If you think you just put some cream on your body and scabies is gone like poof the magic dragon, you are wrong, with scabies comes post scabies and a slew of problems that that brings. It makes your skin itchy and your skin is healing from all the stuff under the skin, this will take time for some people 4 months some people years. So scabies mite be dead but you will still feel their effects for awhile.