While treating scabies on your body is hard enough, there’s also another side to scabies treatment that many forget about.
This ends up leaving people frustrated with their treatments.
“I’ve used permethrin 3 times! Why isn’t it working!”
The chances are, they’ve only been treating one part of the problem.
The truth is, scabies under your skin is only half the battle.
The other half?
Your environment.
Scabies can live in many places, not just under your skin and nails.
They can live in your clothing, your mattress, your bedding and sheets, your car, your furniture, your carpet and so on.
That’s why when you treat yourself for scabies, it’s also important to treat your living environment too.
If that sounds cumbersome, don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! Here’s a list of 12 tips to help you scabies-proof your home with confidence.
1. Hot and dry is the key!
This is your number one rule when it comes to killing scabies.
In a recent blog post I read through various studies on how long scabies can survive without a human host. In cold and humid environments, scabies can survive for up to 20 days, but in hot and dry environments (25 °C / 77 °F and humidity under 30%) no mite was able to survive more than 3 days. You can read the full blog post here.
That means your can reduce scabies survivability in your home by ~80%, just by making it hotter and dryer?
How do you do this?
If you already live in a hot and dry area, then you probably don’t need to do anything. However, if you live in a very cool and rainy area, you should probably make an effort to change your home environment. Keep the heat on day and night, and make sure your home is above 25°C / 77°F at all times during your treatment.
Secondly, get a dehumidifier. This study showed that reducing humidity from 90% to 30% shortened the scabies off-host life span from 4-5 days to 2-3 days. That means you can reduce the amount of time they’ll be alive in your house by almost half, just be decreasing the humidity!
Dehumidifiers are not expensive and are an excellent investment in your home anyway – giving you several litres of fresh water each day, and also reducing moss, mold and deterioration in the home itself, especially if it’s wooden. Scabies killing is almost just a bonus!
This is the best dehumidifier I could find under $100, and is actually the exact one that I’m currently using in my house.
So remember – hot and dry is the first step!
2. Wash your bedding every day
How long do scabies mites survive in bedding?
Probably only a few days in a hot, dry environment.
To be honest, sleeping in the same bed sheets every day only poses a small risk for re-catching scabies.
Take a look at this extract from an extensive study:
“Only 4 individuals of 272 tested became infected with scabies after sleeping in beds used by heavily infected patients.” (source).
So, the chance of infection after sleeping in the same bed sheets is around 1.5%.
But is that a risk you want to take?
1.5% is not the same as impossible, and if you’ve been dealing with scabies, you probably agree with me that you want to take every 1.5% chance of getting rid of these suckers you can get!
Therefore, wash your bedding every day. Make sure you wash it on a high heat. It’s also a good idea to add 10-12 drops of tea tree oil to your wash cycle, as this is one of the best natural killers of scabies.
3. Wash your clothes every day
The same goes for your clothes.
Try not to wear the same clothes every day.
Scabies can survive in your clothes for several days, but it’s very unlikely that scabies survive a wash cycle, and almost impossible for them to survive a hot wash cycle.
After you wash them, it’s also a good idea to quarantine your clothes in the sun.
Put them in a big garbage bag, and leave them in the midday sun as long as possible. Scabies hate heat, remember? You’re likely to kill many leftover mites with just one day in heavy sun.
If you don’t live somewhere sunny, throw them in a hot dryer cycle for 30-40 minutes.
Again, tea tree oil is a great addition to your laundry during scabies treatment.
4. Make a permethrin spray to clean your furniture
To make sure you kill all scabies mites in your environment, it’s a good idea to use permethrin.
Permethrin is the standard prescription treatment for scabies and one of the core treatments in my ultimate treatment plan.
But not only can we use it on your skin, we can use it on our surroundings too.
The easiest way to do this is to make a permethrin spray. This is very simple.
First, you’re going to need some quality permethrin. I recommend using Martin’s Permethrin, which has excellent reviews and comes as a 10% solution. You can get it on Amazon here.
The next thing you’ll need is a regular spray bottle, like these ones here. If you don’t have any lying around the house, you can order some generic ones for just a few dollars here.
Now it’s time to mix. Simply fill the bottle with one half of Martin’s 10% Permethrin, and one half of water, and you have a 5% permethrin spray. This is the ideal percentage for killing scabies mites and eggs.
Use this to clean all hard surfaces in your home – door handles, chairs and desks, hard floors, your car, even surfaces in your workplaces if you wish. Permethrin is not expensive, so keep this bottle handy and clean and wipe whenever you feel the need throughout your treatment!
Bonus tip: Scabies and shoes can be a problem too. Permethrin spray is perfect for treating shoes. Simply give them a spray, leave them to dry. Give them a rinse after if you wish.
5. Alternatively, make a bleach spray
You can do exactly the same thing as you do with permethrin, with bleach.
You might have seen my blog post on bleach and using bleach baths as a scabies treatment.
Bleach has not actually been studied as a scabies killer, which means we are relying on anecdotal evidence only when it comes to its effectiveness.
However, many reports around the web have people saying that bleach really did work for them.
If you are unable to get your hands on permethrin, or don’t like the idea of spraying insecticide all over your home, bleach is the next best thing.
6. Or you can use Lysol?
Some reports from netizens show that Lysol is also a potential scabies killer.
I have looked into this and am not 100% convinced, however, if it’s the best you have then it’s better than nothing.
Scabies mites have a very fragile outer shell and they are not going to like most chemicals anyway. Lysol has not been studied as a scabies killer, but it’s likely that it is harmful to them in the same way as bleach.
7. Clean your carpets
Cleaning your carpets is essential.
Why?
Because carpets are usually damp, and we know that scabies like cool, damp places.
Remember, hot and dry is what we’re aiming for!
The best way to clean your carpets against scabies is to steam clean them. This is heat-based cleaning so it is ideal for scabies. If you don’t have a steam cleaner, you can very easily rent one, or they are even cheap enough to buy these days. Amazon has many quality cleaners for under $100 that get delivered straight to your home.
Also giving your carpets a quick spray of permethrin won’t hurt – not necessarily every corner of your carpet, but the areas where you spend a lot of time.
8. Clean your mattress
Cleaning your mattress is a big one for scabies.
There are a few ways to do this.
One is to sun your mattress. If you live somewhere with very hot weather, get your mattress into the sun! As soon as you wake up, strip your bed sheets and put them in the wash (like we described in Tip #2), then lay your mattress under the sun for the day.
Not only does the heat kill the scabies, the sun will help dry your mattress too, making it doubly effective. As a bonus, it will kill a lot of other germs and bacteria that have been hiding in your mattress too.
I recommend doing this every day during your scabies treatment if possible.
If you want, you can also give it a spray and wipe with some permethrin spray also. Try to keep this light, as you don’t want to be sleeping on a mattress covered with insecticide. A few surface sprays and a quick wipe will suffice.
Lastly, you may want to consider a mattress cover. Nowadays many mattress covers are vinyl free, but for scabies a vinyl cover is still effective and may even be better than non-vinyl.
The advantage of a mattress cover is once you cleaned and sun-treated your mattress, you can simply encase it with a mattress cover and it should remain mite free. To clean, you can simply wipe down the cover with a bleach or permethrin spray each day – super easy. A worthwhile investment to make if you don’t have time to be hauling your mattress up and down the stairs each day! You can get a basic mattress cover for under $20 on Amazon.
9. Clean your car
Cleaning your car is one place people often overlook.
It’s also not as easy as cleaning your floor or your bedsheets.
To be honest, the chance of you catching scabies from your car is slim to none.
Remember the earlier study I cited where even sleeping in a scabies infested bed only led to infections in 4 out of 272 people. So sitting in your car for an hour, fully clothed, is a very small scabies risk.
However, if you really want to cover all your bases, you might consider cleaning your car as well.
How to do this?
Two ways. Firstly, give the seats a good spray and wipe down with permethrin spray. Remember to not be too generous with the permethrin, it is technically a poison, after all.
Secondly, park your car in the sun. Close all the doors and windows and let it sit as long as possible. Scabies do not survive long in hot temperatures, especially without a human host. Turn your car into a scabies sauna and it shouldn’t post a risk for re-infestation.
10. Quarantine as much of the house as possible
When it comes to scabies, trying to downsize your environment helps a lot.
For example, if there are certain rooms in the house that you don’t need to be in, don’t go in there!
If there are three bathrooms in the house, try and make one off limits during your treatment.
This is one less scabies area for you to worry about, and one less area for you to clean.
This is precisely what we did during my scabies treatment. Three rooms in the house were completely off limits, we shut the doors and didn’t step foot inside them for two weeks.
See if you can do this within your own household, to make your scabies treatment period that little bit easier.
11. Treat everyone!
Remember, everyone in the household needs to be treated.
If you’re a bachelor/bachelorette or a couple, things shouldn’t be too hard.
If you’re a family of six, well, things are going to be a little hectic (sorry!).
Either way, it needs to be done.
There’s only one thing worse than having scabies, and that’s having scabies again.
Unfortunately, this happens often, and most scabies re-infestations come from family members who weren’t treated properly or didn’t want to be treated for scabies the first time around.
When it comes to scabies, the whole household must be treated.
This means everyone’s clothes, everyone’s bedding, everyone’s living areas.
This also means pets! I have a detailed guide to treating pets for scabies here.
Remember – if you do your scabies treatment once, and you do it properly, there’s a 99% chance you won’t have to do it again. If you do it properly.
12. Make sure you’re using the best scabies treatment possible
Of course, we can’t forget that after cleaning your house, car, sheets, clothes and pets, you also need to treat…yourself!
Many people live with scabies for months, even years, because they do not know how to treat it properly.
Can you imagine that? Living with that itch for months or years?
The truth is, scabies is actually very easy to treat, if you have the right information.
With the right treatments most people should be scabies free within 1-2 weeks.
When I first got scabies, I spent many weeks reading all the studies, experimenting, researching, until I knew everything I could about these mites. That’s just my personality – when something affects my life so drastically, I go deep down the rabbit hole and don’t stop.
What I discovered was that one scabies treatment is usually not enough. There is no treatment that has a 100% cure rate.
Therefore, the most effective treatment plan is one that utilizes a combination of treatments. If you use one treatment that has a 90% cure rate, there’s a 1 in 10 chance you won’t be cured. But if you use four treatments with a 90% cure rate, your chances of being cured are almost guaranteed.
Makes sense, right?
That’s why I created this website. After all the information I’d learned, I knew I had to share it. I hated the thought of all these people suffering in silence because such simple information isn’t available!
Here on the blog, I have a treatment plan. It is a combination of both prescription and natural treatments, all backed by scientific studies, and when used together will absolutely blitz any scabies infestation. It is 100% free to access, and everything can be purchased from your local health store or ordered online from Amazon.
If you are suffering from scabies, please read it, and please apply it.
You can click here to go there now.
Remember, when left untreated, scabies not only affects you, but also our families and our communities. So please treat yourself as early and as completely as possible.
Wishing you back to full health soon!
-Jon
Jon, I’ve been reading over your website since last night. We have scabies and the whole family will be doing the Permethrin treatment tomorrow. What should I do now? I stripped the beds. Do I clean the mattresses before or after we do the treatment? If we stay out of a particular room for the next week, do I still need to wash all of the clothes in that room? Do I have to bag up every piece of clothing we have? I’m so overwhelmed right now and everyone is mad at me. Christmas is cancelled here. Please help……
If you can’t bag up all your clothes, just put them through the washing machine on hot water cycle and add some tea tree oil and/or clove oil. Make sure you read my permethrin guide carefully and make sure everybody follows the instructions carefully. I would also buy the big bottle of permethrin and make a spray and just spray/wipe down areas that you frequent. Try and do the ivermectin too. Follow the treatments and you should be fine, just make sure everybody is on the same page! Don’t let it ruin your Christmas. You may be itching but nobody ever died from scabies. Be grateful for each other and enjoy the holidays the best you can 🙂
You apparently Did NOT READ the article. He plainly out lined all of that. Every single thing from your self bedding, furniture etc etc..i highly recommend you to actually READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLES. SERIOUSLY
lol why u so mad?
I am from southern India . I have been suffering from scabies for almost six months. I have applied permithrin as prescribed by doctor for 6 times now. It appears to have gone, but resurfacing at the same place. I have few doubts. Hope you can clarify.
1. Can scabies mites or eggs spread while rubbing soap on the body during bath? Or when we run Neem oil over the body.
2. Does permithrin ointment loses its effectiveness when stored at room temperature of around 35 to 40 C
3. Does it spread by just touching objects touched by infected person
4. Does permithrin really kill eggs
5. Is 12hours must after applying permithrin cream? Because I don’t see any effect when applied for 10 hours.
1. Technically once you have them they can spread anywhere, but if you treat them they should die.
2. I’m not sure but I believe not.
3. Usually not.
4. Yes.
5. 8 hours is minimum.
Hopefully you’re not having trouble with this anymore, but in case you do, and for anyone else reading this: if the itch doesn’t disappear right away it doesn’t necessarily mean that the treatment hasn’t worked. The permithrin is quite strong and can irritate the skin further, and from what I’ve read it’s quite common for the itch to persist for some time, but usually gets better within a month.
I have had an itch for 2 years and 4 months and at first I was treated for Scabies and then Eczema and everything else you can think of. I just recently went to a new Dermatologist and now he is telling me I have Scabies again so what do I do after suffering 2 years with this itch that is so bad that I have to dig deep into my skin to get a relief for the itch, Please Help Me
On week four of treatment. I’ve followed all the protocols listed here for cleaning, plus this author’s other posted protocols for body treatment. We even left our house for 6 days.
There are homeopathic treatments not mentioned here that we found on Indian sites. In the interest of multiphase treatment paths we added them with great success – particularly symptom relief. Homeopathic treatments are highly specific to each individual’s presentation, including a lot of temperament-based factors. So I won’t share the specific doses we took, because they’re individual to us. But please use your search engine for “scabies homeopathic”, and check in with an homeopathic practitioner for specific dosages.
MORE importantly, check out this study link, which explores the comparative efficacy of Moxidectin over Ivermectin in a pig study. The results are pretty dramatic and speak for themselves. Please be careful if you’ve already taken Ivermectin, and research carefully the windows you have to observe between taking one medicine and another. There are dangers, particularly to the liver, in taking these medications.
This study info gels with other sites I’ve come across in acknowledging rising resistance in the scabies mite to both permectin and Ivermectin. Moxidectin does not demonstrate similar resistance.
Stick to the cleaning protocols and Good luck.
https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0005030
Good info thanks.
I’m not great with computers yet,but am glad I was able to find you.You stood out immediately,as a person like myself,who,rather than trying the “shotgun method”,where one tries everything at once to get relief,is driven to be more patient,using the”divide & conquer” method-whereby one chooses to take longer & even suffer in the pursuit of knowledge.This is what I had been up to former than six months,& just now close to victory.I too have chosen to be a most reluctant guinepig,&like you,have both suffered & learned many of the same things,like the lack of the quick fix,as well as the frustration of experiences with doctors,who,it seems,are not highly knowledgable concerning this affliction.As a matter of fact,I have found the the Doctors of far less value than people who have been driven to experiment repeatedly,until successful,because they are suffering patients,& don’t enjoy the “Medical convenience of Professional Detachment”.
My problem presented differently,in that,it started with,& mostly has been my bald head,which transferred them to my pillow,where,I then got them on my shoulders,face,arms,& then all over before I realized my problem.Having no previous experience with Scabies,I let them get quite the jump on me before I realized my need to visit a Doctor,as I felt “unclean”,& had been avoiding Drs.,Dentists,Barbers,or anyone who could get close to me.I cut my hair to about 1/4″,&,like you,began to experiment.Not only are they on my head,but they are not in my finger or toe webs.Also,I just bought a house that was neglected,and had been working there alone for
overs months before I began noticing a problem.I have not been around anyone for over a year,while living here,battling this horrible affliction.
So there are a few facts and thoughts from my experience.
One thing that might be of interest is the fact that after months of daily laboring to find and catch the almost microscopic culprits of my suffering,I finally,after many months,caught one and saved it for keeping.I have a digital Microscope on the way with which to photograph it,as well as putting it on a glass slide for best viewing and photographing.It’s the only one I was able to see on me and catch.I think they are about 10 to15 thousands of an inch,at least I think this one is,but,maybe it’s a large one,as I’ve only seen this one.As I stated before,Drs. have been a disappointment,as none of them could even agree on the size of these things.They told me everything from-Their impossible to see to-they are like a small speck.soon I will answer this,as I have instruments coming that will settle it.I am going to try to catch more by drying unwashed clothing,and looking for them in the trapped lint.The lint is necessary,since,the dryer filter mesh is about .035″,and the little beasts are about .013″,so without the lint in the screen to catch them they could go through like bird through a window.
I’ve been on Permethrin 5% cream for weeks(on my head!,no less),and Antihistamines (Hydroxyzine works better for me than Citrizine),as well as Triamcinolone Acetone,which is also effective,I think,and I just now am coming out the other side I hope.I’ve got to get clean so I can work on my house again.you see,I’ve quit work in the attic where I suspected that it may have come from.I shall get better and try again.
In closing,let me say that I apologize if this was long,gross,or boring,but this subject is intricate and involved.If you desire I will try to send you a photo my new specimen when I take it.if nothing else,you should be honored that you have received one of my few,and easily,my longest Email ever.
Thank you for the best coverage on this subject that this old man could find.I wish that I would have searched for you earlier,as you would have saved me MUCH searching.Your efforts are valuable.Your persistance,attention to detail,and ability to relate them are priceless.Thank you for you efforts.
Very gratefully yours,
Tom
Thanks for this information as I have been suffering from scabies 3 months ago and no doctor gave me the details you just did.
I have few questions:
1. In my country, we do not have permethrin cream, we have benzeyl benzote 25% but we have permethrin insecticide so I think I have to make the cream at home by mixing it with any lotion I have. My question: I feel small itches in my scalp and the doctor told to shower with Betadine shampoo and then apply benzel benzote for 3 days and come back after 10 days. I have no results at all. My question: is it safe to make the cream at home because our country is locked down due COVID19 and if yes, is it okay to apply it on my scalp, it will not burn my scalp or hurt it.
Or it is safer to wait till I order it online when they open the airports again. Please tell me as I am a bit concerned, it is a poisoning material.
2. For my home, I have sprayed my dressing room with permethrin insecticide since two days and it is still closed, and I wash my cloths everyday and leave them under the sun. The weather here is warm and it will get hotter in the future, so shall I spray my whole home with permethrin insecticide and leave it for 8 hours or so to make sure it is ready so I can start my treatment or I have to spray it every day. I am asking because the smell is killing. and not sure shall I stay at home or to stay at the balcony for hours. For the beds sheets, shall I wash blankets too because it does not fit into my washing machine. I can wash the pillow covers and the mattress cover too. Is it that okay ?
3. Can I put some permethrin insecticide into my washing machine when I wash my cloth just in case to make sure it has no eggs or mites.
4. Shall I use Ivermectin and is it a cream or pills or what. I did not get it ? and if I could not find it. I can still go on with what I have? And is coconut oil could be any help of this matter?
5. For car, I do not use it because we have curfew. I sprayed it already and I am fine with car. Plus I live alone so I am fine with focusing on myself.
Sorry to ask a lot of questions but it took me 3 months to get to your useful website and I need to get rid of scabies nightmare. Please bear with my many questions!
Thanks, Hanna
1. I’m not sure what benzeyl benzote is, but if you can make your own permethrin that’s the best option.
2. You shouldn’t need to spray your whole house, just wash your sheets and clothes every day in hot water.
3. That’s not a bad idea.
4. It’s not approved in every country. You will have to order it from overseas if you can’t find it, but ask yoru doctor first.
My house burned down and over the 2 months of trying to salvage what I could I got scabies. I’ve ordered all that you suggested but my main concern is my 5 month old baby. How and with what can I treat him and it be effective? He has slept with me every night since he was born. Will just the natural remedies work on him ? He also has eczema. I’m beside myself with worry.
It’s hard for me to advise on kids, best to see a doctor. But usually yes they prescribe a light layer of permethrin. Natural remedies should work but test them on an arm or leg first before rubbing over the whole body.
Hi
My poor son contracted scabies and has got reinfected – i have a couple of questions:
1. I have no idea where he intially picked this infection up. The only thing i can think of is a blanket i got out of my Aunts attic. It had been there for years and i brought i home to wash it. He got a hold of it before i washed it. Could he have got scabies off the blanket? How did they get onto a blanket in an attic ?
2. He was intially infected and then it resurfaced again. Nobody else in the house has caught this infection and nobody is showing any symptoms at all. We should all treat ourselves anyway ?
3. Is a dettol antiseptic spray effective ?
Thanks Tess
This is a very upsetting infection for him – he is so embarrassed. I w
Right now I’m living my worst phobia ever. I hate bugs I’m petrified of them. I didn’t even know how or realize when my phobia got so bad…you could literally rob me with a ladybug and I will give you everything I own, and even give you my kids. I’ve done nothing but search, and search, and search, numerous, multiple different sites about Scabies. Every last one of them gives the same advice and say the same thing and it’s just bare minimum. None of them go into detail and if they do it’s because they’re trying to sell you crap. Kudos to you because it has taken me months to find a detailed article like yours. I knew already 90% of the facts that you were talking about, but there was some good information in here that I did not know and I think will be really helpful for me. Plus you put it all in order step for step. Not only that you gave explanations to things and you even provided links that actually worked or links to where you found your information from . I am very grateful for that alone because apart of my phobia I try to search what certain bugs don’t like, and what will keep them away, or get rid of them, or what I can eat to help have a good immunity against them but not only that, I go into where the article came from and make sure it’s from a reliable source and not somebody that’s just watched a million YouTube videos. You wrote this whole thing and put it out there free for people instead of trying to make a dime over something you know millions of people suffer with. I commend you for that and thank you. I agree with everything and all the facts that you stated I just had a few questions.
1. Why are we not supposed to put the cream on right after showering, is it because our skin still has a lot of moisture in it and it won’t soak up enough of the permethrin?
2. How long after you put the cream on till the mite starts to die and is actually dead? I’ve had one doctor tell me 24 hours then I had another doctor tell me up to a week.
3. They say that average only 10 to 15 mites can live on someone at a time, but how is that possible when the female lays eggs in you everyday for the rest of her life? (1-2 months)
4. How fast do they crawl?
5. Can a mite that was not previously on your body lets say it came from a blanket or the couch, can one bite you after putting the cream on but before you wash it off? And if so will they end up dying?
6. How long does the cream continue to work even after showering and washing it off? I’m paranoid about not getting all the mites in my house up (though I thoroughly clean it) or one of my kids cross contaminating and it getting on us then we have scabbies all over again.
8. How strong is their latch when they attach themselves to you or a piece of furniture?
9. And last, is it easier to catch scabbies after you’ve already had it once before and got rid of it?
I was wondering that when they said if you’ve previously had scabies your symptoms can show up in as little as
a day.
Once again thank you for your article and all your information. I want to provide information about things that did not work for me or what they were able to live through.
I’ve had my clothes Washed and dried on the hottest settings then put into a bag tied and sealed then flipped upside down so that the opening was at the very bottom still tied up, sealed, then put them in another bag with the opening tied off at the opposite end in case any were able to crawl out if they survived the washer and dryer. I also did this w linen I’m unable to wash. Stored them for 1 week. The bag of unwashed lined had mites that survived while the other one didn’t.
I’ve also put thing into the dryer that couldn’t be washed and tried to at least cook them that way. Didntwork the survived even running the drying time twice what I usually do. Almost 2 hours.
Even though I only touched a few shirts in my closet and didn’t go in it after that for 4-5 days, they were still alive.
Here’s tip that have helped me:
•Not only cut finger and toenails but I take a nail dremel to whats left of my nail where it attaches to skin also my cuticles and fringertips, then soak them in Tea Tree Oil… after that I mainly wear hospital gloves to prevent scratting further spreading.
•When treating me and my children I immediately put them in a room closest to the bathroom that was scabbie free and made them stay there for 3 days only to come out to use the bathroom. They had to wear a certain pair if shoes from right outside the door into the bathroom them take shoes off before they stepped in the room. I brought them their food and whatever else they asked for. Kinna felt like we were role playing a scene from “Flowers In The Attic” movie
After I put them in the room I was the only one free to walk around the house but started from one end, and went room to room deep cleaning everything.
After all that I treated myself again and quarantined myself 24 hours.
•Constantly rubbed Tea Tree oil on me and kids. I also put it In our shampoo, conditioner, body wash, lotion, our mop water, laundry soap, carpet shampooer, and in a spray bottle of water used to spray everything.
• everyday I washed the hair scrunched and brushes , also everyone’s face masks, & backpacks for school.
•Each person is only allowed 3 sets of clothes which are stored in sealed containers only opened by me. Every other piece of linen is double bagged and stored away. Everyone is to change in the bathroom one person right after the other that way I can make sure nobody’s leaving clothes on the floor with mites in them and make sure they wear the house shoes that aren’t contaminated from bathroom floor. Then I go behind and clean the bathroom. I do this after every person showers as well.
• When I washed my linen I put them in different bags before I store them because the bag from before most likely has mites in them. Therefore I use brand new bags.
• Make sure to wash the shower curtain frequently and even clean the hair out if the drain.
•Store diapers and femminem products separately and each in zip lock bags since im not able to find any information online about them and scabbies.
•Iron all our clothing before we put it on. Not sure if its effective but it gives me piece of mind.
•Throw away vaccume filters after each treatment. I wish I could afford after each time I vaccumed but thus whole scabbie thing has really drained my pockets for all the supplies.
I belive that I am the one who is re infecting my entire household. Me alone. Several years ago I survived 3 strokes, causing me to have an autoimmune disease. Infact I was actually diagnosed 6x by 4 different doctors of having scabbies until I got so angry I freaked out on the doctor and nurses. Ended being scheduled an appointment w dermatologist where he did a skin scrape and found out I actually have Nodular Pruigro. Its the most severe form of pruigro, the least known about… there’s barely any medical information or facts on it, there’s no cure, barely anything to help w side effects, or make it subside. The itch is 20x worse than scabbies itch. Scabbies can actually mimic this disease. There’s a lot of ways its like nodular pruigro. I belive scabbies effects me completely different because of my skin condition and it’s a lot harder to get rid of because of it. My skin disease has acted out since we caught scabbies. I believe everyone in my home has gotten rid of it, multiple times…. everyone except me. I honestly don’t think its ever gone away on me
I got scabies for the first time from a kitten I found. The kitten is being treated and quarantined for 2 months, per the vet. For the past 5 days, I’ve been treating myself with prescription cream, washing my bedding and not wearing the same clothes, bathing 2 times a day, ect. How long should I continue to wash my bedding every day?
dear Jon
I’d like to take to your attention something extreme about my scabies knowledge.Be free to comment back. I used permethrin and also derbac for weeks at the point of risking my life.Different applications and different techniques same as adopted by hospitals have done asbolutely nothing. I wash at 90 C clothes and bedshits everyday since months, I vacuum everyday and disinfect surfaces I touch with clorine. I have used Scabiblast for one entire week applying 3 times a day, totally useless. A true intense and exausting war going on every day .Still scabies keep going in and out my skin like nothing happened., When I intensify the treatments I can feel them entering entering in my ears channell + penis channell + the entrance of the anus and even entering into my eye lids in a desperate attempt of surviving. They even dig into my arms elbows to escape the sulphur cream on the skin. Now I freeze the scabies in bedsheets and clothes in a freezer at minus 6 C to have them ready for a wash a temperatures that are not ruining clothes (like 90 C ) After 3 month of intense use of sulphur cream 10%, finally the parasites presence has been reduced to an approx 5%,which is a real achievement for me . Now, often there is finally peace at night but only for 2 to 3 days before I can feel they are returning in very small number for another attack. I appreciate your different approach to the scabies problem you publish online.
I have a question about the clothes, I have washed my clothes worn 5 days before treatment! I have fresh clothes that are scabies free, I have done permethrin treatment, what’s the post permethrin clothes washing protocol, do I just wear new clothes every day and bag them away and wash or what are the rules post permethrin? Thanks
Bag them for a couple of days (leave in the sun if possible), then wash in hot water.