Guest guest Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 From the Scabies forum: If you wanna try a new treatment, try this: Go buy a pint of Everclear grain alcohol aka ethyl alchohol aka ethanol at your local liquor store. Dilute the Everclear with filtered or bottled water so that the solution is 70% ethanol, 30% water. Ethanol is a powerful microbicide and disinfectant. Unlike rubbing alcohol, it is non-toxic to the skin and safe for repeated use, also it is much, much more powerful as a disinfectant than rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol). Ethanol will oxidize any microbes and kill scabies and lay their burrows/moulting pouches to waste! Okay, moisten a cotton ball with the 70% Everclear/30% water solution and just very lightly swab one of your rashy/infested areas and see what happens. DO NOT APPLY EVERCLEAR IF YOU HAVE OPEN SKIN WOUNDS OR A REALLY BAD OR BLOODY RASH! In my experience, grain alcohol lays scabies to waste in minutes and the next day the rash will clear up. It is by far the closest thing to the “magic bullet” for scabies of all the many things I tried. This can sting real bad and be quite painful, then the pain goes away and you feel a real intense warming, hot sensation, then lastly you notice that you feel a lot better. If you can tolerate this and it does not worsen your rashes,(it shouldn't), apply more of the Everclear and apply every few hours.In my experience, once the scabies and burrows were "dead", then the rashes changed as they dried up and went away. During this stage, you do not wanna apply the Everclear/water mixture at all, because your skin and the rashes are much too sensitive. If you try this, please post your experiences here and I can try to advise you as best I can. In my experience, the Everclear/water treatment was great to rotate with Tea Tree Oil applications. I found I could only apply Tea Tree Oil so much and then go off it for a few days, because it would really thicken and stiffen my skin, and then later the topmost layer of skin would fall off. BTW, TTO does not cause any permanent skin damage. You will grow a new skin layer and be okay again, I did that many times. I also believe that if you apply a strong concentration of TTO (>30%) regularly, it thickens and saturates the topmost skin layer enough that the mites really have a hard time burrowing and infesting. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 5, 2008 Report Share Posted February 5, 2008 Hi Mel & all. I can't give you any concrete info on the everclear for rashes, but I can tell you it works great for earaches and fungus itch in the ears. We use it straight (with a medicine dropper) from the bottle and let it swish around in the ears a few minutes, then take a q-tip and dry ears out. This last step is not absolutely necessary, but it keeps alcohol from dripping out of your ears if you are wearing clothes. The everclear does not hurt your ears at all. You will feel a very warm sensation and think it is going to start stinging but it never has on us or others we have recommended it to. This tip originally came from a friend's family doctor who told him to use it to prevent swimmer's ear. I CAN tell you the regular 91% rubbing alcohol does sting like the dickens but everclear never does. (It is also a very smooth drink). Anyway, if you have crawlies getting into your ears this should kill them dead - or get them very drunk. lol. Best wishes on cure. Joan > > From the Scabies forum: > > If you wanna try a new treatment, try this: Go buy a pint of Everclear grain alcohol aka ethyl alchohol aka ethanol at your local liquor store. Dilute the Everclear with filtered or bottled water so that the solution is 70% ethanol, 30% water. Ethanol is a powerful microbicide and disinfectant. Unlike rubbing alcohol, it is non-toxic to the skin and safe for repeated use, also it is much, much more powerful as a disinfectant than rubbing alcohol (isopropyl alcohol). Ethanol will oxidize any microbes and kill scabies and lay their burrows/moulting pouches to waste! Okay, moisten a cotton ball with the 70% Everclear/30% water solution and just very lightly swab one of your rashy/infested areas and see what happens. DO NOT APPLY EVERCLEAR IF YOU HAVE OPEN SKIN WOUNDS OR A REALLY BAD OR BLOODY RASH! In my experience, grain alcohol lays scabies to waste in minutes and the next day the rash will clear up. It is by far the closest thing to the " magic bullet " for scabies of all > the many things I tried. This can sting real bad and be quite painful, then the pain goes away and you feel a real intense warming, hot sensation, then lastly you notice that you feel a lot better. If you can tolerate this and it does not worsen your rashes,(it shouldn't), apply more of the Everclear and apply every few hours. > > In my experience, once the scabies and burrows were " dead " , then the rashes changed as they dried up and went away. During this stage, you do not wanna apply the Everclear/water mixture at all, because your skin and the rashes are much too sensitive. If you try this, please post your experiences here and I can try to advise you as best I can. In my experience, the Everclear/water treatment was great to rotate with Tea Tree Oil applications. I found I could only apply Tea Tree Oil so much and then go off it for a few days, because it would really thicken and stiffen my skin, and then later the topmost layer of skin would fall off. BTW, TTO does not cause any permanent skin damage. You will grow a new skin layer and be okay again, I did that many times. I also believe that if you apply a strong concentration of TTO (>30%) regularly, it thickens and saturates the topmost skin layer enough that the mites really have a hard time burrowing and infesting. > > > --------------------------------- > Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Search. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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