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 ...
So that’s why I near voices at night.
bmk
“Dust Mites”
By Heywood Banks
When the shades of night are falling and you climb into your bed
There is no need for loneliness and crying —
For there’s always someone with you, even in the darkest night,
And though you cannot see them, I’m not lying...
Teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites,
‘Bout 2 million in the average bed,
Bunches of them dust mites,
Munchin’ little dust mites
Snuggled warm and cozy ‘neath your head.
There are little eight-legged daddy mites and mama mites and baby mites,
Doing what a mite might like to do.
And you can wash the sheet or spray the mat or beat the bed with a baseball bat,
They will stay no matter what you do.
It’s those teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites,
‘Bout 2 million in the average bed.
Bunches of them dust mites,
Munchin’ little dust mites
Snuggled warm and cozy ‘neath your head.
Well now each and every human being is shedding flakes of skin.
About ten thousand drift each minute by.
And those dust mites smack their bony lips and eat that skin like taco chips
It’s a rain of manna from the sky.
It’s those teeny little dust mites, ultra tiny dust mites,
‘Bout 2 million in the average bed.
Bunches of them dust mites,
Munchin’ little dust mites
Snuggled warm and cozy ‘neath your head.
Why the nasty things. They ought to be ashamed of themselves!
Mike and the Bots sent the nanites to fight the eyelash mites in the Battle of Follicle Ridge...
LOL! Exactly what I immediately thought of!
This is not really true. The not having to clean up part that is.
I can guarantee you that they are not magically transported to an alternative reality when they die. So there would seem to be a never-ending supply of dead, rotting, poop-filled corpses on my skin.
What happened to that exterminator ad I saw last week?
Lovely...NOT...
Hopefully that is why hitlery’s staff says she smells like rotten cabbage! lol
Sorry about your friend.
they might provoke rosacea flare ups?
‘Although these findings do not prove that the skin mite causes rosacea, they do suggest that Demodex folliculorum might play a role in fostering the disorder. The mites may provoke rosacea by clogging skin follicles, which, in turn, might trigger an inflammatory response.
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Agreed!
T.M.I.
And that was just in the title.
I've known this for years. I even bought a face mite webcam and started selling face mite porn of the randy little buggers making the beast with two backs, shot right on my own face.
The market for face mite porn isn't quite as strong as I had hoped though.
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