Conditions
Scabies
Scabies is a common and highly contagious skin condition caused by human scabies mites, which are microscopic, eight-legged creatures with round bodies that have infested humans and caused misery for around 2,500 years. It is spread by close physical contact, especially in overcrowded living conditions or during sexual contact, and occurs when the female mite burrows into the outer layer of skin to lay its eggs. When the larvae then hatch and grow into mites, the skin produces an allergic reaction and intense itching develops (usually 2-6 weeks after infestation), resulting in a rash of raised, pinkish-red spots that appear on the body and limbs. Scabies can affect people of any age but is most common in children and young adults. Your personal hygiene has no bearing on the condition, but like most conditions involving the dreaded louse or mite, you cannot simply wash them away. However, prescription or over-the-counter creams and lotions are available – but check with your GP.
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I got the scabies and I hate it it itches so bad and its the first time I've had this it is embarrasing. I went to the doc and they prescribed me that lotion your supposed to apply for 10 hours and then wash off but I can't use it until evetthing is super clean around me and I'm currently getting where I live cleaned so till. Then I have to suffer with that horrible itching
I have small blisters which occur on my feet and have done for some years, they can be extremely itchy to the point where I wake myself up scratching. If a blister pops a sticky clear liquid comes out and the itching calms down and the area dries up. Now, for the first time I have these blisters on the palms and backs of my hands, I have also noticed a few on my shoulder and top of arm. I mentioned this to a locum doctor who told me it was 'one of those things'! Should I be concerned? I work in a dental surgery and have young children, I dont want to put anyone else at risk if this is an infection.
Can anyone explain when GP'S say stop scaratching you will keep reinfecting yourself, I thought if you kill the scabies with what ever lotion then they would be dead, so how would you keep reinfecting yourself.
i ahve spots on my vargin please can you give advise its red and white around it
I moved in a new house a year ago and was allways very itchy on my legs been to the gp he said its scabbies.whatever cream or lotion was given seems not to be working and i even gave birth to my daughter 4 months ago and and the itchiness keeps comin and goin especially at night and it bleeds aswell when i itch.can anybody help me please?
Please help,
I arrived from Christchurch quite naive to the ways of the world. I had really only socialised with close friends and family. On my first visit to a girls' pyjama party, as I was secretly trying to get undressed someone mentioned that my labia was extremely large. I have since measured it, please can you assure me that 3 inches is OK.
Gemma
hi im 17 years old and i've had a spoty bottom for about 4 years now and i dont no what to do to get rid of it, i have tried all spot creams but they dont seem to go. please help its embarrassing!!!
If you sit down a lot, I was told that this is the main problem. Try sitting on a towel, this did the trick for me. A great tip to pass on
You don't need to have physical or sexual contact with another person to catch scabies. I caught it in bed in a hotel in Istanbul five years ago – woke up with hundreds of little 'bites' down one side of my body. I thought at first I'd been bitten by bed bugs, but on returing home was diagnosed with scabies. They itched like mad and it was horrible to think something was living off me. Luckily, it was easily treated. You spread malathion lotion (like Quellada, the treatment for crab lice) all over your body from neck to toe (as another poster commented, it doesn't affect you above the neck), leave it for 24 hours, then shower it off. Repeat if necessary. Partners should also do the same, just to be sure, if you'd had even the slightest contact between infection and treatment (it's 'fun' and easier if you apply the lotion to each other!). You also need to wash thoroughly anything you've come into direct contact with, so clothes, towels, bed sheets etc need to be treated. I found that once it's gone, it's gone. In five years, I've never had a repeat infection. Touchwood!
hi im 17 years old and i've had a spoty bottom for about 4 years now and i dont no what to do to get rid of it, i have tried all spot creams but they dont seem to go. please help its embarrassing!!!
I believe I have had scabies for 5 years and getting serious help from the NHS is futile, I would tell you derbac lyclear does seem to kill of scabies but I was told the these lotions are not killing the eggs under the skin. My plan 6378- 58 to try and get rid of this nightmare is to get to the dead sea in Isreal for one month to break the scabie cycle which I believe can be up to 24 days. Yer it's nightmare, good look you willllll need it. Apprently neem oil will kill the scabies see neem genie on the net.
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