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Post by toni on Dec 16, 2011 12:06:11 GMT -5
Toni, i read some studies on the B. Subtilis where they used Alexa Flor dyes. I looked its mfg and found Invitrogen. The colors we are seeing must be engineered into the reproductive cycle. the color must be part of the living process. Here are Invitrogen's colors. They come from bacteria, mushrooms, sea life, etc. www.invitrogen.com/site/us/en/home/References/Molecular-Probes-The-Handbook/Technical-Notes-and-Product-Highlights/The-Alexa-Fluor-Dye-Series.htmlLike the GlowFish that became the first transgenic colored pet sold, I think the bacteria we are looking at in Morgellons may express the genes of another organism which means we are looking at transgenic bacteria, with each color representing some genetic alteration, different strains or organism designed to serve its own unique pathogenic purpose. The inventor/creator would know its identity by its color. I read other info that said colored pigments can determine the potency of the animal, making something toxic even more toxic. I.e., the colors may be used for a mechanical effect. Skiz, very true about "colors expressed", and I sure know what you mean. There could be many directions the pigments are coming from. Hard to know for sure "where" exactly.
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Post by toni on Dec 16, 2011 12:12:49 GMT -5
Hey Toni When I first started getting sick we lived in a farm house that had septic, mold, and gas issues. I think the toxic soup along with bug bombing to keep down flea population. We had indoor pet cats back then. I think that is how I got the hyper toxicity that then led to the break down of health issues and let Morgellons in. I can remember just before moving taking a tiny broken piece of bug off my scalp which back then had very small non-healing sores. It looked like a deer tick, but I sloughed it off sense I had not been in any forest, but our landlords son who we went to high school with lived in a forest and would come out twice a year to clean peoples chimneys. He would use our wash machine to wash his laundry and wonder if I got a hitch hiker from his laundry back then. Okay this is a question I have. During that time my hubby would periodically have an Ammonia type smell come off him and even worse out of his lungs. Shortly after a few years of this going off and on in cycle he got bronchitis and was so sick he missed to much work and lost his job. After living on antibiotics and never getting rid of what he had and each prescription was stronger then the next. He got scared and asked me to take over. After I got him well he quite smelling like Ammonia. He also would smell like pancake syrup and it did not really smell good when it would come off the body. Have not smelled that off of him anymore either. Ever sense we moved into this smaller farm house we rent from another high school friend. But during the pre bug era of my disease I would start smelling that ammonia smell off my breath of areas that should have sweated off and on. I wonder if this was toxins my body was trying to burn off or the mold growth itself. Back at the first house I could remember feeling like a spider off and on all the time when in a dark room landing and or moving across the hair. Also the crawling worm over the outer face up into the eyes back then, but it was so far spaced I easily sloughed it off as hair movement and or fleas which were really low key most of the time because I was so adiment about staying on top of it. Drove everyone nuts. Then our 3 year hear is when the bugs hit hard head to tow when this place became sorely infested with fleas and we had no pets. The day we won our flea battle and I have never seen or felt a flea sense then was the same day I was hit my the hookie crawler and the wispy crawler and the stabber bugs. The Potato Bug which is a horrific looking creature eats mites and they appeared in numbers in my home right before I was hit head to toe. I wonder if the Ammonia smell that you say is attached to the bacteria also is what the bugs smell even if it is so minute we can not smell it. I also wonder if my husband who went through excessive itching during his illness and a couple years afterward was him coming down with this also, but all those antibiotic at the very beginning stages for bronchitis for a whole year and then the herbal treatments to finally get well was enough to kill it before it got a real hold on him. Unfortunately I was rarely ever sick so had no antibiotic treatments and the disease was allowed to take hold of me. Being home and disabled also would leave me exposed longer to the toxic situation that led to my health coming apart. When they finally fixed the problems of that house the gas company found a 75 dollar a month leak from the old fashion wall furnace. I had from day one complained of gas smells and was always told I was being too sensitive, because I have always had a extra sensitive smeller. Then put in my C-pap equipment which brings in the air from the room and forces it into my lungs would push larger amounts of toxins into my lungs more so then others. On top of that the mold wall was on my side of the room and so was the septic against the outer wall of house on that same side. So when windows were open I could breath the septic gases which would rise from time to time. I wonder even those who say they were suddenly attacked by bugs was exposed to something long term that might have snuck up on them and like me they ignored all those warning and then when struck by the bugs attracted to the bacteria and such. Maybe gave them the impression a bug caused this. Also wonder if a bug who has this can bite you and infect you so that you can just come up with it out of the blue with no sneak up elements before hand. Boy it will be wonderful if they the medical society ever figure out the details of this stinkin disease. I am so tired of it, but I am not holding my breath. In Light Lynn/TorpedoLynn Lynn, Here's some links that talk about the ammonia smell and each time we all breathe, carbon dioxide too is expelled from our breath, and that too is very attractive for certain "critters". It's how they find us, by just our breath...or any mammals breath too. From link: The production of Ammonia is a result of metabolism, problems occur when this metabolic waste is not properly cleared via the Urea cycle and kidneys. Ammonia is the by product of protein/ amino acid catabolism (break down) in the digestive process, it is not a detrimental substance if the body can clear it adequately. Ammonia is the combination of Nitrogen (produced from protein breakdown) and Hydrogen. An excess in the body is known as hyperammonaemia and can result in cell damage, vomitting, fatigue, Helicobacter pylori infection, confusion, irritability and nausea. Ammonia production may be elevated if there is an underlying contributing factor such as Helicobacter pylori, stress, amino acid deficiency or liver cirrhosis. There is a link between the symptoms of an overgrowth of the Candida bacteria (as you mentioned) and Ammonia production and smell on the breath. www.askanaturopath.com/faqs/ammonia-smell-on-breath/p/463 THE GIST Adult humans emit strong body odor that is unique among mammals and attracts certain insects. news.discovery.com/human/human-sweat-smell-mosquito-110223.html And about us and animals (breathing out carbon dioxide) Carbon Dioxide Ticks and fleas are attracted to increased concentrations of carbon dioxide in the air. Animals give off carbon dioxide into the surrounding air when they breath, so this is a good indicator to parasites that a potential host is nearby. www.ehow.com/info_8256241_attracts-fleas-ticks-animals.html
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Post by skizit on Dec 17, 2011 3:54:38 GMT -5
Try putting the dry mustard in water on the private area. Just take a mustard shower before your shower. It kills bacteria.
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Post by toni on Dec 17, 2011 12:45:06 GMT -5
This says so much, and matches so much of what's gone on too. Demodex carrying bacteria (salmonella and staph) down into the follicles and glands to where it can reach the blood stream and infect the body) - and about Impetigo, which many of us have had also. So much to read here. I found this site going through AFIP to their library on Demodex. It was the only link referring to them, as this isn't a real popular subject today in medicine, in the USA that is. Other countries are involved, whereas the USA isn't. Isn't that "interesting too". www.archive.org/stream/studiesonacarino00brituoft#page/n4/mode/1up
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Post by ginna898 on Dec 17, 2011 19:05:53 GMT -5
thank you toni for that link.
i hate the thought of 'mites', i am beginning to believe it now because so much of what is being presented in this thread i can easily attest to happening with me and my skin and the 'sacs' found on hair follicles.
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Post by toni on Dec 17, 2011 22:03:32 GMT -5
Hi Ginna,
Yes, and if you get a chance to read "the link in my above" post, just above yours, you'll see - plenty that looks really fishy to me too.
The "bacteria being able to be spread by the mites carrying it in, all the way to the blood stream".
This is another one of those (parasitic subjects) that OUR nation pretends is "just the norm".
YET....when a dog gets the "mange" really bad, they say get it to the vets right away or it can kill them. Now...I ask, what else is there about Demodex that would be dangerous? Yep...the garbage/bacteria the mites carry in, will do a dog in.
YET PEOPLE....oh...baloney, they say it's "part of nature"? No it isn't. These are parasites. Ocular demodex can cause a person to go blind too! Yes, that too is fact, as they populate they cause all kinds of eyeball problems. (there's so much I could say)...but only if anyone is interested.
The USA doesn't "believe in them" in any way shape or form it seems as being a problem to humans, YET they DO for animals.
Also, the facts are: Demodex is "as in reading" VERY under-rated, and very not studied, as they all admit MORE research needs done on these critters.
This to me seems as negligent as no one ever realizing mosquito's carry malaria, and they'd not know that had so many people 100's of thousands of people, years ago, died ... and yet no one figured it out till later that it was the mosquito's.
Well...imho, what about these disease or bacteria carrying mites?
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Post by skizit on Dec 17, 2011 22:55:38 GMT -5
gina, you reminded me that its not just demodex mites that can transfer fiber-making bacteria and fungus, its sarcoptes mites too and other arthropods like collembola which carry the borellia burgdoreria. Whatever one transmits the aspergillus would also be uses to start cancers which some Morgellons victims die from. Aspergillus emit toxins called afloatoxins which are carcinogens. They (the creators of this horror) have engineered the natural symbionts. Various arthropods carry diferent types of bacteria and fungus. That would account for so many different symptoms. One person may have a sarcoptes mite that injects a blue fiber with one fungus and another may have demodex that inject something else. they've worked really hard on this disease. They should get some sort of a prize or genius criminals. What would that be called?
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Post by Lynn on Dec 18, 2011 0:38:58 GMT -5
Hi Toni and all
Thank you all for the comments and feedback. I really have found all the post great and helpful. Saved the links you have here Toni. I am still going strong on the mustard. I almost have to get it to burn to get it to kill the adult no see-um that I call the hard biter. I have had great reprieves and great nights sleep two day on one bad night and then a good night again. So getting caught up on some much needed sleep.
Skizit I am using the mustard in the private places and It has helped when done a certain way to keep them out of certain places most of the time.
Pididit I sure wish they could figure out what type of critter you have. I think I remember some post once with some sonograms of that thing. That would scared the ell out of me. Very sorry for what you are having to go through.
Merry Christmas everyone. Love the x-mas pics too. In Light Lynn/Torpedolynn
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Post by simone on Dec 18, 2011 1:11:31 GMT -5
I agree with some sort of mite...
I posted a picture of this earlier (can't remember where) but it looked like an encasement of some sort... thank goodness I never seen anything leave out of it. Here's my vid of it and after having morgs for a few yrs... it's something you live with and your're not as freaked out like the begining of this condition. However I am curious about the heads on some of the fibers??? Does any see these too.
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Post by toni on Dec 18, 2011 9:28:29 GMT -5
Great video Simone. I wish there was a way to zoom in on those tiny things at the ends of those fibers. Sure makes me wonder what that is too.
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Post by toni on Dec 18, 2011 9:31:55 GMT -5
Some kind of Demodex. This is really bizarre. From link: A species of Demodex on the tips of the eyelashes. This is so odd because what kind of Demodex lives on the tips of the lashes like this? Simone...sort of reminds me of your fibers with the tips in your video. eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=4381
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Post by toni on Dec 18, 2011 11:21:29 GMT -5
Now here's something that I've got to followup on. I've got to confirm this article on Bacillus Oleronius, because this is the only one I could find so far with a picture of B. Oleronius, and I really want more than one picture from experts on what the colonies of this bacterium looks like growing in a petri dish. Bacillus Oleronius IS so far the bacterium found in 2010 that is carried into the skin by the Demodex mites. I'm sure the more study, the more they'll find too. By the way, this B. Oleronius that is carried in by the Demodex mites, was also found in the hind gut of termites, not that it matters as much, but, it's interesting how they're not exempt from giving us problems, (((especially))) the demodex since they LIVE in our follicles and vector this Bacillus into the skin, so much so that it's the cause of Rosacea, and ocular deterioration they're finding also. Check this out. From link *below* (this is the bacteria brought in by the demodex). See how they all look like (over easy eggs)? Now see this picture, a close-up in my petri dish last year. They look the same to me. www.clinuvel.com/en/blog/lightandhealth/developments-test-post/
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Post by toni on Dec 18, 2011 11:28:30 GMT -5
Anyone wear glasses for reading? I guess that would be one reason huh? hehehehe ;D I do, and constantly I'm having to clean them since they keep getting white little things all over the lenses. The "white things come out of my hair or lashes". Next time, I'll scope those "white things" as I just have this horrid feeling they're not "things"....but rather Demodex.
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Post by davidbourke on Dec 18, 2011 17:06:35 GMT -5
Hi folks. My name is David Bourke. I'm the Irish guy Jo posted about earlier in this thread (http://www.delusionalinsects.com). She kindly sent me a link to these forums. Before I write more, you will all know that two of the main vectors for Lyme Disease are deer ticks and rodent ticks. Now guess what "animals you wouldn't expect to find in hospital grounds" I referred to on the site but couldn't name to avoid identifying the hospital? I did not get the target-shaped rash on the front of my body. I can't check my back in the mirror because of my spinal disability. I'm now on Day 9 of a remedy I found at the Earth Clinic site (Ted's Remedy). Below is my progress report. I may have to split this post up because of its length: The remedy: I dissolve 1/4 teaspoon (1/8 teaspoon for women) of pharmaceutical-grade borax in one litre of water and sip it throughout the day. Please note that this is BORAX powder, NOT BORIC ACID which is harmful if ingested. Additionally, I drink 1/2 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in 1/2 glass of water twice daily. I also drink unpasteurised ACV "with mother" in a glass of warm water three times daily with meals, two tablespoons of food-grade diatomaceous earth in water daily, one high quality multi-nutrient capsule daily (contains all the vitamins, minerals, and trace elements), two cups of green tea daily, two chewable calcium tablets for my osteoporosis (I think it's inorganic but I can't find the organic variety in Ireland), and a clove of raw garlic every second day. Lunch is a heap of cucumber, an apple, a clementine, and a banana. I also eat dark chocolate every now and again. Daily, I drink yoghurt with plant sterols (for my high cholesterol). I've cut out coffee (which I really, really miss), sugar, bread, and cheese (which I also miss badly) and the only milk I consume is on my breakfast bran flakes. I don't eat butter, only margarine.
Day 1: I had a dramatic drop in the number of tickles - down to less than 100 from well over 1,000.
Day 2: Not as good as Day 1 but I believe more insects are being driven out onto the surface of my skin and of course a new clutch of eggs "comes online" every day. I also noticed that urinating created lots and lots of bubbly suds in the toilet bowl.
Day 3: As Day 2 except that the timings of my tickle onslaughts changed. Mornings were now much busier while afternoons were relatively peaceful until dusk. At full nightfall they quietened again until 8.30, then got busy again till midnight when they started to taper off.
Day 4: As Day 3 except the suds disappeared from the toilet bowl and my urine was now pale green, the exact same colour as my sebaceous plugs.
Day 5: The suds returned with urine still green. But something happened that's never happened before: normally, I've always been able to halt a tickle onslaught on my scalp and face during the day by going outdoors into the light. At night, going outside into the cold air also stopped them (they love heat and relative dark - a demodex trait). The day was sunny but freezing cold with a high wind chill when I went out for my afternoon walk. The tickles on my head and face continued unabated. (By the way, many medical websites claim that demodex only come out to play at night. I believe this is nonsense - they're active in the relative absence of light, which is an entirely different thing. Even on the sunniest day, it's dark under your clothing or in your bed).
Day 6: I didn't go outdoors (rain) but the timings remained the same. Less suds and urine not so green. Tickles seem less intense and plugs that were hard and solidly embedded in my skin were now softer and could be fairly easily removed with a fingernail. The objects they contain are blackened and seem malformed. Fewer trips to the bathroom to brush wandering mites off my abdomen, groin, scrotum, perineum, and buttocks, and to remove them from my anus. Almost all the astonishing amounts of scurf that used to coat the wash-basin when I washed my face and scalp (I shave my head nightly) has disappeared. My skin feels softer and the orange-peel texture is fading. Thickening of the skin inside my nostrils seems to have reduced.
Day 7: Same timings but tickle numbers slightly reduced. Less suds and urine less green. Day 8: Same as Day 7 except that lots and lots of round red marks (not spots or pimples) from 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters across have appeared all over my scalp, face, neck, and arms. I believe this is due to mite morbidity. Slight increase in tickle numbers (could be due to mite desperation and/or a larger number of fresh hatchlings) but timings remain the same. Very pale green urine and suds. Again, going outdoors into the cold in daylight didn't stop my head tickles. Day 9: Before I started this remedy I was getting well over 1,000 tickles a day. It's now 10pm here and so far I've had about 60-80, starting to ramp up a bit now. Very pale green urine and less suds. No insects emerging so far from nostrils or ear canals. Still a little anal activity as well as tickles on extremities (lower legs, feet, and the backs of my hands, possibly due to my poor circulation). Update Dec. 24:Day 10: More suds and urine greener. Tickle numbers shot back up to about 250-300, all of them much more intense and violent than ever before with a very clear sensation of things writhing in my skin. This worried me greatly until I realised that I was feeling the mites' death throes. Many of my brushed-off plugs now contain blackened and malformed insects. Day 11: Tickles back down to about 100, all of them at normal intensity. Suds still present and urine still greener. Day 12: Morning: five tickles. Afternoon: no tickles. Dusk till midnight: 60 tickles. Suds present with green urine. Day 13: This is where things get complicated because I started oral hydrogen peroxide. Unfortunately, I made all the mistakes I've now listed at the top of the following post and injured the lining of my stomach. I couldn't take the borax/sodium bicarbonate without extreme nausea. Tickles up to about 150, no suds, and urine clear. Day 14: No remedy. Tickles up to about 200. No suds, urine clear. Day 15: No remedy. Tickles about 200. No suds, urine clear. Day 16: Tried to take remedy. Had to stop after a few sips due to nausea. Tickles about 200. Slight suds. Urine very pale green. Day 17 (Dec. 24): Tried to take remedy. Had to stop again due to nausea. Tickles about 150. Slightly more suds and urine very pale green. End updateI think this is very substantial progress. It's not clear from the site how long one should continue with the remedy. I decided to kill all the females. As usual, different medical and entomological websites give different life spans for females - anything from from 14 to 24 to 60 days (there's nothing like good reliable medical research, is there?). I intend to play it safe and use the 60-day estimate. So three months on this regimen seems like a good idea. I also intend to use oral food-grade hydrogen peroxide as a permanent adjunctive therapy starting on Tuesday, when my new water distiller arrives. Please see my following post for further information on this. Will keep you posted on further borax/baking powder progress. And if anyone here should decide to try this remedy, I advise you to check out the thread I took it from here: www.earthclinic.com/CURES/mite_infestation.htmlAnd I hope you have as much success as I seem to be having so far. toni: Thank you for the amazing videos. I never plucked any of my hairs and I can't now because I shave my head nightly. But I'll pluck the next "hair-tug pain" one on my body and try to replicate your results. Regarding "floaties," I've found that since these insects are so tiny, they will float and drift in the air like a dust mote when they fall off. Be careful that static electricity doesn't attract them back to you. simone: insect grubs/larvae normally have a dark head (think caterpillar). If you look closely at the right side of your clump, you will see a grey tubular object with a dark end at the bottom. Could be a larval form but needs a close-up to be sure. Kind regards. David
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Post by davidbourke on Dec 18, 2011 17:14:15 GMT -5
POST UPDATE - IMPORTANT WARNING: The instruction leaflet that came with my 35% Hydrogen Peroxide says: "Never take hydrogen peroxide with food in your stomach. Always leave at least an hour before or after food to be on the safe side. Vitamin C, Iron and fats in the stomach change hydrogen peroxide into super-oxide free radicals. THIS CAN SEVERELY DAMAGE THE LINING OF YOUR STOMACH. The same is true of iron, copper, silver, or manganese so if you are supplementing on these DO NOT TAKE HYDROGEN PEROXIDE INTERNALLY." One part of this is incorrect - you need to leave at least THREE hours after eating before ingesting H2O2, NOT one.MOST VITAL: You need to know exactly what you're already putting into your body both food and supplement-wise before starting oral H2O2 and make any necessary changes well in advance (at least 2-3 days). You will also need to live by a strict timetable and keep track of it very carefully. Vitamins in food: www.healthalternatives2000.com/vitamins-nutrition-chart.htmlMinerals in food: www.healthalternatives2000.com/minerals-nutrition-chart.htmlMOST VITAL: Do not take baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) or any other antacid while ingesting H2O2. Doing so means you will have partly undigested food in your stomach for longer than normal. MOST VITAL: Do not take any kind of slow-release preparation or supplement while ingesting H2O2. I made all the errors listed above and damaged the lining of my stomach. I'm still paying for it in pain and nausea five days later. Hydrogen peroxide is wonderful and very powerful stuff but it can bite you in the a** if you don't know exactly what you're doing. END OF POST UPDATESome people on Earth Clinic reported adding a capful of hydrogen peroxide to the borax mix so I googled it and found nothing but warnings. Until I found this astonishing website:
www.foodgrade-hydrogenperoxide.com/id31.html
Don't bother reading the site or viewing the video but download the PDF file from the Free eBook link - it contains more information. Apparently, since 1888, doctors (and even some hospitals) all over the world have been using H2O2 (reagent or food-grade - NOT pharmaceutical or supermarket grade which contain harmful stabilisers and other chemicals) orally, topically - and now via intravenous or intra-arterial infusions - to successfully cure (yes, cure) all sorts of serious conditions including cancers and heart disease that don't respond to radiation or drugs. Illnesses cured also include parasitic infestations.
The PDF contains a long list of American doctors (with telephone numbers) who regularly use H2O2 therapy with astonishing success rates. It even includes instructions on how doctors should proceed with this infusion treatment. The PDF is free, the website sells nothing, and carries no ads.
I've ordered 35% food-grade H2O2 from the UK (http://bobbys-healthy-shop.co.uk/) as well as a countertop water distiller. I also emailed the site owner (James Roguski, who seems to be a scientist) to find out how best I should proceed. I'm still awaiting a reply.
Things are definitely a lot better than they were before I started Ted's remedy but I propose to try the oral H2O2 as an adjunctive therapy to speed things up. If Mr. Roguski tells me that the oral route won't work optimally, I'm prepared to travel to the ends of the earth to find a doctor who will do this infusion technique. I've now been trying to deal with this 24/7 torture for two and half years, and thanks to this remedy, I've made significant progress. But I want these pests gone NOW so I can start trying to get my life back. Ted warns against drinking distilled water for more than two days but this directly contradicts the advice given by Vivian Goldschmidt (MA in Nutritional Sciences and Biochemistry) who runs a marvellous site for osteoporosis sufferers (http://www.saveourbones.com/) who advises us to drink only distilled water. I'm taking my health back permanently out of the hands of the real quacks (doctors) who've done so much harm to me and, to that end, I intend to drink food-grade hydrogen peroxide as well as baking soda for the rest of my life. Now I just need to find a remedy for the chronic insomnia, short-term memory damage, and tardive akathisia (inability to be still coupled with constantly racing thoughts) due to brain chemistry damage inflicted by a year of Risperidone injections by the dermatologist who diagnosed delusional parasitosis. H2O2 is supposed to help rebalance damaged brain chemistry. We'll see... Please see my next post for my experience with environmental cleaning in demodex infestations. Kind regards. David
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Post by davidbourke on Dec 18, 2011 17:22:24 GMT -5
I don't understand why so many posters on this subject emphasise incessant cleaning of the environment when the demodex mite can only survive 24-38 hours if dislodged from the host.
Plus, they can't fly or jump and they move very slowly - 8 to 16 centimetres (3.1 to 6.3 inches) per hour, though they can speed up a bit in warm temperatures. Additionally, you don't have to worry about eggs because they only lay them inside you.
For two years, I washed my clothes and bedding daily at 60 degrees Celsius (and sometimes 90) and dried them on high heat and it made absolutely zero difference to these mites because they can only live in your skin - all you'll kill with this regimen is any surface wanderers that get caught up in your clothes or bedding.
All it did for me was destroy my stuff and cost me a fortune on electricity bills (money I don't have to spare). I also used to vacuum the entire house every day (and sometimes twice a day).
So now I sleep (or semi-sleep) on a rubber air-bed on top of a diatomaceous-earth-dusted latex mattress in a non-woven nylon-shelled sleeping bag. My pillow is a non-woven nylon bag stuffed with an old sweater.
Every morning, I shake the sleeping bag and "pillow" out thoroughly in the garden and hang them on the wash line to air for a few hours (on wet days, I run them through the dryer on high heat for 40 minutes).
When I undress for bed, I shake out my clothes thoroughly, turn them inside out and shake them out again, then pack them into a double-sealed vacuum-pack plastic bag. Next morning I shake them out again before getting dressed. I only vacuum the rooms I actually use now once a week.
I have three sets of clothing I keep in the vaccum-pack bags and rotate every second or third day. All of my good clothes sit in sealed garbage bags in the garage and must remain there until next summer because bed bugs can survive for two years without a blood meal and flea pupae can delay hatching for up to two and a half years.
The only things I wipe daily are those I touch with bare skin - door and faucet handles and stopper chains, light and electricity switches, toilet seat and flush handle, mobile phone, computer keyboards and mice. Also, I never let my bare skin touch the floor and keep my fingernails and toenails as short as possible.
And that's it - I don't have the time, energy, or ability to do any more because of my constant pain, mobility and spinal flexibility problems and the fact that virtually all of my day has to date been taken up with brushing these things off me.
Things are now no worse than they were before.
Infestation by other types of mite, of course, may be an entirely different matter.
Kind regards.
David
PS: Sorry for running off at the fingers on my very first visit here.
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Post by simone on Dec 18, 2011 21:46:39 GMT -5
Yikes!!! That's all I can see now David. I 've never seen that before. Thank goodness I've only seen one like this so far in my yrs of having this. There are many insects where I live, that's one thing I hate about our summer and geography ... too many insects. Thanks for pointing that out... yes I was freaked out. lol
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Post by toni on Dec 19, 2011 10:48:41 GMT -5
Hi David,
Glad you're here, and thank you for telling us about your experiences.
Also, glad you watched the video's of the Demodex.
I've come full circle with Morgs, it seems...and everything now is pointing (for myself) to them. (them bringing in all the other stuff too)
I've read there's 100 different varieties, and even though they look very much alike, there can be subtle differences, and of course their behavior varies.
I know (from reading) they move very slowly - but, the ones I've got actually move quite fast across my scope slides, so I'm sort of figuring these might be a bit different than the norm.
What's sort of interesting too is that now and then I'd have a specimen on my slide one minute, and then next, it was gone. I'd have like a skid mark, or trail going off my slide, and would be totally puzzled in how my specimens were looking like they "walked off of it". Well...now I know, they did walk off it.
The "blackish oil" that me and many others have had too, well, (I see now that oil stuff is coming from them) or what I mean is, it's them and possibly bacteria's, or them dying in the skin. I'm basically just tackling one thing at a time as it arises.
Your mites "behave a bit differently than mine" after reading your post.
Mine "were up and Adam" between 4 & 5 am every single day crawling and tickling like I had my face in an ant pile for over a year in the beginning of my onslaught with Morgs, and never bothered me at night. I guess I've got the early bird kind ;D
Since using "the dry mustard mix" and I'm also using tea tree oil now too, mixed together with creams and lotions and yogurt as to apply topically, the tickling sensations and out breaks are so much lessened.
There's not enough literature on these mites as the articles all are very generic on the internet, because it's seeming to be a subject that's only recently (as of last year) become of interest to many now since they are finding the mites can vector and transmit bacteria. It's also a grand reason too for eye infections, and eye deteriorations.
(they say) on the internet so many contraditions (and that's obviously because of the lack of study) and knowledge about them, but a couple of things.
For people, they say it's pretty normal. I pick that apart, because I want to get to the bone with this one. Normal to have critters carrying bacteria into our blood stream? via the bodies follicles (I have to disagree).
And for a dog or animal with demodex out of control, they say they need veterinarian attention. And there's so many animal varieties that have them too. Some so bad they have to put them down because they're incurable.
I think our society is just so much so in the way of (treat the symptoms *instead* of treat the problem). And that's a big problem, imho.
I understand (in the world of medicine) that's how to keep a patient returning, and that keeps that wheel greased, but it does nothing for the patient except keep them stabilized without just curing and ridding the source. I want rid of the source creating the symptoms.
I'm assuming "if" Demodex are like Mosquito's - in their vectoring ability, then it's like we're getting small doses of whatever they happen to bring in. Bacteria, fungus and who knows what else. We do know they vector Bacillus O. That is where this is now in the medical field. That causes inflammatory reactions in the body, and all kinds of other problems actually.
So getting rid of them is my priority now, and so much is making sense to me (in regards to these mites) as I'd taken many meds in the beginning of Morgellons to rid it, but IF I'm being re'infected a month later when the new ones hatch, then it all makes sense as to why I never resolved Morgellons, because each new mite, or the eggs keep hatching, and if the protocol to rid them isn't successful, then the bacteria's continue or get worse.
Of course if the bacteria's happen to take hold and flourish in the body, then that needs treated too, as well as the mites. But it's very easy to become reinfected if everyone isn't treated, and for a bit of a duration as the egg hatching just releases the new ones and they too carry the bacteriums because it's just simply passed on.
I don't know....just reporting what I'm seeing, what's helping and that's the best we all can do.
I sure wish you success as well as all of us. Glad you're here too.
(thanks Jo)
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Post by toni on Dec 19, 2011 11:08:39 GMT -5
Here's something interesting "maybe". Please see it if you can. From article: 2010 study A prospective study to correlate clinical findings with laboratory data. We consecutively enrolled 59 patients: 34 men and 25 women with a mean age of 60.4±17.6 years (range, 17–93).Methods Demodex counting was performed based on lash sampling. Serum immunoreactivity to two 62-kDa and 83-kDa proteins derived from B oleronius was determined by Western blot analysis. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946826/I still don't know much about Lyme, but....aren't these the two antigens found in Lyme patients? See how interesting this is - that the Bacillus Oleronius could be causing Lyme test results to appear as though this is Lyme. Maybe I've not read this correctly, but isn't this what that's saying if we look at the antigens that have come up positive on a Lyme test?
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Post by toni on Dec 19, 2011 11:20:53 GMT -5
Just checked my emails, and a VERY nice Medical Director wrote me back.
Within 'his letter' he said:
If we can verify mites from your lashes, this can be treated with Cliradex.
I have to chuckle only because the mites (if he only knew) are not in my lashes.... but I'm getting them out of my skin.
And I posted this so we can check out this Cliradex for those who are interested.
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