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its kind of different than a normal itch (more like something between an itch and a sting sensation) sometimes i just get a small pimple from the bite but once in a while its like a purple sore.
At first i thought it was head lice however of late the whole body itches. Please send a reply if this is or is likely scabies.
PS. my bed cost a fortune; is there a way to treat that so they wont return?
Please advise me,
Thanks all!
I’m in middle school and i have had scabbies since the beginning of the school year in September and have had it all winter.
My mom thought it was a winter rash, but then she got a call home from school and i had to be taken home and this was all the way in February so we went to the doctor and the first time i went she said it looked nothing like scabies and we still needed to know in order for me to go to school so we went back the next day and the new doctor took one look at my body and said you could tell right away!
We were upset with the other doctor! So then i went back to school. And everyone looked at me like a monster it was an upsetting time because everyone is always looking at my skin. My hands cleared up a little bit but then i started getting worse.
Me, my dad, and my mom continue to itch and were going “CRAZY” with all this itching. Then one day me and my two cousins went in a hot tub it really helped and smoothed out my skin! I’m not cleared up yet but it was still nice to have some of the itch stop and for me to finally able to get some sleep. Because getting no sleep on school nights is not fun especially having to wake up the next day!!
It is depressing because its on your body where everyone can see it and some people just don’t want to be around you, and not getting sleep and knowing that you gave it to someone got me really upset cause i wouldn’t even wish this on someone that i don’t like no one should have to go threw this!!
Also if you go to the doctor and they give you ( permethrin cream,5%* *w/w ) and they say you can do it twice. You will need it “ALOT” more than just twice you will have to keep on putting more and more and more on cause the itch is insane and annoying!!!
I stayed at a Motel 6 in Vancouver, WA on January 19 and within 2 weeks I had scabies so bad that the dr. put me on prednasone (sp). I did the Permetherin cream, cleaned clothes on hot water, and have been fairly diligent about everything. I wasn’t told though they can get under the fingernails and to put the cream there. I don’t know if I’m cured since It’s only been a week and a half since I used the cream. I know the swelling on my elbows went down because of the prednasone.
I’m positive I got this from the motel because I have been reading about it on the net. They tell people to take off the bedspread since they don’t get washed (one person had been a manager at Motel 6) every 6 months or so. Also the fact that I got it on my arms where they layed on top of the bedspread makes me even more sure that’s where I got it. Never had it before and luckily my husband and I don’t share a bed because of my insomnia so maybe he won’t get it but I’ve read it takes men longer for it to manifest. Maybe because they have thicker skin, not sure.
I read that at any motel take off the bedspread. I’m going one step further and going to try not to stay in one anymore. We usually stay in very nice hotels but that night we were exhausted and picked this one.
Just a little info that might help people know where they’re contracted scabies.
To burrow queen: This may not be scabies, but rather Morgellons disease also referred to as Morgellons syndrome. This is a condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations; finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores).
It sounds like you have it completely……little hanging thingies, that is what they are, they are like fibers and they hang, i just read about them yesterday,,,,, try going to a health food store and getting some sulfur and neem oil , tea tree oil and some vaseline, mixing them all. I put it all over my body, everywhere and do it daily, leaving it on my body over night for a week.
BEFORE you try this, make SURE to check with a doctor. Check with your health food store and see what they say about it.
Please post back and let us know what you find out.
My boyfriend took me to the Days Inn, in Flattwoods for Valentine’s Day! This is where I think I got infected with scabies. I went to the doctor and she gave me a prescription for that prethine, or however you spell it. I followed the directions. Then I washed my sheets, clothes, pillows, and threw out my rug. Should I have washed my floor, my shoes, and more items. Also I popped a few, thinking they were pimples after I had done the treatment. Does this mean I will be reinfected. Nobody thinks it’s that severe, but I hate this, and just want it to be over with. Any help is appreciated.
I just wanted to let anyone know about buying an air-mattress and not using your regular bed while you have this. The bed is a constant source of reinfestation. If you don’t want to use an air mattress, then cover your bed in heavy plastic and leave no openings for the mite to burrow into and out of your bed. Pillows need to be covered in heavy plastic or change your pillows frequently or boil them. Also, boil your bedclothes and anything you think is infested with mites. Sometimes the washer and drier doesn’t kill the mites and eggs. Be careful of getting reinfested from computer keyboards, computer mouse, cell phones, regular land line phones, remote controls, keys, wallets, purses, shoes, etc.
I’m young and I had scabies. At first, I didn’t know if it was scabies are not because these doctors I went to were so stupid, and said it was just an allergy. I started taking some medicine, but it was only getting worse because it wasn’t the right medicine. I kept scratching and scratching. During school, I can not even think straight or write because the itching really came from my hands. At night or when I took a shower, it was the most painful thing ever. I couldn’t sleep or do anything.Then, I went to the doctors again and this time, a smart doctor told me right then and there, that it was scabies. He gave me some medication and when I took it the first day, I stopped scratching and then it went away.
The only thing I have now is marks on my body for scratching so much. I feel so bad for people that haves scabies and I just want to cry, because I only had mine for like 5 weeks, and people had, had this for years. I just thank God for healing me and hope you guys will get healed. Just make sure you wash your sheets everyday, wash cloths, and disinfect EVERYTHING. Even at school and cheer leading when I figured out it was scabies, I tried not to talk to anyone and just not let people touch me. I didn’t give it 2 anybody though…
Deep-heat muscle rub works on burrows-I tried EVERYTHING on my scabies-patch and this was the only effective treatment I could find. Vaseline is certainly very effective and also gentle enough to use all over the body(!). Mites eat skin cells so exfoliate.”I am My own person” is the mantra you could try too; scabies is apparently meant to be an indication that someone or something is getting “under your skin”.I really feel for the people getting depressed about the state of their skin-remember you are never alone with your problem, god bless you.
I just noticed about a week ago that I had scabies. I thought it was flea bites because I slept with one of my puppies the other night. I did some research on the computer and found out it was not flea bites, it was scabies. Here is what I did and it seems to be helping. I went to Wal-Mart and bought some lice shampoo and put it all over my body, let it set for 10 minutes, filled the bathtub up with almost straight hot water and sat in there. Then I went and got bleach and rubbed it all over and got back in the tub. The bleach burns real bad but it seems to be working. I am going to do the same thing again. Also I have been using alcohol in them. They seem to be going away.
When doing laundry soak your clothes for about an hour or more. This will drown the mites. Use only hot water, no cold water (that includes the rinse cycle). Use 20 Mule Team Borax in your laundry. This will help kill the mites and eggs. I hope this helps someone.
I think i just got scabies. it’s all around my stomach area. I’m not sure if it’s scabies. it started off like a dot the it grew as big as a mosquito bite. it has pus and it’s extremely itchy. i get like 5 new ones each day and going nuts. I decided to fumigate my room and take scabies medicine and hopefully it works. cross my fingers and pray too.
I just found out yesterday that I have scabies and I’m 26 weeks pregnant. The doctors say that they can’t give me the usual medicine that they give everyone else so he wrote me a prescription for NIX (yes, the lice treatment) Has anyone else ever heard tell of using NIX to treat scabies?
Scabies is the worst thing in the world. i have been plagued for months. I have been a recluse, avoiding people. I have become paranoid… who gave it me and who will i give it to… i am now on medication for depression and honestly, nearing the end of my patience with it. Washing constantly, heating on full power to dry clothes… can’t sleep… costing me a fortune in creams… just never seems to end. It’s causing tension in my relationships, family etc… My housemate doesn’t have it and doesn’t know i do. I just cant risk the stigma. i am so out of steam. Never thought such a simple thing could cause such misery. Peace and strength to all those fighting the fight.
my daughter has only now been diagnosed with scabies after 4 months of hospital and surgery trips as they kept saying she is having an allergic reaction to something but they dont know what as you can imagine i tried changing everything from washing powder to giving away my staff dog only to find months later she had scabies they give me a cream to use overnight called dermac but no joy poor girl treatment did not work so back to doc….. when will it end
so i now just bought some sulphur powder, some vaseline, some neem oil and some tea tree oil. I have wrapped my bed and pillows in plastic and wipe everything in my bedroom down with bleach at least 4 times a day. I am bathing twice a day and boiling my bedding and worn clothes daily. I can’t fight this any more aggressively! Will let you know how i get on in a week or so!
Has anyone who successfully ridded themselves of the scabies figured out a way to get rid of the scars/marks/blemishes left behind? I have a lot of scabie blemishes (especially on my abdomen).
To the person who has a husband that can get them off your husbands feet wash his shoes in hot water and hot drier every day i had them on my feet more than anywhere else i started washing and drying my shoes and it got better but have to tape dryer door closed.
Also long soaks in salt bath followed by alcohol rinse and 2 benadryl will help get some sleep i took tv into the bathroom with me and reheated water a couple times about an hour but it is worth it and the alcohol is cheep i used about a half cup of salt. this is also cheep fixes for good nights sleep but helps from getting added skin infections.
I am wondering if maybe I have had scabies for years and not known it. I have always (in the last years) had INTENSE itching in my thighs only at night when I’m trying to sleep. Its so bad i bought itching lotions to keep next to the bed. i also have woken up digging my nails into my legs itching. its been a few weeks now.
The reason i even came across this idea was because I have this weird red round rash on my stomach. theres a tiny dot like from a bite. the rash is spreading up in a curvy line. its much longer and more prominent than the pictures i have seen on the net. cant really find any good pictures. i will have to send one here.
it doesn’t really itch, unless i touch it. today i have watched this line extend itself like an inch and a half! seems to be more rashes showing up on stomach. a couple red dots. i also have 3 raised dots on my hand, between thumb and wrist.
I am worried to death. was thinking brown recluse spider bite at first. then reading about this and the crazy itching was thinking.. maybe i have had it for a long time. but would it only be in my thighs? and now this rash. i am afraid to see what it looks like in the morning.
i dont have a dr so the only place i can go tomorrow is a walgreens clinic. hope they arent a waste of time.. :-S
interested in these (safe) home remedies as i am not insured
the itching is due to allergic reaction from these insects
for a good night sleep, cetirizin (anti-allergy med) did miracles for the itches (the symptoms)
my doc gave me benzyl benzoate (one treatment) followed by eurax cream (two treatments) … i just applied the 2nd treatment …
im going to get some spray for the furniture to kill these insects
its kind of depressing to see that many on the posters have (chronic) scabies ? as far as i know, some medicines have success rate that varies from 50-98% depending on the type of medicine … also scabies live out of the body for 48 hours, not 20 days or so ( again, this is as far as i know)
good luck to all the sufferers. i feel your (and my) pain.
I wanted to ask anyone if they know what to put on the sofa’s to get reed of these scabies. my little girl has had them for almost 3 months now and I have put the cream on her 4 times already but she still has them is there something I can put on the sofa’s in case they are all over the sofa’s or carpet.
I myself have had scabies. Not once but twice. The first time I was 16 and they were just on my hands. The second time I was 8 months pregnant and got them from my niece. I had to put Lindane location on me. That is a really bad chemical they don’t even use it no more cause it was causing birth defects. I don’t understand why it took some people months to get rid of it when mine was gone in one month.
If you have scabies this is what you do:
1. Take a shower and clean your body good. Apply the lotion all over your body especially in the folds of your body.
2.Take all your linen,pillows,and clothes and wash them in hot water. Dry in hot.
3.Vacuum your whole house and your bed. You can even iron your bed to make sure you kill whats left on there. You can put a plastic bag over your pillow so you don’t have to keep washing it. You can also pick out a weeks worth of clothes and linen so you don’t have to keep washing different clothes all the time. That way you can wash the clothes every 4days.
4.If you have any stuffed animals or extra pillows your can live with out for about a month stick them in a black trash bag tie it up and put a storage area.
5.Repeat steps 1-3 for 1 month and they should be gone.
Tasa
Please don’t bleach your body anymore. You are only going to make your skin worse. Soak in a Oatmeal bath. There is also this shampoo and location they have in the baby section called Aveeno. Its the best you’ll ever use.
If you don’t want to use this brand, go for a tear-free, soap-free wash and shampoo that contains natural oat extract blended into a rich lathering cleanser.
Elizabeth: you will need to buy the painter’s plastic and apply on the sofa, and ensure that all seems are duct taped down. Or do not use this sofa while you have scabies. You can sprinkle 20 Mule Team Borax into the carpets and then vacuum it up in a week and then reapply. Or pull up the carpets and put down hard wood flooring, or ceramic flooring, etc. Other things you can use as an environmental spray is epsom salts mixed with water, or baking soda mixed with water, or Martins permethrin mixed with water, or Windex with Ammonia D. Or 91% rubbing alcohol. Go on the Topix Scabies Forum for more information.
Help!! i was diagnose with scabies but my boyfriend never got anything from me, we sleep together in the same bed and i used to sleep with no pants next to him before i was diagnosed. I went insane 2 nights ago and couldn’t even work the next day!!!
I went to a different doctor who said i don’t have scabies thats probably bug bites or a different kind of mite, he gave me a new cream, apparently if i still have new bumps or don’t get better i should come back.
If i do keep this next week, my next step is to get a biopsy on it because i already went crazy feeling something crawling over me because this so called scabies disease. help! help!
I used bleach all over my bumps which just burn my skin and after the scabs i still notice bumps underneath. I’m scaring the crap out of everyone at home, still i tell my brother to not touch anything mine because I’m a pest.
I gotta beat this but is taking over my mind!!
I have had 2 different kinds of scabies, dog scabies which spread fast but don’t burrow in, and another one now which burrows in and is hard to get rid of, but hasn’t spread fast. seems like a permethrin or ivermectin cream treatment on the burrows, and something like tea tree oil in shampoo all over the body, or an insecticidal soap to prevent them spreading, should work. it is true that the itching goes on after the mites die. good luck, fight back and win.
I had scabies in the 3rd grade and it was the most miserable time of my life well at that age it was! But the doctor gave me a cream to put on my whole body it worked after about 2 days.
I thought i had scabies but it was fleas. they had to fumigate my whole building. to find out if it’s fleas are not put a tray on the ground. fill the tray with water and soap and put a lamp over it. the tray should be like 1/2 an inch in height or less.
Do this for a week and put it overnight. trust me you’ll find a lot of things. fleas are about 1 millimeter and black. I didn’t think i would have fleas but i found like 1. the bites at first itch then the next day it turns red. I thought it was a mosquito bite, but it wasn’t.
You could also see a trail like the bites were one inch from each other.
Good luck everyone. god bless you. i hate bugs!!!
I caught scabies from a pup 14 years ago, it did not go away on its own. I got rx creams and it was gone overnight. Once again I think I’m infected from some dogs at work that have just been diagnosed with scarcoptic mange (scabies). I’m just afraid I’ll give it to my dogs at home. I have 6 of them. How on earth should I go about this?
So i STILL have bloody scabies - nearly five months now. I wouldn’t mind had i not been completely anal about following the instructions. I used sulfur ointment which didn’t get rid of them, but did burn my skin and made my house stink or stale farts, i used the the neem oil which made ME stink like a bad Indian takeaway meal… it was disgusting… and embarrassing!
I have been spending a fortune on melathion liquid, using it way more than is recommended. I have covered my mattress and pillows in plastic. I have been washing and ironing and drying like a lunatic. I always bath and wear clean clothes… and still i have them!
what i don’t get is if they are this easy to catch, and this (seemingly) difficult to get rid of, why aren’t millions more people affected? Next step for me is ripping up the carpets and maybe throwing out the sofa. I HAVE to get rid of this… it’s completely and utterly ruining my life :o(
I have been fighting scabies for a month and a half now. I first went to the Doctor and got the cream. After three tubes muscles hurt I was fatigued, lost my desire to eat and run down. I went online and found Neem Oil (all natural and good for you in 1001 ways they say), it started making me feel better and was working but smells a little bad.
I wanted to get rid of them faster so I used an old recipe I use for poison ivy. Bleach! I take a knife and scrap the infected spots until they are rosie red and open them up to expose the little critters (a little painful) then put bleach on them (little more pain but only a few minutes and the sting is gone) and Wa-La they are dead in minutes.
Bleach has eaten every natural thing I have seen it comes in contact with. Like wise, it eats them and the eggs, and the dead bodies (don’t itch anymore as they say the dead bodies will for a month or longer tying to get out!), they are just gone.
You still have the problem of reinfection, I have washed everything washable in hot water, borax, bleach and the neem oil, bagged and sealed it. I am only leaving out a few things to wear for the next few weeks, and bag what I wear until wash time every three days, same with bedding and other linens.
A guy here say he washes the clothes and lines he needs for the next day and leaves them in the dryer until he needs them (great Idea). I am keeping up with the neem oil as it is good for my skin and hair ( just mix in with your shampoo and lotion). It makes the little fellows sterile so the can not breed.
The hard surfaces I bleach several times a day and the carpets, couch, ect… I spray with a mixture of water, insecticide and neem oil. I also vacuum everything in site everyday. So far so good. The neem oil sooths the itching also if you don’t go the bleach route.
I am sure this will work for every one that has scabies provided you can stand the little bit of pain (better then the itchy crawling feeling and it only last a few minutes).
If this works you can thank my son for being so kind as to bring them home to meet me. Good luck with your nightmare. I think mine is over, day two after bleaching myself.
My daughter started with a ringworm in her head and then exactly ten days later she had these red bumps on top of hands, face and legs. I thought it was chicken pox at first and took her to the doctor. She also had the lymphnode in the back of her swollen.
The doctor said the swollen lymph and the bumps was just a side effect of the ringworm and I had nothing to worry about. The next day my daughter woke up with even more bumps and now they were on here stomach and back and she had been scratching them at night ( she didn’t scratch in the daytime).
I took her to a different doctor and the doctor asked where all did she have bumps , do they itch, do we have any pets(no), does she attend daycare(yes), is there a pet at the daycare(yes).
I start treatment today she has had them for 3 days now I will also be sending a picture because hers don’t look the typical pictures I’ve seen. She’s only 2 years old.
I had scabies and it was AWFUL! It didn’t take that long for me to get better but it was so itchy and all of the nasty “pimples” were so disgusting!
GREAT Website with free help/info for scabies. http://www.geocities.com/dhr6878
I have had Scabies for half a year. I have used the cream that you put all over your body four times and it has not gone away when it turned four months no one knew what is was my doc misdiagnosed it three times no one in my family has it, only me. I am 16 and teens borrow friends clothes all the time and none of my friends have it either I think I got it at the crazy hospital you would think they would wash the sheets, towels, and pillow cases in hot water but I guess not.