It is favorable. The disease is readily cured, and, as soon as the parasites and their ova are destroyed, the itching and the secondary symptoms, as a rule, rapidly disappear.
How is scabies treated?
Treatment is entirely external, and consists of a preliminary soap-and-hot-water bath, an application, twice daily for three days, of a remedy destructive to the parasites and ova, and finally another bath.
Inquiry as to others of the family should be made, and, if affected, treated at the same time. The wearing apparel should be looked after—boiled, baked, or sulphur-fumigated.
What remedial applications are employed in scabies?
Sulphur, balsam of Peru, styrax, and β-naphthol, singly or severally combined. In children, or in those of sensitive skin, the following:—
℞ Sulphur. præcip., ................................ ʒiv
Balsam. Peruv., .................................. ʒij
Adipis,
Petrolati, .....................āā................ ℥iss. M.
And in adults, or those of non-irritable skin:—
℞ Sulphur, præcip., ................................ ℥j
Balsam. Peruv., .................................. ℥ss
β-Naphthol, ...................................... ʒij
Adipis,
Petrolati, ..............āā......... q.s. ad. .... ℥iv. M.
Styrax is a remedy of value and is commonly employed as an ointment in the strength of one part to two or three parts of lard.