Patients should be retreated in 7 days to kill newly hatched nymphs. Recently ivermectin orally has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment with only one dose. Pruritus may continue for weeks after successful treatment. Sarcoptes scabiei var canis appears identical to the human scabies mite and causes mange. The lesions are papules and vesicles but no burrows are seen.
Veterinarians usually treat with ivermectin.
Horses, cats, goats, and camels all are afflicted with scabies mites which can invade but not infest man. Nonscabietic Mites Can bite humans but do not in general infest them. Humans bitten when they hold their pets. They usually crawl up legs and bite up to beltline. Grocer's itch is caused by variety of mites living on produce.