Scabies Symptoms

Symptoms include severe and continuous itching, especially at night. An indication that you may have scabies is if other members of your household are experiencing the same symptoms.

• The skin may show small insect-type bites on it, or the lesions may look like pimples. The skin may also be red and or have sores due to scratching of the area. Open scabs or sores are susceptible to infection with bacteria. A burrow (a short S-shaped track that indicates the mite's movement under the skin) may also be visible. The average affected person has only five to 10 mites on their body at a time.



• Scabies frequently occurs in the crevasses of the body such as between the fingers and toes, the buttocks, the elbows, the waist area, the genital area, and under the breasts in women.



• In crusted scabies, the body is covered with a thick, dry, and scaly rash. The rash of crusted scabies may or may not itch, but it contains thousands to millions of mites. Crusted scabies is the most contagious form of scabies and the hardest to treat.

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