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.

This is either a joke which I’m hoping or you are the most inconsiderate and quite frankly grim family!!!
why would this even cross your mind to still go? Absolutely disgusting

We will leave our house to make sure it’s all clear but go stay in someone else’s that’s their livelihood!!

Yeah this exactly, disgusting behaviour.

Believe there are two treatments of the cream to be applied 7 days apart for scabies. Also bedding / towels etc has to be washed at 60°, wherever you stay will not know that, unless you inform them.

Enjoy your holiday OP, you’ll probably be absolutely fine whilst you’re there. If you’re concerned for others, inform the booking company/owners when you leave so they can do an extra deep clean.

You could always ask the holiday place if they'll accept someone who's just been treated for scabies. I doubt you will though.

That just sounds disgusting and selfish you want to make sure your own house is clear .
by potentially infecting someone’s holiday home and other guests

You could ruin someone’s livelihood doing this and infect so many people. No wonder scabies is spreading like wildfire.

@melonhen to you scabies may just be an inconvenience. But the people you pass them onto via your holiday accommodation could have a health condition that could make treatment difficult. For example, my 9 year old currently has treatment resistant eczema and is well enough for a holiday but would probably end up in hospital if he caught scabies.

Having caught scabies from my office many years ago, it can be a bastard to get rid of. Don't be bloody ridiculous OP. You really want to chance passing this on to others without them being aware? What a selfish, twattish idea. I despair.

Great thread OP, too funny ----- you are joking aren't you🤔

I don’t think it’s fair to go on holiday and stay somewhere with highly contagious scabies OP, but I understand why you’re thinking about, I just strongly advise against it.
If you really want to get out of the house and you have a decent sized family tent, why not camp in the garden? Your own garden, with cheap bedding you can dispose of after. Eat out. Get a camping potty, imagine you’re camping away from home & do everything as though you were.

I heard about a family who do this every year in summer for fun, they just camp in the garden for a weekend and make it an adventure. They lock the house up and are not allowed back inside until the weekend is over. Couple of power banks, blow up couch, blow up airbeds, devices to keep you entertained. Spend your free time outdoors at the park or in fresh air.

It meets you half way and it doesn’t put others at risk from coming into contact with scabies.

Buy a tent , go away, do treatment , incinerate tent.

Tbh, this is a very unhappy situation and probably my first thought would be the same, escape from home as fast as possible. Easiest, simplest solution.
But, like everyone else pointed out... you have to think of implications and consequences to others. It not ok to get your own comfort back at the cost of others. If you really want to leave your home, are there any other solutions ? Any family members who own a property that's not being used regularly that you could use for a few days? Someone's caravan that will not be used after you leave?

I cannot believe what I am reading here.

To put into context just how wrong this is, my family got scabies, after staying in a holiday rental. My daughter and I were fine with the treatment, but my son who has eczema and asthma had a HUGE reaction to the treatment as soon as I put it on him. It put him in a danger I could have never avoided. Now I am terrified of getting the mites again, which I’ll never know because you don’t until it’s too late. I always thought it was just one of those things, but to see this and be aware that people out there might actually expose others to this on purpose is infuriating! With no care or consideration at all for the consequences of this.

Scabies generally are pretty easy to get rid of in a home if everyone is clever about it. Everything goes in the wash, anything that can’t gets tied in black bags for 3 days. Put the cream on, put everything in the wash, change bedding, wear clean clothes. A week later, put the cream on, everything in the wash, change bedding, wear clean clothes. During the week extra hoovers, steam clean sofas cushions etc. Be sensible OP, sort your house and your family, clear the infestation and then go on holiday without putting anyone else at risk.

You’re responding to AI with AI, what’s the point?

Hands down...this is the absolute worst post I have ever read on MN! Friends of mine had to go through 3 cycles of treatment before they got rid of it.
Screw everyone else, just think about yourselves! What about the cleaners that you are exposing when they have to clean up after you and change your beds? What about the carpets/sofas/soft furnishings for the next family?
Absolutely astounded that you would even consider it! Vile!

Absolutely not, that is disgusting

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Unfortunately there is quite a lot of scabies now that is resistant to the cream according to my GP

Just found this post, to all those saying they know or did catch scabies from hotel type accommodation how did you know?
scabies apparently has an incubation period of 4-8 weeks, I caught scabies myself and whilst I think I may have caught it at one of several places I’ll never know and have had to come to terms with that.

This does not mean I condone being a scabies spreader , and that has been my biggest personal fear whilst being infected.

I really do think though,that it is very difficult to know exactly where you caught it, unless you know others who are also infected.

My relative and her partner have scabies.
They are now on their third lot of treatment and creams because it just hasn't cleared up.
She is exhausted with cleaning the house meticulously, washing the bedding, settee covers etc,
So to all the people on here saying 1 treatment will sort it out, it doesn't always work out like that.
And there is no way my relative would stay away in holiday accommodation while still having scabies.

I know that we caught it from the holiday rental because it was the literal only other place any of us had stayed in the 6 months before symptoms presented.

I think it is easy to know where you’ve contracted them, if I’m being honest.

I stand by my comment that spreading it intentionally is irresponsible and unacceptable. I do hope the OP ensured her treatment had ended and symptoms subsided before travelling.

This thread makes me want to stay home forever 🙈