Nutrition Health Chat: Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 5-6 PM Eastern. Learn how vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients affect your health. Free live Q&A. Join us!
Member Comments are provided by individuals and reflect their personal opinions only. Under NO circumstances should you act on any advice or opinion posted in this forum. ALWAYS check with your personal physician before taking any action regarding your health! MedHelp International and our partners, sponsors and affiliates have no obligation to monitor any comments posted on this site, or the content and/or accuracy of such exchanges. MedHelp International does not endorse the views of any user.
ISO info on scabees
by Grannybeck, Aug 16, 2008 05:30AM
My doctor suggested scabees (sp?), treated but the itch came back. If my bed or sofa is infected, how do I get rid of it and how long would it hang around without a human host?
This discussion is related to SKIN RASH/FUNGUS.
This discussion is related to SKIN RASH/FUNGUS.
Post Comment
Related Communities
Recent Videos
Related Expert Forums
Recent Activity
Most Popular Trackers
RSS
Expert Activity
Community Members
Most Viewed Health Pages
Once away from the human body, mites usually do not survive more than 48-72 hours. When living on a person, an adult female mite can live up to a month.
All clothes, bedding, and towels used by the infested person during the 3 days before treatment should be washed in hot water and dried in a hot dryer. A second treatment of the body with the same cream or lotion may be necessary.
Itching may continue for 2-3 weeks, and does not mean that you are still infested.
You could take some antihistamine medications for the itching and apply calamine lotion at the sites to help soothe the lesions.
You could read more about this at the following links -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabies
and
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/scabies/factsht_scabies.htm
Let us know about how you are doing and if you have any other doubts.
Regards.