How to Use scabies in a Sentence

scabies

noun

• Ringworm, head lice, scabies, and hives can also occur on the scalp and cause dry, itchy skin.
  — Cristina Montemayor, Men's Health, 31 May 2022
• In people, the drug is used to treat diseases like river blindness and scabies.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2021
• The drug is typically used to treat parasites, such as lice and scabies.
  — Jacqueline Howard and Jen Christensen, CNN, 5 Mar. 2021
• The kids — many of whom have made long journeys to get to the border, including stretches on foot — were also checked for scabies, fever and other ailments.
  — Elliot Spagat and Nomaan Merchant, Chron, 30 Mar. 2021
• One staffer placed her 3-year-old daughter in a trial for an ointment for scabies, an ailment the girl didn't have; the medicine left permanent blotches on her skin.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
• Doctors use it to treat diseases caused by intestinal worms such as river blindness, as well as head lice and scabies.
  — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Ivermectin is a drug used by humans to treat such ailments as lice and scabies, though its more common use is as a dewormer for animals.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2021
• By the time Bruinekool joined Mid-Columbia in July 2017, the company was testing drugs for asthma, scabies, and back pain, among others.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
• First, they are taken to a small inspection room staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants to be checked for lice, scabies and fever.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2021
• Ivermectin has a limited scope for human treatment, sometimes prescribed for worms, scabies and head lice.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2021
• Also Tuesday, the Corrections Department confirmed a new outbreak of scabies at the women's prison.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2021
• The child is in the Florida Department of Children and Families’ custody and was being treated for scabies at a hospital.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2020
• But there are smaller clinical trials, too, in which Zain or Mid-Columbia played outsize roles—the study for the scabies ointment, for instance, used just 140 patients from three centers.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 12 Oct. 2021
• According to the Food and Drug Administration, ivermectin is used to treat maladies like parasites and scabies.
  — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2021
• Though sometimes given to humans in small doses for head lice, scabies, and other parasites, ivermectin is more commonly used in animals.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• Earlier this year, the department treated the entire prison, which has more than 2,000 inmates, for scabies, after failing to properly diagnose an outbreak that lasted for more than a year.
  — Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2021
• The contagious mite infestation of the skin known as scabies, for example, can be remedied with antibiotics and topical medicines like permethrin.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 11 July 2021
• The drug, commonly used for livestock and pets in an animal-grade formula, is also FDA-approved in a human formula to treat parasitic infections and skin conditions such as scabies.
  — Bysony Salzman, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2022
• Ivermectin has historically been used to treat diseases such as river blindness or scabies in humans and, in some formulations, to prevent heartworm disease and other infestations in animals.
  — al, 18 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024