I am having quite a problem. About a month ago I started getting a little itch here and there. I thought it was anxiety. It got worse. I was told by a friend who I visit often that her kids got sent home from school with letters complaining about thier hygiene, that they do not shower or change their clothes. I myself drove one of the kids somewhere one day and the smell was beyond description. In the meantime, I acquired some used furniture that I think had mites and bed bugs...the furniture was hauled off to the dump yesterday and I found dead bed bugs on my carpet after they guys took the furniture out. I had this furniture in my bedroom :( My itch is now very bad, and I have red bites on my hands and arms and one on my shoulder. I saw a doctor yesterday and she prescribed the medicated cream, which I used yesterday. I have been readin ghere. I went all over today looking for sulpher soap but could not find it. I wound up having to get lavender scented soap, as I read that mites are repelled by the smell. For the past three days I have been cleaning like a maniac. I have wiped down my kitchen and bathroom with clorox bleach, I have been vacuming twice a day, I put my mattress in a plastic bed bug protector, I have washed my bedding two days in a row, I have sprayed my comfortor with lysol. Tomorrow when I get energy back I have more laundry to do and I am going to wipe down my car and seats with lysol. Those icky kids have been in my car. No telling what's in there now. I'm not sure where I got scabies but I think it was both sources, the kids and the used furniture I got rid of. I have sprayed my remaining furniture and carpeting with bed bug and mite spray and even lice spray. I might be going overboard but when I saw those dead bed bugs I flipped my lid. My itch is worse at night. I have a few marks and no rash, but a pretty dark black and blue mark on my leg that I don't know is related to scabies or bed bugs. I start to itch as soon as I wake up in the morning and I itch in my home often. Is this me being mental or is it possible to have these symptoms. I am usually fine away from home although I was at an appointment the other day and after being fine for an hour my legs started to itch. The doctor really said very little. She said its hard to catch scabies and that I could be around people and go to appointments. Every white or black spec I see is a bug to me now...I think I'm a little paranoid about it all. I have wiped down my wood furniture with lysol wipes. Does lysol kills scabies? Is there anywhere other than online where I can get the sulpher soap that anyone knows of? Do scabies go in your hair? My scalp has yet to itch, and I have no bites on my face yet. Thanks for any help you can give me.

Thanks. I contacted the company and will purchase the scabie things when I have money next month.

I am wondering. I itch incredibly as soon as I arrive home. I also itch really bad when I visit friends whose kids got told in school they must shower and change clothes. Truthfully, I don't know who I got it from, but I suspect the low hygiene kids. Is it possible I am having pschological issues or can I be so infested that the mites jump on me when I arrive at home or friends house? Not sure if the itch would start so soon....

Also, I slept with the light on last night and slept much better although I did wake up a bit itchy. Do the mites hide in the dark or does it matter?

I have read here all the remedies. Funds are limited. I was able to purchase Borax for laundry and gold bond menthol lotion to try to keep the bugs off me.

I have asthma and am starting to have breathing problems from spraying chemicals on carpet and furniture so I can't do this anymore. I vacume every day now. I have vacumed the car today and sprayed it with lysol. Not sure if lysol kills scabies. I have read conflicting things.

hi, thanks for the info.

I started itching bad on the sides and tops of my feet about 4 whole weeks before I realized it wasn't anxiety. I started suspecting something becaue I have a good friend whose kids got sent home from their school with letters about poor hygiene. I felt so bad yesterday because I wouldn't let this kid hug me. I told her I had fleas at home..how do you explain scabies to a 14 year old? Wont' visit these friends and I know if they get scabies they will blame me when I think i got it from their kid! Anyway, I was itchy way before I put two and two together.

I am exhausted from the cleaning and vacuming. I can't imagine why I was so itchy in bed if I washed my bedding in Borax. I rarely itch in other rooms in my apartment. Its just at night. Last night I took my bathrobe off after itching so bad which I did wash in Borax too, and then shut th elight out and actually fell asleep with little itching and slept all night for once.

This has been exhausting and I feel like I am getting depressed.

I use the medicated cream for the second time this week. My regular dr is on vacation until another week from now. I am going to ask that she cal lme and tell me what else I can do for this.

I find some of the advice being given on here over the top and borderline absurd. I went to the doctor who immediately diagnosed me with scabies. I had sign in-between my fingers, blisters on my hands and feet and red marks just below my belly button. My doctor prescribed me with a one treatment cream that you rub on from head to toe and leave on for 12-14 hours while you sleep. I put this cream on and within 20 minutes I had the larger scabies bugs and the small larva popping out of my skin trying to get away from the cream. It was a simple matter to grab them an crush them even though I'm pretty sure they were already dead.

The itch you are feeling is not from the scabies mites themselves. It is an allergic reaction to the scabies mite and their fecal matter. (gross but true)

There is also no need to wash your sheets and clothes in all these expensive chemicals. Washing all your clothes and sheets and pillow cases and blankets in a hot wash in the washing machine will kill the bugs and wash away any eggs. Don't sleep on your mattress for 48 hours. The scabies mite can only live for 36-48 hours away from a human host.

The allergic reaction (the itch) that you are feeling will take some time to go away. This is not an indication of a failed treatment. For whatever reason, your body has a delayed response to the presence or absence of the allergen in this case. It will take 1-2 weeks for the itch to go away depending on how long you had the mites present in your skin.

Interesting facts, most people only have around 15 full-grown mites living in their skin with many smaller larva. The topical medical cream that I was prescribed was based on a chrysanthemum based insect toxin that causes the nerves in the mite to continuously fire until death. The itch described by sufferers is an allergic reaction. Take a benadryl or claritin! It helps a bit.

So go get a proper prescription, wash everything you wear or touch for long periods of time and you'll feel better in a week or two. Good luck!

I wasn't able to afford to order any sulfur treatments online. I did take some advice I read about and did buy body lotion with menthol in it because writers said the menthol smell repells the bugs. I'm not sure if it worked as I was still very itchy. I bought Borax, which I think I was allergic to. I bought a new pillow and a mattress cover but couldn't afford one for my box spring. I used the prescription cream from the doctor and I did wind up with head lice as well from these filthy kids. How sad that they seem to be neglected by my friends. I went to the doctor last week for follow up and told her what occurred as she was on vacation when this all started for me. She told me that since my friends had told me they were cleaning, even vacuming behind furniture, and doing a lot of laundry, and one of them had a recent short haircut, that she (my doctor) thinks the kids school told them to fix the problem. I have had reason to be there recently and will not go back. I'm sure it has to be psychosomatic but while there and afterwards I get VERY itchy.

The exhausting part was cleaning my home and doing all the washing. I went ballistic. I even bought lysol spray and sprayed walls and now spray my shoes before I put them on. I spray in my car before I get in it. I am not sure if kids can be carriers of pests and just not get sick. I am told that nobody at my friends house is itching or had head lice. My doctor thinks they lied to me also. Their mother was here during this scabbie problem all day one day insisting she help me clean and put things in plastic bags, telling me she didn't careif she gets it. I thought she was nuts. maybe she felt guilty. I don't know.

The past two weeks I have noticed some small chew holes in my carpeting. They almost look like cigarette burns in my carpeting without the burn. This is usually noticed by me the day after I vacume. Somebody suggested to me I might have carpet moths. After a month of not sitting on my living room furntiture I sprayed it the other day and hours later sat on it for the first time and thought i felt bugs jumping on my legs. Just little "ping pings" but could see nothing. I am not sure what to think....I have contacted an exterimatory for advice now about these carpet holes and invisible bugs that jump on me when I sit on my loveseat. I know I am not nuts. Also, I don't know how I got bugs in here. I'm on the top floor in the city. This is not the country. I think somebody in an adjoining apartment did a bug bomb one day, as I smelled bug spray outside one day. Maybe their bugs came in here.

My scabbies itch, however, is gone. I still have clothes in plastic bags in my dining room. I do not know what to use to wash out my dresser drawers. Any suggestions?

You must clean like twice a day and make sure you treat during the night time as this is when scabies are active, you can spot treat during the day on areas that are more problemed, you can tell this by thick skin or lesions.

Don't worry from time to time people around here have attempted to use salt and bleach on their bodies. So yeah scabies can make people desperate and they will try just about anything, personally I would never use bleach or pesticides on my body ever!