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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Yes! You May Have Eye Mites & Not Even Know It

MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Millions of people have it and most of them don’t even know it. We’re talking about what’s commonly called ‘Eye Mites.’

CBS4’s Ted Scouten was diagnosed with what a doctor says is Demodex Mites, also known as eye mites along the base and the lid of Ted’s eyelashes.

“I had never heard of eye mites so when he said eye mites it was just really gross, so yeah I freaked out a little bit, but then when he explained that there are a lot of people who have these, and a lot of people who own pets get them.”

So what are eye mites?

The mites, which are spread by pets and people, spend most of their time buried in our hair follicles. They love bodily real-estate that is flooded with oils, which explains why they love our faces – to crawl, eat & reproduce!

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Another reason to not have animals living inside the house

Steve said...

Eye mite give my doggy an extra hug tonight!

Anonymous said...

For goodness sake---Mites live on your
mattress ---they feed off our dead skin.
Watched a program on it once---disgusting
to say the least. You don't have to have
animals to get mites.

Anonymous said...

Almost everybody has them. And we don't even notice.

Anonymous said...

+1 to 7:24pm

Anonymous said...


Mitey scary article.

Bernie Sanders voter said...

AHHHHHHHHHHH, CLIMATE CHANGE...AHHHHH

Anonymous said...

Every human being on the planet has tiny mites and organisms feeding off our dead skin and sebaceous oil secretions on our face and body