A 5-year-old is being treated for scabies. While providing instructions to the patient's mother, the nurse should include which of the following information?
Explanation
• Scabies can easily spread from person to person. Therefore, all members of the household should be treated.
• All clothes and linens should be washed in hot water and dried with hot air.
• Scabies is a parasitic skin infection that presents as red papules/pustules with brown, thread-like, linear burrows.
• Antiscabies creams and medications should be applied to dry skin to reduce the risk of systemic absorption and side effects.