Part of a solid scabies treatment plan is using Permethrin cream. However, it’s not always the easiest thing to get without an expensive visit to a doctor or dermatologist. This leaves most people wondering how to buy permethrin cream for their scabies treatment.
What is Permethrin cream?
Permethrin cream is an insecticide cream which is very effective at killing scabies. It is the first line of treatment that your doctor will prescribe to you after a scabies diagnosis. Normally it is sold in a 30g tube as a 5% permethrin lotion.
Permethrin cream is a central part of scabies treatment, and one of the main courses of action in my recommended 30 day scabies treatment plan.
How To buy Permethrin cream?
The easiest way to get permethrin cream is to get a prescription from your doctor. However for many people getting a prescription isn’t always possible, and in some states the cream costs over $100 per tube! That can be quite the bill when trying to treat a family of five.
Below I’m going to give you all the options possible for getting Permethrin cream; hopefully this should give you the information you need to get treat your scabies safely and affordably.
Option 1: Your doctor or dermatologist
If you live in the US and you have insurance, hopefully this should be an easy enough option. If you have a decent doctor, he will look at your skin through his microscope and identify the mites and/or burrows. Then he’ll prescribe you the cream and your insurance should cover it. Hopefully you can get prescribed the Ivermectin treatment too as they work very well in conjunction with each other.
Option 2: Buy permethrin cream online
If you don’t have access to a doctor or your doctor is useless and won’t diagnose you properly, you can purchase the Permethrin online. One store that I have purchased items from in the past is Inhouse Pharmacy. It has been a while since I purchased anything there but I believe they are still legit. I’m not affiliated with them in any way – it’s just the best place I know of to get treatments without a prescription. This is their permethrin cream, which is the same brand I also used during my treatment:
Option 3: Make permethrin cream yourself
Sometimes you can get permethrin cream on Amazon, but the listings don’t last long. However, you can buy permethrin lotion (which is used for treating animals) and make your own.
What you will need first is some basic permethrin. I would recommend using Martin’s 10% Permethrin which you can get here on Amazon.
Next you’ll need a basic body lotion or moisturizer. A generic moisturizing cream like this is ideal. You don’t want anything with too many added fragrances or chemicals.
Simply mix these two together (half a cup of one, half a cup of the other) and you will have 5% permethrin cream.
This is also great if you need to treat several people in a household, as buying multiple small tubes of permethrin is going to cost a small fortune. You can read more about buying permethrin OTC in my expanded guide here.
Make sure you use the permethrin properly!
Now that you have permethrin cream, you need to understand how to use it properly. I have a very thorough guide to using permethrin cream effectively (most people use it incorrectly, which is why it doesn’t work!) and I highly recommend reading this guide before you start your treatment. You can check out that article here.
I also have a scabies treatment guide which covers the exact treatment I used to completely cure my scabies in one month. Permethrin cream is a central part of this treatment and I recommend you check it out if you’re currently trying to treat scabies, I’m sure it will help. Click here to head over there now.
Please note: This is not medical advice. I am not a doctor or your medical advisor. Mixing your own permethrin cream is not as safe as buying it ready-made from a pharmacy. You follow this advice at your own risk. I advise you to consult your own medical professionals if you have any concerns.
Warning! Permethrin also comes made with petroleum distillates and can cause severe health, skin and respiratory problems. Use only permethrin mixed with water. I made the mistake of using the wrong one.
Is the one that he recommended here the correct one?
I’m not able to buy permethrin in the Czech republic ať Amazon 🙁 scabies for 4 months. Our family, 3 children, using Tea tree, clove oil, aloe Vera gel, sulfur….no results, only for few days. Help!
Can you buy permethrin cream at your pharmacy? Europe shouldn’t be as strict as the US.
What do I use to stop the crawling feeling in my ear. It’s very far in.
What can be used for the inner ear safely for some type of mite I assume
Put two drops of white or brown vinegar in ear. Also witch hazel with (I think it has) 14% alcohol, just 2 to three drops. Kills mites and stops any feeling of mite movement.
I’ve been suffering with this werid inching from my 40s, 59 now. At nite my scrotum would inch so bad I had two separate hair brushes I used to find relief, even if for only that night. Would brush so hard a white powder would be airborn as I brushed extremely hard and vigorous.
Now, I used the brush on my back , and whole groin area plus stomach. So now my back and waist are pimples and inching along with legs, shins I mean. I will be using your treatment asap.
God bless you Jon. It took me a couple weeks to even figure out what it was. So…. It’s all over my body. But when it went to my face I lost my shit. I had ivermectin for my goats so in desperation and pure hatred for the scabies hord I drank it. Not bad tasting. I half expected to fall over dead. (Those doctors and therapists frigin medical warnings) Now I’m itching like a mad man. Then I found your article. You made me laugh and cry. Your a rogue ange jon. Many blessings to you and yours.
And death to all scabies. 😉
Phew, that’s a bit intense! Good luck, hope it worked, depending on how much you drank, shoulda nuked em though.
Is your treatment cure just for scabies or will it cure other mite problems. I have had this problem for longer than I care to say. I am not sure what I have. At first I got the scabies burrows on my hands and other area of my body. Sometimes I’ll get the itching which is not extreme. The burrows and the itching are gone. But I still get the crawling and bitting everywhere. I’ve been to a dermatologists who says I don’t have scabies, but she can’t tell me what I have. She refuses to do a skin graph, said was a waste of time.
If it’s not extremely itchy it’s unlikely to be scabies. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.
I have had a similar experience of the crawling, biting sensations, thumping in my ear and weird pulsations all over my body. I’ve been to numerous dr’s and dermatologist and a few said they thought it was scabies and others said no. We have a family of 5 and this has been a complete nightmare for the last 6 months bc my future ex husband didn’t believe me… and I’m a Registered Nurse! I’ve treated patients with scabies before too and this is my second time having them. The first time there was only three of us, me and my two boys, and I freaked out and bagged everything and scrubbed myself in bleach and they were gone quickly. Not this time! We have done so many treatments. I did the mix of permethrin myself and it worked most the time except when it got to the bottom of the bottle and I believe it wasn’t as effective as it was when it was first opened. But after we had a couple of negative skin scrapings, which I just believe were bc of how evasive these micro devils are!! Bc when I put the permethrin on tiny black specs come out of our skin. I’ve also witnessed something burrowing but only a couple of times. Mostly it has caused my hair to fall out, and my eyes to burn and feel so tired. After the first three doses of ivermectin, three blephs fell off from around my eyelids. Also one of my sons has a decreased immune system and I believe he has super atypical presentation. He had nodules in his ear lobes and I’ve had them in my breasts bc we got them three years ago and I was nursing my daughter who was one at the time. Both the kids were misdiagnosed when they had their initial rash three years ago, and I knew their diagnosis was wrong but when I mentioned scabies the doctors said no. The treatment is working now though but it has been an ongoing challenge to get my 16 yr old son to do the creams. And when he refuses when the rest of the house does it, it makes things even more complicated! I literally packed up and left my husband as I moved me and my children from south Florida to Indiana. (I know it’s cold up here but my dad lives here and I had to get away from the source of this infection who was siding with the doctors saying I was crazy and we didn’t have scabies. But our daughter who is four now, scratched herself so much when we were in Florida that she nearly caused a secondary infection from the big open lesions she created by scratching. I cut her nails but she’s use anything she could find to scratch. She couldn’t understand why daddy doesn’t believe mommy when she tells him we have a parasite living in our skin! The funny thing was that the doctors who didn’t believe it was scabies couldn’t tell me what it was. My son was misdiagnosed with psoriasis last year, and my daughter was misdiagnosed as having an amoxicillin rash. This has been the absolute worst thing ever!! I am looking forward to the days when I can focus my energy on anything else but getting skin mites out of my body. I am still concerned about the modules in my breasts as my mammogram came back with extremely dense tissue and something else but they didn’t say it was cancer so I didn’t need a follow up. I’m not sure if the ivermectin/permethrin actually kills them and the nodules stay stuck in there or if they’re not killed and keep reproducing? I do know that my breasts have gotten a lot less heavy and painful, but every time after I do a treatment more bumps pop up and quickly go away. The dr from Miami was saying she thought it was morgellons disease 🤨 but I don’t have any weird hairs coming out or my skin so… I’m sticking with my firm belief that it is scabies and it will quickly heal now that we are not being reexposed daily by my husband (he got them from working in the Everglades and staying in an RV with a bunch of dirty men working on towers) Anyways, your thoughts or comments would be helpful. 🙏🏽
Did anyone get rid of scabies after going through this plan
Have you actually made your own scabies 5% permethrin cream?
Do you use the Martins permethrin straight? Or do you mix it down to make 10% and then use it 50-50 with the lotion?
The permethrin says it’s a concentrate. Or at least that’s what mine says. Maybe I have the wrong one. So I need more help on the proper way to mix it.
Yes follow the instructions in the article on how to mix it down to 5%