Health

Scabies is a highly contagious parasitic disease. If a member of your family is affected, follow these tips carefully to cure them and prevent the disease from affecting anyone else.

The measures described here follow an opinion from the High Council of Public Hygiene of France in the face of cases of common scabies or profuse scabies, the most contagious. To interrupt transmission, it is necessary to treat simultaneously all people who have had intimate contact with a patient. Disinfection of the environment is not indicated in the case of common scabies

In rarer cases of profuse scabies, the decontamination of institutions or even living spaces with an acaricide is to be decided with the health authorities. All people in contact with the patient and at most all people living, working or visiting the institution will be informed or even treated.