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

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.

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The Infected

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….

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!

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