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I treated scabies with permetherin, but bites look bigger. what should i do?

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Dr. Shah Chowdhury answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

SCABIES: Common tx of scabies is 5% Permethrin crm. From neck to toe with attention to intense involved areas; remove 8-14 hours by bathing. Scabies cause burrows, a thin gray, red or brown line, 2-15 mm long. Sometimes burrows obscured by vesicles, pustules or bullae. Because scabietic lesions are due to hypersensitivity reaction to mite, itching and bumps sometime get worse during tx. Take some benadryl (diphenhydramine).

Answered 6/30/2014

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