Guest wrote:
Great post with a lot of great information. Though I do recommend if you had scabies for some time or were misdiagnosed that you use sulfur treatments as the permethrin will not work as it sucks at penetrating the skin.
All in all sulfur is 100% effective in killing scabies mites, rat mites, bird mites and is 100% natural so you do not have to worry about post secondary skin infections or cancer. And if permethrin treatments fail after using them twice 5-7 days apart it is likely not going to work so you will need to do full body sulfur treatments.
It's important to add if you use sulfur to treat scabies you will need to do so everyday for at least a week but i suggest two weeks.
Sulfur is not 100% effective.
There was several studies done on it. One study was sulfur was tested as a treatment on 96 individuals 71 of those were successful that's 81.25% success rate. This was done all over the world at the same time and they all had similar statistics.
97% of the time if permethrin is used and scabies do not go away it is because you did not do something right. Its not that the medication didn't work. Permethrin resistant mites are only seen where large scale infections have taken place i.e. in aboriginal and other tribes in developing countries. So do not think that for some reason you are special out of the 300 million people that contract it a year and they some how became resistant just for you.
