When raised, itchy red bumps appeared between his thumb and fingers, Benjo Aptroot knew immediately that it was scabies.
‘It looked like eczema, but I knew it was scabies because a friend I saw a lot at college had been diagnosed the day before, and I’d seen her rash,’ says Benjo, 21, a university student who lives in North London.
‘Although my friend had it for a few months, she’d been misdiagnosed with ingrown hairs, and I didn’t panic as