Scabies Home Remedies

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Scabies is a skin infection caused by tiny itch mites called sarcoptes scabiei. When the female mites infect a person, it burrows into the outermost layer of the human skin and lay eggs. A single mite can lay up to 25 eggs. The larvae will move up to the skin surface and mature in less than 3 weeks. The mites will continue multiplying unless they are eliminated.

The symptoms of scabies are intense itching and skin rash. This is the result of tunneling and movements of the mites within the skin. Scratching the itch will cause the skin to develop small pimple like bumps or skin sores. Further scratching may result in other skin infections.

Scabies is contagious and spreads easily through skin to skin contact. Sharing personal belongings such as bed sheet, clothing, brush and towel of an infected person will also spread the infection. You must see a doctor to confirm if it is scabies. Your doctor will provide you with the medication. If a person in a home is infected, the whole family or household has to be treated.

Usually even after a treatment, you will still itch for at least a week. This is what is termed as post scabies. But the treatment will not kill the mites that have infected your home. So you have to do thorough cleaning and some self care.

Scabies Home Remedies to Treat Scabies

Change your bedding every day until your home is free from the mites. If you don't want to do that, cover it with a plastic so that it is easier to spray and wipe with a mixture of vinegar and borax or benzyl benzoate.

Wash your laundry in hot water and mix it with safe color bleach and benzyl benzoate. Dry them under hot temperature or under the hot sun.

Soak your combs, brushes in hot water, benzyl benzoate, borax or hydrogen peroxide and wash them.

You must thoroughly vacuum and wash or steam your carpet, sofas, chair, shoes and even car seats. Cover your seats with plastic and spray the mixture of vinegar and borax.

For items that you can't wash, put them in a plastic bags and keep it some place for several weeks. The mites are parasites that feed on your skin. Without it, they will die.

Apply benzyl benzoate on the affected skin. This solution is known as a scabicide and has shown to be effective to kill the itch mites.

Make a paste of neem oil mix with turmeric root and apply it on the infected skin. A doctor and researcher in India has successfully treated and cured scabies sufferers using this mixture.

Here's another scabies home remedy that might work for you. Crush, chop or slice several cloves of peel garlic. Add olive oil, stir and mix them well. Apply it of your skin that is infected, wrap it with plastic and fasten it. Leave it for an hour. Repeat the treatment twice a day and as many days as you think that the mites are still there. At the same time, eat raw garlic or take garlic supplement.

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