Cleaning and treatment
My fiance works at an apartment community and routinely deals with nasty situations once people move out or are evicted. About 2 months ago he started having issues on his legs including being very itchy and scratching his skin until it created sores. He suffered, but he didn't really say too much about it other than it itched him mostly at night. I think he was trying to minimize what he was going through. Unfortunately he suffered like that for over a month until the sores eventually became impetigo. We went to Urgent Care and they gave him some creams and told him it was impetigo. Obviously those creams didn't work and it continued to get a little bit worse. About 12 days ago he was diagnosed with scabies, which is both of our worst nightmares. They prescribed Permethrin cream, and said it was enough for both of us to do a full treatment. There was definitely not enough cream for both of us to do a treatment, so I got on the Telehealth and got my own prescription for the cream. We also both did Telehealth and got Ivermectin pills, and they gave us enough to do two rounds. The cream failed and we did take the Ivermectin last Friday. It advised that we needed to do a second round of ivermectin in 2 weeks. Everything that I see on here says to do the second dose after 7 to 10 days. Also I want to mention that I stayed up all night cleaning just about everything I could think of. I used Super Soap which has spinosad in it. I also got a steamer and attempted to use that. I guess I wasn't thorough enough because it has slowly started itching and causing more issues again. I especially feel bad for my fiance because he has to go to work and go outside for an hour or two a day where it is almost unbearable for him. I have major medical issues including a weakened immune system, and he has very thin and sensitive skin on his legs because he was burned when he was young. We have gone all in because we plan to retreat again on Saturday. We have ordered spinosad and benzyl benzoate from the maximumpulse website. We've also gotten the full kit of mite be gone, including laundry additive, pet spray and home spray. I've also got nu stock sulfur cream and we've made up our own sulfur lotion. I also plan to mix together tea tree oil, coconut oil and a little clove oil to have one hand to soothe after the treatment. I'm really looking to see if anyone can tell me if there's anything that we're not thinking of or something that may be effective that we haven't purchased. I am very stressed about the cleaning portion because although I feel like I did a pretty thorough job last time, obviously it wasn't enough. What did you use to clean your environment and your home? Were there things that you initially didn't think about, that maybe important to make sure I address? I didn't include things like replacing our deodorants or toothbrushes. This time I fully intend to replace things like that. I'm also not sure if I did everything in the proper order. We took the Ivermectin around 6:00 p.m., and I stayed up all that night cleaning. When my fiance woke up the next morning I had everything ready including clean bedding, towels and things like that. I didn't strip the bed the night before. I think that was a mistake because even though the Ivermectin was still working in my system the next morning, I was so itchy after pulling everything off the bed. We do have a very thick mattress along with a memory foam mattress topper and mattress protector. What steps did you take as far as cleaning? Did you change the bed out right before you did your treatment, and then change it out again the next morning or how did you handle that? Please , tell me exactly what you did and what order you did it . I want to ensure that we take care of this because my fiance is having an especially hard time. Since it's so hot here in florida, he's forced to wear shorts and you can clearly see how bad his legs are. He's embarrassed to even be at work right now. It makes me so angry to think that the people didn't even care who might have had scabies and passed it on to us. We are pretty clean people, and this is really our worst nightmare. Please help me and give me all the recommendations for steps of cleaning as well as what you used. Is it even worth it to keep the steamer that I have? We do have dogs and I know that poses an issue as well. I do plan to spray them and their bedding down with the mite be gone pet spray. I'm so sorry to anyone that's gone through this, and especially the people that have gone through it for long periods of time. I can't even imagine the mental toll that must take.
* the first two pictures are how my fiance's legs look right now, and the other pictures are how he looked right before we did the first treatment last Friday, which was 11 days ago.