Posted on 05/23/2019 5:20:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
These creepy-crawlies are eight-legged, mostly transparent and microscopic in size, measuring about 0.01 inches (0.3 millimeters) apiece, according to an NPR article accompanying the new video. They live near the roots of facial hair follicles on both men and women, hidden away inside your pores.
Given their dietary preferences, face mites are attracted to the greasiest pores on your body, including those around the cheeks, nose and forehead. According to a study published in 1992 in the journal Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, infested follicles can hold a half-dozen mites at once, with room for many more. Each mite can live for about two weeks. These mites pose no known threats to humans, unless they amass in truly huge numbers, sometimes leading to a disease called demodicosis, or demodectic mange. In humans, demodicosis can cause a red or white sheen to form on the skin, and it is often associated with a decline in immune-system response...
But the condition is rare, Shinkai said, and most people live peacefully with their face mites until old age. Just think, in your lifetime, your nose could serve as the family home to hundreds of generations of grease-swilling, nocturnal-partying arachnids. If the thought doesn't fill your pores with pride, consider one last silver lining: You probably won't ever have to clean up after your Demodex houseguests. As KQED points out in the video, face mites have no anus, instead storing their poop in their bodies for the full duration of their brief lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Jeez...as if I don’t already watch too many episodes of “Monsters Inside Me”.
Brennan
So popping a zit is just jerking one of those critters off?
Hahahaha...sounds like a Rave On Your Face!
Hahahahaha...Brennan!
I’ll bet you timed this post so we’d all get to read it over breakfast.
And I would bet an extra gram of elbow grease that all my little mites are good old-fashioned heterosexuals and reality-based in their thinking (i.e. conservatives).
Go little mitey-mites, GO.
I have met a few clean-freak germaphobes who seem to have no understanding of life. We literally swim in a swirl of mites, spores, floating bacteria and invisible trash. We evolved with it and it is mostly harmless to us. Our immune system copes with it constantly. The failure of our immune system is how dogs and cats know we are dying. As we die, our bodies cut out energy-using noncritical systems. Everything left goes to power the heart and the brain. As the immune system shuts down bacteria starts to overwhelm us and it has a distinctive odor that pets smell. (I had a friend dying and you could literally smell him rot.)
Despite what they seem to be, I like them more than any Democrat politician these days. In fact, even having chiggers in a certain area, that memory, I can have fonder than any Democrat politician the U.S. ever has to suffer.
Mites gotta earn a living too.
I KNEW somebody was watching me!
“Our host is napping. Party time!”
Looks like it has mites, too
Aghhh! It’s a grab-oid!
Chiggers only bother you for a couple of days. Democrat politicians can have the power and desire to screw you over for your lifetime
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