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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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SardinesOnButteredToast · 24/02/2026 16:32

LostFuse · 24/02/2026 15:26

You're going to go anyway - you just wanted people to agree with you, which thankfully hasnt happened.
Not that it will make any difference.

Agreed. This is one of those posts you read and you know you'd be wasting the oxygen breathed telling them not to do whatever they've already decided to do.

PlayingDevilsAdvocateisinteresting · 24/02/2026 16:28

I think that if you seriously think that what you propose is OK @melonhen - it isn't ok - then I ask you to do one thing please - have a phone appointment with your GP before you book anything, not a nurse, or anyone else, a GP at the practice the whole family attends. It will obviously not be able to be an anonymous phone call.

Jackiepumpkinhead · 24/02/2026 16:27

What is wrong with you! Utterly selfish and gross.

FlightwasfromNewark · 24/02/2026 16:26

melonhen · 24/02/2026 15:11

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned.

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The inside quilts, pillows, etc are not cleaned after each guest. Only the covers. Please don’t

Londonrach1 · 24/02/2026 16:25

No one can be this selfish surely! Yabu and I'm shocked you even think you can do this.

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JohnBullshit · 24/02/2026 16:24

Here's what you can do. Buy a tent and sleeping bags. Set it up in your own back garden. Live out there until you reckon indoors is scabies free. Burn the bloody lot and go back to the house.

ItsNotMeEither · 24/02/2026 16:23

melonhen · 24/02/2026 15:11

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned.

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What about couches, cushions and anything else your family will come in contact with?

Utterly fking disgusting! I've read some gross stuff on MN, but this has to be the worst. STAY HOME FFS!

LVhandbagsatdawn · 24/02/2026 16:23

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 24/02/2026 16:17

If OP and her family are no longer infectious, and they just need to quarantine their house, then this might be OK, surely?

But before going, I would double-check with a doctor that it wouldn't be possible to pass the scabies on in this way, including during the journey there and via their luggage. If there was a risk of passing it on, I wouldn't go.

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Well yeah you'd need to make sure you don't pass it on as you travel, but if you book out enough time afterwards for the mites to die then nothing is going to be passed on.

Weird how two threads on very similar subjects can get such different responses.

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MamainWonderland · 24/02/2026 16:19

Just reading this thread has made me want to steam clean my whole house. Please, please don't do this.

TSW12 · 24/02/2026 16:19

No! Absolutely not.

MyDeftDuck · 24/02/2026 16:19

😱😡 Please don’t, that would be most irresponsible and unacceptable

purpleygrey · 24/02/2026 16:18

The disregard for visitors after you is astonishing. So selfish.

EstoyRobandoSuCasa · 24/02/2026 16:17

LVhandbagsatdawn · 24/02/2026 16:10

I mean if mites die after three days, then I'd say as long as you book it for at least two weeks, you stay only one, then leave it empty for a week, that shouldn't then impact any other guests. If it's a self catering type place then no cleaners will be going in.

I'm sure on another scabies thread just recently people were actually recommending that OP and family go to a hotel to try and break the cycle, so I'm not sure why this is garnering the reaction it has.

If OP and her family are no longer infectious, and they just need to quarantine their house, then this might be OK, surely?

But before going, I would double-check with a doctor that it wouldn't be possible to pass the scabies on in this way, including during the journey there and via their luggage. If there was a risk of passing it on, I wouldn't go.

FreeFromWhat · 24/02/2026 16:17

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned

The cleaners could easily pick it up from changing the bedding.

LadyWiddiothethird · 24/02/2026 16:15

Revolting.This has put me off ever sleeping in a different bed …….ever!

PursuitOfCrappiness · 24/02/2026 16:11

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 24/02/2026 15:04

If it's the Scabies from No. 38, to be honest, they can be a bit dull.

Yes I prefer the Joneses myself.

LVhandbagsatdawn · 24/02/2026 16:10

I mean if mites die after three days, then I'd say as long as you book it for at least two weeks, you stay only one, then leave it empty for a week, that shouldn't then impact any other guests. If it's a self catering type place then no cleaners will be going in.

I'm sure on another scabies thread just recently people were actually recommending that OP and family go to a hotel to try and break the cycle, so I'm not sure why this is garnering the reaction it has.

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FordExplorer · 24/02/2026 15:59

Good luck finding a holiday park that’s open before the end of march

Balloonhearts · 24/02/2026 15:57

That is both selfish and minging. I don't know what else to say to that...

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melonhen · 24/02/2026 15:11

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned.

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To the standard you’d do it if you knew it was infected with scabies?

And what of everything else in the room as pps have said?

Do you think the holiday place would let you stay if they knew!”? The answer is obviously no, but without knowing they can’t possibly deal effectively with the risk.

CherryViper · 24/02/2026 15:55

It can take many treatments to be free of scabies.

You are massively unreasonable to spread them.

People with weakened immune systems are at a significant risk. Dreadful idea.