Scabies Health Feed

Hello
dear Lybrate user,
sorry to know about ill health.
Its a dermatological condition. Practise hygiene, scabies can be treated by killing the mites and their eggs with medication that's applied from the neck down and left on for eight hours. The mites can also be killed using oral medication.
One option is apply a mite-killer like permethrin (elimite). These creams are applied from the neck down, left on overnight, then washed off. Do not self medicate
hope I have briefly ...more

You can try this
wash the affected skin two to three times a day.
Keep the affected area dry.Avoid excess affected skin irritation by wearing 100% cotton underwear.
Avoid fabric softeners, bleaches, or harsh laundry detergents.
Wash your workout clothes, underwear, socks, and towels after each use.
Keep your affected area, inner thighs, and buttocks clean and dry, especially after you exercise and shower.
After showering or bathing, dry the irritated affected area by gent...more

Hi lybrate-user. We cannot prescribe medication unless we are sure of diagonosis. So we need to examine lesions and confirm the diagnosis before anyone can proceed to give you treatment.

You can try this
wash the affected skin two to three times a day.
Keep the affected area dry.Avoid excess affected skin irritation by wearing 100% cotton underwear.
Avoid fabric softeners, bleaches, or harsh laundry detergents.
Wash your workout clothes, underwear, socks, and towels after each use.
Keep your affected area, inner thighs, and buttocks clean and dry, especially after you exercise and shower.
After showering or bathing, dry the irritated affected area by gent...more

Hi lybrate-user
you can try applying permethrin 5percent cream all over the body from neck to toe (not face) before sleeping and take a bath next morning. Repeat this if required after 7 days. You also need to clean all your clothes and your bed sheet, blankets thoroughly as if you do not do this, it will keep recurring.

Hi,
scabies is caused by sarcoptes scabei. Those mites will penetrate your skin and create burrows, live and lay eggs there as well. Its hard to kill them unless you maintain the contact time with the lotion for the prescribed time so that the lotion can percolate into the burrows. You need a repeat application as well. That is why she might have said they live in your body (skin). Calapure lotion will not kill them. It is just calamine, which will moisturize the skin. What you need is anoth...more

Scabies is caused by mite sarcoptis scabies. For exterminating it completely out of your house it is imperative for all family members to take treatment together. Also, all the sofa covers, bedsheets,etc need to be washed and ironed properly. All the mattresses to be exposed in sunlight. If you consulted a qualified dermatologist and are sure that it is scabies, there is no harm in repeating treatment. It will definitely help.

Seems you hv some other infection better visit a dermatologist or contact me it's not fungal infection it will not improve with what you taking and there is risk of spread of infection to friends and family.

U can try this
Wash the affected skin two to three times a day.
Keep the affected area dry.
Avoid excess affected skin irritation by wearing 100% cotton underwear.
Avoid fabric softeners, bleaches, or harsh laundry detergents.
Wash your workout clothes, underwear, socks, and towels after each use.
Keep your affected area, inner thighs, and buttocks clean and dry, especially after you exercise and shower.
After showering or bathing, dry the irritated affected area by ...more

First of all confirmation of disease is very important you may be having some other disease looking like scabies secondly only permethrin may not be suffice and way of applying or other steps may not be taken by you may be cause of not curing of scabies eumosone is not going to cure you better discuss with any dermatologist including me for proper management.