Preventing Spread

To prevent the reoccurrence of scabies and to prevent the mites from spreading to others, take these steps:

• Clean all of your clothes and household linens. Using hot water with detergent to wash all clothing, towels and bedding you used at least two days before treatment should do the trick. Dry everything cleaned with high heat. Take the items you can’t wash at home to the dry cleaners.
• Starve the mites. If you can’t get to a dry cleaners, try placing items you can’t wash in a sealed plastic bag and leaving it sealed for a couple of weeks. Mites will die if they don’t eat for a week