Scabies can be diagnosed

[Jfthomas]

I had a friend once that gave me scabies.  I thought there was something wrong when, after a few weeks of us first meeting his "eczema" was not getting any better and he kept developing these new red bumps that sort of looked like tiny red blisters.  He was the only person I had dated in months and the only one I dated while we were together. After a few weeks of dating and a couple of nights sleeping in his bed I also started ithcing. Then I started to develop bumps but they were not in the places I had heard you find evidence of scabies. The bumps were on my shoulders and upper arm between my elbow and shoulder, and a few on my chest. I went to the dermatologist who at first glance said I don't think you have scabies, but she took a skin scraping and I guess it was by some miracle she got lucky because she confirmed, yes, I had scabies. I used the lotion she prescribed. I called my friend, he went to his doctor who said no, you have eczema, and prescribed more anti-itch lotion. I urged him to see a dermatoligist in his town who did a scraping and told him, he did not have scabies even though he told them that his partner went to a dermotologist and was diagnosed with scabies. Also during the time a platonic friend spent the night at my house and two or three weeks later had evidence of scabies. He went to the doctor and told them he spent the night at a house where there might have been scabies and his Dr. gave him scabies lotion, his bumps and itch went away. I went to visit my out of town partner and gave him the prescribed scabies medication to use since his doctor nor his dermatologist believed he had scabies. He used it and miraculously his "eczema" went away after about a week. So my question is this. Why does  Dr. Rockoff on this site refuse to believe that the K6271 has scabies? And why does he say you cannot get scabies except from close intimate physical contact?  My friend got it from sleeping on my sofa, where my partner and I had apparently dropped them. How many doctors should my partner had to go to before one of them would listen to him? It seems that they would have given him the prescription as soon as he told them his partner came down with a case of scabies.


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