How do I treat scabies?

  General topical application of 10% sulfur ointment (infants and children 5% sulfur ointment). Bath with hot water and soap before treatment, then rub the medicine, from the neck down, first apply the skin lesions, and then the whole body, 1-2 times a day, 3-4 days for a course of treatment. During the period of applying medicine, do not bathe, do not change clothes, in order to maintain the effect of medicine, completely destroy the scabies mites on the skin and clothes. After the course of treatment, change to clean clothes. If a new rash is still found after two weeks, the second course of treatment should be repeated.  25% benzyl benzoate emulsion of insecticidal power, and no irritation, can be applied 1-2 times a day, a total of 2-3 days, the effect is better.  10% Lindane cream that r-666 cream, is the most commonly used and the most effective scabies killing medicine. This agent should not be used on infants (under 10 years old), pregnant and nursing women, and patients with seizures or other neurological disorders. Its use is to apply 10% r-666 cream from the neck down the whole body, 24 hours all wash away, the drug must not touch the eyes and mucous membranes.  Scabies Chinese medicine treatment: (a) identification and treatment: generally do not need internal medicine, if the secondary infection, it is appropriate to remove wind and clear heat and dampness, with the elimination of wind (angelica, raw earth, wind, cicada, Zhi Mu, bitter ginseng, Hu Ma, thorny mustard, atractylodes, gypsum, licorice, mouton) combined with Huanglian detoxification soup (Huanglian, scutellaria, gardenia, Huangbai) plus reduction. Decoction with water, 1 dose daily, 2 times daily.  1, skin wind-heat evidence: skin blister less, papular rash more, thick wall liquid less, scratched dry scab, itching, long dry skin brown fat, red tongue, thin moss, pulse floating or slippery. Drain wind, clear heat and moisten dryness. Dissipate wind and heat, plus or minus.  2, damp heat and poisonous evidence: skin blisters, papular rash, thin wall and liquid, broken flow of fatty water, wet rot, or pustules stacked, or red silk, swelling and pain, red tongue, yellow greasy coating, slippery pulse. Clearing heat, resolving dampness and detoxicating. Five Flavors Disinfectant Drink combined with Huang Lian Detoxification Tang plus or minus.  3.Evidence of insect poisoning: Isolated brownish-red hard nodules on the penis and scrotum, itching from time to time, difficult to dissipate, light red tongue, white fur, smooth pulse. Kill worms and detoxify. Add and subtract Lutai Wan.  (B) External treatment and other treatments: 1. 500g of boiled oil of large maple flesh, research as a paste, apply to the affected area. 10% of Baibei with (Baibei, white wine) and Xionghuang paste (Xionghuang, zinc oxide, petroleum jelly), apply externally.  2, “the secret of the external Taiwan” has been recorded in the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong treatment of scabies formula: “stone sulfur yellow without much, research powder, to sesame oil or coated with the motor”, this method is still in use. Currently, the clinical use of 5% to 20% of sulfur ointment, children with 5% to 20%, adults with 10% to 20%, if the patient has a long history of disease, available 20%, but the concentration should not be too high, otherwise easy to produce dermatitis. Can also be applied externally a sweeping light or andrographis ointment.  The method of application: first to the pepper, the skin of the decoction of external washing. Generally first rub the good hair parts, and then apply the whole body. Apply 1 time every morning and evening for 3 times. On the 4th day, take a bath and change the clothes and blankets, this is 1 course of treatment. Generally cure 1 to 2 courses of treatment.