On your face... right now!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/31/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-the-mites-that-eat-crawl-and-have-sex-on-your-face/

Everything you never wanted to know about the mites that eat, crawl, and have sex on your face

New Scientist published a story yesterday stating that rosacea – a common skin disease characterised by red blotches on one’s face – may be “caused” (more on this later) by “tiny bugs closely related to spiders living in the pores of your face.” Tiny bugs that “crawl about your face in the dark”, lay eggs in your pores, and release a burst of faeces when they die.

The mites spend most of their time buried head-down in our hair follicles – the stocking-shaped organs that enclose and produce our hairs. They’re most commonly found in our eyelids, nose, cheeks, forehead and chin. That’s not to say they’re restricted to the face: Demodex has been found in the hairs of the ear canal, nipple, groin, chest, forearm, penis, and butt too. Generally, dry skin is a turn-off for them. They prize bodily real estate that’s flooded with oils (sebum). This explains why they love your face. It might also explain why their numbers are apparently higher in the summer, when hot temperatures ramp up sebum production.

Ooohh! I wonder if I have any of those....

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Ooohh! I wonder if I have any of those....

The article said you are not born with them, but start picking up mites right after you are born. The older you get, the more likely you have all the cast of characters.

Demodex! That's mange!

Maybe we should all go to our local vets and get skin scrapings to confirm diagnosis....that's what we did with our pups (they were clean - no demodex.)

Ick.....!

OMG! I have bugs on my face having sex

be back in a bit, I need to bleach my face....