[APovi]

Chronic Itching?
One of our group has chronic itching on their face/eyebrows/lids and scalp.
Their doctor and referred Derma, both say they dont see anything.
A PCT Test came back negative.
I found descriptions of "Demodex Folliculorm & D. Blepharitis)"
Its a microscopic parasite which most/all older people have.
Apparently it can flare uo and cause the itching (and, sometimes skin problems too).
Sounds gross to me
Looks like a PCR test might be more appropriate.
Anyone ever heard of it?

[Taltarzac725]

Demodex Blepharitis: What It Is, Symptoms & Treatment

Seems we all got them.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by APovi

Chronic Itching?
One of our group has chronic itching on their face/eyebrows/lids and scalp.
Their doctor and referred Derma, both say they dont see anything.
A PCT Test came back negative.
I found descriptions of "Demodex Folliculorm & D. Blepharitis)"
Its a microscopic parasite which most/all older people have.
Apparently it can flare uo and cause the itching (and, sometimes skin problems too).
Sounds gross to me
Looks like a PCR test might be more appropriate.
Anyone ever heard of it?

Hmmmmm.

Seems as even the most fastidiously clean among us are in reality walking critter colonies.

This, from the BBC online: "We hate to break it you, but you’re not totally human. It’s nothing about you personally. It’s just that more than 90% of the cells in the human body are actually parasites. You might feel like a single being, but you’re really more of a bug city, teeming with different species.

Or as Greg Foot from BritLab puts it in the above video: “In a rather gross way, you are practically a walking petri dish, a home for more bugs and bacteria than you’d care think about.” ("The disgusting creatures inhabiting your body". bbc.com, 2 April 2015).

Back in my university days, infestations of pubic lice ("crabs", or as the doctor at the University Medical Center termed them
"sabertoothed crotch critters" ) would occasionally make the rounds. There is a picture of one on the website referenced above. Good thing they're as small as they are: any larger and they'd be terrifying! But they're far from the only critter that loves riding/dining/reproducing on and/or in the human body. Thankfully as I understand it most are not only just innocuous but many are essential to our wellbeing!

Sort of puts things in a different light.