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.

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!

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.

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

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

What is wrong with you! Utterly selfish and gross.

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.

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.

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

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

Madness

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.

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

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

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.

Skanky!

Just when I thought I'd heard it all 🙄

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

Has to be a wind up surely

Don’t be so fucking gross OP.

Surely this is a joke.

Don't be so selfish and disgusting.

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.

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

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!

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