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To go on holiday with scabies?

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melonhen · 24/02/2026 14:55

We have scabies and have been prescribed some cream to kill the scabies.
We have to treat everyone in the house at the same time and also have to clean all the sofas and bedding and towels and wash everything on a hot wash and hoover.
The mites die after 3 days of no human contact so I’m thinking rather than risk missing anything, we clean best we can and then we book into a holiday park, leaving the house and car for a week, doing the cream treatment while we are there and then come back to a quarantined home might be the most affective way.
We would be treated so not contagious while we were there.

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Hereforthecommentz · 24/02/2026 17:10

cardibach · 24/02/2026 15:48

I was a teacher. I got scabies once - I had it for ages before it was diagnosed. Everyone in the house had to be treated - though nobody else has an infection as far as we could tell - but there was no washing of all the clothes and soft furnishings. It went in about 48 hours.

Yes I think things have changed. I have scabies as a child, had the rash and it was a teacher that noticed it as I was itching! We all had the cream and no one else got the rash pretty sure I went back to school after 2 days. No one else got it at school. Sounds like people are taking about the plague or something!

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Carlou · 24/02/2026 17:01

Do NOT go on holiday. This is gross and wrong. Wait til you are all well

Sesma · 24/02/2026 17:00

I don't agree with what OP is doing but just think for a moment about all the people that have booked their UK holiday, some of them will have scabies as it seems fairly common nowadays. Many people do not have insurance for UK holidays, do you think they are all going to cancel and lose their money.

PlayingDevilsAdvocateisinteresting · 24/02/2026 17:00

Hankunamatata · 24/02/2026 15:26

Check terms and conditions of the park. They can refuse you or send you away if they suspect infectious illlness

Contact directly and you may get a full refund

Your going to walk around the holiday park with scabies rash!!! Never mind the accommodation. Boke

Edited

As I understand it Hankunamatata, the OP isn't asking if it is still OK to go on an already booked holiday - which is what I initially thought she was going to ask, and the answers would have still been, "no sorry @melonhen, but hopefully they will give you a full refund, or at least change the dates of your holiday" - the OP is actually asking if it is ok to make a new booking at a holiday resort, so that they don't have to be at home while the treatments to their soft furnishings have time to work (and probably dry out)?

Having to go through all of that fuss because of an invasion of Scabies, must be frustrating, even annoying, and I'm sure that most of us would be thoroughly pissed off fed-up, but that does not give her the right to be so selfish, and potentially a bringer of harm to others, who are probably trying to have a recuperating holiday themselves.

OP, what you could do is book a holiday to look forward to in a few months time, one which would hopefully give you all a lift to your spirits now, while thinking about it. Ah, I nearly forgot to say, that I do think that what you are planning is actually illegal, and it is definitely in the small print of any holiday resort in this Country, to not knowingly bring any contagious diseases with you.

RoseInBloome7 · 24/02/2026 17:00

rank

TheWeeDonkeyFella · 24/02/2026 16:57

noidea69 · 24/02/2026 16:48

Has to be a wind up surely

Maybe not. I remember a similar thread not so long ago, something about a DC bringing scabies home from uni and infecting the house/family and that poster also thinking about booking into a hotel for a few days.

The mentality of some people beggars belief. 😡

Barrellturn · 24/02/2026 16:55

Get a tent and live in the garden for a week

VisitingInkMonitor · 24/02/2026 16:53

This reminds me of the time my aging great aunt (who was very much a maiden aunt) got scabies and my DD got very confused and asked me how on earth a woman in her 90s got crabs 🦀

Edited to add: don’t be a dick OP and potentially give scabies to people whose family members will think they’ve got VD

HoorayHattie · 24/02/2026 16:53

justrelaxandsleep · 24/02/2026 16:51

Surely this is a joke.

One would love to think so, but if you look at the voting there are a few people who seem to think it's ok!

ruffler45 · 24/02/2026 16:53

What about the commercial effects on the holiday park? When future visitors complain they caught scabies at the holiday park just after you left. Have you not heard of infection control. Stay at home and deal with it there until you are clear. It is not difficult if you follow the instructions you have been given

Sesma · 24/02/2026 16:52

A lot of people will be going on holiday with scabies though. If they have booked, I can't see them cancelling, this is one of the reasons we have a touring caravan, between scabies and bedbugs, I find holiday rooms a bit off putting.

Tablesandchairs23 · 24/02/2026 16:51

Don't be so selfish and disgusting.

justrelaxandsleep · 24/02/2026 16:51

Surely this is a joke.

JTRSOP · 24/02/2026 16:50

melonhen · 24/02/2026 15:11

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned.

Don’t be so fucking gross OP.

noidea69 · 24/02/2026 16:48

Has to be a wind up surely

Work9to5 · 24/02/2026 16:48

Just when I thought I'd heard it all 🙄

And risk passing it on to unsuspecting, undeserving strangers? Don't be bloody stupid.

TheShiningCarpet · 24/02/2026 16:48

Skanky!

Bulbsbulbsbulbs · 24/02/2026 16:47

melonhen · 24/02/2026 15:11

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned.

You imagine wrong. Bedding isn't dry cleaned, it's washed.

What about all the soft furnishings? You will give the next guests after you scabies.

BMW6 · 24/02/2026 16:39

What kind of absolute wankpuffin would even consider doing this???????

Overtheatlantic · 24/02/2026 16:38

Between this and the rotten sushi family I’m beginning to have doubts.

vodkaredbullgirl · 24/02/2026 16:36

Madness

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MammaBear1 · 24/02/2026 16:36

This would be a horribly selfish thing to do. Surely you understand that?
Presumably you’re asking because you think it’s potentially the wrong thing to do. Please take note of all the posters on this thread that are telling you how wrong you’d be to do this.

mrsgilfeathers · 24/02/2026 16:34

You want to on holiday with SCABIES??? Is that right? I can’t believe you’ve just asked that!

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Parsleyforme · 24/02/2026 16:34

My mum got scabies from a hotel room and I read another post recently about people frequently needing to do more than one treatment, so I think you are unreasonable unless you are prepared to pay for 3 extra nights and leave the hotel room empty. I sympathise as it’s rubbish to have it but you will just be spreading it around in the same way that it has been spread to you

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