Post by cathy on Oct 9, 2007 2:36:45 GMT -5
Hi,
I just found the term 'Morgellons Disease' for the first time a few hours ago, while searching for a scabies cure. And so I've been obsessively searching for more info all day! I was jubilant at first, thinking I'd found the answer to my family's woes but, the more I read, the more I realised that relief was still going to be hard to find.
I haven't started reading posts yet, so please forgive me if these questions have already been answered, but could anyone tell me ...
1) Is there any connection with head lice? Our problems started about 6 months ago when my kids came home from school with white eggs (or so I thought) in their hair. A few days later I began to itch and the kids confirmed that I had white specks in my hair too. No lice treatment has worked, the itching has continued. But maybe that's because they were never lice in the first place. Then recently I discovered it could be scabies and bought a non-toxic scabies treatment (that has given some temporary relief), but my daughter and I are still getting little white specks in the hair, as well as itching scalp. Nothing I've read today mentions white egg-like specks in the hair. So do we have lice, as well as Morgellons? Or can Morgellons manifest as white things in the hair? We certainly had a lot of blue fibres in the hair for ages. But since the scabies treatment, they've not been seen.
2) Is there any connection with kidney problems? I've been having many kidney problems this year - infections and pain - and I thought these were the cause of my overwhelming fatigue. I see now that Morgellons can cause the fatigue, can it also cause kidney problems?
Many thanks for your responses.
Kind regards,
Cathy
I just found the term 'Morgellons Disease' for the first time a few hours ago, while searching for a scabies cure. And so I've been obsessively searching for more info all day! I was jubilant at first, thinking I'd found the answer to my family's woes but, the more I read, the more I realised that relief was still going to be hard to find.
I haven't started reading posts yet, so please forgive me if these questions have already been answered, but could anyone tell me ...
1) Is there any connection with head lice? Our problems started about 6 months ago when my kids came home from school with white eggs (or so I thought) in their hair. A few days later I began to itch and the kids confirmed that I had white specks in my hair too. No lice treatment has worked, the itching has continued. But maybe that's because they were never lice in the first place. Then recently I discovered it could be scabies and bought a non-toxic scabies treatment (that has given some temporary relief), but my daughter and I are still getting little white specks in the hair, as well as itching scalp. Nothing I've read today mentions white egg-like specks in the hair. So do we have lice, as well as Morgellons? Or can Morgellons manifest as white things in the hair? We certainly had a lot of blue fibres in the hair for ages. But since the scabies treatment, they've not been seen.
2) Is there any connection with kidney problems? I've been having many kidney problems this year - infections and pain - and I thought these were the cause of my overwhelming fatigue. I see now that Morgellons can cause the fatigue, can it also cause kidney problems?
Many thanks for your responses.
Kind regards,
Cathy