To go on holiday with scabies?

[melonhen]

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.

Please tell us where and when you are going so we can all avoid going there after you !

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.

I'm really concerned that 4% of voters think this is acceptable!

Selfish as hell to even think of doing this.

just dont
why should others have to share your scabies

But did you loll about on someone else's caravan banquette while you were waiting for it to clear up?

This has to be a wind up? No one would be so gross and selfish surely?

No! Sorry, didn’t put enough info. What I meant was it won’t be a hassle to stay home. OP doesn’t need to worry about missing bits as the medication will sort it if she just does the best she can.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Yes I prefer the Joneses myself.

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

I imagine the bedding will be changed and dry cleaned

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

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.

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

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

No! Absolutely not.

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

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.