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.

Itching can persist for 4-6 weeks after successful treatment, as your body reacts to dead mite material. The only way you know you still have an active infection is if new burrows are seen.

It is now thought unusual to catch scabies from furnishings and much more likely to catch from skin to skin contact with someone. So you don't need to have stayed at a different place to catch it.

Well, that still wouldn’t rule anything out as we don’t tend to have much skin to skin contact outside of the household either.

Regardless, my opinion remains the same. If you know you have scabies and haven’t finished treatment and ensured symptoms have subsided… you should not knowingly risk sharing them.

@MyWildOliveGoose it could be possible that as your family are classed as close contacts that one of you caught it from an unknown source and then it spread to the rest of the family at home.
During my 4-8 week incubation period I had nail parlour, hair and physio appointments with direct skin to skin contact. I also sat in plane seats, movie seats, taxis, theatre seats and went to work each day as well as trying clothes on in stores- if it wasn’t one of these places I picked it up from then possibly one of my family members were asymptomatic prior to treatment. I feel unless you know the person you caught it from then it really is impossible to tell- unfortunately!
Again I’m just repeating the fact that I don’t condone super spreading and have found scabies to be a very isolating experience- haven’t done the above apart from work ( following treatment guidelines and doing extras) since diagnosed before Xmas.

Hope you and your family are now free of this horrible infection and all the stress, extra work and misery it brings with it.

Sorry to resurrect this thread…

Its seems that I have scabies. DS disgnosed mid March. I was also tested via pharmacy, but only experiencing itching/spots in the last week.

Prescribed Permethrin again today and will used Dermac as second treatment next week.

I have a holiday booked for 6 weeks time.

Would my travel insurance normally cover this?

If so, the issue I have is that I completely forgot to declare the use of Permethrin back in March. Was completely honest about vitamin deficiency tablets I’d been prescribed, but this just slipped my mind.

Will that invalidate any claim that I might have been able to make?

Oh no! Not what you want to hear, but yes, non-disclosure of any prescription medication or condition will invalidate any claim and possibly the whole policy.

What a PITA! x

Thanks for replying.

If I don’t go on the holiday, I would only want to claim my money back. So wouldn’t need any other cover from the policy. Can you clarify what you mean?

Had I declared the cream, would a policy have covered cancellation for scabies anyway?

Thanks.

Impossible to say without looking at the full policy, but generally with any kind of insurance (travel, health or other) failure to disclosure anything like this, would mean that the whole policy is void as the ‘contract’ isn’t sound. Meaning, you withheld vital information which would have altered the cover they would offer. Not suggesting you did that intentionally obviously, it’s is how insurers word it!

Long and short is you probably wouldn’t have been covered for this anyway as it would technically be a pre-existing condition. Quite often you disclose an existing condition and they will rate (increase) your premiums to cover the elevated risk of paying out xx