The first-line treatment in many countries is now 5% permethrin, with ivermectin, a promising oral therapy for ordinary scabies. Benzyl benzoate continues to be highly efficacious, although there ...

Ordinary scabies is treated with permethrin-based creams and shampoos while crusted "Norwegian" scabies is often treated with a combination of permethrin (5%) and oral ivermectin 200 µ/kg.

Seven of nine reported shortages of permethrin and malathion. Prof Kamila Hawthorne, the chair of the Royal College of GPs, explained that GPs have seen 'growing rates' of scabies presentations ...