Sunday, May 1, 2011

Scabies Treatment Over the Counter

This article gives a review of existing techniques for scabies treatment over the counter and shows you the best way to get maximum benefits of the over counter treatment to eliminate scabies in the safest and fastest way.

What is Scabies
Scabies is an skin infection of the pathogen named Sarcoptes scabiei.  Scarcoptes scabei is an eight legged tiny. The length of a female mite is about 0.3 to 0.4 mm and of a male mite is about 0.1 to 0.2mm. When these mites come in contact with human skin, they begins creating tunnels and enters underneath the skin. Areas which are more likely to be attacked by these mites are elbows,wrists, backs, feet, buttocks etc. Female mites lay egg in the burrows. These eggs take around three to ten days to form larva. After that, it goes to through a nymplal stage before coming to the adult stage.

The main symptoms of scabies include irritation, redness, itching and rash.

Overview of Scabies Treatment Over the Counter 

The conventional products for scabies treatment over the counter are permethrin cream, malathion lotion and antihistamine.  

Permethrin cream (with 5% concentration) is generally applied after taking shower and left for 8-10 hours and then washed thoroughly.

Malathion lotion is prescribed if permethrin cream does not give satisfactory result. Both permethrin and malathion should be applied on a clean and dry skin.

Many a times oral dose of antihistamine (10 mg) is prescribed once a day for relief from itching.

The main problem with these conventional treatment methods are that, the ingredients like permethrin and malathion  are pesticides which are not safe to apply on your skin. Permethrin is reported to be carcinogen by many researchers. Many a  times, after using these creams and lotions people suffer from the side effects like irritation of skin and tingling. In case of some special conditions like pregnancy, breast feeding, or if you are taking other medicines, use of permethrin may be completely prohibited.

My Recommendation for Safe Scabies Treatment Over the Counter
If you are looking for an over the counter treatment option which is 100% safe and gives faster result, I will suggest you to go for products which use natural mite killing. After doing extensive research on this, I found Dermisil for scabies to be the best option to disinfect your skin without any side effects.

 Products of Dermisil for scabies include Dermisil for Scabies Liquid, Scabies Tropical Cream and Dermisil Sulfur-Lavender Soap.

I would strongly recommend Dermisil for scabies to anyone  looking for a safe and fast scabies treatment over the counter.









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