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.

No place dry cleans bedding.

Going now would be you being selfish and spreading scabies. Lovely. 🙄

Please don’t do that, you just risk infecting so many other people. It would be so selfish!

I think this is the most selfish post I've ever seen on Mumsnet. Seriously you either really believe that holiday parks steam clean the curtains, carpets, sofas and all other soft furnishing between guests, or you WANT to make others sick.

People who actually know about this disease and its life cycle?

1. If they've used the cream, they will not be contagious.
2. Scabies is spread primarily by skin-to- skin contact, and nowadays it is controversial whether transmission via surfaces is likely.
3. People are most contagious before they have developed symptoms, so any surface you touch could have been used by an infected person. A treated person is not an infection risk.
4. The bedding at the accommodation will be washed after their stay and so would not be harbouring infection.

I’ve known people need multiple treatments to resolve scabies.

So you'd be happy to stay in accommodation after the OP had used it?

Don't you dare

My understanding is that you are fine 24 hours after the treatment. Once your clothes are washed etc I don’t see the issue

This. So disgusting and selfish.

We had scabies. It took 2 lots of cream and then 2 lots of tablets to get rid of. We certainly weren’t sorted after one lot of cream

Actually if you look up the nhs or any other reputable healthcare website you can go back to work or school 24 hour after treatment. It’s the same in hospitals etc isolation is only required until 24 hours after treatment . Unwashable things can be put in a bag for 3 days so the mites die. Everything washable is good to go once laundry guidance is followed. So it’s not actually disgusting and selfish. So much hyperbole on this thread from people who don’t have an actual clue

Scabies has become treatment resistant I think. My friends Mum caught it in the 80s, (she was helping with some homeless men) and and it was very swiftly dealt with. Now it is having a massive resurgence, along with bed bugs, and is much harder to get rid of. It’s a horrible infestation to have, absolutely dismal. Op please don’t risk passing it on.

Either this @melonhen is winding us up just for the giggles or… she is a quite insane person who honestly thinks this is appropriate and, more besides, to start a thread about it asking for opinions.

So you'd be happy to stay at the property after the OP had used it?

That is so selfish

Oh yuck.

That’s pretty disgusting to want to do that. Seriously ?

Does this supreme selfishness extend into all aspects of your life?

Probably the person who passed them scabies

Fucking hell…that’s disgusting ….the poor cleaner

Well, a couple of people have posted claiming that if you find this unacceptable it's because you're unknowledgable. Neither has yet confirmed that they'd happily use the property after the OP had used it.

Reason no. 137 of why I would never, ever stay at a holiday park <shudders>

JESUS CHRIST

I actually think that's quite an evil thing to do..