Over the past year, there has been a lot of itch in circulation. You can treat scabies at home.
There is a lot of itch in Päijät-Häme’s schools, kindergartens and families. Scabies is an itchy disease that is transmitted through skin contact.
The Päijät-Häme Wellbeing Region informs that scabies can be treated at home with an ointment available from a pharmacy without a prescription. The child can go to kindergarten and school the day after the treatment.
Sometimes, on rare occasions, a prescription is needed to control the symptoms.
Scabies is caused by a scabies mite, about half a millimeter in diameter, which lives under the skin. Scabies spreads from person to person through prolonged skin contact.
– There are differences between years, i.e. sometimes there is less scabies, sometimes more. However, there is always some scabies in the population. This was also the case in Päijät-Hämee, says Majuri in his email reply.
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