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What Are The Precautions Should Be Taken Before Contacting Scabies Infected Person?

i will be visiting friends in denver next thur. and they called tonight to let me know that friends visiting had scabes. as i have type 1 diabetes and am on the pump are there any precautions i should take in visiting them. should i not visit? tx, claire briscoe YYYY@YYYY
Mon, 4 May 2015
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Dear Claire Briscoe, Hi
Welcome to HCM.
I appreciate your concern for the preventive measures for scabies.

Scabies is a highly contagious disease caused by mites.

Persons with crusted scabies are infested with very large numbers of mites; therefore risk of transmission is very high both from brief skin-to-skin contact and from contact with items such as bedding, clothing, furniture, rugs, carpeting, floors, and other fomites that can become contaminated with skin scales and crusts shed by a person with crusted scabies.

You must also avoid fomites like towels, hand kerchief, tissue, sharing same food containers or glass of water, juice or alcohol with the persons having scabies.

Hope these suggestions could be useful to you in preventing yourself from the possible transmission of the mites responsible for causing scabies.

Take care of your health.
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What Are The Precautions Should Be Taken Before Contacting Scabies Infected Person?

Dear Claire Briscoe, Hi Welcome to HCM. I appreciate your concern for the preventive measures for scabies. Scabies is a highly contagious disease caused by mites. Persons with crusted scabies are infested with very large numbers of mites; therefore risk of transmission is very high both from brief skin-to-skin contact and from contact with items such as bedding, clothing, furniture, rugs, carpeting, floors, and other fomites that can become contaminated with skin scales and crusts shed by a person with crusted scabies. You must also avoid fomites like towels, hand kerchief, tissue, sharing same food containers or glass of water, juice or alcohol with the persons having scabies. Hope these suggestions could be useful to you in preventing yourself from the possible transmission of the mites responsible for causing scabies. Take care of your health.