If you baby has scabies, you will probably never find out for sure where they got it. But I will go over the most common ways that babies are exposed to scabies.
Hospitals are one of the most common places, where scabies is spread. Nurses and doctors can unknowingly, carry the mites on there clothing from an infested patients room to your baby’s room. In addition to this, the alcohol based disinfectant that is used in hospitals, has been shown to be ineffective at killing scabies mites. This makes it possible for one person with scabies, to spread it to everyone else in the hospital.
Daycares are another place that babies can easily get scabies. Because of the frequent skin to skin contact, in a day care, scabies is spread very quickly, even if only one person has it. When your baby is is playing with lots of other babies from different homes, it increases the risk of scabies, spreading to your own baby.
Family Members and anyone else that touches your baby, can spread it through skin to skin contact. You might not even know whether someone close to you has scabies, because it takes 1-2 months for the symptoms to appear after they are infested. During this time, it can be spread through an entire household.
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Thank you Amber for giving us this concise beneficial article…. I hope some physicians take notice!