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Home: Diseases & Conditions: Scabies: Facts
Scabies: Facts
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Facts About Scabies
- Scabies can affect anybody. It is not true, that only low income people get it. Scabies is a contagious condition and is invariably caught by contact with another human being.
- If you develop very bad itching especially at night with small bumps, you can suspect scabies.
- In children, scabies may affect any part of the body. In adults, scabies commonly affects warm moist areas and skin folds- around nipples, groin, buttocks, elbows, wrist, between fingers, etc.
- Pets do not spread scabies.
- All items used by the patient must be cleaned with very hot water, or sealed in a plastic bag and kept away for two weeks. The mites will die. The house carpets, furniture, etc., must be vacuumed thoroughly.
Article created on: September 12, 2006
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