People sometimes need oral medication alone or in combination with a topical medication to treat scabies. The oral medication used is ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug. Ivermectin is prescribed ...

If you have scabies, your doctor will prescribe a medication called a “scabicide.” It contains permethrin, and it comes in a lotion or cream form. Your doctor may recommend a second treatment ...

Medically reviewed by Jordana Haber Hazan, MD Scabies mites can survive on a mattress for two to three days, which is as long ...

Despite being preventable and treatable, scabies affects more than 130 million people worldwide at any given time, ...

Limited effective treatments, coupled with recent observations of emerging drug resistance to oral ivermectin and 5% permethrin, raise concerns regarding the future control of scabies, especially ...