Comments on: Dust Mites

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:08:18 +0000

A lot of us have a disease, which is shared by thousands of people in this country.
Please see The Morgellons Filarial Research Organization and The National Association for People with Unidentified Skin Parasites.

Bentonite clay can be used as a paste on the lesions. This clears them up. People all over the world are suffering from this disease and are usually being told that they are delusional by doctors who are ignorant about it. This disease surely involves more than the skin. I don’t know if Be Bentonite clay can be taken internally but will find out and be back. I wonder though is charcoal tablets would work to detoxify.

charcoal tablets can be used to treat drug overdoses and poisonings. The charcoal absorbs chemicals and toxins the same way it does excess gas. In this case, the tablets work best if they are taken 30 to 60 minutes after a poisoning, and always under medical supervision. Since the dose of charcoal for poisonings is much larger than that of a supplement, it is best to let a certified medical practitioner administer the charcoal.

Morgellons (also called Morgellons disease or Morgellons syndrome), is a name given in 2002 by Mary Leitao[1] to a proposed condition referred to by the Centers for Disease Control as Unexplained Dermopathy and characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations; finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:44:45 +0000

I just checked into a cheap motel this week because it was all I could find in my price range and the first night I slept calmly. I always travel with my own bedding. I also checked the bedding for signs of bugs and it was decent. I forgot to check the pillows which I don’t use but did not remove because I was so tired. The second night I found a small cluster of red, itchy, bumps on my left wrist, I complained to the manager an we both inspected the bed for bedbugs and found nothing. I presumed it was an allergic reaction to something.

When I checked the pillows later I saw the signs of bedbugs, dried bloodstains, that were old. I had the manager remove the pillows from the room immediately. There’s another bed in the room I have not used but the manager insists that the motel is fumigated for bedbugs regularly. My fourth night here, I’m paid up for the week, and I wake up from a sleepless rest thinking dust mites! I had forgotten about the horror of these invisible monsters.

I know my own bedding w as free of mites when I brought it here but I’m certain these beds and the carpet is loaded with dander from people and pets, and I love a warm room and a warm bed. I have also been moisturizing my skin after showering for the dry winter season. I am extremely sensitive to dirty pests like flies, cockroaches, and mites. The rash has now spread to both wrists, my neck and shoulders, my thighs and butt, and even my feet. These filthy creatures love me to death. Whether they are actually biting (sucking blood) or feeding voraciously on my skin before it exfoliates naturally, they are a nuisance. People who insist that mites can’t be the problem because they don’t bite are just plain wrong.

Everyone has different reactions to contact with mites and body chemistry clearly plays a part. Maybe what you eat can attract them more than others. Maybe what you wash or condition your skin with can attract them more than others. I don’t think its fair for people to dismiss the complexity of the problem because scientists say dust mites don’t bite. If they are invisible whose to be the wiser if the bite or not? That’s not the point. The point is that the problem needs to be addressed both as a household pest and also as a medical issue where studies are done for the treatment and prevention of this common pain.

Btw, thanks to everyone here for sharing their experiences and remedies with dust mites. It’s helped take my mind off of the itching for the past couple hours.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:13:08 +0000

I have been fighting this for about six years now. I have told dr.’s and they always have a far fetched answers like hair molecules or dry skin, but I not only get bit, I am hypersensitive to them. I can feel them moving on my skin. They don’t always seam to bite but instead go through cycles. I wander if its when the females are breeding, like in so many other insects, they need extra protein or blood that they began to bite, or maybe it really is my diet. I have been researching and trying different treatments for all this time and nothing works for long, its like the evolve around it. I am determined to find the answer, but for now this is what works to keep them at bay.
Hydrocortisone cream is inexpensive and if you put it on the sores they will heal and the other mites wont keep feeding on the open sore. That will stop the rash within a few days, or the single bumps, both coming from the same source, I am sure. Maybe the smaller rashes are the newly hatched young feeding???I know but forget what they think they know, these are the super mites of the new millennium.
Next, my hair dryer has become my best friend. Turn it to as hot as you can stand it, and aim it at the bite, you’ll have to experiment. The heat not only gets in there and itches that deep itch but it also kills the mites that are on you and stops the itching for a while. Repeated heating kills the rash eventually.
I read recently that someone who was terribly affected found they had a vitamins B deficiency especially vitamin B12. Or it could be any number of other deficiency’s, I suppose.
I also read and have not tried it but that you can mix vodka with about twenty drops tee tree oil in a squirt bottle and spray infested areas. Clove oil would work too, maybe garlic oil but be careful how much you use of these, it can burn the skin. I know for sure cloves deter them.
Shake out sheets and blankets right before bedtime, there in there waiting with anticipation for your arrival.
Take advantage of sunny weather, hang the bedding out for the day, they hate sun and it has been proven the sun will kill up to 98 percent of the pests that are in the aired article.
Go back to washing clothes in hot water, add borax, it suffocates them, use an iron on article.
Go back to washing clothes in hot water, add borax, it suffocates them, use an iron on your clothes, I know, bother huh, but it kills them, what the hay, iron you be with a steam iron, make sure its good and hot or they’ll think it’s a fine humid day and start breeding.
If you steam your carpets but in some borax, not the soap and make sure it’s a steam cleaner that is hot enough, long hoses cool the water.
Invest in a vacuum cleaner that kills allergens.
I’m still searching, good luck, and I’ll be back.

By: Gena

Gena — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:25:55 +0000

You all do not have bites from dust mites – they do not bite. A lot of you sound like you have a different mite which is scabies. If a dermatologist told you that you have mite bites he/she means scabies and there is a lotion that you use to kill it on your body. Google scabies and you’ll find out more. DUST MITES DO NOT BITE!

By: ruth

ruth — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:33:10 +0000

I believe I have an infestation of dust mites. Feels like something is crawling in my hair and on my skin, but nothing is evident. Dermatologist could not give me a reason for this happening. Did anyone find anything that helps? I mean that really helps, not some of the outlandish reasons I have read here

By: josh

josh — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:36:09 +0000

thanks for the info its quite interesting,i do believe i have a dust mite infestation Ive been getting bit quite a bit in the last few weeks and washing the bedding doesn’t seem to help much but iv found that if i take a very hot bath with a lot of salt and soap it makes most of the bites go away. (like a cup or so ,I’m using regular table salt )

By: AB

AB — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:39:39 +0000

This morning i woke up with shivers and itchiness all over my body…then i noticed some little red bumps that were the cause of my itchiness…eww!!! anyways i need to get rid of them!!

Do they fly??

Are they more common in feather pillows??

By: bc

bc — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:17:00 +0000

hello i have tons of those things those are sooooo disgusting.

By: dm

dm — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:44:10 +0000

I have been feeling like I am getting bitten every night and feel very itchy in the morning but I am not experiencing the welts and painful bites. Could this be bedbugs or dust mites?

By: kim

kim — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:39:20 +0000

My mom has these big itchy places on her skin for about 6 years she has been to countless doctors.I am at my wits end, she does not have scabies. The doctor she went to on mon. said she might have a household mite living in her skin these holes in her skin itch uncontrolably.What is the kinds of household mites,are there diffrent types?