ok wel i have had scabies for like 3 months and i have tryed lice killer and scabie cream and nothing is working i really need help its on me havds my whole chest and stomach and my legs it like it keeps spreading no matter what i use i need help asap i cant even sleep from the itching ugh,,,, im beging to get hopless please help me!

I used Nix over the counter. One pharmacy I called said nothing over-the-counter would work, but I was desperate. I was so grossed out by the yuck of bugs eating me…

Nix works! I used it every day for three days, which is not what the label says (it says two treatments a week apart) but I couldn’t stand the thought of waiting to see if it was working. Within two days, I could tell it was working because there was no spread. The existing sites still itched insanely but I was able to bear it knowing it was working. Now nine days later, they’re completely gone. TRY NIX!

I was absolutely desperate, so I have been treating these things with nothing but IcyHot for about 5 days now and they are almost all gone! No more extremely sore patches from them digging in either. If I knew it was this easy I’d have done it months ago. It is unbelievable the misery they cause.

Here is what does not work.

Tea Tree Oil, or any of the usual herbals. I have not tried Pine Oil, or PennyRoyal, or Oregano, but did try Citronella oil, Pepper (which is the source of the insecticide Piperine), Tea Tree oil, Goldenseal, MSM, Clove oil and Neem. While there was relief from itching and there was peeling, the redness persisted. Thyme oil, Chapparal, topical vinegar, Citronella and Camphor is supposed to work. I think the camphor is the key, as any insecticide remedy I have seen include camphor in it. It is the phenols in thymol and other herbs that the insects do not seem to like.

What did/does work:

25% precipitated sulfur in vaseline. Simply mix one tablespoon of dry sulfur with 3 tablespoons of vaseline. You get a yellow custard like paste. It smells like brimstone, but does not burn. Don’t get it in your eyes, as it will cause tearing. Leave it on for three days. Reapply often. Change clothes every day with newly laundered clothes, laundering your old ones that day. Every day launder your bed sheets as well. Handle old clothes with sulfur/vaseline on hands. After three days, take a bath with borax and baking soda in the water. Put sodium carbonate (baking soda) and borax in your wash every day. Wash on hot twice, and dry on hot twice. Put everything that cannot be water washed in a plastic bag with a dust of diatomaceous earth, boric acid, and talc and pack it garbage bags with 40 moth balls. Leave for two weeks. Take the clothes, bags etc out, vacuum them, and send them to dry cleaning. Wear throw away plastic gloves and use the sulfure and vaseline on hands. Avoid most contact with uncleaned clothes. Dust furniture with boric acid, diatomaceous earth and talc and leave for three days, then vacuum carefully and steam clean. While vacuuming or dusting, wear a 3M cotton dusk mask. Diatomaceous earth is a fine silica powder and it is really no good for the lungs. Boric acid is poisonous to ingest. 6 grams could kill you. Don’t put it in a steamer, or steam or iron until it is vacuumed completely. It might be a good idea to ventilate well while cleaning. There is no guarantee that spraying furniture with permethrin and pyperonil for mites will do a complete job as you have to get it on the insect. The powder will, as the insect will eventually get into it. Children should not get powders on them. For that matter they should not get permethrins on them either. As far as lindane goes, I have seen dogs that had to be put down because they got too much on them. They lick their fur and if you wash them with lindane, they will get brain deterioration. If you have kids, then they should stay elsewhere while this powder disinfecting is going on. To disinfect children’s bedding, it would be advisable to clean it with a steam cleaner with borax and baking soda in the steamer. If it can be afforded, chuck the stuff, as that is way more sure. Clean all surfaces that may stand it with 1 gallon of hot water with one cup of javex bleach added. Borax and baking soda washing water will do for sensitive surfaces. It is not a bad idea to bathe in water with about 6 caps of bleach added. Nurses have noted that this seems to help. No worse than a swimming pool. Protect your eyes. Once the house is more or less disinfested, and in about one week, do the sulfur body treatment again for three days.

well it all started with my sister catching scabies and well needless to say it was very contangious i got it my mom and dad also! well we use this cream for 14 days it should go away but i am still itching anyone help!

I jus used permethrin yesterday but I’m still alittle itchy and I feel like somns crawling on my skin, is this normal?

umm all creams that people suggest are all bullshit ! Has anyone ever heard of Lindane lotion ? you get it at the pharmacy but it needs to be perscribed its 130$ . why is it that not one site mentions it !! LINDANE LOTION . go to the doctor smack him in the face for making you buy stupidity and tell him to perscribe you lindane .

Does Tea Tree Oil work? I just got diagnosed on Monday and I am so worried. It took me about 3 weeks and then I finally went to the doctor to see what they were- they weren’t that bad at first and I thought they’d go away. Boy was I wrong!! The doctor prescribed me Permethrin and I’ve done it once, but I still keep getting bumps. I keep reading stories about people that have had them for years and I am so scared that I won’t get rid of them now. Any suggestions?? I have washed everything in hot hot water and haven’t worn anyhting twice or slept on the same sheets. A lot of my bedding is in bags in the garage, but I still feel like that’s not enough.

Michelle Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
I had norweegin scabies. The rash completely covered my abdomen. I got permethrin 5% from my dr but it was unsucceseful. So I baught freedom 45 which is a treatment for dogs. It is 45% permethrin. Its very cheep. I found it at cosco. Then I baught a suphur dust for plants at osh that was 90%. I mixed 4 tubes of the freedon 45 and about a tablespoon of the sulphur dust with 5 tablespoons of vasoline. I applied it at night from neck to toe. I dusted my whole house with the sulpher. I washed my bedding and clothes in hot water.
The mites are gone and it also killed all the spiders and fleas in my house!

Ok look…seriously..i thought it would never go away. I started itching so bad and i just thought it was because of my cat or because of my allergies to pollen or something. But, i was not sexually active which freaked me out. Eventually i got a few weird bumps on my genital that itched a lot. I waited for a while, but then decided to finally go get checked out. Turned out, I had scabies. Believe it or not, they said i could have got it from someone just giving me a big hug and hugging me too long. Chances are slim with that, i probably got it just from laying in someones bed with them. It comes from prolonged skin to skin contact. Anyways, they prescribed me Permethryin. I washed ALL of my clothes in cold water, and then dried all of them on high til they were completely dry. I sealed my slippers and some stuffed animals and shoes in a sealed trash bag for one month. I apllied the cream like told, and a week later i put it on again cuz i was still itchy. About two to three weeks after the second application all the bumps on my genitals were totally gone. I would still get itch after working out a lot, playing tennis, (sweating) or after using a tanning bed. But, about a month or month and a half after that second application, it was all gone. My roomate never got it, and I eventually got a boyfriend after two weeks after the first application and he never got it and I am completely healed. Honestly i read so many of these things tring to figure this out, and just do what i said. I have a cat too, they can’t get the human form, and dogs cant either. So you don’t have to worry about that. They don’t transfer easily from non-skin contact either, so carpets, and cars, and stuff you are proably ok. Like i said, roomate never got it. But i wouldn’t wear their jackets or sleep with them until you have used the cream. Most people only have 3-5 actual scabies bugs on them anyway so the cream usually will kill them with one application. JUST WASH EVERYHTING cuz you have to kill the eggs. But yup, dont be frustrated if you are itch a little after the cream cuz I was itchy for amonth after, but it is gone now. So DO everything I said and you will be fine! e-mail me with questions…doublefault3015@aol.com!

In India, the traditional treatment for scabies is a paste made with Neem leaves and Turmeric, which is reputed to be 97% effective. It is messy, but hey! if it works what the heck.
Neem leaves are not readily available, but you can buy Neem Skin Cream with added Turmeric on the internet from the Neem People.

i have scabies and i have use CALADRYL CLEAR it’s helping a tad

An excellent remedy that I have found online for scabbies was the following: First, use morning urine and 1/4 cup mustard, mix well in a spray bottle, mist all over body, and leave on for two complete hours. Then, rinse in a regular shower without using any soap. Afterwards apply an olive oil/ peroxcide mix, leave on for aprox. ten minutes. Afterwards take your regular shower. If itching continues apply toothpaste to any remaining itching areas. I hope this works for you!

My husband picked up these burrowing creatures in a tropical country. We looked at them under a microscope. They were ugly tick-like things. I prayed and researched and the following strategy worked, (thank you, God!) I mixed a teaspoon of tea tree oil with a half cup of olive oil. I added a spoonful of garlic and tumeric, which stains. Then my husband brushed it all over. He put on a pair of biking pants (the form-fitting polyester kind). This is because anything made of cotton would absorb the greasy stuff. The remedy works better when is stays put on the skin. What I will add to this mix is neem oil and a bit of sulfur (not more than 10%… I had to order this from the pharmacy). That way, when the little bugs emerge to mate- they die. We had immediate results from this.

I bought NIX and it seems to help. I cant
really relax on a couch even if i put a
blanket on it.

I get really itchy when i sit on couches,
i bought a lice killer in cvs and spray it
on the couch.

My question is, is that freedom 45 and
that 90% sulfur, Is that harmful for ur
skin and toxic if it goes into ur pours?

Thats to much permetin for skin???
Email me if sarapaxon@yahoo.com

I used tea tree and oil of oregano in olive oil and covered my whole body then kept applying to itchy spots. It worked!!!

Hi Liz,

I am also using vinegar all over my body to treat scabies as what old folks advised me. Is this really effective to treat scabies? Have you treated yourself using this?

Thanks for your help.

Jay

i hate scabies

Hey guys, I was able to get rid of my scabies last year with a product called Mitactin. It’s nontoxic and believe me, it works great. I thought i was going to go crazy with the itching 24/7. I used 2 tubes of pyrethium from my doctor and I still could not get rid of the mites.

You can get it from Qbased Healthcare.

here’s the link

http://www.allstop.com/scabies/scabies-skin-infection-treatment/index.html

If you try this. Keep in mind that when you first put on the cream it will go on clear (not much lather) but as it starts drying (in a minute or two) you can rub it into a lather (the lather will then fade completely clear as it finishes drying). If you have had this for a while, the first sensation may be a little stingy and smelly, but that only means it’s working (killing off the mites)..the relief comes in a minute or two when your body starts to relax from not constantly itching. Hope this helps!