How to Get Rid of Scabies

Scabies is a contagious skin condition caused by tiny mites, it also called sarcoptes scabiei. These mites burrow into the skin, then breed and lay their eggs, causing a rash and intense itchiness. The scabies mite usually is spread by direct, prolonged, skin-to-skin contact is the mode of transmission. Anyone can get scabies — little babies, adults, kids like you. The mites aren't picky. They don't care if you're clean, dirty, rich, or poor. All they want is to live on or in the skin of a human being, and any human being will do.

Symptoms of Scabies
Signs and symptoms of scabies include:
Scabies frequently occur in:
• Fingers
• Toes
• Buttocks
• Elbows
• Waist area
• Genital area
• Inner elbow
• Knee
• shoulders
• Under the breasts in women

In children, the affected are:
• Face
• Neck
• Palms
• Soles
• Lips
• Head

Causes of Scabies
Scabies can spread by the following actions:
• Having sex with an infected person.
• Sharing a bed, towels or clothes with an infected person.
• Direct skin-to-skin contact with an infected person.

How to Get Rid of Scabies
1. Apply tea tree oil directly over the affected areas. Tea tree oil has the anti-septic and antiparasitic properties that kill bacteria.

2. Mix turmeric powder and neem extract up to make a paste, apply the paste over affected surface. Wash off them after an hour.

3. Lavender oil Mix lavender oil with alcohol and apply sufficient amount on the infected area. This will help to kill the mites as well as the eggs.

4. Mix neem extract with warm bath water, Take neem bath twice in a week to get rid of scabies quickly within weeks.

5. Permethrin is very much the ointment used to treat scabies. To use it, should be done before bed. As well as use immediately after bathing.

6. Corticosteroid creams is an external ointment that kills scabies mites and reduce itching. The example of Corticosteroid is hydrocortisone cream.