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Rosacea may be caused by mite faeces in your pores
New Scientist ^ | 9-30-2013 | Debora MacKenzie

Posted on 09/30/2013 4:45:46 PM PDT by Dysart

There are tiny bugs closely related to spiders living in the pores of your face. They have long been considered mere passengers, doing no harm beyond upsetting the squeamish. But they may be causing an ancient skin disease that is estimated to affect between 5 and 20 per cent of people worldwide, and 16 million in the US alone.

People aged between 30 and 60, especially women, sometimes develop rosacea: red inflamed skin, with swelling, roughness and fine, visible blood vessels, usually in the central zone of the face. Severe cases can resemble acne, irritate the eyes and lead to the bulbous red nose seen in caricatures of the elderly.

The disease affects all races but is known as the "curse of the Celts" as it is thought to especially affect people with very fair skin, although it may simply be more visible on their skin.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: rosacea
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This is unexpected. Anybody here with the Curse of the Celts?

Mite be bugs crapping on yer face, which understandably objects to the insult, and seek out a physician, if you can find one willing to see you, about a round of tetracycline antibiotics to slay the scourge.

1 posted on 09/30/2013 4:45:46 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart

Yup.

Buy bulk black walnut husk, and extract it into vodka over the course of 3 weeks or so in a cool place —agitate it every coupla days.

Or make a tea.

Drink 3-5 ml of that right b4 bed until it’s all gone —could even take 3 months, but it works.

You can also use wormwood.


2 posted on 09/30/2013 4:47:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

wormwood
black walnut husk
pau d’arco
papaya seeds
grapefruit seed oil

There are others, also. I haven’t tried all of them, but it all works.

All of these are natural antihelmenic agents WAAAAY easier on your liver than the crazy stuff a doctor will give you.

Also free.


3 posted on 09/30/2013 4:49:29 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Dysart
We are what we are because of geography and climate.
Great example used with the remaining Celts...once from middle Europe (north Italy) but finally pushed to the outrmere.
4 posted on 09/30/2013 4:54:47 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: gaijin

Free vodka? Where!?


5 posted on 09/30/2013 4:55:13 PM PDT by Eepsy
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To: All

It’s also called demodectic mange or red mange in dogs....


6 posted on 09/30/2013 4:55:20 PM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: Dysart
a round of tetracycline antibiotics to slay the scourge.

No. But you will likely wipe out the eubacteria in your gut which help you.

Then if afterwards you don't take probiotics (90% of doctors won't breathe a single word about them to you) you'll be perfectly primed for total take-over by candida albicans or some fungus.

Then if any doctor "gets it" after some years of worthless and expensive office visits he'll put you on a very powerful and expensive anti-fungal that will hurt your liver and probably not wipe out the bug.

Your original aim was ending your rosacea, but now you're poor and WAY less healthy than before. The guys who didn't help you? They're richer absolutely feel like they saved you.

7 posted on 09/30/2013 4:56:45 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I’d think a quick round of ABs would be swifter and much less trouble, and I do know some avoid them like the plague but moderate use is almost always fine.


8 posted on 09/30/2013 4:57:01 PM PDT by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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To: Dysart

Dermatologists tried to turn rosacea into a disease; and the public revolted finding rosacea occasionally attractive. Desperate, the industry is trying to make people think gross things when they think of rosacea. Even if people don’t buy the mite feces hypothesis, the thought of facial feces alone will make people be turned off at the thought of rosacea.

Famous victims of rosacea include Princess Diana, Bill Clinton, W.C. Fields, Cameron Diaz, Mariah Carey, and oh, yes... FREAKING SANTA CLAUS!!! I don’t yet, but I won’t be shocked if I get it.


9 posted on 09/30/2013 4:58:16 PM PDT by dangus
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To: gaijin

Buy black walnut husk? They are all over my driveway right now. What a mess.


10 posted on 09/30/2013 4:58:41 PM PDT by ez (Muslims do not play well with others.)
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To: Dysart

Ah, Swimmer, all this time we thought it was the booze but it turns out you were full of chit. Hey, wait a minute, we thought that too! Nevermind


11 posted on 09/30/2013 5:00:09 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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Gross, yeah. Try to get the non-yuckified ones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNzEsWx4qZU


12 posted on 09/30/2013 5:00:27 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Yes, and for others who need to look it up, Candida albicans causes yeast infections, thrush, canker sores, leaky gut syndrome, and more.


13 posted on 09/30/2013 5:03:11 PM PDT by dangus
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Dermatologists are also trying to make freckles sound like a disease. “Conjunctival Melanocytic Lesions.”


14 posted on 09/30/2013 5:07:11 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Dysart

Sure, and here I was thinking
it was caused by too much sun
and too much drinking.


15 posted on 09/30/2013 5:08:32 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: gaijin
I've read about using black walnut hulls to make a neurotoxin that stuns fish in a survival manual. Must be strong stuff.
16 posted on 09/30/2013 5:10:36 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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Yes, it’s toxic. DO NOT feed any to a dog or horse —it will almost surely kill them, as they are MUCH more sensitive to it.

There are some who say you should not take husk or wormwood everyday for more than 3 months, and I am one of them.

Eh...I think that is why I heard they no longer permit the importation of some types of Absinthe, which gets it’s green tincture from Wormwood, which technically IS toxic.

But I mean line ANY of these up against your standard “legit” Rx antifungal medication and they’re pussycats (but they work).


17 posted on 09/30/2013 5:14:04 PM PDT by gaijin
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Thanks!


18 posted on 09/30/2013 5:14:29 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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At this very time we're husking nuts including black walnuts. A capitalistic enterprise is forming in my mind . . .

Stop parasites from crapping in your face! Buy yer walnut extract here!

Might work for 2016, too.
19 posted on 09/30/2013 5:14:54 PM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (You hear it here first.)
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I had a mild form a few years ago and found a product called Prosacea which cured the area; the redness never returned.
20 posted on 09/30/2013 5:18:31 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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