We have an unknown mite infestation that we cannot get rid of, please help..
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We had a roommate move in three years ago, she had a dog who itched and flopped its ears a lot. Our dogs started itching and flopping there ears and then we started itching and getting bit and it never stopped. It comes in cycles, starting with light crawling that seems to be worse at night but happens during the day as well. It intensifies in a day or two and i can feel little pin prick stings as well as crawling and this lasts for a few days intensely with a lack of sleep and scratching all night. It seems to get better for a few days of a less intense relief and then its back and starts all over. It doesn't look like scabies bites or follow the pattern of scabies rash. I have bites focused mainly around my chest neck behind ears and on my face and upper back, they are other places as well but they are focused there and we have scars. The do seem to like areas where clothes are the tightest. Our dogs have scratch marks in ears and around the neck and on the chest and back legs as well. I have been to the doctor and treated with permethrin and taken the dogs in and treated for mange..numerous skin scrapings have come up negative. The dogs were given a dose of ivermectin injection three different times and we have done Permethrin three times from the dr. as well as got rid of dog beds and soaked them in medicated shampoo. We bagged all our stuff and washed and dried everything before we used and vacummed like crazy and mopped with bleach mixture even the walls numerous times. We have a plastic cover on our bed and pillow cases. We have moved five times since this started and we deep clean everything and treat before we move but its still haunting us..We have tried lintox, permethrin and ivermectin (orally) on the dogs as well as sulfur dips and peppermint tea tree soaks and tried the borax and hydrogen peroxide recipe for dogs. I have made medicine for in there ears used at the same time as well. On us i bought the permethrin for horses and we made our own 5%. We have also tried neem, peppermint, tea tree oil, lavender and sulfur lotion, pastes and soaks. We have tried all these things for a month each and still no resolve. We have a Son on the way in a couple weeks and i have come to terms with the fact that we will not be rid of this mystery mite by then and it scares me to death. I have only been able to do natural oils while pregnant. I bought a microscope and have been taping itchy parts and taping around the dogs at night and our bed and looking at whatever i can try and find under the microscope and nothing... I even do skin scrapes with a razor blade and mineral oil on slides. I am at a loss and feel hopeless. as of late i have been seeing tiny little red pin point marks where the skin is white around it, they are not raised at all though and i am unsure if it is related. I have thought some sort of demodex, bird mite, rat mite or scabies and even bedbugs? I cannot find anything on the microscope. They are relentless and i am about to burn everything we own and bomb the cars and buy all new clothes and treat us all then camp out for a month!! I don't know what else to do. Any input would be helpful. I have attached pics of bites and a strange pattern of worm shaped demodex like shell or casing that might be mite related and a picture of a bite site under microscope.
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weronika33108 Gypsymoon83
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vincenzo78 weronika33108
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Hello I have dealt with the same thing for almost a year now. I went to doctor's , took ivermectin, permethrin creams, sprayed bombed you name it, I tried it. I even moved twice maticulasly whipped down and washed everything with bleach and threw out a lot of things as well including a bed. I have finally concocted a spray that kills them almost instantly. I finally slept great without getting bit or feeling them crawling around on me. Go to the store and buy rubbing alcohol 90%, Dr.Teals bath and body oil (eucalyptus & spearmint), Dawn dish soap, tea tree oil, and a liter spray bottle. Make a 70% alcohol 30% water mix in the bottle leaving a 1/4 of the bottle empty. Then add a 1/3 of the Dr.Teal's bath and body oil to the solution add a half ounce of Tea tree oil and ten pumps of Kerosel, last add 5-10 drops of Dawn dish soap and close the bottle and shake. You should have a milky white solution now. Spray this on every surface you can as often as you can. Add a couple cap fulls of the Dr.Teals oil to your laundry as well. Hope this helps. God Bless you always 🙂
jeannie22931 vincenzo78
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Do you realize that you have posted the exact same answer several times? I think that we all got the message the first or second time that you wrote it.
monarae Gypsymoon83
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vera28692 monarae
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I have been suffering for a year and a half with small mites walking on my body. Sometimes you see them and they are small black/ brown dots. The distress this has caused me has almost broken my spirit. I have been to the doctor, hospital, dermatologist & specialist and no one could find anything. At one point they tried to put me on anti psychotic medication. One thing all of them used was a small magnifying glass. I was rather shocked as I thought they would used advanced technology. I bought a microscope and found the mites looked like small clumps of glittery hair all entwined. I noticed on my forearms in particular there are patches of dark pink/ brown spots and a couple of small lumps. I assume this is where these mites are living. I also had what I can describe as raised lumps on my forearm that were open at the top and looked almost volcano shaped that were very sore. I knew it was mites living in my forearms and travelling throughout my body. I literally had them all over my body including in between my toes and the bottom of my feet. They burrow and that is why traditional remedies cannot kill them. They come out mostly at night that can be exhausting as you cannot sleep. My skin is like sandpaper, sore in places and itchy is an understatement. The itch is unbearable and I wonder what on earth I have contracted. They also like to come out of your skin when you are eating and I can feel them moving over my legs and body. They like mostly to live on your forearms and I guess it is where the skin is easier for them to burrow. My scalp felt crusty and very itchy, lumpy with what I can describe as insects living in there. I saw them dropping out when I brushed but I can never get rid of all of them. One day I felt hundreds of them running all over my body and I found it really hard to breathe. I have spend hundreds of pounds trying every product under the sun to find a cure. I have been online frantically searching for a cure and no one has the answers not even the professional medical people. I have now found a cure and it is a simple but effective solution. I noticed in my clothing there was a dandruff looking skin in there. A lot of research online and I concluded I had Cheyetillia mites that you can catch from animals. Your skin can get that distressed from this mite mine started getting small patches of pure white skin on my torso and legs. Again, the medical profession had no idea how to treat it so I knew I needed to find a cure myself. Buy Selsun that has 2.5 per cent selenium sulphide and rub this in all over your body. The secret is to leave it for up to half hour then rinse in the shower. Your skin will react to it so quickly and you can feel your skin returning to normal. This is the only cure for this problem. I have tried everything under the sun to no avail. A few hints and tips to I used before I found this cure to alleviate some of the symptoms…Pure Lemon Juice the stuff you put on your pancakes is good.. Get a bowl and put the lemon juice in the bowl and soak your hands & forearms for a minute then remove and dry with a towel. Do this for the rest of your body. A couple of times a week get garlic powder and rub over all of your body like talc, leave for half hour then shower. The smell of garlic will come off in the shower. Where the pink/ brown patches are located on your body rub it hard with your finger with garlic powder and all of the mites will pop out as the lemon juice and garlic would have killed them. It is important to exfoliate your body on a regular basis. Please subscribe to my channel for more tips that I have found for easy exfoliation and more tips regarding this issue. My heart goes out to you all as these mites are absolute hell on earth. Good luck guys as I have now got my life back and you will too soon as I have researched for hours to find a solution. Ps. There is no other cure for this problem as I have tried everything. Regards and best wishes. Xxx
Lulu087 vera28692
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monarae Gypsymoon83
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please let me know if you found what they ate please.
shannan88871 Gypsymoon83
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hi! did hi you ever find our what it was??
vera28692 shannan88871
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I have been suffering for a year and a half with small mites walking on my body. Sometimes you see them and they are small black/ brown dots. The distress this has caused me has almost broken my spirit. I have been to the doctor, hospital, dermatologist & specialist and no one could find anything. At one point they tried to put me on anti psychotic medication. One thing all of them used was a small magnifying glass. I was rather shocked as I thought they would used advanced technology. I bought a microscope and found the mites looked like small clumps of glittery hair all entwined. I noticed on my forearms in particular there are patches of dark pink/ brown spots and a couple of small lumps. I assume this is where these mites are living. I also had what I can describe as raised lumps on my forearm that were open at the top and looked almost volcano shaped that were very sore. I knew it was mites living in my forearms and travelling throughout my body. I literally had them all over my body including in between my toes and the bottom of my feet. They burrow and that is why traditional remedies cannot kill them. They come out mostly at night that can be exhausting as you cannot sleep. My skin is like sandpaper, sore in places and itchy is an understatement. The itch is unbearable and I wonder what on earth I have contracted. They also like to come out of your skin when you are eating and I can feel them moving over my legs and body. They like mostly to live on your forearms and I guess it is where the skin is easier for them to burrow. My scalp felt crusty and very itchy, lumpy with what I can describe as insects living in there. I saw them dropping out when I brushed but I can never get rid of all of them. One day I felt hundreds of them running all over my body and I found it really hard to breathe. I have spend hundreds of pounds trying every product under the sun to find a cure. I have been online frantically searching for a cure and no one has the answers not even the professional medical people. I have now found a cure and it is a simple but effective solution. I noticed in my clothing there was a dandruff looking skin in there. A lot of research online and I concluded I had Cheyetillia mites that you can catch from animals. Your skin can get that distressed from this mite mine started getting small patches of pure white skin on my torso and legs. Again, the medical profession had no idea how to treat it so I knew I needed to find a cure myself. Buy Selsun that has 2.5 per cent selenium sulphide and rub this in all over your body. The secret is to leave it for up to half hour then rinse in the shower. Your skin will react to it so quickly and you can feel your skin returning to normal. This is the only cure for this problem. I have tried everything under the sun to no avail. A few hints and tips to I used before I found this cure to alleviate some of the symptoms…Pure Lemon Juice the stuff you put on your pancakes is good.. Get a bowl and put the lemon juice in the bowl and soak your hands & forearms for a minute then remove and dry with a towel. Do this for the rest of your body. A couple of times a week get garlic powder and rub over all of your body like talc, leave for half hour then shower. The smell of garlic will come off in the shower. Where the pink/ brown patches are located on your body rub it hard with your finger with garlic powder and all of the mites will pop out as the lemon juice and garlic would have killed them. It is important to exfoliate your body on a regular basis. Please subscribe to my channel for more tips that I have found for easy exfoliation and more tips regarding this issue. My heart goes out to you all as these mites are absolute hell on earth. Good luck guys as I have now got my life back and you will too soon as I have researched for hours to find a solution. Ps. There is no other cure for this problem as I have tried everything. Regards and best wishes. Xxx
EduardBaltierra Gypsymoon83
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Hello, I would like you to share the photos of the mite with me. My wife and I have had the same problem. After 4 months we are getting it under control. Under the microscope we also find elongated and thin shapes. However, we have not been able to identify them; they do not look like mites. The symptoms are intense itching mainly at night, papules, tingling. The cause not visible to the naked eye. It gave us results to improve the immune system, bath with antiseptic solution, keratolytic shampoo, shampoo with phenothrin and thyme oil, besides the exhaustive disinfection of the clothes and environment. We plan to write an paper about our experience, and hope to share it in a couple of months.
tammy252 EduardBaltierra
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Did you ever write the paper?
vincenzo78 EduardBaltierra
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Hello I have dealt with the same thing for almost a year now. I went to doctor's , took ivermectin, permethrin creams, sprayed bombed you name it, I tried it. I even moved twice maticulasly whipped down and washed everything with bleach and threw out a lot of things as well including a bed. I have finally concocted a spray that kills them almost instantly. I finally slept great without getting bit or feeling them crawling around on me. Go to the store and buy rubbing alcohol 90%, Dr.Teals bath and body oil (eucalyptus & spearmint), Dawn dish soap, tea tree oil, and a liter spray bottle. Make a 70% alcohol 30% water mix in the bottle leaving a 1/4 of the bottle empty. Then add a 1/3 of the Dr.Teal's bath and body oil to the solution add a half ounce of Tea tree oil and ten pumps of Kerosel, last add 5-10 drops of Dawn dish soap and close the bottle and shake. You should have a milky white solution now. Spray this on every surface you can as often as you can. Add a couple cap fulls of the Dr.Teals oil to your laundry as well. Hope this helps. God Bless you always 🙂
vera28692 EduardBaltierra
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I have been suffering for a year and a half with small mites walking on my body. Sometimes you see them and they are small black/ brown dots. The distress this has caused me has almost broken my spirit. I have been to the doctor, hospital, dermatologist & specialist and no one could find anything. At one point they tried to put me on anti psychotic medication. One thing all of them used was a small magnifying glass. I was rather shocked as I thought they would used advanced technology. I bought a microscope and found the mites looked like small clumps of glittery hair all entwined. I noticed on my forearms in particular there are patches of dark pink/ brown spots and a couple of small lumps. I assume this is where these mites are living. I also had what I can describe as raised lumps on my forearm that were open at the top and looked almost volcano shaped that were very sore. I knew it was mites living in my forearms and travelling throughout my body. I literally had them all over my body including in between my toes and the bottom of my feet. They burrow and that is why traditional remedies cannot kill them. They come out mostly at night that can be exhausting as you cannot sleep. My skin is like sandpaper, sore in places and itchy is an understatement. The itch is unbearable and I wonder what on earth I have contracted. They also like to come out of your skin when you are eating and I can feel them moving over my legs and body. They like mostly to live on your forearms and I guess it is where the skin is easier for them to burrow. My scalp felt crusty and very itchy, lumpy with what I can describe as insects living in there. I saw them dropping out when I brushed but I can never get rid of all of them. One day I felt hundreds of them running all over my body and I found it really hard to breathe. I have spend hundreds of pounds trying every product under the sun to find a cure. I have been online frantically searching for a cure and no one has the answers not even the professional medical people. I have now found a cure and it is a simple but effective solution. I noticed in my clothing there was a dandruff looking skin in there. A lot of research online and I concluded I had Cheyetillia mites that you can catch from animals. Your skin can get that distressed from this mite mine started getting small patches of pure white skin on my torso and legs. Again, the medical profession had no idea how to treat it so I knew I needed to find a cure myself. Buy Selsun that has 2.5 per cent selenium sulphide and rub this in all over your body. The secret is to leave it for up to half hour then rinse in the shower. Your skin will react to it so quickly and you can feel your skin returning to normal. This is the only cure for this problem. I have tried everything under the sun to no avail. A few hints and tips to I used before I found this cure to alleviate some of the symptoms…Pure Lemon Juice the stuff you put on your pancakes is good.. Get a bowl and put the lemon juice in the bowl and soak your hands & forearms for a minute then remove and dry with a towel. Do this for the rest of your body. A couple of times a week get garlic powder and rub over all of your body like talc, leave for half hour then shower. The smell of garlic will come off in the shower. Where the pink/ brown patches are located on your body rub it hard with your finger with garlic powder and all of the mites will pop out as the lemon juice and garlic would have killed them. It is important to exfoliate your body on a regular basis. Please subscribe to my channel for more tips that I have found for easy exfoliation and more tips regarding this issue. My heart goes out to you all as these mites are absolute hell on earth. Good luck guys as I have now got my life back and you will too soon as I have researched for hours to find a solution. Ps. There is no other cure for this problem as I have tried everything. Regards and best wishes. Xxx
EduardBaltierra Gypsymoon83
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These are my photos. My comment in the previous post.
debra05873 EduardBaltierra
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Did you ever find out what they were, what have you used to get rid of them, I've had these same monsters for almost 2 years, any info will help. Thank you so much
vincenzo78 debra05873
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Hello I have dealt with the same thing for almost a year now. I went to doctor's , took ivermectin, permethrin creams, sprayed bombed you name it, I tried it. I even moved twice maticulasly whipped down and washed everything with bleach and threw out a lot of things as well including a bed. I have finally concocted a spray that kills them almost instantly. I finally slept great without getting bit or feeling them crawling around on me. Go to the store and buy rubbing alcohol 90%, Dr.Teals bath and body oil (eucalyptus & spearmint), Dawn dish soap, tea tree oil, and a liter spray bottle. Make a 70% alcohol 30% water mix in the bottle leaving a 1/4 of the bottle empty. Then add a 1/3 of the Dr.Teal's bath and body oil to the solution add a half ounce of Tea tree oil and ten pumps of Kerosel, last add 5-10 drops of Dawn dish soap and close the bottle and shake. You should have a milky white solution now. Spray this on every surface you can as often as you can. Add a couple cap fulls of the Dr.Teals oil to your laundry as well. Hope this helps. God Bless you always 🙂
Pinky111 EduardBaltierra
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This is the same thing i have and it's mites. D- gallinae, tropical rat mite, or Cheyletiella mite.A few years ago, pharm companies came out with medication to treat animals for mites that is almost 100% effective and I think it's driven these mites to find a new host in humans. (just my theory) There are multiple scholarly articles about the growing problem in humans. I noticed the wikipedia page on D-gallinae has been updated too and now says they can live fully on humans .
vera28692 EduardBaltierra
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I have been suffering for a year and a half with small mites walking on my body. Sometimes you see them and they are small black/ brown dots. The distress this has caused me has almost broken my spirit. I have been to the doctor, hospital, dermatologist & specialist and no one could find anything. At one point they tried to put me on anti psychotic medication. One thing all of them used was a small magnifying glass. I was rather shocked as I thought they would used advanced technology. I bought a microscope and found the mites looked like small clumps of glittery hair all entwined. I noticed on my forearms in particular there are patches of dark pink/ brown spots and a couple of small lumps. I assume this is where these mites are living. I also had what I can describe as raised lumps on my forearm that were open at the top and looked almost volcano shaped that were very sore. I knew it was mites living in my forearms and travelling throughout my body. I literally had them all over my body including in between my toes and the bottom of my feet. They burrow and that is why traditional remedies cannot kill them. They come out mostly at night that can be exhausting as you cannot sleep. My skin is like sandpaper, sore in places and itchy is an understatement. The itch is unbearable and I wonder what on earth I have contracted. They also like to come out of your skin when you are eating and I can feel them moving over my legs and body. They like mostly to live on your forearms and I guess it is where the skin is easier for them to burrow. My scalp felt crusty and very itchy, lumpy with what I can describe as insects living in there. I saw them dropping out when I brushed but I can never get rid of all of them. One day I felt hundreds of them running all over my body and I found it really hard to breathe. I have spend hundreds of pounds trying every product under the sun to find a cure. I have been online frantically searching for a cure and no one has the answers not even the professional medical people. I have now found a cure and it is a simple but effective solution. I noticed in my clothing there was a dandruff looking skin in there. A lot of research online and I concluded I had Cheyetillia mites that you can catch from animals. Your skin can get that distressed from this mite mine started getting small patches of pure white skin on my torso and legs. Again, the medical profession had no idea how to treat it so I knew I needed to find a cure myself. Buy Selsun that has 2.5 per cent selenium sulphide and rub this in all over your body. The secret is to leave it for up to half hour then rinse in the shower. Your skin will react to it so quickly and you can feel your skin returning to normal. This is the only cure for this problem. I have tried everything under the sun to no avail. A few hints and tips to I used before I found this cure to alleviate some of the symptoms…Pure Lemon Juice the stuff you put on your pancakes is good.. Get a bowl and put the lemon juice in the bowl and soak your hands & forearms for a minute then remove and dry with a towel. Do this for the rest of your body. A couple of times a week get garlic powder and rub over all of your body like talc, leave for half hour then shower. The smell of garlic will come off in the shower. Where the pink/ brown patches are located on your body rub it hard with your finger with garlic powder and all of the mites will pop out as the lemon juice and garlic would have killed them. It is important to exfoliate your body on a regular basis. Please subscribe to my channel for more tips that I have found for easy exfoliation and more tips regarding this issue. My heart goes out to you all as these mites are absolute hell on earth. Good luck guys as I have now got my life back and you will too soon as I have researched for hours to find a solution. Ps. There is no other cure for this problem as I have tried everything. Regards and best wishes. Xxx
vera28692 debra05873
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I have been suffering for a year and a half with small mites walking on my body. Sometimes you see them and they are small black/ brown dots. The distress this has caused me has almost broken my spirit. I have been to the doctor, hospital, dermatologist & specialist and no one could find anything. At one point they tried to put me on anti psychotic medication. One thing all of them used was a small magnifying glass. I was rather shocked as I thought they would used advanced technology. I bought a microscope and found the mites looked like small clumps of glittery hair all entwined. I noticed on my forearms in particular there are patches of dark pink/ brown spots and a couple of small lumps. I assume this is where these mites are living. I also had what I can describe as raised lumps on my forearm that were open at the top and looked almost volcano shaped that were very sore. I knew it was mites living in my forearms and travelling throughout my body. I literally had them all over my body including in between my toes and the bottom of my feet. They burrow and that is why traditional remedies cannot kill them. They come out mostly at night that can be exhausting as you cannot sleep. My skin is like sandpaper, sore in places and itchy is an understatement. The itch is unbearable and I wonder what on earth I have contracted. They also like to come out of your skin when you are eating and I can feel them moving over my legs and body. They like mostly to live on your forearms and I guess it is where the skin is easier for them to burrow. My scalp felt crusty and very itchy, lumpy with what I can describe as insects living in there. I saw them dropping out when I brushed but I can never get rid of all of them. One day I felt hundreds of them running all over my body and I found it really hard to breathe. I have spend hundreds of pounds trying every product under the sun to find a cure. I have been online frantically searching for a cure and no one has the answers not even the professional medical people. I have now found a cure and it is a simple but effective solution. I noticed in my clothing there was a dandruff looking skin in there. A lot of research online and I concluded I had Cheyetillia mites that you can catch from animals. Your skin can get that distressed from this mite mine started getting small patches of pure white skin on my torso and legs. Again, the medical profession had no idea how to treat it so I knew I needed to find a cure myself. Buy Selsun that has 2.5 per cent selenium sulphide and rub this in all over your body. The secret is to leave it for up to half hour then rinse in the shower. Your skin will react to it so quickly and you can feel your skin returning to normal. This is the only cure for this problem. I have tried everything under the sun to no avail. A few hints and tips to I used before I found this cure to alleviate some of the symptoms…Pure Lemon Juice the stuff you put on your pancakes is good.. Get a bowl and put the lemon juice in the bowl and soak your hands & forearms for a minute then remove and dry with a towel. Do this for the rest of your body. A couple of times a week get garlic powder and rub over all of your body like talc, leave for half hour then shower. The smell of garlic will come off in the shower. Where the pink/ brown patches are located on your body rub it hard with your finger with garlic powder and all of the mites will pop out as the lemon juice and garlic would have killed them. It is important to exfoliate your body on a regular basis. Please subscribe to my channel for more tips that I have found for easy exfoliation and more tips regarding this issue. My heart goes out to you all as these mites are absolute hell on earth. Good luck guys as I have now got my life back and you will too soon as I have researched for hours to find a solution. Ps. There is no other cure for this problem as I have tried everything. Regards and best wishes. Xxx
Lulu087 EduardBaltierra
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omg i have same thing. Did u ever get a
diagnosis?