josej
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Post by josej on Jul 26, 2007 6:53:58 GMT -5
Photo of a phorid fly -or- fungus gnat that came out of KJ's skin yesterday. For a while she's been feeling a lump underneath her skin by some of her lesions. She'd picked at it a few times before. The lump was not round, more in the shape of a 1-inch small rod. After she'd poked at it for a few days, the lump actually travelled a little further down the skin. Yesterday she took a sharp needle and started opening it up. She removed some skin tissue... some a little bloody... some stuff was darker brown... some stuff was nearly black. She put it all on a microscope slide. This fly was among the tissue. It was tiny but came out intact. Small wings, gangly legs, and hairs protruding from its head. She's really exhausted of being assaulted by these and other insects. Finding these bugs all the time really takes a toll on one's emotions. How can we get rid of these things?
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Post by liz on Jul 26, 2007 7:04:58 GMT -5
oh lord help us! I had the same thing happen the other night...little lump under skin...out came a small white worm...then a eyelash long fiber and then one of those nats...couldn't catch the bastard though...got the worm and the fiber..you know they are coming out of you when you lance a lump and one flys right out in front of your face....Carrie do flukes give birth to nats....just wondering! not trying to hassle you! How is your wife JosiJ is she getting any better? how is her depression....tell her there are lots of nats flying out of women....it a sexy new trend! ;D ;D ;D but I know it freaks you out so I am not trying to be insensitive!
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Post by liz on Jul 26, 2007 7:14:22 GMT -5
I never was able to have babies but sure never thought my first born would be and insect...think how that feels....
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Post by justhanginin on Jul 26, 2007 7:32:41 GMT -5
Please Jose ,get your wife to a homeopathic practitioner. PM me with your location and I will have my guy look one up for you and check out the person's education and credentials so that you don't go in blind. For immediate practical solutions, first aid type, apply Vick's to any actively itching area, contains menthol and camphor and it will move anything living out of the skin in a hurry. Use flowers of sulfur (sublimed sulfur) mixed with Neutrogena Body Scrub to shower or bathe with.. Please have your wife do an anti-fungal diet. This addresses fungal issues. Anti-fungal topicals would be bathing with Nizoral shampoo and 20 Mule Team borax (one cup in bathwater) Keeps the fungal odor off skin surface so no insects are attracted. None of this is covered by medical insurance but if we wait for them to help us , we will all be dead meat. I am so much better now than I was at the onset of this nightmare and would love to be of help to you in dealing with this .
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Post by bugsy on Jul 26, 2007 7:39:53 GMT -5
Man JoseJ I can relate in so many ways....give KJ a hug . We've just recently discovered Oil Of Oregeno for the fungus that is attracting these monsters. Is very versatile, comes in a dropper, tastes like italian cooking, take it on a dropper on tongue, put on toothbrush for healthy gums (to kill yeast/fungus or whatever this is), I took a bath in it last night WONDERFUL. Stuff came outta me that you wouldn't believe......as much or more than the enzyme stuff. I even soaked my hair and scalp in it, oddly enough my hair was so dry from all of the other stuff I'd been using that it actually made my hair nice and soft. It is mixed with olive oil so it makes your skin soft too. It smells strong but woweeee. Best of wishes. ~Bugsy
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Post by laylo on Jul 26, 2007 7:59:41 GMT -5
I can't believe that this is happening and that the CDC has gone out there to see for themself. and still no help to solve this puzzle. My prays are with KJ and lots of hugs and kisses.
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Post by toni on Jul 26, 2007 10:07:25 GMT -5
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josej
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Post by josej on Jul 26, 2007 10:54:03 GMT -5
Toni, Yea, one of those links you posted says fungal gnats "aren't harmful to plants or people, although it may be considered a nuisance. " hahaha...very funny (not). A nuisance ?? GRRRR ! A nuisance is dog barking at 2 in the morning, or running out of toilet paper, or getting a paper cut. Obviously that writer doesn't know anything about flies coming out of their body... or springtails... or nymphs.... or worms... thrips.... fibers.... etc. But yes, it measures approx 1/8" if that.
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Post by toni on Jul 26, 2007 11:09:33 GMT -5
Oh my.
I've got more links I'll post because too many are seeing this too Jose.
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Post by prevenge on Jul 26, 2007 11:48:49 GMT -5
fungal gnats eat fungi.
i think the first strategy would be to starve them.
try focusing on the fungal aspect.. see if you see a decline in them...
though.. i think these insect forms are "developing" in us - in a different method than what science has traditionally thought us about reproduction.
-M
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Post by browncircles on Jul 26, 2007 11:59:16 GMT -5
I believe that they are actually being produced by the fungus. No eggs, no larva, just fungus spinning a full grown insect or insect parts. Tam tam's theory of the mold that grows an insect.
Oral Lamisil or Itraconazole (for toenail fungus) might help.
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Post by Patti on Jul 26, 2007 12:15:19 GMT -5
I talked to my brother in Denver over the weekend and he said these fungas gnats or whatever you want to call them are horrible all up and down the front range. His golf course is inundated with them and people keep asking him to spray more. All that will do is add additional poisons and it won't help.....since they are everywhere, they will continue to return.
This could just be a bad year for them, as we've seen previously with grasshoppers, locusts, etc. Or.........it could be something more along the line of what Prevenge is saying. If that is true, think about where they might be coming from and the implications of such a thing. I hate to even go there but I bet a movie studio eventually will.
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Post by toni on Jul 26, 2007 12:20:52 GMT -5
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Post by bugsy on Jul 26, 2007 13:33:49 GMT -5
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Post by belikewater on Jul 26, 2007 14:58:51 GMT -5
josej, Thank you for the pics. and info. Also, thanks to all for your suggestions. Gads!! What a krappy situation. I think these critters think we are already dead meat. Well, I will keep frying them in the hottub.
Hey, prevenge, I lost your thread on the little critter you had in your skin, but I was looking at some insect pics. and those pincher jaws on your guy look a lot like an ant. They all seem to have these big things hangin' off their faces.
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Post by Fighter on Jul 26, 2007 19:13:25 GMT -5
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Post by liatris on Jul 26, 2007 19:38:08 GMT -5
I am so sorry - it is all so gruesome. It is times like these, thinking about the CDC, that I hope there is a hell.
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Post by See Jane Crawl on Jul 26, 2007 20:21:22 GMT -5
One of those pictures looks alot like the critter Prevenge was showing us last week. I have been finding some really strange looking fungus for the past year in my stool, it is fluorescent orange, (looks like the color of Cheetos, sorry I hope no one is a Cheetos-aholic); but I see it all the time now. I saved some in a jar of alcohol, it clings to the side of the jar & is slimy in consistency.
Really how gross is all of this! I would like to come home from work one day & be totally bored, not have to see what kind of weird Shiite is coming out of me & not have to spend most of my night researching bugs! DISGUSTING!!
It truly sucks to be us sometimes!
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