Question........doctor?

ok, so my husband and I just got 2 cats a couple of weeks ago, Well one of the cats, it looks like it has mange disease, (skin condition) and about a week ago, it looks like I started getting, like a rash on my skin, I thought it was a flea bite or something, and I kept on scratching and scratching and now those little rash-lookin-like spots look like sores, size of a penny. My question is, can it carry over to me (mange disease) or did I just scratch too much and that's why they turned that way? My husband has the little flea looking bites and his didn't turn out like mine. We wash the cats with the shampoo that's supposed to get rid of fleas, so I don't know what's going on here.

Get yourself and your cats to a professional. It sounds to me like you have caught ringworm from your animal and it is HIGHLY contagious..

Are you sure that it can't be something else like bed bugs?

Check with the vet and get them tested for ringworm - it's actually a fungus which causes cats' hair to fall out, and can be transferred to humans. They will need to get a blood test. If they have it, go to a dermatologist, they'll probably give you antifungal pills or creme.

My cats had this last year and it was very hard to get rid of. Luckily we didn't get it.

According to this site, Mange can be transfered to people. They're like little microscopic mites. So, if I were you, I'd go to your doctor and get checked out. Both you and your husband should go. Also, take any children that's in the house, too. Make sure you clean the house really good with bleach and cleaning products like that, to totally get rid of it. Do the carpets, walls, furniture, bedrooms, kitchen, diningroom, etc...

I hope this helped. :) Make sure you check out that site. It's a really good one. :)

Sarcoptic mange mites are known to transfer from animal hosts to people, so persons handling mangy animals should take reasonable precautions: wear rubber gloves if possible, and always wash promptly after handling a diseased animal. Freezing kills the mites; therefore it is best to freeze carcasses that are collected for examination. Notoedric mites are not transmissible to humans.
Animal scabies (Sarcoptic mange) not infrequenty attacks human beings, especially the owners of affected lap dogs or cats, and grooms attending mangy horses. There is no incubation period, the disease occurring immediately the parasite is transferred to the human skin. The burrows characteristic of human scabies are not found, the eruption being a small red papular rash which affects the arms or other parts which have been in contact with the infested animal.Sometimes the eruption is very profuse and wide spread. The best place to find the acarus is the point of elbow.When the source of infection is detected and cut off the disease tends to die out of itself, but the treatment with 25% benzyl benzoate or 1% gamma benzene hexachloride should always be instituted, the latter being less irritant and more effective. This is applied to the whole of the skin from the neck down, preferably with a brush. It is absolutely essential that the whole skin be completely covered. It is quite useless merely to treat those areas where there are active lesions. Two applications are necessary, applied at 24 hour intervals and a further 24 hours after the second application a bath is taken. For the treatment is to be effective it must remain on the skin for a total of 48 hours. This means that the patient must be instructed not to wash any part of his anatomy until the final bath. Washing of the hands or even clothes or dishes must be forbidden unless another coating of the application is aplied immediately afterwards. All members of the patient's household must be treated simutaneously.
Consult a dermatologist.