Post by downunder on Nov 21, 2009 23:03:08 GMT -5
Why I went on this journey? I have never really investigated Demodex because it did not explain the fibres but it does explain a lot of other things I have seen and experienced now that I have looked into it. My entire body is affected by this not just the hair/scalp.
•I recognised “the presence of two”
•drugs AND products used to treat Demodex,
•the shapes,
•that sweating always seems to make it worse e.g. dripping in 40degreee heat as at present
•the itch, the crawling symptoms
•lesions associated with demodex presence presenting as rosacea. keratin pilarous and other skin conditions
•goes from animal to human
•certain drugs used to treat eg. rosacea found to INCREASE the demodex burden and do little for the condition
•once the demodex reduced/eliminated the skin condition improves dramatically
•demodex brings to the body bacteria – bacillous – gram negative.
•65 species of DEMODEX about which virtually nothing is known or can be agreed upon by the experts. New species continually found on animals e.g. demodex goti and a recent demodex on koalas that hasn’t even been named as yet.
•Demodex feeds off SEBUM – yellow fluid – yellow sticky goo is often mentioned by morgellons sufferers.
•Demodex is the sebaceous worm
•Cycle: approx 14 days
•Low immune system appears to “set off” the supposed “harmless” demodex.
With a recent outbreak I have back tracked and thought very much on what I have done, what worked, what appeared to make things worse etc. I came up with the following:
What worked:
Tea Tree Oil, Eucalyptus Oil, Manuka Honey as the mainstays. Mebenzadole – which I really want to STOP using. Vitamins, Noni Juice, Cod Liver Oil (vitamin A). "forgot this one in the latter - Canneston (Clotrimazole). Have found none of the above seem to work ALONE - have had to use ALL - not necessarily in one day."
What I recognised: worm type structures, grit and other bits coming off/out of body and once gone the irritation and all other symptoms went. A life cycle. Also when getting a lot off the body at these times – so was there more fibre and other things deeper down. When the worm like structures absent - less comes off the body or none – no fibre and less or none of that deeper down. When my hair/scalp is bad so is my entire body.
Subsequently and not knowing what the heck I was doing (and neither does anybody else it would seem including doctors, specialists etc etc so not a lot of point talking to them), I added a lot to the mix which I now think may have exacerbated the problem.
I am going to continually work on the Demodex which I am convinced are present .
Possibility - a form of Demodex not yet known or recognised settting the scene and environment that brings with it a different form of bacillous and/or something that uses the environment of the Human body to produce fibre.
This really has worked this time as in the beginning: I took Mebenzadole for 3 days approx 1 week prior but I want to STOP taking this altogether.
Body:
•Tea tree body lotion and/or tea tree antispectic cream– 2-3 times day
•shower – tea tree soap
•also have tea tree/almond oil body lotion
•Followed with Manuka Honey creams e.g. medihoney
•Camphor, Eucalyptus, Menthol chest rub but used over entire body (not face) – on face use the tea tree lotion followed by manuka honey cream or tea tree/almond oil.
Hair:
Soaked in Tea Tree Oil, Eucalyptus Oil. Combed through scalp with lice comb AND left on. Done this 2-3 times a day and and then washed.
After 3 Days as above: Numbers greatly reduced coming off body with lotions – initially. HANDFULS. No irritation and generally feeling much better.
I intend to use the above lotions on a daily basis morning/night whether any sign of the problem or not and see if by doing this all the other problems go as well
Below info on Demodex studies/pictures etc. There is a lot more out there and some say the demodex feed off the "keratin" protein in the skin cells. I actually got worse using Keratin shampoos.
1. 65 species –
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex
My Hypothesis: with 65 species there is every possibility that a demodex exists that is currently unknown to be attracted to the human body and every possibility that it brings to the human body a form of bacteria yet undiscovered and/or something that uses the environment of the human body to spin fibre e.g. bacillous form creating lesions & fibre
2. The presence of “two” and shapes recognised
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay00/demodex.html
"cigar" shaped - have read that a lot with morgellons - chronic use of cortisone a cause in pets. MORPH was right on that he always said DONT USE CORTISONE - it feeds this problem.
www.lbah.com/canine/demodex.htm
3. Sweating (sebum) & drugs used- corticosteroids increased demodex presence:
a. The mite Demodex spp., lives around hair follicles or in the secretory ducts of sebaceous glands connected to the hair follicles of humans
Although Demodex is usually considered as a non-pathogenic parasite in parasitological textbooks, recent research has proved that Demodex is associated with many pathogenic kinds of skin conditions
Administration of corticosteroids as an alleviative treatment of rosacea-like papulovesicular lesions is not only unable to cure demodicosis but also promotes exacerbation of symptoms due an increase in the Demodex burden
www.jle.com/en/revues/medecine/ejd/e-docs/00/04/00/71/article.phtml
b. Treatment of human Demodex folliculorum by camphor oil and metronidazole.El-Shazly AM, Hassan AA, Soliman M, Morsy GH, Morsy TA.
Departments of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
A total of 15 females suffering from erythematotelangiectatic rosacea and 12 females free from other dermatological lesions were selected. Demodex folliculorum infestation density in both patients and control were evaluated by non-invasive skin surface biopsies. Five facial sites were selected. The daily topical application of 1/3 diluted camphor oil with glycerol and 500 mg metronidazole orally were given for fifteen days. The results were very successful with no clinical side effects.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15125520
4. Reduction/ elimination of demodex – Tea Tree Oil
The Demodex count did not reach zero in any of the seven patients receiving daily lid scrub with baby shampoo for 40–350 days. In contrast, the Demodex count dropped to zero in seven of nine patients receiving TTO scrub in 4 weeks without recurrence.
The organism Demodex folliculorum is found in the eyelash follicle and Demodex brevis burrows deep in sebaceous and meibomian glands
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1772908/
•I recognised “the presence of two”
•drugs AND products used to treat Demodex,
•the shapes,
•that sweating always seems to make it worse e.g. dripping in 40degreee heat as at present
•the itch, the crawling symptoms
•lesions associated with demodex presence presenting as rosacea. keratin pilarous and other skin conditions
•goes from animal to human
•certain drugs used to treat eg. rosacea found to INCREASE the demodex burden and do little for the condition
•once the demodex reduced/eliminated the skin condition improves dramatically
•demodex brings to the body bacteria – bacillous – gram negative.
•65 species of DEMODEX about which virtually nothing is known or can be agreed upon by the experts. New species continually found on animals e.g. demodex goti and a recent demodex on koalas that hasn’t even been named as yet.
•Demodex feeds off SEBUM – yellow fluid – yellow sticky goo is often mentioned by morgellons sufferers.
•Demodex is the sebaceous worm
•Cycle: approx 14 days
•Low immune system appears to “set off” the supposed “harmless” demodex.
With a recent outbreak I have back tracked and thought very much on what I have done, what worked, what appeared to make things worse etc. I came up with the following:
What worked:
Tea Tree Oil, Eucalyptus Oil, Manuka Honey as the mainstays. Mebenzadole – which I really want to STOP using. Vitamins, Noni Juice, Cod Liver Oil (vitamin A). "forgot this one in the latter - Canneston (Clotrimazole). Have found none of the above seem to work ALONE - have had to use ALL - not necessarily in one day."
What I recognised: worm type structures, grit and other bits coming off/out of body and once gone the irritation and all other symptoms went. A life cycle. Also when getting a lot off the body at these times – so was there more fibre and other things deeper down. When the worm like structures absent - less comes off the body or none – no fibre and less or none of that deeper down. When my hair/scalp is bad so is my entire body.
Subsequently and not knowing what the heck I was doing (and neither does anybody else it would seem including doctors, specialists etc etc so not a lot of point talking to them), I added a lot to the mix which I now think may have exacerbated the problem.
I am going to continually work on the Demodex which I am convinced are present .
Possibility - a form of Demodex not yet known or recognised settting the scene and environment that brings with it a different form of bacillous and/or something that uses the environment of the Human body to produce fibre.
This really has worked this time as in the beginning: I took Mebenzadole for 3 days approx 1 week prior but I want to STOP taking this altogether.
Body:
•Tea tree body lotion and/or tea tree antispectic cream– 2-3 times day
•shower – tea tree soap
•also have tea tree/almond oil body lotion
•Followed with Manuka Honey creams e.g. medihoney
•Camphor, Eucalyptus, Menthol chest rub but used over entire body (not face) – on face use the tea tree lotion followed by manuka honey cream or tea tree/almond oil.
Hair:
Soaked in Tea Tree Oil, Eucalyptus Oil. Combed through scalp with lice comb AND left on. Done this 2-3 times a day and and then washed.
After 3 Days as above: Numbers greatly reduced coming off body with lotions – initially. HANDFULS. No irritation and generally feeling much better.
I intend to use the above lotions on a daily basis morning/night whether any sign of the problem or not and see if by doing this all the other problems go as well
Below info on Demodex studies/pictures etc. There is a lot more out there and some say the demodex feed off the "keratin" protein in the skin cells. I actually got worse using Keratin shampoos.
1. 65 species –
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex
My Hypothesis: with 65 species there is every possibility that a demodex exists that is currently unknown to be attracted to the human body and every possibility that it brings to the human body a form of bacteria yet undiscovered and/or something that uses the environment of the human body to spin fibre e.g. bacillous form creating lesions & fibre
2. The presence of “two” and shapes recognised
www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay00/demodex.html
"cigar" shaped - have read that a lot with morgellons - chronic use of cortisone a cause in pets. MORPH was right on that he always said DONT USE CORTISONE - it feeds this problem.
www.lbah.com/canine/demodex.htm
3. Sweating (sebum) & drugs used- corticosteroids increased demodex presence:
a. The mite Demodex spp., lives around hair follicles or in the secretory ducts of sebaceous glands connected to the hair follicles of humans
Although Demodex is usually considered as a non-pathogenic parasite in parasitological textbooks, recent research has proved that Demodex is associated with many pathogenic kinds of skin conditions
Administration of corticosteroids as an alleviative treatment of rosacea-like papulovesicular lesions is not only unable to cure demodicosis but also promotes exacerbation of symptoms due an increase in the Demodex burden
www.jle.com/en/revues/medecine/ejd/e-docs/00/04/00/71/article.phtml
b. Treatment of human Demodex folliculorum by camphor oil and metronidazole.El-Shazly AM, Hassan AA, Soliman M, Morsy GH, Morsy TA.
Departments of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
A total of 15 females suffering from erythematotelangiectatic rosacea and 12 females free from other dermatological lesions were selected. Demodex folliculorum infestation density in both patients and control were evaluated by non-invasive skin surface biopsies. Five facial sites were selected. The daily topical application of 1/3 diluted camphor oil with glycerol and 500 mg metronidazole orally were given for fifteen days. The results were very successful with no clinical side effects.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15125520
4. Reduction/ elimination of demodex – Tea Tree Oil
The Demodex count did not reach zero in any of the seven patients receiving daily lid scrub with baby shampoo for 40–350 days. In contrast, the Demodex count dropped to zero in seven of nine patients receiving TTO scrub in 4 weeks without recurrence.
The organism Demodex folliculorum is found in the eyelash follicle and Demodex brevis burrows deep in sebaceous and meibomian glands
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1772908/