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.

Get a tent and live in the garden for a week

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. 😡

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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.

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.

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

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!

Christ, no!! This has to be a joke!!

😱😱😱 just this really! I’d like to point out that while duvet covers, sheets & pillowcases will (hopefully) be washed between changeovers the actual duvet & pillows won’t be, & as others have said the sofas, pillows etc won’t be ‘cleaned’.
how awful to even think of doing this!

Even thinking about it is absolutely disgusting !!! Shame on you !

Well I've just gone right off the idea of a holiday... this is a wind up surely?!? 🤢

Fair play, just when I think nobody could be so selfish, suddenly a thread like this pops up. I bet the OP will still go, she just won’t come back to this thread.

The bedding will be changed by staff, who also don't want your scabies! Stay home!

Steady on, Typhoid Mary. Nobody wants your cooties.

A teacher friend of mine picked up a small child who'd fainted and caught scabies from her. I remember she had to be painted with gentian violet.

I am very sure that under these circumstances - in the UK - if you contact the holiday resort, and tell them that you all potentially have Scabies, and one of you actually has got it, but that you all feel well enough to still go on your holiday, they will tell you that you absolutely can't go, and they would probably offer alternative dates for the holiday, or agree to give at least a partial refund.

I have had to cancel 3 holidays in the past because our dog wasn't well, maybe I could have got away with sending him to the kennels by pretending he must have come down with something after he was left there, but I would have never done that, one reason being that it wouldn't be fair to the other dogs there, or to the kennel staff, and the other reason being that I would never make my poor dog be away from us and home, when he was already feeling rotten due to his illness.

Luckily, when we had a holiday of a lifetime to Florida, our dog wasn't ill, but if he had been, we would have cancelled, and lost thousands of pounds when doing so, as I don't think that travel insurance would cover one's dog being ill. I don't think that I/we are special Sesma, I think that any decent human being would do the same. Are you, and apparently @melonhen not decent human beings then?

Why not phone ahead and check with the holiday park "hi we are crawling with mites and wondered if we can stay so we can quarantine our home?" Pretty sure they will thrilled to have your custom 🤮.

Don't be gross. You'll infect the next family who stays and the staff who have to touch the bedding to change it.

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We have our own caravan and never use holiday hotels or rooms, one of the reasons is this but if you think that everyone will be decent and ring up and check about this then I think you may be wrong

Dry cleaned? I’d imagine they’re all just shoved in to a large washing machine along with all the other accommodations bedding.

This actually reminds me of the time my MIL confessed to having dried her horses bedding (mat or something) in the dryer at the launderette. I was disgusted and told her so too!

OP your suggestion is definitely on par, with having zero regard for humans outside ones own family.

Who dry cleans bedding?