I got scabies in the 1990s when I was crashing on a friend’s battered old sofa and I know one thing for absolutely sure: I do not want to ever have scabies again.
Clearly the Brits one upping the French with their pity bed bugs.
We have already had a nightmare scabies outbreak, hopefully they will get voted out next election
Might be nice if the NHS/NICE took another look at its stance on ivermectin.
Dirt cheap and widely used abroad, whilst heavily controlled here, making it extremely expensive when it is reluctantly used.
Plus a far nice treatment than the scabies lotions, which involve smearing your whole body in the stuff then sleeping in it overnight (and hoping you didn’t miss any mites). Especially when dealing with an outbreak in a care home etc. , far easier to hand out a load of pills.
Didn’t the UK ban a really efficient bed bug poison?
Great. Whooping cough, scabies, and rampant poverty. Any other Victorian throwbacks we’d like to indulge in?
Journalism is really going all in on trying to scare the public with the next ‘outbreak’
My hands have been itching since reading that story.
I tested so low in vitamin D that my kid tells people mum has rickets.
Pure scabiemongering from the Metro.
A bunch of parasites that make your skin crawl, in London of all places?
Totally unrealistic, I couldn’t possibly imagine something like that in the UK.
I had it a few years ago, was convinced I had bed bugs because I thought scabies went out with the old pirates. Got a cream from the docs that I had to cover my whole body in before bed and it sorted it quickly but it’s such a pain having to deep clean everything!
I’m still not sure how I got it, the only thing I can think is I went for this free ECG heart health check thing at this grotty school around that time so must’ve been that.
Scabies is one of the worst experiences I’ve had. Doctors misdiagnosing it. Because it didn’t present how they were told it should in their little medical books. So it went untreated. Intense itching getting worse and one doctor saying we may never know what it is. Luckily I saw a doctor who knew straight away. The first round of cream didn’t work. Or at least it did but didn’t kill all the mites and came back with a vengeance. So more doctors saying they aren’t convinced it was scabies. I was lucky enough to get a doctor at some point who had specialised a bit in scabies and used a special magnifying glass. He identified a possible burrow and said try the cream again it doesn’t always kill all the bugs first time round and it worked.
I stayed in a cheap hotel in Mexico City and had gotten scabies from there. Back in UK I told this doctor how loads of other fixtures said it wasn’t scabies and he said you’ve got to follow the story. You stayed in a cheap hotel, both you and your girlfriend got it, incessantly itching etc.
Luckily the second round of cream cured it. The itching and imagining tiny arachnids under my skin was driving me insane. I feel like my skin even two years later is more sensitive now and any itch always makes me paranoid.
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I got scabies in the 1990s when I was crashing on a friend’s battered old sofa and I know one thing for absolutely sure: I do not want to ever have scabies again.
Clearly the Brits one upping the French with their pity bed bugs.
We have already had a nightmare scabies outbreak, hopefully they will get voted out next election
Might be nice if the NHS/NICE took another look at its stance on ivermectin.
Dirt cheap and widely used abroad, whilst heavily controlled here, making it extremely expensive when it is reluctantly used.
Plus a far nice treatment than the scabies lotions, which involve smearing your whole body in the stuff then sleeping in it overnight (and hoping you didn’t miss any mites). Especially when dealing with an outbreak in a care home etc. , far easier to hand out a load of pills.
Didn’t the UK ban a really efficient bed bug poison?
Great. Whooping cough, scabies, and rampant poverty. Any other Victorian throwbacks we’d like to indulge in?
Journalism is really going all in on trying to scare the public with the next ‘outbreak’
My hands have been itching since reading that story.
I tested so low in vitamin D that my kid tells people mum has rickets.
Pure scabiemongering from the Metro.
A bunch of parasites that make your skin crawl, in London of all places?
Totally unrealistic, I couldn’t possibly imagine something like that in the UK.
I had it a few years ago, was convinced I had bed bugs because I thought scabies went out with the old pirates. Got a cream from the docs that I had to cover my whole body in before bed and it sorted it quickly but it’s such a pain having to deep clean everything!
I’m still not sure how I got it, the only thing I can think is I went for this free ECG heart health check thing at this grotty school around that time so must’ve been that.
Scabies is one of the worst experiences I’ve had. Doctors misdiagnosing it. Because it didn’t present how they were told it should in their little medical books. So it went untreated. Intense itching getting worse and one doctor saying we may never know what it is. Luckily I saw a doctor who knew straight away. The first round of cream didn’t work. Or at least it did but didn’t kill all the mites and came back with a vengeance. So more doctors saying they aren’t convinced it was scabies. I was lucky enough to get a doctor at some point who had specialised a bit in scabies and used a special magnifying glass. He identified a possible burrow and said try the cream again it doesn’t always kill all the bugs first time round and it worked.
I stayed in a cheap hotel in Mexico City and had gotten scabies from there. Back in UK I told this doctor how loads of other fixtures said it wasn’t scabies and he said you’ve got to follow the story. You stayed in a cheap hotel, both you and your girlfriend got it, incessantly itching etc.
Luckily the second round of cream cured it. The itching and imagining tiny arachnids under my skin was driving me insane. I feel like my skin even two years later is more sensitive now and any itch always makes me paranoid.