Hello everyone,

I believe medical textbooks are outdated when it comes to scabies on the faces of healthy adults.

I am a healthy adult and I noticed two tiny burrows on my face, even though doctors will tell you that scabies are not common on facial skin. The thing is, burrows on the face are very discrete and hard to spot, so I guess they go unnoticed by most doctors. That's probably where this "myth" that adults don't get scabies on the face came from.

So my advice is that you put permethrin cream all over your face too, because the mites do get there.

It doesn't even make sense to think otherwise. It's all the same skin and the mites roam the whole body, so why would they specifically avoid the face?

For those who did the treatment, but scabies came back, maybe it's because you didn't apply the cream to your whole face and scalp also. They can hide even in your ears!