Scabies

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1. citygirl27 says:

   And as hard as it is to keep from scratching, know that scratching loosens skin cells and they feed off of skin shedding and blood. Gross I know but it is important to know how these things work. The eggs are what burrow and causes the bumps. The immature ones are light grey specs, visible, and the mature ones look like black pepper flecks. Yes they do jump. That is their “house” as are the scabs. Not sure if this is it? Do the white paper test. Put one of them (from a scab or loose) on a white sheet of paper, and touch it a few times. Dust doesn’t jump, these do. Bumps in a row or that show up separated by an inch or two are a tell tale sign. They can and do live elsewhere than human skin, why do you think we have to launder the sheets when this happens? Don’t believe the articles that say otherwise. And it IS possible to fix this without a doctor, and for MUCH less money. The medical establishment is only interested in passing you around to keep medical costs (and kickbacks for labwork, referrals, prescriptions, etc) as high as possible. The best advice I can give, and what has helped this recur MUCH less often and with less severity, is keep clothes OFF the floor. Use a bag, chair, bench, hanger, shelf, whatever, just not the floor. That is the biggest prevention you can do. That, and regular sheet/pillowcase washing. Sulfur, neem and other remedies have been used for centuries effectively but wonder why at our age we haven’t heard of them? Big pharma keeps it quiet.
2. citygirl27 says:

   A few things. Scabies is body lice and they are the same mites as nits, or head lice, so yes they can spread to your hair. Scabies in the nether region is known as crabs, and again that can spread. I have been using sulfur ointment, tea tree oil and neem oil and it has shown slow but noticeiable improvement. Also my son has it (a little bit worse than me), and the bumps are still there but the redness and itching are gone using these treatments and he has been swimming in the pool the last 2 days. We also have some sulfur soap on the way. There is no need to blast your whole house with plastic bags or extreme extermination, just be sure to vacuum, and wash your clothes, sheets and towels. Hot water or bleach or a dryer for 30 minutes will work, all 3 aren’t needed. Haven’t tried MSM though, will look into that. Because these “buggers” will be around forever, we can’t keep paying out medical bills for unsafe creams every time this happens. It is not a sign of “bad hygiene” or “neglect” or any BS like that, it can happen to anyone of any status and while it is a nuisance it is not a disease, infection (it’s an infestation, actually), disability, or blood agent.
3. Desperation says:

   Hi, i am 15 years old and i have been struggling scabies for the past 4 months. I got the bug from my boyfriend’s friend. My boyfriend has it to. I went to the dermatologist and he pretty much knew from just looking at me. He did the little scrappy thing and tested and confirmed it.

   Its literally all over my body. He gave me the perm. 5% cream and told me to apply after my shower and wash it Off in the morning. And then repeat in exactly a week. Well i did what he said and the cream burned me and i found made me itch more intensely. I was doing better using my Jergens ultra healing lotion every night and morning, but the cream did get rid of some bumps. And im going to continue with my lotion.

   I’ll see how the cream and lotion work together and post my results. If any suggestions please write!
4. shalanda says:

   ok i had scabes a year ago and i still get itchy in the same place. and i have these tiny blisters all over my hands that itch so bad
5. Hmm says:

   I went to the doctor about my itching prob, he checks only my wrists and hair, saying if I dont see anything I shouldnt feel anything. Well I start noticing lumps under my skin, and then scabs over it. I tell the hospital I might be spreading it due to everyone around me/contact with me starts scratching in seconds, they send me to mental health, almost getting psycho meds, I now keep quite about my situation as I watch everyone who comes near me scratches their face and hair like crazy…even worse when I see them a week later. I take precautions still, by washing my clothes, and putting them in bags, i take multiple showers a day, but others dont know what it is, theyre scratching gets worse week after week, as they pick their skin and looking at their fingers. No idea what to do now, as ill only get reinfected by those ive already infected at work, if I do get rid of it (which I think I have in the past).
6. Purple says:

   Try color safe bleach. It has hydrogen peroxide inside and buy borax. soak body in bath tub and all clothing with color safe bleach and borax mix for 2 weeks . 30 min daily
7. Anonymous says:

   

   Here is a pic of my arm, i have scabies and these are the mites track marks! I’ll send more pics later, also my 10 month old daughter has it! the doctor says you can see the dots a line up her leg where the mites tracking its way up!
8. Ariella says:

   I have had scabies for the past 8 months and have tried literally everything and often two things at once (permethrin and ivermectin or borax, hydrogen peroxide and a sulfur bath . . etc) Nothing has been helpful to eradicate them, but what has helped TREMENDOUSLY cut down the allergic reaction and itching is going on a gluten and dairy free diet as suggested by a “healer”. (things like spelt and oats are okay).

   I can now sleep throughout the night, only have mild itching during the day, and have very little visible markings – even though I can feel the little buggers at times on my skin – especially my palms. It took approx. 5 weeks of being on this diet before I noticed the huge difference. If you can cut out the sugar – even better.

   Also, I have heard drinking 10 -12 glasses of water can help as it aids the kidneys which in turn helps the skin.
9. meme says:

   My 2 year old grandson has scabies. We treat as a family and re-treat and still he gets them again and again. We think it is because he is still wearing a diaper to bed and when he wets, it washes off the peremthin solution. Can I apply a layer of vaseline over the peremethin to prevent it from getting peed off?
10. indian35 says:

    My elder son (8) and I got scabies. Here few tips worked for me very well. We used permitrin once but re-infection and itching were high for two weeks. Mean while we used lavender sulfur soaps and tea oil. Mix tea tree oil with baby oil or vaseline and apply it to skin. Does miracles relieving itch. Used for 4-5 days all gone.
11. david ames says:

    for the people with sores on their face, scabies don’t burrow on your face or head. there other mites that do, a common mite called lice. that’s why cream treatments say apply neck down. and now there is a pill that does wonders. I was given the pill and you use it once a week like the pill. after 3 weeks they had gone. but now i have them again. the weird thing about it is no one else in my household has them.
12. amaya says:

    That looks like what my 6 week old baby has, her doctor said it was an allergic reaction, but i took her back yesterday because it got worse. he sent us to a dermatologist and she said looked like staph. she took a sample and we go back Friday to get results, if nothing then she wants to do a biopsy! thank you for posting the pictures!
13. Sarah says:

    I got back from a trip to Bali at the end of October 2011. Approximately 1 week later, I got what seemed to be a big pimple on my chin, which soon turned into lots of tiny pimples, that fested into a giant sore. After a few weeks it seemed to be healing (though the skin remained red from scarring). Then it started to get itchy for a few days, then swelled into a patch of burning blisters.

    After this it seemed to heal and then the cycle started again, a pimple type symptom, etc and so forth. I seen the doctor last month and they prescribed some antibacterial cream, which seemed to calm and soothe it. However after a week the symptoms have returned. I’m worried it’s scabies?! I’m going to go back to the doctor, I’m really concerned. it’s so uncomfortable and not to mention embarrassing, having this problem on my face!
14. MartySQ says:

    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!
15. Max do do says:

    Just go with MSM powder pill. you won’t regret it. Use internally & orally. it will be good for ya.
16. a reliable source says:

    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.
17. Jules says:

    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.
18. worriedmomma says:

    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!
19. tiredofthissh** says:

    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
20. they r easily killed says:

    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!
21. losing my mind says:

    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!
22. Hunter says:

    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!!!!!
23. Lori says:

    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!!!!
24. Basics says:

    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.
25. Julie says:

    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.
26. jqm says:

    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.
27. Chelsea says:

    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
28. Jay Byrd says:

    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.

    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
29. Chris says:

    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.
30. Melissa says:

    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.
31. Trisha says:

    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?
32. Jen says:

    James,

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

    Jen
33. James L. Riley, MD says:

    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.
34. nicolle says:

    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?
35. Sarah says:

    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!
36. ToriiDally says:

    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?
37. LYNN says:

    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!
38. TifOhSoScared says:

    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.
39. Marilyn says:

    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…
40. gabby says:

    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
41. itchy and scratchy in MO says:

    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.
42. natalia says:

    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
43. Trish@oz says:

    Trish@oz, Hi again just to verify I do have scabies from the tick bite.
44. Trish@oz says:

    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
45. Janay says:

    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.
46. thaumasina says:

    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:)
47. Julie says:

    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.
48. winningthebattle says:

    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.
49. Concerned2 says:

    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.
50. winningthebattle says:

    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.
51. LaLa says:

    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
52. jo says:

    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