Patient/caregiver was educated on measures to prevent and manage scabies infestation as follows:
- Observe compliance with appropriate infection control and personal hygiene measures, such as, proper handwashing. Avoid skin contact with any person diagnosed with scabies infestation.
- Avoid any facilities with overcrowding and poor living conditions, as it can compromise personal space and increase contact among individuals leading to spread of scabies.
- Do not share clothing with others, as contact with infested clothing is one major means for spreading of scabies infestation. Also, individuals living together must maintain separate bedsheets, pillows, pillow covers, towels, and socks to help prevent spread of scabies.
- Scabies mites might fall off skin from an affected individual and continue to survive for about 3 – 4 days hours in the clothing or on various surfaces. Change personal clothing items, such as, undergarments, daily wear, bedsheets, pillow covers, and towels everyday by washing the used ones and putting on new clean ones.
- Observe compliance with administration of antihistamines and steroid medications, if any prescribed, to control the itching and inflammation at the affected site on the skin.
