Treatments for Scabies - Scabies Treatments

What is Scabies

Scabies is a common contagious infestation affecting over one million people each year in the US with over 130 million cases globally. No one is immune, the likelihood of different age groups contracting scabies are fairly consistent with people contracting

Anyone Can Contract Scabies

No one was more shocked than me when I was diagnosed with scabies mites. I am a very clean and tidy person, how did I possibly get scabies? In my research I have learned that scabies can infect anyone and

Scabies Symptoms

With so many skin conditions and allergies that exist, scabies can often go unnoticed or undiagnosed for weeks. What’s worse no one wants to admit or consider the possibility that they have scabies because of the stigma attached to the

I think one of the reasons it took me so long to get help for my scabies outbreak was because I couldn’t possibly believe that I could get scabies.

I’m a clean person and I have excellent hygiene. I thought only the homeless and people in third world countries could get scabies, not me living in my clean middle class environment.

I couldn’t have been more wrong and it made me confront some of my prejudges, also leaving me very humble. If I could get scabies, then I know anyone can. It’s just a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Scabies is a communicable disease and unlike blood-borne illness, scabies can be transmitted actually much easier.

Using public toilets, the gym, not properly cleaned hotel rooms etc. could all be areas that someone with scabies could have left some scabies eggs behind. It is commonly believed that you only get scabies from direct, prolong contact with another infected person, but I can attest that I contracted scabies from an environmental source.

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What is Scabies

Anyone Can Contract Scabies

Scabies Symptoms

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