I caught scabies in April and am still having the itchiness after many sessions of treatment.

I have had two different treatments of the cream, and both didn't seem to work. My doctor then prescribed the oral medication about 5 weeks ago and I saw great improvements. This week, however, I'm itchy again and the old bumps are just as inflamed as before. Did I catch scabies again or did my itching cause the shrinking bumps to swell? How long till the bumps go COMPLETELY away?

Please help!

Also if the scabies lessions did start flattening but returned it is likely you were reinfected. I would suggest next time you treat use a natural treatment suggested by Jamie and then treat your environment maybe with some kind of raid bug bomb which are available at walmarts and drug stores, they contain small ammounts of pesticide which is safe to treat your environment.

I would suggest try using sulfur for a treatment as a lot of people have reported the creams such as nix and kwelleda p are not effective. Sulfur is natural and 100% effective in killing any kinds of skin mites, it also penetrates the skin alot deeper and kill the mites. Sometimes people just speculate they have scabies mites without identifying the actual mite, hate to inform people but sulfur is the only effective treatment for bird mites and rat mites but will also completely kill scabies as well. From my experience using kwelleda p or nix is they do not even give you enough cream to cover your whole body in the first place, and it does a bad job at penetrating your skin and staying on overnight. They should really come up with some better treatments that penetrate the skin to kill the scabies mite and their life cycle. Anyways, I would suggest you use sulfur as it will kill your scabies and you can move on with your life. Here is the site I got them from:

Scabies Sulfur Creams and Soaps Click Here

Hope this helps;

Judy


p.s - It will get better day after day, take anthehistimines daily and epsom salt baths nightly.

This happened to me also until I started to use the sulphur soaps and creams, it seems scabies like to hide in the thicker parts of the skin and it's folds and the permethrin is useless on it cause it cannot get into your skin. Try the sulphur creams out theyll kill all the scabies for good!

Good Luck and remember it takes some time for post scabies itching to go away also

Mark

hope to see myself treated also, ive been bathing with sulfur soap and loofah for a month, and it showed a good results...
how can i get rid of dark spots caused by intensed scratching?

I am on week 3 of my second treatment. I just got a nasty flair up today. My hands and bends of my arms. I want this to go away. Apparently I have been mis-dignost for SEVERAL months, infected my newborn and husband only. We all did the permethrin. They show no more signs.. I do. I just hope since I was the host of it and had it for a long time that it will take me longer to heal. I am purchasing the sulfur soap just so I can have additional peace of mind. Heres to another 3 more weeks of freaking out. Happy Holidays.

Try using sulfur its natural and wont cause the weird itchy side effects, it also helps heal your lesions faster. Be careful with Benadryl, be sure to take a few days off of it so you can monitor your situation to see if the "scabies itch" remains, sometimes benadryl masks the symptoms so people go longer having it. The first few days after scabies treatment your skin will still be itchy because of the dead mites and the fact the treatments really dry your skin out, you should spend a few days moisturizing your skin or even a few weeks.