If you have had Scabies, how did you catch it?

[Noddytime]

DH has it. We were on holiday a couple of weeks ago but I am sure the sheets were clean, and I haven't caught it though we slept in the same bed.

I can't understand how he has caught it, he says his GP says even a handrail on the train would be enough but NHS website says it's rare to catch it unless via close prolonged body contact with someone/through sexual intercourse.

[Noddytime]

Yes he says it's very itchy

[Noddytime]

Just googled Pom Ezx and it doesn't look very much like that. The white heads on some of the spots are the size of a pinprick, not blister like.

[BitterAndOnlySlightlyTwisted]

One way to be more certain that it truly is scabies is that it itches like bloody fury when the person is warm, like in the bath/shower or in bed. If he does have scabies then you will have it too if you both sleep in the same bed. It wouldn't be possible to avoid it under such circumstances.

[QuintessentiallyQS]

You can only get shingles if you have already had chicken pox. It is like the Shingles is "stage 2" of the virus. It lies dormant until a period of stress or exertion, often.

[Grammar]

Is it itchy or painful? Shingles is exquisitely painful around the chest/back or buttocks, face. Scabies is on the legs or more commonly in the webs of the hand/finger spaces and it terribly itchy, mossy bites can be anywhere. What type /distribution is the rash?

[harrietspy]

I got it from a youth hostel bed, definitely not from prolonged intimate contact with any other person. The itching was utterly horrific and kept me awake all night. I wanted to take a cheese grater to my legs.

I can't remember what the treatment was, but it cleared up pretty quickly once I'd got myself to the doctor. Stupid that I suffered for so long, but I was seventeen and hugely embarrassed, even though I didn't know what it was and there was absolutely nothing sexual going on in my life at the time.

[QuintessentiallyQS]

DH got it on his back. DS1 got Chicken pox from him. I was pregnant, and had never had CP as far as I knew, so we needed some extensive blood tests.

[QuintessentiallyQS]

Info about Shingles here

www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Shingles/Pages/causes.aspx

[Noddytime]

There is a cluster towards one side of his torso, and a few on the top of one hand and up to the forearm. Spots start off looking like an insect bite and some have tiny pin prick sized white head, but a couple are large and red now from itching. He does complain more after the shower.

[weegiemum]

I've has scabies, caught it from a child I was working with on my final teaching practice on my pgce.

[Nomama]

Shingles doesn't have to be painful or itchy.

I went to my GP thinking I had scabies (was a spate of it at college), turned out I had a shingle. It can be completely devoid of pain, if you are lucky!

2nd opinion is needed!

[BreakOutTheKaraoke]

They also seem to come in clusters, and move around. I had a patch on my torso for a few days, they calmed down and moved to my legs, etc.

[Noddytime]

Breakout, that sounds similar or his symptoms. Is that the bugs literally moving around inside your body?!

[whataloadofoldshite]

We got it from kids, kids got it from school. Mine started on wrists, then under boobs. Didn't get on fingers. OH got it really bad on fingers and arms. It took months to get right diagnosis from all GP's involved. Was treated for eczema, dermatological things and allergies. Even blamed poor dog and took him to vet! 5 out of 6 of us got it. My youngest, DD aged 2 didn't catch it despite lots of cuddling, shared baths etc.

[cindydog]

I caught it from purchasing wool in a manky wool shop. My hands developed an infection from it and were weeping and sore for weeks (Looked like severe burns).

[wigglybeezer]

Modern GP's are a bit useless sometimes, my Dad had an old fashioned microscope in his surgery, he used to do a skin scrape, pop it on a slide, see the mites and give a DX on the spot. He showed me some once as a treat!

[Deverethemuzzler]

I have had it a couple of times. The second time the doctor told me you could only get it from sleeping with someone

I had caught it from OH who was a paramedic at the time.

First time I got it from second hand clothing.

I left it for ages because I kept thinking it had gone. It would pop back up somewhere else.

It was horrible.

[slartybartfast]

it is awful, as is the treatment. i got it from ds sheets, and he got it from his GF, where she got it i dont know.
we had to treat the whole family and my tumble dryer didnt work so off to the launderette for everything.

worst itching was on my feet, at night

[GalaxyInMyPants]

As a student nurse I was told its very possible to get it from trying clothes on in a changing room.

After reading the thread on here where so many people admit to wearing a dress for a day and then taking it back to the shop for a refund I'm not as surprised.

[slartybartfast]

i looked at myself in a mirror and my tummy button was red, notably, as were my arm pits

[slartybartfast]

ds was back and forth to the doctors for ages

[turdfairynomore]

I got it from a child I taught. The itch! Oh the itch! I could have scratched my skin off-especially when u was warm eg in bed at night! Had it mainly on hands/arms/legs. It was red and scaley, with little lines from the red bits. hideous really! DS16 had shingles recently bit looked liked lots of pic v close together on his torso. Initially itchy but then v painful as it spread. This is his shingles. GP took pics too as it was so classically "right" apparently????

[myroomisatip]

I have a very similar rash to what you are describing, only mine is on my legs and a bit on my arms. I rushed to the Doctor as I am a carer and was really worried about spreading it, if it was Scabies.

Doctor thinks it is a heat rash and it is much worse when I get warm. I have had it for a couple of weeks now, this weather is not helping. :(

A couple of years ago I cared for a lady who had Scabies, now she was clean, (carers were taking care of that) and she definitely did not have any close body contact with anyone else or share towels. How on earth she got them I have no idea. I cared for her while she had them for some months and did not catch them.

Somehow someone has to get them first, but how? Urgh.

[Pobblewhohasnotoes]

Shingles will only be on one side of the body, and can be quite red and painful. It's runs along a nerve.

You only get shingles is you've had chicken pox as it's the dormant virus reactivating in the body. You can catch chicken pox from shingles.

[Noddytime]

Yes it's definitely just on one side of the body. All along one arm to the armpit and then down that side of the torso. Spots are not in clusters like scabies should be.