Scabies and rooming with them

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So some time over the summer me and some friends tried renting a house by our school. Turns out there's a lot of student laws that pretty much prevent us from renting unless its "student approved" which more or less means the shit holes not near any of the "normal" populace (even though we all are 21+).
We could find one place that would rent to us. It was a complete mess. Some rooms looked like they had never been vacuumed by the last tenants (perhaps even the ones before them, we kinda knew them). But anyway we sucked it up. Because honestly there wasn't much else to do.
I was the first to move in and started cleaning followed by another, we both started complaning about bug bites. Others moved in and I started getting really bad.

It turns out we all had gotten scabies. Lovely. We all got treated and tried to put it behind us. Wasn't much else to do.

We fast forward about four months and I have them again.

What do we do? Originally my roommate was extremely pissed about how we more or less got it from the shitty living situation but me and the others agreed there probably wasn't anything we could have really done legally about it except grin and bear it (the treatment wasn't the worst thing).

And others have been showing symptoms again as well.

It's the most aggravating thing in the world. I just started dating someone and big itchy penis lumps aren't something I exactly want right now.

Edit: I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for. Seems you people don't either with all the views and lack of response. I almost just needed to rant. Do I complain to my landlord?
Do I complain to the city? Do we all just get treated and go home for a couple days so hopefully whatever is here dies? I dunno. I'm going to the doctor (again...) and I'll be asking them some questions too.

GirlPants

Dude I feel your pain. I moved into a new place about six months ago and I got them as well shortly after. Here's what I did:

Got Permithrin cream from the doctor
Bought 10 bars of 10% sulfur soap from walgreens
Washed and dryed all my blankets and clothes in high heat
Quaratined any furniture I came in contact with


I actually moved out and kept using the soap and I ended up getting a rash from the soap which I thought was still scabies. It was just from really really dry skin, so the doctors say.

I'm pretty sure its gone now but I'm no 100% sure. Still waiting to see if anything shows up again.

My advice is move out honestly. If it's in your carpet your fucked. It only takes about 4-5 days for them to die without human contact. So if you can't move them I'd suggest the soap and cream again and maybe staying in a hotel for a week. Goodluck

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Edit: You said you moved out after 6 months. Was you landlord considerate at all because I imagine you cut your lease early (though some places have none or just 6 month long ones I'm sure). I'm just curious what a landlord would say or do when presented with the situation. It's sadly not an option for us though, with the housing situation here. Feel really discriminated against (well.. actually we are being discriminated against but its damned legal)

I've heard that before about them dying. But it's always been hard to do considering there are 6 of us and the whole going to school thing.

But some of the guys still have their refill and are going to the Rally to Restore Sanity this weekend.
Not only that but half of us don't even have class monday and can even leave early friday (or just skip class for this). And everyone is local and can go home (except me, but I've got plenty of friends to house me for halloween weekend)

Gonna just go full force on abanding our house for a few days.

The doctor said mite bombs kinda work so hopefully that'll be an extra push and we'll just hella bomb it while we're gone.

I already bagged up all(including the clean stuff) my clothes and blankets and am taking it all to a laundromat tomorrow and will just store it in my car for the mean time.

Any other advice is welcome. Looking to stack the deck against these little fuckers.

CygnusZ

I forgot the exact test, but (at least in NYC) landlords are responsible for providing a habitable apartment. Your landlord should release you from the lease if you complain about getting scabies just from living there. If he refuses to, you should try getting advice from a law professor and then consider filing a report with a consumer group (rental protection agency maybe? Somebody at your college may have a better idea).

You shouldn't be forced to pay the lease under those conditions.

Derrick

Don't store things possibly contaminated with scabies in your car. What are you thinking there? Don't do that.

Also, you're sure you've got scabies and not bed bugs, right? Scabies are a lot easier to deal with. Make sure you've got what you think you've got. Scabies might be workable so far as bombing and such (which your landlord should be paying for. Working out something where you take it out of rent is an easy solution.)

If it's bedbug, fuck it. Move out, and lose whatever deposit + fees. You don't get rid of bedbugs, they get rid of you.

GirlPants

Well I was staying on a friends couch basically. So once I found an apartment I moved out. I didn't have to deal with a lease. I know for a fact that there are habitation laws though. I would definitely look into those in whatever state you live in. Landlords are required to provide a habitable place, so if it was contaminated by bugs unknown to you you might be able to move out. I don't know.

My advice is just be really proactive. It won't go away in a day. Just wash all your clothes and bedsheets, etc. like 2 or 3 times a week. Vaccum like everyday if you can. Mite bombs, wash with sulfur soap, use permithrin cream. Just do all that shit over and over again for a few months. Eventually they will die. That's basically what I did. It's a process.

Bliss 101

Are you absolutely sure this is scabies (and only scabies)? I've had scabies all over my hands and inner thighs, but I never had anything resembling "bug bites" or "lumps". It sounds more like bedbugs, which require a thorough pesticide treatment of the house.

FeatherBlade

If you have carpet, you might consider working some diatomaceous earth into the fibers. That should dessicate any bed bugs or other kinds of mites that might be living in the carpet.

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To reply quickly to some of these (not at home on my own computer) I'll make this quick.

I wasn't storing anything that had scabies on it in my car, I put all my stuff in trash bags and took it to the laundromat. I threw those bags out and put this clean stuff in the new trash bags.

It was definitely scabies. The doctor said she hadn't seen anything that bad in a long time (we went undiagnosed for a while thinking they were bed bugs) and the lumpy bit I was talking about is a straight up condition of scabies. It's a reaction your skin has or some such. It was what caused me to go to the doctor in the first place. I said we had beg bugs and look now I have a lumpy penis! He told me that no infact we had scabies (was worried for a hot second).

I'm not sure about the moving out part, it's almost impossible to find a place to live in this city due to these student laws they have. After finding this place over the summer I remember a friend came out to look at apartments.
Six places in a row refused him upon learning he was a student, not because they wanted to but because of the insane and strict laws said they couldn't. It's not that they don't meet some strange requirements, they do it to "protect" the people who live here who aren't students. So students can't live next to each other etc. Random things.