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No, I don’t usually have issues at night for some reason, even though I know that most mite sufferers do. But document it any way you can — scientists (including doctors, even though they don’t always act like scientists) like data. We’re more likely to be taken seriously if we can “prove” that what we’re experiencing is real.
Not yet, but I’m working on it. I apologize to those for whom each day is more suffering (believe me, I know). Hang in there.
My goal is to prove to the medical community that people can be afflicted with bird or rodent mites. I don’t think we’re going to make any progress until we can establish that. (You can’t treat something that doesn’t exist!) But it’s not going to be easy. Even the CDC website says,
“… mites found on other animals may cause a self-limited infestation in humans with temporary itching due to dermatitis; however they do not multiply on the human host.”In other words, if mites can’t reproduce on humans, there can’t be an ongoing infestation.
And yet, nobody doubts that Scabies exists. Where do Scabies mites live – and reproduce? Under human skin. Then it shouldn’t be so far-fetched to suggest that other kinds of mites could live on humans too. I’ll post updates.
I’m going to do an online search for a DNA lab that can identify mites species. I’ll let everyone know what I find out.
If anyone already knows of such a lab, please post the information and save us all a lot of trouble!
Thanks in advance.
True. And I hate to admit it, but I’ve almost wished for somebody important to get infested.
But it’s very hard to believe that the life stages of mites — eggs, larva, nymphs, and adults — can’t be observed with a microscope. (Only the adult mites, of course, are not microscopic.)
Biologists, veterinarians etc., can see mite infestations on birds and rodents — why can’t they see them on other mammals (like humans)? I don’t get it.
