Everyone has had a rash or chickenpox at one time in their life. But if you break out with a rash that starts itching alot, you may want to consider getting a check up or treating yourself with a scabies cream, cause it is more than likely the scabies mite you picked up. Getting scabies is a pretty widespread condition which can effect anyone from young to old, skinny to fat and dirty or clean. Scabies is known to the medical community as Sarcoptes Scambei, which is a mite that goes under your first layer of skin and then lays eggs which later hatch and create the same cycle. Due to all the debris and breeding they do, you will notice intense itching primarily in the night time, most scabies patients scratch and itch alot also.

Scabies mites are unseen to the eye as they are really tiny; they are only about 0.4mm long and have to be seen with magnifying glasses or microscopes.

The female scabies mite is attracted by hot and moist areas of your body where they are more frequent to laying eggs which then hatch about five weeks later and repeat the same cycle. You must treat rite away in order to start breaking the scabies cycle, the longer you wait the worse the cycle becomes and the harder it is to treat.

Scabies is a very common thing in many countries, the illness is kept quiet by the patients, but the illness is highly spread. It is very easy to get infected by scabies from contact to contact, close living quarters such as nursing homes and shelters, sexual partners, or even just that handshake or hug. It is noted that you must treat everyone you come into close daily contact with at the very same time, this will prevent reinfection and will break the mites complete cycle. This will help you not become reinfected with it again in the future as well.

Scabies is not carried around by pets even if they are affected with some kind of mite, your animals would most likely have some other kind of mite and can not carry a scabies mite. Animals are affected by different types of mites and or mange.

You can tell you have scabies if you are: intense itching and scratching usually more at night, you have red markings and blisters on your skin which are near your elbows, skin folds, wrists and waist areas. Typically the symptoms of a scabies infection will start to show a couple weeks later as the mites debris under the skin will start producing more and more rashes and itching.

Treating scabies immediately once you know you have it is key in the quick eradication of them from your skin. The longer you have scabies the longer it will take to treat them, the post scabies process will also take longer aswell, the scabies mite produce all sorts of stuff your skin is allergic too. The longer you leave them the more chances you have of getting Norwegian scabies which is like scabies but produce millions of mites and start to crust your skin.

To treat scabies you usually just put a cream or lotion all over your body, from your toes to your neck for anywhere from 12-16 hours, in some cases you wear creams for weeks. Typically these treatments are put on before the nighttime as this is the best time to kill the mites when they are most active. During the time that the cream is put on, it is killing the scabies by zapping them neurologically, it is basically frying their nerves. The treatment can last from 3-7 days and in some cases it may be a good idea to treat again in 7 days to break the cycle. The rash will also continue past the treatment of scabies, this is known as post scabies and can take anywhere from months to years. We would suggest naturally killing your scabies so you do not end up with worse medical conditions or illness, there are many natural ways to kill scabies without dipping yourself in dangerous pesticides and incesticides.