He had an allergic reaction to the scabies lotion and couldn’t be treated with it a second time. Instead, we had to treat him with a compound of sulphur in petroleum jelly every day for months.

Worryingly, the cream used for targeting scabies is currently in limited supply until further notice, according to a medicine supply notification, issued by the Department of Health and Social ...

While scabies is not usually a serious condition, it's important patients receive treatment. The condition is very infectious, however it can take up to eight weeks for the rash to appear.

An alternative scabies treatment for pregnant or lactating women and children less than 2 months old is precipitated sulfur 6% in petrolatum. 14 “Wet combing” — a nontoxic (but less efficacious) ...

BRITAIN is facing an ‘alarming’ shortage of the most widely used scabies medicines, as cases of the Victorian disease surge. Scabies is a highly contagious condition caused by mites bur… ...

Unfortunately, the consequences of treatment shortages are proving easy to ignore. There is very limited tracking of scabies cases and people are often embarrassed to talk about it.

A 26-year-old from Manchester says he's endured four rounds of scabies treatment after initially being misdiagnosed with herpes and genital warts, claiming that doctors were confused by the symptoms ...

Crusted scabies, or Norwegian scabies, is an uncommon, highly contagious form of the condition, with excessive proliferation of Sarcoptes scabiei var. homini on the skin. 1 It is seen most commonly in ...