Scabies Mites Cause for Itchy Skinfold Rash Symptoms Treatment

Scabies is your skin’s invasion by very tiny mites, transferred onto your skin from the skin of another. These scabies producing microscopic mites were brought to you by skin-on-skin contact with someone who’s already infested.

Not from your mange infested pet dog nor a quick handshake or hug.  Extended skin contact or sharing clothing, towels and bedding are common transfer type scenarios.

Symptoms of a scabies infestation gives you notice with an extremely itchy, rashy, pimply looking irritation, usually around your body’s skinfold areas, like:

  • on your penis
  • around your wrist
  • back of your knee
  • under your breasts
  • inside of your elbow
  • between your fingers
  • around your shoulder blades

Be careful not to scratch too much, those itchy skinfold rash sores are prime real estate for a bacterial infection.

Those with weakened immune systems and the elderly are at a greater risk for crusted scabies (Norwegian), a more severe and spreadable form of scabies.

The human form of mites can live up to a month on your skin, but only survive a couple of days without their life source. For those on their first go around with scabies, you may not experience mite caused symptoms for a month or more. Previous sufferers know it within a matter of days.

You have a couple of treatment options for your scabies skinfold rash. Several creams and lotions are available by prescription, this means a visit to your doctor for diagnosis.

In the alternative, you can use over the counter treatments containingpermethrin or natural treatments, such as:

As mites only live up to 3 days off the skin, wash all clothing, towels and bedding you used over the past many days in hot water.

You may continue to itch after treatment for a couple of weeks, this is not a sign of continued rash of mites infestation.

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