Call Doctor or Seek Care Now
- Spreading red area or streak with fever
- Your child looks or acts very sick
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Contact Doctor Within 24 Hours
- Spreading red area or streak, but no fever
- You think your child needs to be seen
Contact Doctor During Office Hours
- Your child had close contact with someone with scabies and not treated
- Yellow soft scab that drains pus or gets bigger, not better with antibiotic ointment
- Severe itching not better after 48 hours of steroid cream and allergy medicine
- Rash goes away with treatment and then returns
- After 4 weeks, itch is still present
- You have other questions or concerns
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Self Care at Home
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