A nurse is providing teaching about home care to the parent of a child who has scabies. Which of the following instructions should the nurse include in the teaching?

A. Soak combs and brushes in boiling water for 10 min. Incorrect. While cleaning items is important, soaking combs and brushes in boiling water is more relevant to head lice, not scabies. Scabies mites live on skin and are unlikely to infest combs and brushes.B. Treat everyone who came into close contact with the child. Correct. Scabies is highly contagious and spreads through close personal contact. All household members and close contacts should be treated simultaneously to prevent reinfestation.C. Apply petroleum jelly to the affected areas. Incorrect. The treatment for scabies involves prescription scabicides (such as permethrin cream), not petroleum jelly.D. Wash the child's hair with shampoo containing ketoconazole. Incorrect. Ketoconazole shampoo is used for fungal infections like dandruff or seborrheic dermatitis, not scabies.