A mum has described the horror at hearing she had contracted a medieval skin disease that’s surging in the UK.

Amanda Rushton, from Accrington in Lancashire, learnt she had scabies and it took over nine months to get of the mites that cause it.

The mum-of-two had initially assumed she had an allergy after noticing small bumps on her arms and side.

Within days the itching got so bad it felt like her ‘flesh was crawling’, but she put off going to the doctor assuming it would go away.

After a month, however, when the bumps and itching were still there she sought medical help.

She says the doctor recognised it was scabies immediately.

It turned out she had caught the highly infectious infestation of microscopic mites from her mum who had been in hospital, reports the Daily Mail. ‘I liter

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