To go on holiday with scabies?

My understanding is that you are fine 24 hours after the treatment. Once your clothes are washed etc I don’t see the issue

Don't you dare

So you'd be happy to stay in accommodation after the OP had used it?

I’ve known people need multiple treatments to resolve scabies.

People who actually know about this disease and its life cycle?

1. If they've used the cream, they will not be contagious.
2. Scabies is spread primarily by skin-to- skin contact, and nowadays it is controversial whether transmission via surfaces is likely.
3. People are most contagious before they have developed symptoms, so any surface you touch could have been used by an infected person. A treated person is not an infection risk.
4. The bedding at the accommodation will be washed after their stay and so would not be harbouring infection.

I think this is the most selfish post I've ever seen on Mumsnet. Seriously you either really believe that holiday parks steam clean the curtains, carpets, sofas and all other soft furnishing between guests, or you WANT to make others sick.

Please don’t do that, you just risk infecting so many other people. It would be so selfish!

No place dry cleans bedding.

Going now would be you being selfish and spreading scabies. Lovely. 🙄

Who dry cleans bedding?

This actually reminds me of the time my MIL confessed to having dried her horses bedding (mat or something) in the dryer at the launderette. I was disgusted and told her so too!

OP your suggestion is definitely on par, with having zero regard for humans outside ones own family.

Dry cleaned? I’d imagine they’re all just shoved in to a large washing machine along with all the other accommodations bedding.

We have our own caravan and never use holiday hotels or rooms, one of the reasons is this but if you think that everyone will be decent and ring up and check about this then I think you may be wrong

🤣🤣🤣

Why not phone ahead and check with the holiday park "hi we are crawling with mites and wondered if we can stay so we can quarantine our home?" Pretty sure they will thrilled to have your custom 🤮.

Don't be gross. You'll infect the next family who stays and the staff who have to touch the bedding to change it.

I am very sure that under these circumstances - in the UK - if you contact the holiday resort, and tell them that you all potentially have Scabies, and one of you actually has got it, but that you all feel well enough to still go on your holiday, they will tell you that you absolutely can't go, and they would probably offer alternative dates for the holiday, or agree to give at least a partial refund.

I have had to cancel 3 holidays in the past because our dog wasn't well, maybe I could have got away with sending him to the kennels by pretending he must have come down with something after he was left there, but I would have never done that, one reason being that it wouldn't be fair to the other dogs there, or to the kennel staff, and the other reason being that I would never make my poor dog be away from us and home, when he was already feeling rotten due to his illness.

Luckily, when we had a holiday of a lifetime to Florida, our dog wasn't ill, but if he had been, we would have cancelled, and lost thousands of pounds when doing so, as I don't think that travel insurance would cover one's dog being ill. I don't think that I/we are special Sesma, I think that any decent human being would do the same. Are you, and apparently @melonhen not decent human beings then?

A teacher friend of mine picked up a small child who'd fainted and caught scabies from her. I remember she had to be painted with gentian violet.

Steady on, Typhoid Mary. Nobody wants your cooties.

The bedding will be changed by staff, who also don't want your scabies! Stay home!

Fair play, just when I think nobody could be so selfish, suddenly a thread like this pops up. I bet the OP will still go, she just won’t come back to this thread.

Well I've just gone right off the idea of a holiday... this is a wind up surely?!? 🤢

Even thinking about it is absolutely disgusting !!! Shame on you !

😱😱😱 just this really! I’d like to point out that while duvet covers, sheets & pillowcases will (hopefully) be washed between changeovers the actual duvet & pillows won’t be, & as others have said the sofas, pillows etc won’t be ‘cleaned’.
how awful to even think of doing this!

Christ, no!! This has to be a joke!!