Home Remedy for Scabies - Natural Homeremedies for Scabies

Scabies is caused by a parasite called Sarcoptes scabiei, is a mite having 4 pairs of legs unlike bugs, lice and fleas, which have only 3 pairs of legs. The female is 400 * 300 in size and grey in color. This parasite is just visible to the naked eye.

Scabies home remedy

Day care centre can shorten the course of treatment in endemic areas. Urban day care centre gives initial scrubbing followed by sauna bath, rubbing of ointment for 1/2 hr and then another scrub with medicated soap and hot water. In rural areas, instead of sauna bath, patient are asked to stand in the hot sun for 10-20 minutes. Water is heated by putting it in the sun in steel tubs. Whole procedure takes an hour and the whole family is treated at the same time. Cure rate is about 95%. Boiling of clothes and interference with night life are avoided by giving day care centre treatment.

Home remedies for the treatment of Scabies

Traditional natural home remedy for scabies - Specific destruction of parasites with use of special medication like benzyl benzoate emulsion (25% in adults, half strenght in children), sulphur ointment 5 to 10%, Crotorax, the Gamma Benzene Hexachloride and Permethrin. Few cases may need oral Thiabendazole or Invermectin in a single dose of 100 mg per kg body weight.

Simple home remedy for scabies - The dried bark of a peepul tree can be powdered fine, strained through a fine sieve and used as a dusting powder on lesions of scabies.

Good home remedy for scabies - Fresh juice of apricot leaves should be extracted and applied over the infected area. It has beneficial results in the treatment of scabies.

Treat all contacts - conjugal, family members, school friends etc. whether they have symptoms or not. This is most important to prevent ping-ponging of the disease.

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