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Anyone else dealing with Demodex Mites? What helps?
Skin Health | Last Active: Sep 17 9:54pm | Replies (181)Comment receiving replies
Demodex are not harmful. Once you have suppressed any excess overgrowth
on the eyelashes there is no need for further treatment.
If you over treat the irritation can be worse than the original symptoms.
Best to let your sensitive skin rest and heal.
Most of us have Demodex in our oily sebaceous glands living with us all of our lives. No need to try and kill them all. They are not found on our lower body areas. It may take time for you to rest and heal your skin so that you can tell that the problem is cleared. Much easier to use a sulfur or metronidazole gel applied to the skin if they recur. No need to expose yourself to oral Ivermectin or treat your body.
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To say that Demodex are not harmful tells me you aren't living with the problems they cause. Yes, my dermatologist says that Demodex are part of our human flora and has mixed feelings about eradicating them since we do need them. However I am on this forum - and assume others are, too - because we are truly suffering from infestations in our eyes, hair and bodies. The quality of our lives has suffered because of Demodex, so I cannot agree that they are not harmful. Before doing self treatment and then taking XDEMVY plus self treatment, my vision was impaired and I had a 24-hour headache on the side where my vision was the worst. Waking up and being able to open my eyes was a true challenge and required a lot of night-before preparation. Medical professionals (a dry-eye specialist and two other ophthalmologists) didn't tell me that a Demodex infestation was the cause of my problems. Then I questioned whether my dry eye would impact my much-needed cataract surgery and was only then told about them. I'd never heard the word DEMODEX before then. Why is that?
I don't understand why our suffering is allowed to continue while our doctors ignore the real problem - Demodex. We'd like to have a better quality of life and wish others could understand what we live with.
We get your point that our overdoing eradication can be worse, but we're desperate. Doesn't anyone see that?
We know we will always have Demodex, but it's important that medical professionals wake up, get educated, and stop pretending there's no problem.