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Scabies
Condition / disease reference page from the Everyone Healthy database.
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Condition overview
Attributes
Commonalityis common
Linked signs and symptoms
14Each sign/symptom opens its own page and links back to related conditions.
- Skin Blisters
- Skin Infection
- Skin Inflammation
- Skin Irritation
- Skin Itching
- Skin Itching Generalized
- Skin Lesions
- Skin Rash
- Skin Red Spots
- Skin Thick
- Skin: Acropustulosis (Itchy Blisters on Palms of Infants)
- Skin: Silvery White Scales
- Skin: Small Solid Raised Lump (Papules)
- Skin: Superficial Burrows (Fine, Wavy Lines 1-10mm Long)
Linked drugs / medications
2Medication information is educational only. A doctor or pharmacist should advise whether any medicine is appropriate.
Treatments, therapies and supportive options
7Grouped by treatment type. These are educational database links, not personal treatment recommendations. Evidence labels are shown only where stored in the EH database.
Lifestyle changes
1Behavioural changes
1Alternative and complementary therapies
3Alternative medicine
1Linked diagnostic tests and investigations
1These are pulled from both EH diagnostic-test link tables, including the older large test-link table.
Biological and test markers
1This visual map uses existing EH database links to show biological agents and lab markers reported as increased, decreased, or associated with this condition. These are educational relationships only; test results must be interpreted by a qualified clinician because ranges vary by lab, method, age, sex and clinical context.
Often increased
1Often decreased
0No markers in this group.
Other associated markers
0No markers in this group.
Introduction / full article
Scabies
Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:
Tea Tree Oil [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]:
Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It is proposed only as a weak supportive symptomatic support, and even then, has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present. WARNING: Tea Tree Oil is not recommended for children, pregnant women or mothers that are breastfeeding. Also, Tea tree oil should never be taken internally. Should only be used over skin, inhaled with a vaporizer, or mixed with water as a mouthwash.)
Recommendation: weakly in favor (Laboratory studies have shown that tea tree oil may be effective in treating scabies. However more research needs to be done in the form of clinical trials)
Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence
* www.gradeworkinggroup.org
Summary References
Treatments:
1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009
2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/tea-tree-oil
3. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-teatreeoil.html
4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18816275
5. http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/972/&page=
6. http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/62/4/769?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=staphaseptic&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2145499
8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9055360
9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12451368
10. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9848442
11. Bishop, C.D. (1995). "Anti-viral Activity of the Essential Oil of Melaleuca alternifolia". Journal of Essential Oil Research: 641–644