How to treat scabies

summary

Nowadays, it is relatively easy to understand this disease. Scabies spread rapidly and are highly infectious. Generally, scabies can survive for 2-3 days after leaving the human body. Therefore, clothes, bedding, shoes, socks, hats and pillows used by patients can be indirectly transmitted. Therefore, the disease is often transmitted to each other in a family or dormitory. In particular, close contact with the body is more likely to be infected. How should scabies spread so fast be treated? Now, let's take a look at how to treat scabies.

How to treat scabies

First: take a bath with warm water, then change into clean clothes and trousers, and then apply 5% - 10% sulfur ointment externally. Pay attention to the parts without rash, and apply more on the parts with rash, and then massage repeatedly for a while.

Second: patients must be strictly isolated. During the period of illness, they should not sleep with other people to avoid contacting and infecting others. All patients in the family or dormitory must receive treatment at the same time.

Third: after regular treatment, the scabies are killed, but the itching and eczema like changes of the skin may last for several weeks to gradually subside, which may be related to the hypersensitivity state caused by scabies. It is not a failure of treatment. At this time, antihistamines should be added, and short-term oral corticosteroids should be given if necessary.

matters needing attention

Pay attention to personal hygiene, isolate and treat patients. Scald the contaminated clothes, bedding and sheets with boiling water to kill insects. If it can't be scalded, it can be stored in the sun for more than 1 week. Clothes can be soaked in 0.5% coal phenol soap for 5 minutes to kill scabies.