scabies

both me and my bunny are in a bad mood.

Well. It seems that every year I get plagued by some interesting illness/disease or the other. Last year it was bedbugs~ previously dengue. And I had a bad case of gaestroentritis after Indonesia where I vomited my bile...ooo, an alien shade of green.

And now, itching miserably with scabies. Scabies! Sounds horrid. Nothing I've read online seems promising either. I just hope it's the:

"In persons who handle affected animals, an extremely pruritic papular eruption can develop that differs from ordinary scabies in several ways: distribution of lesions is proximal, with involvement of the thighs, abdomen, and forearms. Burrows are usually absent. The course is self-limited, provided there is no reexposure. Other persons in the household do not have to be treated, because human-to-human transmission of animal scabies does not occur."

and not the type of scabies which is:

"Atypical presentations of scabies have been described in immunosuppressed persons, including organ transplant recipients, patients with lymphoma or leukemia, and patients with AIDS. Itching and scratching, with elimination of mites and burrows, may be minimal in patients who lack an immunologic host response, allowing for thousands of mites to reproduce and thrive.3 Crusted scabies, which was originally described in Norway, is associated with widespread hyperkeratotic lesions and deep fissures in the skin. Crusted scabies can develop in patients with malnutrition or severe mental deficiency and in institutionalized patients. The condition is highly contagious because of the large number of mites present in the exfoliating skin.

A severe form of scabies with unusual clinical features consisting of crusted lesions and a widespread pruritic papular dermatitis has been described in HIV-infected patients.3,5 In these patients, multiple treatment applications may be needed because of the large mite population and the patients' impaired immunologic response."

I was misdiagnosed by the doctor (The last quack doctor told me my dengue was food poisoning, not funny) to have a allergic rash derived from food sensitivity. Tsk tsk.

And for a 'normal' person I have had almost ALL of the major illnesses.
In my short life, I have had chickenpox, mumps, asthma, hand-foot-mouth-disease (it was so rare when I was a child that I was undiagnosed until the recent outbreak), dengue... oh, and now add scabies to the list. Itch. itch. I hope my bunny survives this, it looks so frail and in a shell-shocked state after the injection, scabicide and shampoo. Sigh.