Home Remedies For Scabies

Scabies is caused by a contagious infection from a parasite that spreads very quickly over the skin. The parasitic mites that cause scabies are almost impossible to detect without a magnifying glass. They make their home under the skin and case the skin to become very itchy and irritable.

Since they lay eggs and multiply very quickly, it is important to eliminate the mites at the earliest opportunity or else the entire body could become infected. People that are infected with scabies can be recognised by the large number of tiny red spots that cover their skin.

The red spots are actually the places where the mites make tunnels through the skin as they search for food to eat. The itching from a scabies infection is truly awful. Immediate treatment is a must.

It is also important to take adequate measures to prevent infection if any friends, work colleagues or members of the family are known to be infected. See a doctor immediately. The doctor will examine a skin sample from an afflicted part of your skin, and will be able to confirm if you are suffering from a case of scabies or not. If it is scabies, you will have to receive treatment immediately. Don’t worry about the treatment you receive. It is safe and very effective.

You will be required to apply a lotion all over your body on the infected parts of your body, as well as the uninfected parts. The problem is that the mites could already have laid eggs on the parts of the skin where the symptoms have not yet manifested. After the lotion is applied to the body, it is important to ensure that it remains on the infected areas for a few hours at least. This will ensure that the parasitic mites are killed off quickly. Certain types of lotion have to be washed off after twelve hours or so.

It will take several applications of the cream before the mites all go away. The treatment must then be continued for a few more days to prevent the scabies from reappearing. Wash all your clothes and bedding thoroughly at 50 degrees Celsius, because the mites would have transferred to them from your body when you were infected. After five days, most of the mites in the clothes and bedding will die of starvation, but it is still important to wash all the items in hot water.

The itchiness will not disappear immediately, though and the skin will still be itchy for up to three weeks. The treatment for scabies is very effective, and the lotion will kill all the mites used. However, if the skin is left untreated for too long, you will end up with literally thousands of these nasty mites in your skin. In such cases, stronger treatment is needed to completely eliminate the parasites. That is why it is crucial to see a doctor as soon as you notice the red spots, and get them to start your scabies treatments immediately.