impetigo will fade, the scars from it , do you know if he was burned with a cigarette. If not them it is a slang word used for impetigo the cigarette looking burn scar or rash. looks like someone burned you with a cigarette. I have been tested for staph and if I put what I looked like except none on my face it would put the whole physicians in the USA to shame. Best of luck to the boy or man now. The scars should have faded at least most of them.
101. help us all!!! says:
     September 19, 2010 at 12:10 pm

     Hi everyone,

     I am soooo sorry we are all being tortured by this beats called the scabie mite. Its absolutely disgusting! I have become very humble through this experience. And a heck of a housekeeper, I use borax all over..the furniture, the floors what ever,laundry…you name it.

     I did find some great news an I think this might be our ticket to sanity. A lovely herb called cayenne pepper!!! I found out that the Aztec Indians used this herb for healing properties…than in the 1600 hundred a doctor read up on this herb and found it effective on scabies as well as other skin disorders. I thought what the heck, I am going to try it, I had these bumps down by my crotch area. I decided to rub a mixture of Vaseline, sulfur powder from the health food store and pure cayenne pepper. Now folks this burned like crap, but i have been doing this along with taking a hot bath in Epsom salt and cayenne pepper together…oh my god they are running off my body!! it is literally burning them off my skin!!!!! I feel amazing. and not to mention my skin looks tanner ha! …look up the benefits of cayenne pepper. Peace out…
102. lyndy says:
     September 4, 2010 at 6:45 am

     i had scabies it came once, i had no idea what it was it drove me nuts i was up late at night scratching and trying to relive it with icepack which did help
     i found out it was scabies so i used a cream called lyclear you put it on all over and leave it on for 24 hours, this worked well but a month later it came back i did the same thing, used the cream and i used it again like 3 day later to make sure and this time it killed them off for good !!! good luck people.
103. Ms. Itchalot says:
     September 1, 2010 at 2:25 am

     Hi people,

     Let me first just say, i know your irritation if you are dealing with Scabies. It has been driving me nuts for about 2 weeks now. What i have found for temporary relief at night time is calamine lotion. Use with cotton balls dab on effected area then leave on to dry then wear your normal things you would wear to bed and it should cover you till the next morning. But remember i do say temporary. I’m also using a oral antihistamine and a cream the doctor prescribed but in between everything else, you will occasionally still itch so that’s where i use the calamine lotion and everything is starting to clear up.

     Good luck guys
104. Kel says:
     August 23, 2010 at 2:41 am

     My daughter and I were diagnosed with scabies late last yr..we tried the rx’s and it went away for a few months then in late June it came back…the itching is worse and now my mom and sister who live in another household have it as well…my oldest son is itching but my other two kids never seem to have gotten it….we are around the same people daily and yet none of them have seemed to get it as well…we have tried the tea tree oil, coconut oil…lavender and permethrin again and again…even sprayed the house in alcohol and lavender…nothing seems to stop the itching…even tried sulfur..oatmeal…baking soda and other home remedies….my daughter is just turning two and i feel so sorry for her…hopefully something gives because she doesn’t need to go through this!!
105. Itchy says:
     July 15, 2010 at 11:20 am

     I contracted it again. I read on another site about baths of 3 cups of Borax, 2 cups of Epsom Salt, and 2 cups of Peroxide. Make the bath as hot as you can stand and soak for 30 minutes. I also added Neem oil to my lotion. I also used cattle permethrin mixed with equal parts of Vaseline.
     On the cdc’s website it says that they’re hatched and it takes 2 weeks for them to become adults and lay their own eggs. That’s why doctors tell you to use Permethrin and then use it again in 7 days. You’re killing nymphs that can’t breed yet. Follow this rule.
     If you are cured you will still get bumps and itch for a while. If you get the zigzag lines or raised bumps where they’re burrowing, that’s how you know that you’re not cured.
106. doris says:
     July 14, 2010 at 9:27 pm

     I’ve was misdiagnosed at the age of 27. I’m now 42…I am realizing I have scabies. The mites have laid eggs in my scalp – in the “soft” spot on my crown. I may have gotten this when I was a baby. In any case, I have gone to numerous dermatologists and they all said it was sebhorreic dermatitis or psoriasis. I have done research on fungus for over a year, thinking that was the cause. Then, I noticed that sometimes the scabs on my head clear after about a month or two and then new scabs form. This is the hatching of new mites and then they burrow in a new place to lay eggs. About 3 weeks ago, I adopted a regiment of bleach bathing, clove oil and MSM on my scalp and face. I am washing clothes with bleach. I’ll keep posting on my updated condition….some days are better than others. If I pay close attention, I now feel little “bites” that I never noticed before….
107. Logan says:
     June 30, 2010 at 5:41 pm

     This stuff drives you right to the brink of insanity. Two treatments of permethrin cream worked for me. Just make sure ya be very cautious and be sure to wash everything that came into contact with your skin, as reinfection is an overwhelming probability if you don’t do so. Also, if you have it, being intimate is a bad idea. My girlfriend got infected in this way.
108. sharonphillips says:
     June 27, 2010 at 12:19 pm

     shower once a day in dog flea & tick shampoo that has permethrin in it. wash you clothes, sheets, towels, rugs & pillows in HOT water and dry in a HOT dryer. any carpet, mattresses or furniture can be sprayed with flea & tick spray for the home. take 2 (two) benedryl at bedtime for itching…and zyrtec in the mornings. treat everyone in the home, whether they show symptoms or not. quarantine yourselves, if possible for as long as possible…at least 36 hours. good luck to anyone who has this. it’s HORRIBLE!!
109. scabiebaby says:
     June 22, 2010 at 9:45 pm

     Spencer,
     Try Canolia oil 1/2 part with 1/2 part olive oil like Berryg posted on this website. It worked great for me.. Thank you BERRYG
110. Spencer says:
     June 20, 2010 at 4:29 pm

     Please. I beg that if anyone knows how to get rid of scabies fast or at least for a single day tell me. My graduation… It’s this Wednesday. I’m a girl and I am going to wear a dress. .. But the scabies are all over my legs. I don’t want to go looking like a monster. I’ve been to the hospital three times already. Nothing is working. I need help and fast please. If anyone knows anything that can at least alleviate me for a day tell me. I won the fifth place in my school award. I don’t want to miss my graduation but I also don’t want to look like a monster. Please I beg if anyone knows anything please tell me. Thank you
111. scabie2morgellons says:
     June 16, 2010 at 5:06 pm

     BERRYQ,

     I am very thankful for your suggestion and detailed description of your experience. I now know what these ‘critters’ are and can not thank you enough for taking the time to put your feed back on this site. I wrote a very long blog and it did not go through very upsetting it took me forever. I would like to ask BERRYQ if we could be in contact via email you really explained your story.

     To the suffers on this site

     I was fighting scabies for awhile spent countless nights awake in tears. I now know this is not scabies so please refer to BERRYQ last insert on this site for his remedy 50/50 vegetable oil and olive oil. Its worth a try to really know if you have scabies or this horrid creature new to us… take care all I know how bad we suffer and want answers.
112. Ada says:
     June 6, 2010 at 2:27 pm

     Scabies made my life miserable. I had to miss exams, tell everyone I had touched to get checked and explain at length what scabies was, spend my life washing linen and clothes, and spend sleepless nights itching and imagining the mites crawling under my skin, making burrows and laying eggs. Then I had post-scabies syndrome for months, and now I have it AGAIN. What has helped me also is taking TEA TREE OIL baths with lots of oil, it disinfects the skin and kills scabies. Scabies made me DEPRESSED, MISERABLE, AND HAUNTS ME ON A DAILY BASIS. I’ll never forget these moments of pain, endless tears, paranoia and HYSTERIA.
113. allan says:
     May 31, 2010 at 12:06 am

     a boy was left alone in a house infested with mites and he was taken to hospital with severe scabies which covered his body at the age of four. Now in his mid thirties his body resemble that of some one who received cigarette burns. My question is. Does scabies of a severe nature look like cigarette burn scars taking into account the boy is an adult now?
114. Darrell says:
     May 30, 2010 at 10:02 pm

     I am male, 47, single, from a “clean” family, where my brother and I never had so much as a wart, like other little kids had, on their fingers.

     Bought a used bed in Dec 2003, used it for 1.5 yrs without incident. Then moved to a smaller place, May 2005, so used my old twin bed for 2.5 yrs. Moved to current place Nov. 2007 and brought the full size bed out of storage, in my brother’s clean basement, in a brand-new house, into my current residence.

     Had no issues from Nov 2007 thru at least Nov 2009. The only public lodging I stayed in was a nice clean hotel in Chicago, Aug 2008.

     As of Christmas 2009, still no issues. By Feb 1st, 2010, had a “bite” on right wrist. It went down. Began to have bites on both forearms and both thighs, despite never having been in a hot tub (one reported source of scabies infestations) and being celibate since 1997! So it’s not just a sexually transmitted disease.

     For all of Feb and half of March, I thought it was bed bugs, and thus was missing valuable time to treat. After satisfying myself that it was not bedbugs, (which can much more readily be seen than scabies) I went to the doctor, where scabies was diagnosed, (visual only–no scrapings.)

     Used a tube of Permethrin on entire body except scalp, a big mistake. Used entire tube, which is really too much.

     Continued to see new bites, amid the many slow-fading lesions. Doc prescribed 2nd tube of Permethrin with orders to use only on scalp until at least two wks had elapsed, as its absorption rate can poison a person.

     Used on scalp, but never entire body surface. Did use it as a spot treatment on new bites, tho, till it was used up.

     For months now, have been taking at least five long baths weekly, before bed, with borax, which is very soothing and leaves one feeling smooth and not oily, net not dry skinned.

     Have done more laundry in last 3 months than in past 3 years, it seems. Never using a towel twice, etc. The problem is under control, but not totally eradicated.

     A new bite will appear maybe once a week, which I now treat with Tea Tree oil, as the doc won’t prescribe more Permethrin for awhile.

     Life is better, but not 100%. My pillow goes in the freezer every morning, to be pulled out at bedtime. Linens are quarantined in an unused room. The fear that it will return is bad. The hiding of one’s forearms with long sleeves in summer is unbearable.

     72 hrs ago, wrapped the mattress in 3 layers of clear food wrap, and put fresh linens on. The extra foam rubber cushion helps me not feel the stickiness of a plastic coated mattress thru the mattress pad. (The foam rubber thing had been quarantined the entire time, so was just put back into use after the mattress was wrapped.)

     Wish I could be sure the problem was solved. Have also used lice shampoo twice, and would like to move the TV out of the bath zone, back into the living room where it belongs. (I have not spent appreciable time “living” in my living room since Feb 1st.

     Failed to get a part time job waiting tables, as I took myself out of consideration, due to the short-sleeve uniform and my unsightly arms.
115. Jan says:
     May 29, 2010 at 11:00 pm

     Hi…my family has been inflicted with scabies twice in 5 years. what I have found is doctors still believe one treatment of elimite kills them. eliminate was invented in the 1950s. these parasites have had over 60 years to evolve and become resistant.

     and yes it is sad that doctors are treating us like we are crazy. what i have found that works is slow and steady wins the race. it’s not like head lice where one treatment and washing of bedding and your done….well…that’s if you have boys and can cut hair short. Girls are harder…i know.

     first step: get eliminate from your doctor or pediatrician for your family. this decreases their population by about 80%. But you still have them in your skin, deep body fat and environment. don’t plan on getting anymore elimite. most doctors are too afraid to prescribe too much eliminate. a second treatment 10-14 days apart can make you extremely sick and nauseous.

     second step: order sulfur soap online. if you can handle it…do the sulfur ointment but unfortunely for my family…we had severe reactions to the ointment and got sulfur burns..we did test spots and waited…within 10 minutes…we were all on fire. Fortunately we had hydrcortisone 10 cream in the house. We rinsed and put it on our test spots. The rash went away within 5 minutes. But the sulfur soap was mild enough we could use it. So just trade out your regular soap for sulfur soap.

     third step: cover beds in plastics…furniture too..if you can afford to. You can get plastic at your local hardware store fairly priced (paint section is usally the cheapest) or go to target and get vinyl mattress covers for $10-$20 bucks. you will use alot of duck tape if you go the hardware route. order perethrin 10% (martins) and nylar/precor (some type of growth inhibitor..too keep them from laying more eggs in your environment.) Spray bedframes, carpets, molding, furniture and 3 feet up the walls with it….every other weekend.

     fourth step: wash bedding every week using ammonia and borax. Shop around. you can get borax for $3 bucks at target and ammonia for $1.19 at walmart. Also wash all your clothes in it as well. So just replace your wisk/tide with borax detergent and ammonia. No extra money there. Dry everything you can on high heat. Don’t forget to wash pillows in ammonia and borax…dry and cover in plastic. We just used large trash bags for this. cheaper than buying vinyl pillow covers. my kids are older…so I don’t worry about the plastic. Buy be careful if you have young children. Buy the vinyl pillow covers.

     sadly, benedryl, neem lotion and hand santizer is the only things that help the itch. Hand santizer will burn if they are trying to get away and burrow in your skin. But just blow or put a fan on your skin…knowing you are killing the suckers. Plus you are keeping out infection from the feces they leave behind.

     Additional step: you can rake borax detergent and table salt into your carpet as well. vaccuum up excess…so it doesn’t get on your kids.

     In the morning, shower with your sulfur soap. Use hand santizer on your body 40-60% alchohol on body. At night shower with sulfur soap and put neem lotion all over body(3ml-5ml of neem oil to 100 ml of lotion…mix your own). I get non greasy lotion from walgreens for $3 bucks. And ordered neem oil from garden store. Just make sure it is 100% neem oil…with no inert ingredients. Neem lotion kills them too but mostly keeps them from maturing into adults and prevents them for laying more eggs. So the ones that live through the treatment may itch for a couple weeks but will soon die off without reproducing. Put on your pjs on and slip into safe plastic protected bed. Try not to think of it as a bug but just dust mites. It helps. Keep your neem lotion and hand santizer by your night stand. I put both products in disposeable tupperware with lids. So I make enough for all 5 family members to use at their convenience during the night on their night stands. Try to alternate neem lotion and hand santizer…using one too much can make you nauseous.

     Lastly, once you know you have the numbers down. order horse paste (100% ivermectin) ($2.50 per tube)and take the amount for your body weight…no more. Do not double and triple doses on any medication. Doing so… on even over the counter medicines can kill you. Be sensible. For yourself and your family. And never give ivermectin to small children. Just keep giving your kids sulfur soap baths. it is safer. My youngest son is 13 but weighs only 95 lbs. So he doesn’t get ivermectin. Plus he doesn’t have alot of body fat for them to hide and bury in. If you feel leery or unsafe in anyway…don’t do without checking with a physician!

     Ivermectin always seemed to be the turning point for us. We could actually see our body fat lump up under the skin when the ivermectin was working.

     Each time we got them, it took different amounts of time to rid ourselves of it. the first 6 months. the second, two months. It just depends on how long you have had them to begin with.

     And dont forget to treat your animals once a week with ivomec, revolution or heartguard. Once a week for 4-6 weeks. And seperate your animals from your kids and indoor environment if you can. Like a garage or spare bathroom. Check with your vet on how to properly treat your pets if you are scared. Ivomec put on a dog who already has heart worms can kill him. So even be safe with your pets. I couldn’t afford a vet…so I called a vet assistant and pleaded for her help. They often times know as much as a vet. And she helped with everything over the phone telling what to buy from the feed store to even the right suringe to use.

     Sadly, I have never been the type to clean, clean, clean. But I did buy clorox wipes and put ammonia in a squirt bottle and wipe down keyboards, computers, desk, door knobs, stair rails…basically anything you touch regularly. I also bought and new purse/makeup bag since I touch it daily. I also put all my papers like bills…. in microwave a nuked them 30 seconds to minute just to feel safe. Wiped credit cards with ammonia with paper towels. And soaked all the stuffed toys I could not wash like legos in bleach 10 minutes.

     Lastly, try to find the source. hand me down couch, clothes …etc. Also check your garage/attic for mouse droppings or bird nest. and treat your yard in case they are coming from your lawn.

     First time, we got them from a friend who breeded dogs. Second time, we had mice in our attic. We also heard baby birds chirping in attic…so we had our vents covered just to be safe.
116. jjj says:
     May 28, 2010 at 5:01 am

     my boyfriend got them from staying at a friends house, then he came over to my house and he kept itching but he said it was from dry skin. and then i started itching a couple weeks later. i’ve used the permethrin 5% and cleaned everything and got rid of them. & my boyfriend thought he did too, well he didn’t and gave them back to me and ever since then i havn’t been able to get rid of them. i’ve used the cream about 5 more times and even covered my body in bleach and bathed in bleached to the point it started burning. i don’t know what to do.

     every time i try a new treatment, i wash my bedding, vacuum my floors, mattres, and pillows. i wash all of my clothes and never used dirty towels or anything. i’ve even bought several pairs of new flip flops. i don’t know how to clean the seats of my car. I’m thinking that’s how i keep getting them back. it’s either from my car, or my purse. idk how to clean my purse. i’ve switched back and fourth. but i only have two purses. and they are both leather. idk what to do and after reading some of these other stories, i started crying. i’ve had scabies for about 6 months and don’t know how to get rid of it. my boyfriend has now gotten rid of it and REFUSES to see me until i do. it’s been about 3 months since i’ve seen him how do i clean them out of my car and my purse?? please help please!
117. sufferingwith scabies says:
     May 27, 2010 at 1:47 am

     Got diagnosed with Scabies a little over 2 weeks ago. My doctor prescribed me with Hydroxyzine (pills to relieve the itching), Permetherin .5% cream (kill off the mites), and Verdeso foam (to help ease the itching). Did my first Permetherin treatment last week. Today was a week after my first treatment and I will put on the cream for a second time for my second treatment. I’m worried though because today I noticed some new bumps in an area that did not have bumps.(I assume the worst) so I think they might be active mites since they took so long to appear (after my first treatment of Perm); so does this mean that the first treatment was ineffective in killing off the mites? Or were they eggs that hatched after the first treatment?

     And I’ve discovered areas where my rash is with black spots inside the bumps scattered in areas of my arm and leg. What are these? Should I pick them out?

     I’m trying to convince my family members to take the cream for treatment but they refuse to listen to me. None of them had direct skin contact with me, but I was “contageous” for the first couple days returning home (from college) before I was diagnosed/getting treated. Are the chances still high for them contracting this? My boyfriend and I had direct skin contact before I was being treated, and he hasn’t shown any signs/symptoms so I just treated him a week after my first treatment.. so I started my second treatment today, and he started his first.. since I waited to treat him, has this increased my risk of becoming reinfested?

     I don’t know how many loads of laundry I’ve done. But I plan on (with gloves) washing ALL the clothes I packed in my luggage (as I touched/packed them while I was infected) that I’ve returned home with, and I wash my sheets daily, and vacuum the carpet daily, and couch. I always make sure to wear long clothing and socks around the house to prevent my skin from touching less surfaces. I try to wipe hard surfaces down with disinfecting wipes but I’m not sure if this is enough.

     Bumps appeared on my face after I had been diagnosed, and before I did my first Permetherin treatment. Am I allowed to put the Permetherin cream on my face? My doctor had directed for me to put it on the chin down to the feet. Would it be safe to put it on my face? Also my scalp (haven’t felt it been itchy) but should I put the Permetherin on my scalp too?

     I am so frustrated. I’m stuck at home cleaning and worrying, I’ve been dealing with this ugly looking rash, I can’t wear my clothes and it’s so beautiful and warm outside. I feel like such a monster always being covered up. I want to see my friends again and want to get rid of this horrible thing.
118. Jennie says:
     May 22, 2010 at 12:47 am

     My marriage is on the rocks. I am convinced that hubby is delusional about having scabies. That being said, here is our story.

     We stayed in a really shabby hotel room about 2 months ago. It was the last room in town and we either could stay there or sleep in the car, since we have a small child, we chose the motel room. We woke early and left to a better one. We washed when we got in and changed our clothes.

     A few weeks later hubby starts going on about how he is itching. We have treated the whole family multiple times with the cream from the Dr. (appx. 6 times for hubby, 3 or 4 for me, and 2 for our small daughter) I have not seen any rash or marks on any of us, nor do I itch more than the occasional itch from a hair brushing against my skin or something similar. Its definitely NOT a constant itching, and I have no problems sleeping at night. My daughter IMO also doesn’t scratch more often than normal. (hubby watches her like a hawk) He claims that she is. I have asked friends and family to watch us and there opinion is the same as mine. We have spent time in relatives houses and none of them seem to be infected. We also left our home for 10-12 days ( hubby thinks its 10, I think it was longer) and went from hotel room to hotel room, GOOD ones, Best Western or better types. We never stayed more than 2 days in one, and we used the cream the first night and the last night of our trip. We also bagged our clothes and kept dirty in a dirty bag all tied up, and clean in a clean bag. They never touched any furniture unless we were wearing them. We got a rental car, we also sprayed/vacuumed our house and washed ALL the stuff that could be washed before we left and bagged up anything that would fit into a bag. I got a new cheap purse so that it wouldn’t be contaminated, daughter got a new car seat, we all got new shoes (even though they were leather sandles, hubby insisted that they would get in them).

     I am at my wits end. We have seen at least 4 different dr.s one being a dermatologist and another being a wise man who was from Africa and had had many experiences with scabies. They all gave the cream, but I feel as if they were doing it as a just in case.

     I have had lice a few times as a kid, and I remember how that itched. I know if it was anything like that I would be going nuts. But its not like that at all. and my body has no marks or anything on it. Neither does my daughter. Hubby keeps thinking he sees some on him, but I don’t see anything that dosent look like where he was scratching and all of it goes away in a few hours at most. Please post your thoughts.
119. bunyani says:
     May 18, 2010 at 11:49 pm

     hey. now i’m in war with this filthy mites…

     many treatment i seek.. still waiting for the result in the next couples month..
     though… i feel a bit relieved since it seems to me there are no new burrow coming out..
     but im will not lessen the measure to keep attacking this mites with Vaseline, sulfur, permethrin and maybe lindae
120. Itchy says:
     May 3, 2010 at 8:58 pm

     This is how I got rid of Scabies. It’s the cheapest way and the only way I could get rid of them. If you get lazy, you’ll have them for months or years, but if you listen to what I have to say you can be rid of them in about 2-3 weeks. Scabies live a lot longer than 3 days on clothing, don’t believe that one. I had a robe that I hadn’t worn in a month and it re-infected me. It may be the truth about hard surfaces.
     The eggs will hatch every 2 ½ days. People say 3 days, but if you listen to that you’ll never get rid of them. You’ll probably notice new bumps 2 ½ days after the first application. That’s when you need to reapply all the creams, etc. You killed the adults, but the eggs were already under the skin. Now you’re killing the new hatchlings. You need to get rid of them before they lay eggs.
     I had them for 6 months and never passed them on to my kids or husband. After you’ve had it for a while, you’ll know the difference between a regular itch and a scabies itch. You’ll continue to itch for about a month after they’re all dead, but if you don’t have new bumps, then you’re healed. I re-infected myself twice. Once at the doctor’s office, and again with a robe I didn’t wash.
     Shower daily 1-2 times. Use the body wash and shampoo listed below and then cover your body with sulfur lotion. Use all the products at one time. Start the Ivermectin, Permethrin, Sulfur lotion, body wash, and shampoo on the same day. Have no mercy on those little bugs or they’ll ruin your life.
     Avoid shaking hands and hugging people. If you give it to them, they’ll give it right back to you. Tell people that you’ve been working out really hard and your muscles are sore, or tell them you might have poison ivy. That will keep them away for about a month.

     Materials List
     Raid Spider spray – about $5 a can
     Ivermectin – horse wormer 1.87% – about $5 per tube
     Permetherin – Cattle spray 10% – about $10
     Tea Tree Oil Body Wash
     Sulfur Soap – Found at herb store.
     Sulfur – yellow comes from a flower – buy at herb store for about $6.
     Petroleum Jelly
     Favorite Lotion
     Bottle of Tea Tree Oil – Pure is best – $10

     Laundry – Wash bedding daily until you’ve not seen new bumps for at least a week. Wear disposable gloves when stripping beds. If you have a heavy comforter, take if off your bed and have it drycleaned or throw it away, because it needs to be washed daily and if it’s too big, the hot water can’t saturate the layers. I guarantee it’s infested with the scabies. Don’t wear anything twice without washing and drying it including coats and robes. I never had the scabies on my feet so I didn’t have to wash my shoes, but it was winter and I wore socks always. Wash clothing in HOT water and dry on HOT. When putting dirty clothing of infected people in the washer, use disposable gloves. You don’t want anymore bugs than you’ve already got. Moving wet clothing to dryer you don’t have to wear gloves because the dryer will kill the bugs. Use a fresh pair of gloves every day. Use a different pair of gloves to pull clothing out of dryer and fold it. If you don’t you will re-infect yourself and spread it to your family. Keep infected people’s soiled clothing away from other family members clothing in garbage bags. That way you don’t have to wear gloves all the time you’re loading the washer. Don’t put dirty clothing in the baskets that you’ll use for clean clothing. You’re re-infecting yet again.
     I first caught them on my hands. If that’s the place you know that you have them, then don’t touch your bare skin with your hands and keep sulfur lotion on hands at all times.

     Body Lotion – Add Sulfur to body lotion. 1 parts sulfur to 10 parts lotion. Keep this lotion on your body all the time. If you are only infected on your hands, use the lotion everywhere anyway, but put it heavily on your hands and slip a pair of disposable gloves over them. Leave like that as long as you can. If anyone asks, tell them you’re deep moisturizing your hands. It really will do that for you so you’re not lying. You can also rub stinky tea tree oil all over yourself.

     Shampoo – Put favorite shampoo in a small bottle and add tea tree oil or sulfur. Mix and use on hair and neck. Tea tree oil will make hair oily, sulfur dries it out. Either works to get rid of bugs.

     Spider Spray – Spray everything with this stuff. Scabies are in the spider family. Spray mattresses, car seats, steering wheel, carpet next to bed, purse straps, wallet, favorite chair.

     Permetherin – Mix 1 part Permetherin with 1 part petroleum jelly. This mixture is the same as the expensive tubes they prescribe at the doctor’s office. Make sure the original Permetherin was 10%, this makes it 5% when you’re done mixing. Apply this mixture every 2 ½ days. It’s been my experience that the bumps came back every 2 ½ days not every 3 days like the government has on their sites. Preferably at night, it will get all over your clothing. Make sure you wash this off the next morning. You shouldn’t keep this on your body for more than 10 hours.

     Scratching – DO NOT SCRATCH, if you do, clean out fingernails and cut them back. You are just spreading the bugs everywhere.

     Ivermectin – Only use if you can’t get any relief from anything else. I used the Ivermectin and it made my eyes so sensitive to light for about 24 hrs. that I had to wear sunglasses most of the day. If you go this direction, it does work. Take twice the amount you would give a horse that weighs the same as you do. I would not give to children. Take this every 2 ½ days until there are no more bumps. It took me 4 rounds. I think this was the most effective part of my treatment mixed with the sulfur lotion.

     Body Wash – Mix favorite body wash with tea tree oil or use sulfur soap.
121. Lindsey says:
     May 1, 2010 at 1:43 pm

     ***I WOULD NOT GET IVERMECTIN FROM A FEED STORE AND USE IT, A DOCTOR CAN GET YOU AN RX AND IT CAN BE ORDERED OVERSEAS. NEVER TAKE MEDS MADE FOR HORSES OR DOGS***

     I have had scabies for 2months. I did 4 weeks of treatment with Permethrin 5% with ZERO improvement in my skin.

     This is what worked for me:
     20min bath every night with 1 cup Borax / 1 cup Baking Soda
     Sulfur/Vaseline 10% after bath

     All of these can be bought at grocery store.

     I have it everywhere…chest, back, armpits, arms, groin, legs, feet. After 2 days, I saw healing. Not completely healed yet, but its the first time I’ve seen healing.

     This is the routine:
     I washed all clothing, then bagged them and put them away. I only use 2 underwear, 2 sets of socks, 1 change of clothes, 2 sets of PJs (one shirt longsleeve so Vaseline doesnt get on my bedding).

     Make a bath with 1 cup Borax, 1 cup Baking soda(it’s good for irritated skin). When I get in bath I hold my nose and ears and get my hair wet in tub. DONT LET THIS BATH WATER GET IN EYES/MOUTH. I turn on water briefly and get it off my face. Next I wash my hair with sulfur shampoo, put in pony tail for 5min, then rinse in tub. I have exfoliating mits and I GENTLY wash my whole body with the sulfur soap/shampoo. Stay in tub total of 20min(I have stopwatch). Make sure your whole body gets soaked.
     Then I empty tub and take shower. Put conditioner in my hair and wash briefly with normal soap.
     Put on sulfur ointment EVERYWHERE, be careful eyes/mouth duhhhh.
     Leave on ointment until next bath treatment.
     Borax is awesome, look it up on wikapedia…I have been washing my clothes in it, dishes, and cleaning with it also.

     I have been sleeping on a inflatable bed and putting bedding in dryer for 10min before AND after I sleep on it. GOOD LUCK AND DON’T GIVE UP!!!
122. tanya says:
     April 29, 2010 at 7:09 pm

     I have a very long story about my family’s scabies incident. I am happy that I was able to find a non invasive or chemically harsh treatment that worked so well we have not had an episode of it for the past 2 years and i believe that if you follow the natural scabies remedy we found, rather than trying those harsh chemicals you will find relief.
123. barryg says:
     April 29, 2010 at 11:18 am

     My last post was July 2009. I am not 100% clear but are doing pretty good these days. I think another few months and I will be on cloud 9.
     I am now healthier than I have been in years too.

     I want to share with you my secret. I reckon I know how these critters work. My theory is these microscopic critters build there homes from tiny cotton fibers they harvest from your clothes, so a tight clothing will help them flourish. hence these colored fibers. Now note they can’t use polyester, I wear polyester as much as possible. They use our skins own natural enzymes glues the fibers together and build a nest. when they go out to harvest they go to the skin surface, and this explains the itching and sharp pin like pains when they burrow through the skin, or when an egg is extruded. Our skin produces salt and the bodies own defense will be to surround the parasite in some crystals, they can live in these gritty crystals.

     Ok so now here is what is working for me.
     I take slow hot shower to open up the skin pores and gently massage the problem areas. next use a mild shower gel, we don’t want something too strong as it will start to destroy our skins own oils. Rinse off proper. Now your skin will be ready. I use a mixture of cooking oil and olive oil about 50/50, I put it in a spray bottle ready or use it last me about a week. If you want add a few drop eucalyptus or tea tree oil drops its even better olive oil is smelly so a little flavor will make it smell nice too. So while wet apply the oil all over your body hair ears every wear. The critters like creasy areas of your body, you will know what I mean like butt, behind ears in ears, elbows behind knees, breast creases. Massage the oil in, be gentle and take about 5 minutes. Now use a small towel and dry your self all over, be gentle and try not to scrub. Now spend another five minutes to continue massage with your hands and you will start to feel the grit coming out of your skin, collect the grit and rinse it down the skin with little running water. I then rinse out and clean the shower ready for next time. In my room I use a hair drier just to evaporate any surface water. I wait a little time and sense some movement in areas I just rub a little to bring the grit to the surface and just wipe it on a little toilet tissue , which I flush away later.

     I have been doing this for about a month and have almost 99% shifted them from body. I can sleep good at night and sometimes when I feeling the crawling sensations at night I spray a little of my mixture and massage. It seems the oils penetrates the skin enough to loosen the glue so the crystals can’t stick.

     Now for my eye lids, ears and nose areas I use simple Vaseline petroleum jelly use a pure one so as not to irritate the skin, I feel them pop out sometimes, so wipe with a tissue, and massage a little more . I know these things can even jump because at night I have felts the sensations on my skin. Whenever I feel activity I oil up again, then wash and oil up again. The oil does dry my skin out. so once a week I use a proper skin moisturizer after I have dried off.

     I shower twice per day, as soon as I come home from work my clothes go straight into the washing m/c for a maximum wash cycle, mine goes to about 85c. I don’t boil wash any more. don’t forget wash bedding daily. I do one wash cycle per day.

     Listen these things will migrate to safe areas like under finger nails and toes, lips and even into your mouth. I know it’s happened to me. For my scalp, I use the oil but rub a tea spoon of vinegar, it smells for a little while but clears quite quickly so I don’t end up smelling like a chip shop at work.

     ~The final things to note you may notice whenever you touch things like opening a door, pushing a door with fingers, pressing keypad. There will be sharp pin like pains. There are two types to look for. One is a fast prick exit type and pain clears quickly. The second is a sharp prick followed by long burrowing type pain. For the second type I quickly apply the vinegar and rub the oil in. Then I just spray clean object I touched. When I handle food I wear disposable vinyl gloves. I never eat food with my hands. These bugs sense heat, moisture. You know whenever I started washing the dishes, the running water in the sink, was enough to give me crawly sensations on my face and hands. Even making the tea, the hot water steam was enough to excite them. Since I have been doing the oil routine they have stopped almost so ?I know it is working for me. I know its going to take many months and have been battling this for a few years now. I tried to rush and found they just hibernate, So I ended up damaging my skin. take it easy protect your skin and slowly exfoliate these things out, once you got me moving rub the oil in so they can slip out and get smothered. No need to over oil up as you just end up staining all your clothes, bedding, and feeling uncomfortable.

     We are up against some tough creatures here. Oh yeah I found when I used strong things like sulfur or lice shampoos, the movement instantly stopped, makes you feel as if your cured. BUT as soon as the chemical wears off they come out again. If what some the texts out there suggest these creatures in there cocoons can survive for years. I daily vacuum my living area. Lastly to fight from within, I eat a boiled egg sandwich 4 or 5 times per week, daily one orange and one banana. I Always take one greens and carrots with my main meals. To keep the healthy vitamins in my system. Sadly I do smoke but I know I will be even healthier when I stop. You know this healthy food diet my eye site has stopped detraining, I wear specs and things got to the point I could not read the print on the computer screen with out changing specs. Now I am back to my original specs which I have had for the past 20 years and can read the print with the same specs.

     Finally I keep a brush in your car and brush the gear stick, steering wheel, seats before you get in so no new ones will latch onto your clothes or skin. My work area and chair I brush off too.
124. angelica says:
     April 20, 2010 at 11:24 pm

     just got diagnosed! i got it from my job at a senior home. my employer has told me i cant come back to work until i can get a cleared skin scraping. i am on day two. i have faithfully took hot baths with bleach and applied the cream. bagged everything up and am waiting to be scabies free…wish me luck!
125. nette says:
     March 27, 2010 at 2:21 am

     whoever said you cant catch scabies from your dog is a liar..our dog caught a severe case of mange. We tried all the home remedies and potions. after a few months we noticed intense itching and mite bites in patches all over are bodies. So unbearable we could not sleep. We tried all the human medications. And nothing seems to get rid of the mites.

     The medicine we purchased for our dog we noticed he has not been itching and sleeps through the night. He is not fully recovered from mites but the lotion is working.. we decided to use it on ourselves.. I am telling you this dog mange medicine got rid of the intense itching and the bumps and rashes were hardly noticeable the next day..Its called nu-stock…

     I got mine tube off ebay.. I believe this dog mange medicine gets rid of all kinds of mites..If you want relief from scabie mites. I would go with this nu-stock..best relief I have gotten since we caught mites.. We are now able to sleep at night…Hopefully once the dog is fully cured we will be too…
126. carey says:
     March 26, 2010 at 10:06 pm

     After my fourth dose of the Permethrin, insane cleaning rituals and constant sadness and anxiety, I have become completely fed up. My scars aren’t getting any more tolerable, so I said “screw it, I’m going to burn them.”

     I know this sounds barbaric, but the oils and soaks and soaps just aren’t cutting it. Every time I light up a cigarette, I hold the tip as close to the burrow as possible without touching it. OMG so painful, but nothing compared to the itching and shame.

     After that, I put several coats of Sally Hansen Hard as Nails clear nail polish over the burrow areas.
     Guess what? Good-freaking-bye, scabies.

     I don’t recommend it, but I know you’re all sitting out there, frantic and worried, searching for answers and solutions like I was and will continue to. Bless you all, I wish you the best.

     Now maybe I can hold the man I love, as I have not laid a finger on him for months for fear of giving it to him.
127. alex says:
     March 19, 2010 at 9:12 pm

     Heidi,

     My boyfriend did the same thing. He wore his coat when it hadn’t been washed and we still had scabies after that. But there could be many reasons why we still had it. To be safe repeat the whole process again if your family is still experiencing the rash. I’ve done it too many times to count and I understand how much you don’t want to do it again, but it is inevitable.
128. the paranoia is the worst part says:
     March 19, 2010 at 9:05 pm

     I had a friend spend a week sleeping in my day bed, which is like a couch for me and my boyfriend, because it is in the living room. When he was here I noticed he had this weird rash and when I asked about it he said it was poison sumack (don’t know the spelling). We didn’t think much of it. He left (we didn’t change the sheets he slept in) and a few weeks later my boy friend and I noticed we were itching like mad. We had red bumps every where: genitals, armpits, hips, you name it. We sprayed for bed bugs, but then were diagnosed with scabies soon after.

     This is what we did.

     Before you apply the lotion prescribed by your doctor to treat scabies:

     1.) Wear rubber gloves. Place all of your laundry into lastic bags. And I mean all of it. Every thing you touched and walked on. This means- bathroom mats, towels, shoes, oven mitts, pillows, comforters, hats, gloves, coats, EVERY THING. Systematically wash the clothes you want to wear first, because it will take a long time to wash all of your laundry. Change your plastic gloves every time you decide to touch a clean batch of clothes, when you’ve been touching scabies clothes. When the clothes are clean keep them in clean plastic bags until you finish the process of cleaning your house to prepare for the night you apply the lotion. I suggest doing this a few days before the lotion is applied.

     2.) Wash your comforter, sheets, and pillow cases before you sleep in it with the lotion on. Also cover your mattress and pillows in a vinel wrap with a zipper closure. Scabies can live inside your mattress and pillows.

     3.) Vacuum your whole house. Throw away the bag or rise the canister in hot water.

     4.) Disinfect your entire bathroom. Wash the floors, tub, toilet, shower what ever, with something that cleans hard. Do the same for the kitchen.

     5.) Anything you can’t wash, put in a plastic bag, or somewhere you aren’t going to touch it for a long time. Some say 48-72 hours but with my paranoia I haven’t touched some things for weeks.

     Applying the lotion:

     1.) Take a shower. Use clean towels.
     2.) Apply the lotion. When applying be sure to get the lotion on every part of the body including: under the fingernails, in the hair line (all up in it), the belly button, anus, skin folds of the genitals.
     3.) Put on clean clothes (socks recommended) and sleep in a clean bed. Wear the lotion for the maximum time.

     After the hours have passed:

     1.) Take off the clothes you wore to bed and place them in a plastic bag for washing. Do the same for the bedding. If you put the cover over the pillows and mattress you only need to wash the blankets, sheets, and pillow cases.
     2.) Wash off the lotion and put on clean clothes.
     3.) Clean your entire house like you did before the lotion was applied.

     I found it nice to take a hot bath, and then slowly put cool water into it to sooth itching.

     We started trying to cure scabies on January 1st and it is March 19th, and I’m still unsure if I am safe. I haven’t slept in my own bed since this has happened to me for the fear of infecting my family. So I sleep at my boyfriends place. I used Lindane lotion twice and permethrin cream twice. I still have post-scabies marks and I am trying to stay optimistic about being scabies free. But I am not convinced, and I don’t think I will be until my body stops tingling and itching and the marks go away. This is the most horrific and painful experience of my life. And I am not friends with that kid I let sleep on my couch anymore because of this. This mite will bring you to insanity more then once.
129. rene says:
     March 13, 2010 at 1:11 am

     i had got scabies from a friend an she didn’t even inform me until after she left my house an on top of that i was itching all summer until bout october wen they finally went away but it took four doctors just to figure out what they were because they looked liked flea bites because they weren’t around my finger or my toes at fest they started on my legs an the itchin is terrible at night if feels like you have like spiders or fleas crawlin all over you its nasty an uncomfortable an now after 5 months of bein scabie free i think i might be invested again!!!
130. heidi says:
     March 11, 2010 at 11:01 am

     Hi,

     my son brought home a bout of scabies 2 weeks ago we treat ourselves with lyclear (permethrim) and it didn’t work so we used derbac (malathion) think that’s how you spell it but anyway that has worked while we were covered in it i washed clothes, bedding, towels etc.. and sprayed fly spray everywhere i could think of even in shoes well this is the day after we all washed the cream off and my husband just went to the shop and i realized when he came home he put his coat on that had been in the cupboard and i totally forgot all about doing his coat so now as you can imagine we have fallen out now as i worked like a dog yesterday cleaning like Mary Poppins so really i just needed to ask if anyone knows what the chances are of being re-infested with them from this coat bearing in mind he wore it only 12 hrs (if that) prior to this.

     I would be grateful for any feed back

     Thank you
131. Kathy says:
     March 2, 2010 at 9:46 am

     There seems to be quite a few people asking where/how you can get the mites. Honestly all you need to get is one on you. Bad news is that it could be from anywhere. If you try on clothes that someone tried on before you and you pick up one. As they are small enough to walk through the weave of the majority of clothing, it could have been from sitting down on a train seat. This is not meant to scare anyone. But is meant to be an eye opener. Just as with any bug some people will be more likely to end up getting them from just say one, and then some people are naturally resistant and will never get them.

     Getting them does not mean you are dirty, just unlucky. From the date you notice them you could have been infected for as long as 2 months prior or as little as 2 weeks. The time I got them it took about a year to get it all sorted. If I managed to get them again I would get all the creams etc together and go on vacation for 2 weeks so i wouldn’t have to have to clean everything for those 2 weeks. The mites will die off in about 7 days but to make sure I would go for the full 2 weeks. Make sure its to a nice hotel that gets extra stars for cleanliness. I have known people who do this and get their lives back to normal once they come back. If you decide to do this make sure to plan out very well how you will make sure your baggage will be scabie free when you take it down, as you can wear the cream while traveling.

     a few things to remember: From my understanding freezing things for 12- 14hrs still kills the mites and eggs. If you have a freezer, use it. So when you get yourself home from where ever, make sure to put anything you want to use the next day in the freezer. Include: Jackets, SHOES, work clothes etc that cannot be washed day in/out. Bag the stuff you don’t want to or cant wash. Put the bag off to the side for 2 weeks to make sure that the scabies have died. Use an iron with steam (when you can) on the bed and all furniture before you use the scabie sprays as it will help kill whatever is living there.

     DO NOT USE an iron on anything that has MEMORY foam in it as it will probably damage it. As scabies are microscopic you can use regular large plastic garbage bags (taped together with) on your bed under your sheets as an inexpensive mattress cover. This will help keep the scabies from moving back from the mattress and through the sheets onto you. Remember scabies are tiny and can be on something as small as a hair. So make sure you are aware of where you touch or what can be touching you in your home.

     And worst thing is that most doctors etc are not going to be anything near sympathetic.

     Good luck everyone
132. John says:
     February 24, 2010 at 9:25 pm

     To anyone with scabies………….Please Listen to me, go to the food store right now and get yourself some tea tree oil . Make sure you get 100% not 20%. Scrath all the areas for the last time and apply the oil with a dropper, sit back and relax, your on your way to a scabie free life- I did not relize that I was living with this for so long.(1 year) I thought iI just had dry skin.

     The tea tree oil will kill the mites, you should also take a bath in epson salt for 20 min.(3 times a week) You should always see your doctor but this is a safe way to rid the critters, I also went to the nature store and bought NEEM oil which kills the mites. Good Luck and I hope this helps you. You should also put 20 drops into the bath tub and bathe in this mixture for a couple of weeks it will soak into every pore on your body and rid the mites.
133. M says:
     February 24, 2010 at 4:18 pm

     Tea Tree Oil!!!!
134. Madilynne says:
     February 22, 2010 at 11:25 pm

     I understand that you get scabies from close prolonged contact with an infected person. But what i am unclear about it HOW does the infected person get scabies? Me, my brother, and sister all have these mites and I’m wondering if the mites just magically manifest out of no where or what?

     Thank You!
     The Infected
135. passion says:
     February 13, 2010 at 7:37 pm

     my son got a rash on his forearm about a wk or two before xmas. he was itching all the time. a few wks later i then found a bump on my wrist when popped a watery substance drained. over the wks me, my 2 yr old n my husband been itching every night n finding bites all over our bodies. (arms, wrists, legs, back, stomach, feet) just everywhere.

     after doin 2 mnths of research online to only find out that it was scabies. i finally took my 2yr old n myself to the e.r after being so overwhelmed n fed up with the itching n spreading every night. they prescribed the permethrin 5% cream. after showering my family applied it the same night.my husband slept but me n my son was up all night still itching.i had to giv him some meds to make him go to sleep, i knew he was suffering from the itching n as a mother i cant take seeing that. idk if the cream was suppose to make me feel like that bt my whole body was BURNING!

     y do the doctors prescribe you a med that only has the same side effects as wut yur trying to get rid of ?!. i knew that the cream would cause itching,burning,redness etc. but the pain was so intense from the burning. the burning only made me want to itch more n the more i itched the redness n swelling came with it. the doc said to use the cream for one night n then if needed to repeat 2-3 days later.from that experience i feel like the cream was working bt it was so intense it makes me not want to use it again..i used the cream thursday.today is saturday, my family isnt itching as much bt seems to be breaking out more n finding more bites everywhere…..does this mean that i still have live mites eating us up ?!….

     or are we having a reaction to the cream ?…. should i use the cream a few days in a row ?… i have been washing everything, vacuuming, spraying, i even got rid of my 2 dogs because of being paranoid. after reading hundreds of comments i feel like im never going to get rid of this..this has been going on for about 2-3 mnths.i just cant imagine fighting this for more mnths or even years………… please somebody help me…………

     i also want to add that soaking in the tub with hot water (hot as you can stand) using the oatmeal baths help sooth n mild the itching, i use it for my son. or you can use baking soda/ or cornstarch n soak for approx 30 minutes (or longer), it takes the itching away for about several hrs….
136. Erin says:
     February 11, 2010 at 7:26 am

     I have had scabies three times within the past two years and each time I’ve contracted it from trying on clothes at the mall, specifically American Eagle and Express. The first time I got it was miserable and I had no idea why my skin was itching for three months straight. The second two times however my skin didn’t itch at all and the burrows were strictly limited to my legs. Are certain people more susceptible to scabies? I mean I am a very hygienic person as I’m sure everyone else is. What is with these parasites!!
137. Peter says:
     February 10, 2010 at 6:07 am

     This was pretty easy to clear up for me. I think there’s a lot of mis-information and scare mongering on here. Don’t get me wrong, having these mites was hell for me, but once positively identified progress has been brilliant.

     I’m a guy in my mid twenties. I cleaned my house, but just my room would have sufficed, and I’ve been changing my bedsheets every 3 days. I used the 5% permethrin cream which you can pick up without prescription in the uk. Since then the itching has gone down so much I can get a good nights sleep and my skin is improving everyday.

     Of course, I’m still itching a bit, and a few new red bumps are forming but this is a natural post-scabies reaction. To be safe I’ve been applying tea tree cream I got from Holland & Barrett which seems to not only do my skin a lot of good, but it soothes and helps the itching stop. I will apply the permethrin skin again when a week has gone by since the initial application, again to be sure. I have also been drinking a bit of sulfur (completely safe) each day and taking flaxseed oil (again from Holland & Barrett) but I think all of this was actually unnecessary.

     I find really hot showers to feel so nice while I’ve had this!
138. buggered up says:
     February 8, 2010 at 4:33 pm

     Back again. It has now been 7 months. Bleach bath for my husband did not end up working. We have now run clean out of ideas. We are out of permethrin cream – we went through 3 of those. Last round of Stromectil did nothing. We have tried showering with lice shampoo. Doesn’t seem to do anything at all. Still using Neem and Tea Tree Oil (soaps this time). Still washing washing washing…spraying things with lice spray that has permethrin in it. I come back here hoping against hope that someone has found a “cure” but I can see that some people get cured with permehtrin the first time around and some of us seem to have bugs with immunities. This is really taxing. I TRULY WISH a dermatologist would read this site and give advice.
139. simone says:
     January 27, 2010 at 8:16 pm

     To Catherine….It saddens me to hear about your grand daughter,

     I eased my itching with neem oil, a few drops of tea tree oil, lavender oil, and eucalyptus oil, if u can find peppermint also a few drops, easy on the peppermint to much you’ll feel it. Then add olive oil as a base. It helped me a lot with the itchiness. On sores I melted Vaseline and honey, mixed in the neem oil.. heard that one and it helped on problem areas. hope this helps
140. simone says:
     January 27, 2010 at 1:43 am

     Guess What!! I’m back too…tried every treatment, including essential oils..I now have a collection. I haven’t got rid of them..this is 10 months now and I’ m starting to get worried. Husband doesn’t have them… thankgoodness for separate beds. All my marks are gone but I still feel them.. so when | put listerene on skin the black tiny babies pop up..just when I think they’re gone then a whole new generation appears. I have everything in plastic bins. What helps me sleep better is puttin arm & hammer washin soda on plastic cover then sheets.. my head was itchy so I also put a bounce sheet on top of pillow, I don’t think they like it. but my head didn’t itch as much. I’m still on the oils and sulfur soap with arm and hammer soap..now | will try the windex and DE treatment…still cleanin like a mad women and using borax..boiling clothes first as the front load washers are useless for mites. will be posting an update later…
141. Catherine says:
     January 21, 2010 at 10:36 am

     Whole family has scabies…First week in December, I took in a mother and her two grown daughters (15, 18) for a few days as they had no electical power in their home. On the 2nd and last day of their stay I overheard them talk about a parasite that was making them itch like mad…I walked into my bedroom and asked why they hadn’t disclosed this to me. The mother brushed it off as being simple flea bites. Of course I was furious, and no longer wanted them in my home. These ladies appeared clean and hygienic. WRONG! They did not bathe during those two days, even though I provided every possible bath luxury. Combined, these women weighed a whopping 927 lbs…sleeping on MY king size bad, and lounging on my sectional sofa. T

     hat is a tremendous amount of filth and parasite, not a normal situation…A few days after that, she called & said that she had finally seen a dr and was now being treated for flea bites and needed to borrow money to purchase the meds. I asked her wht medicines she was given, and of course thinking I wouldnt know wht they were for, she ticked off the list….permethrin, cortisone and ivermectin pills…I really really HATE her for knowingly bringing this infestation to my home and family. I have watched my 18 month old granddaughter scream in pain from the itching from the scabies that covered her little body from head to toe…last week I spent 300.00 professionally cleaning my sofa and two mattresses.

     Her pediatrician advised me to do another cleaning in 5 days, another 300 bucks. I am seriously thinking of just throwing them away. Yesterday morning is now the worst…As I brushed my teeth, I noticed my lips felt VERY chapped, dry and felt leather like, I looked closer in the mirror and I noticed bumps all along my lipline and all over my chin and above my lips as well. I cannot begin to tell you how this feels, I am sick to my stomach (can these buggers live inside the body????)

     I don’t want to eat and just dont know if its possible that scabies is now on my face n lips…I did not have a bad outbreak on my body other than on my right foot which btw has been numb for two weeks now…PLEASE someone tell me what I can do to treat my face and about the numbness on my right foot…I have followed the 2 treatments with permethrin. I have everyone’s posts and I cannot fathom suffering this agony for another month. My prayers are with you who suffer this infestation..
142. cleaver says:
     January 21, 2010 at 12:03 am

     I’ve read almost all the sights on Scabies!!! I was infested with back in January 2009 and passed on to my younger son. I didn’t know what this was. His out break was worst then mine so I took him to the Dr. and he informed me that it was ezecma.. I knew it was not because I had passed it on to him… I kept reading the reviews on this forum and I made another appointment with the doctor and asked her to please give us the permethrin… We are now in the third.

     I applied our second application on Friday and today I itch… I do not have the bumps, I just can feel them crawling in my skin… On the last application I did not apply to hair and I know they have traveled to my scalp…. This is not good!! Washing is a bear, cleaning is hard to stay on top of when you have to run the sweeper daily and remove sheets… If there is anyone who can suggest anything to help please send a comment….
143. brown says:
     January 13, 2010 at 1:49 am

     i have no medical what kind of cream can i get to get rid of this mess ? where can i buy it and how much ?
144. Andrew says:
     January 11, 2010 at 9:05 pm

     This was funny at the time-
     My mate Ben got scabies really bad.He couldnt get rid of them.But in the last week he texted me saying “Right now i love having scabies,when i itch,its like the best scratch ive given myself!It feels so good!”
     I couldnt stop laughing.
145. buggered up says:
     January 11, 2010 at 2:33 pm

     I am back. Still have them. Husband now has them, too. I did a second round of Stromectal…he did his first. Permethrin is not working although we keep trying.

     We only get so far with trying literally everything everyone has recommended here. Nothing, I mean nothing, is getting rid of them completely. I am down to having a few patches but they never go away completely no matter what I do. As you can see from my past posts, I have tried everything here except the bleach bath which scares me. But my husband is off right now to do that. I have had many allergic reactions to things I have tried …

     I will say that Bactine continues to help a great deal to stop the itching and make those nasty spots go away. I thought it might also actually be killing them… but now I don’t think so. I don’t get the burrows anymore but I have many bites.

     The doctor is stumped. Today, I will go and buy ANOTHER whole new set of bedding so that I can wash my bedding every single day. I have SO MUCH laundry to do now and it takes 2-3 loads to wash all my bedding that I need to have yet another set (I have 2 already). I cannot keep up with the laundry. (Hot water-every stitch of clothing we wear every day—-long hot dryer, too).

     Although some of you say you regret reading the posts from those of us who cannot get rid of this-you NEEDTO KNOW IT – because I will tell you, the doctors will treat you like you are insane. Most will tell you that you have bedbugs because (as they quote to me) “we see A LOT of that.”

     My husband and I and the rest of my family who all live in different states have been to many doctors. There are no more answers and I end up resorting to whatever I can find. I got sulfur cream on the Internet. Didn’t work. My sister tried All-Stop. Didn’t work. My brother tireds Dermasil or something…he still has it. We have ALL done stromectal, permethrin, too.

     I’ll see how the bleach bath goes for my hubby. I am very worried about doing that but I am so full of pestisides at this point-what’s another chemical??? (yeah, right)
146. scabied_up says:
     January 9, 2010 at 3:35 pm

     I haven’t been formally diagnosed with scabies but I do believe I have them. My sisters family had them years ago and I have all the signs including my children who have time between myself and my ex (separate houses) – and her boyfriends children have itching. On the ankles, wrists, butt, hips.. So I’ve read about the home remedy treatments on the internet including what people have done on this site. I’ve learned that doctors will usually prescribe permethrin which will contain 5 percent to kill scabies. It’s the same pesticide that is used for lice but in lice it’s around 2 percent that is used (or maybe 1 percent).

     Apparently the scabie mite is becoming progressively resistant to permethrin? That had me concerned – as in I’m helping create a super bug that’s resistant to thermonuclear war. There’s also lindane that has been linked to a number of deaths so I’m definitely staying away from that. Then there’s also Ivermectin which is a dewormer for horses but I’ve read that it works for scabies except that I guess there have been no clinical studies or tests. It’s also something that you ingest and that can be scary. I would be very cool if it did work for sure because it would be a 100 percent coverage treatment. But I think someone in this forum had said it kills only the adult mites and the eggs remain safe from it until hatched. Of course there’s all the washing of bedding, carpets, car interiors, keyboards etc. and using permethrin spray on places you can’t wash

     . The thing I used was neem seed oil mixed with tea tree oil and olive oil. The olive oil is basically for moisturizing (or maybe to disquise the torrent smell of the neem seed). Tea tree is some sort of a “—-cide” type of oil but it won’t kill the scabie mite. I hear it’s mostly for the itching – which can be good because you don’t want to scratch and spread these things. Supposedly the neem oil is the one that actually kills the mites and they don’t become resistant to it either. I’m still applying the treatment so I can’t say for sure if it works but I think it is. I basically did 1 oz of neem with 2 oz of tea tree and filled the rest of an 8 oz bottle with olive oil – from the beauty section. I’ve also heard that 10 percent sulpher is another cure and has been used for thousands of years or at least a couple of thousand. Anymore than 10 percent and I think your body is going to react pretty bad to it. I read on this forum about how people would use it and feel the worst feeling because they figured the mite was doing its last hurrah and dying in a fit of rage – digging a path of destruction – but dying. I used it from head to toe and after 3 hours, I had that feeling too but it was everywhere.

     I don’t think I have the mites everywhere. I couldn’t take it any longer and I had to shower and wash it off. I could feel that it was actually burning me. My more sensitive parts of skin like my stomach were red and it burned when the water was hitting it. It felt like the water was causing a bit of a chemical reaction. Since then I’ve used it only in some areas like my ankes where it didn’t bother me. It’s a sulpher cream that has 10 percent sulpher. It’s the least expensive of possible solutions and supposedly safe even for pregant women but don’t take my word for it. Please do research. But in my experience I don’t think the feeling is because the mites are dying and burrowing like mad…I think it’s the reaction of the skin to sulpher -

     just an opinion though. It problaby kills them but over time. I also bought this stuff from “all stop” and have no idea if it’s working at all. It’s a company on the internet that claims this stuff will kill the scabies with natural components. For all I know they rebottled windex and called it mitactin skin spray. Not trying to put the company down…just haven’t heard any others talk about it so it’s purely me testing it out on my own. I started treating this about 6 days ago with these different items and kind of alternating between them (neem oil mixture, sulpher ointment, and the all stop stuff). Just wanted to give my own experience so far.
147. Heather says:
     January 3, 2010 at 5:11 pm

     My son has had a rash for 2 months and he lives in a place that is not that clean. He has been staying at my house to help clear up the possible scabies that he has and hopefully we will not get it too. He has been told it is scabies and that it is not scabies and will finally get to see a dermatologist at the end of January and hopefully a correct diagnosis – completely stupid. This is what is working so far.

     The whole family needs to do this at the same time – even if they are not itching and have no signs. It takes up to 6 weeks to show signs of scabies.

     The Permethrin cream needs to be applied all over your body. The bottom of your feet and hands, on and under the toe nails and finger nails, in every crack and orifice of the body including the genitals and belly button and up to the hair line. This needs to be done before bed and then go to sleep and wash off after 10 to 12 hours. It is best to take a prescription meds at night that will knock you out and take care of the itching. Your dr will know what to prescribe. They are so strong that my son will sleep for 12 hours and he weights 200 lbs. This will need to be repeated every 7 days or so they say. He is going to do it every 3 days. There is no point in using the cream unless this way as it will only kill the mites that it touches.

     Don’t use this cream everyday. It is better to kill the mites as they lay their eggs every week then to have them become resistant to the cream.

     Every morning he takes a salt water bath – about 1/2 to 1 cup to a full bathtub. He soaks for 15 minutes, quick shower and then applies vaseline. This has really helped. His sores are virtually gone. The salt water cleans the wounds and helps to stop infection. The vaseline is great for moisturizing and I believe does not allow the mites to get oxygen. It has really helped with the itching. Then you need to take Benedryl all day long as needed to help with the itching. Stopping the itching will help to prevent open sores and infections and is very important.

     The term the 7 year itch came from Scabies. The itching can continue for a long time (even years) after the mites are gone. That is why it is so important to keep treating the itching with the salt water, vaseline, Benadryl or whatever anti itch stuff works for you. The itching is an allergy to the dead mites and eggs that are left under the skin

     We are doing all the cleaning stuff that has been discussed as well and if needed will work on some of the other suggestions. But what he is doing seems to be really improving things, especially the itching.
148. tiredoftheitch says:
     December 28, 2009 at 4:32 am

     This is the second time around for me. Last time, I simply read. this time I will respond. I have a theory that the people you sleep with/live with who apparently don’t get them from you are simply just not allergic to them. I think they do have them, just aren’t itchy because they aren’t having an allergic reaction.

     Last time, the lice shampoo thing worked. This time, no such luck. I have gone to putting bleach in the bath as well as tea tree oil in the bath and on my spots. By the way… it burns on the sores… so be prepared for that. I doubt pure bleach on an open sore would burn any less than the tea tree oil does. I also use olive oil at night. I tried the ivermectin horse paste, and it didn’t seem to do anything for me. I can’t find neem oil anywhere locally. I also did not find sulpher soap locally , I suppose I will have to order them online.

     The bleach does knock them back. I think one almost needs an internal and external combined method to get rid of the hard cases… They only live in the skin to lay eggs and as youngsters… they mate out on the surface. I’m thinking, if she lays an egg a day, they are going to hatch out daily! So the “putting the cream on once and then a week later” stuff may not catch all the things. I sure am leery of using pesticides very much… I already had breast cancer 3 years ago. I don’t care to go through anything else like that again.
149. Losing my mind says:
     December 26, 2009 at 7:16 pm

     Ugh i feel the same way with the whole regret reading the people who have suffered for many many years, it freaks me out now because i couldn’t stand having this for any more months let alone years! It’s also giving me mood swings, and making life really completely suck. Couldn’t even be happy for Christmas or anything anymore and i’m so paranoid of going out places just in case i give it to someone or reinfect myself worse than i already am. And i hate when your on medication and you think your cured and then you see another small rash appearing and your like ‘here it goes again’
150. I want to commit scabie suicide. says:
     December 18, 2009 at 6:33 pm

     WELL…
     I have used 4 tubes of bloody cream and three box’s of bloody lotion on my hair and all I can say is I AM ITCHY!!!!
     this is going to be the death of me.

     I truly regret reading all these stories of people having scabies for 7 years!?
     What am I going to do. 7 years! I LIKE WEARING NICE CLOTHES

     Please please please please please leave my body

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