Scabies, how to treat it?

August 25, 2021

Written by Eblouir Group

August 25, 2021

Written by Eblouir Group

Scabies is a contagious skin condition caused by a mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. Every year approximately 130 million people get affected by it. Without treatment, it can pass from one person to another unless the whole family becomes infected.

The adult female mite burrows itself into the skin of the human and lays its eggs. Our body immune response reacts to these eggs and causes an allergic reaction. A highly itchy red rash appears on the skin. You need not worry, scabies is a treatable skin condition.

Symptoms of Scabies.

When you get exposed to scabies, it can take up to 6 weeks to develop the symptoms. The symptoms include an itchy rash that gets worse at night. Common sites are armpit, wrist, area between fingers, elbow, waist, penis and buttocks.

The rash appears as bumps under the skin or tiny bites. This rash sometimes gets infected with bacteria, and you need to take antibiotics for it.

Your doctor can diagnose scabies simply by inspecting the affected area of your skin or scrapping a small area of the skin to get a sample and observe it under the microscope.

Treatment of scabies

To get rid of the mite, your doctor prescribes you the ointments, creams or lotions to apply directly at night when mites are most active. You need to apply them to the whole body from the neck down and leave it for 6 to 8 hours.

Doctors usually prescribe you these topical medicines to kill the mites.

Permethrin cream
Benzyl Benzoate lotion.
Sulfur ointment.
Lindane lotion

To prevent relief from the symptoms, your doctor may include these medications.

Antihistamines to prevent itching.
Antibiotic to treat the superadded infection.
Steroids to prevent swelling.
Oral Ivermectin, if you didn’t get improvement after the initial treatment.

How to prevent scabies?

Scabies is a contagious disease. It can spread from one person to another. Avoid direct skin to skin contact with the person infected with scabies and avoid wearing and using unwashed clothes of the person infected by scabies.

Wash your clothes and beddings in hot water that reaches 50 degrees Centigrade and then dried them for 10 to 20 minutes. Getting mice doesn’t have anything to do with your hygiene. People who live in a congested environment like hostels may get infected with the mites.

Scabies, how to treat it?

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