Should i be treated for scabies if i work in a place with them but have no sympt!
Question:
Should i be treated for scabies if i work in a place with them but have no symptoms???
Working with people who have them, i am concerned that i might get them and bring them home to family. Should i get treate for them even though i have no syptoms??
Answers:
If you are observing proper Standard and Contact precautions your chances of contracting Scabies is quite minimial... the lotion that is used for treatment is actually a pesticide, so you don't want to put that on your skin unless directed to do so by a doctor... if you are worried the test is very simple, they take a skin scraping usually from the hands since the mites tend to concentrate there and look for eggs, feces or adult mites or they can do the dye test to see if you have burrows in your skin.