Morgellons Disease
Morgellons
Morgellons Disease or as its better known as just Morgellons, is a mysterious skin disorder that was first described more than 300 years ago. The skin disease is characterized by multi-colored fiber-like (filamentous) strands extruding from the skin in conjunction with various dermatologic and neuropsychiatric symptoms. Some of these multi-colored fibers (filamentous) are of microscopic size, while others have the appearance of fibers and granules coming out of the skin that can be seen growing with the naked eye. The multi-colored fibers range in color: white, blue, black, red and are often regarded by the medical community as common house hold lint.
In this respect, Morgellons disease resembles and may be confused with delusional parasitosis. The association with Lyme disease and the apparent response to antibacterial therapy suggest that Morgellons disease may be linked to an undefined infectious process. At the moment there is no agreed-upon physical cause, etiology, diagnostic criteria or proven treatment, further clinical and molecular research is needed to unlock the mystery of Morgellons disease.Morgellons disease is not yet known to be fatal.
As of February 2006, more than 2,000 reports of the disease have been reported on the Foundation’s website. Reports come from all 50 U.S. states and 15 nations, including Canada , the UK , Australia and The Netherlands.The majority of reports have come from Texas , California and Florida . People with the skin disease often describe feelings of bugs or parasites scuttling beneath their skin and open lesions that heal slowly and which ooze out blue and white fibers, some as thick as spaghetti strands. Attempts to remove the fibers are said to elicit shooting pains radiating from the site.
my granmother has had a rash and all the same symptoms of all described for Morgellons. she has pulled out what she described as a very hard piece of hair strand. or fibers.Her Doctors and family were under the assumption this was scabies. Noone else in the household or that she has come in contact with have gotten this. she has had three treatments for scabies and this still has not went away. the Doctors keep giving her depressent medications and sleeping pills. Any information you can supply me or any treatments that help would be greatly appreciated. i realize there us no cure but anything will help. thanks
Heather, your grandmother is right on with her symptoms. I have finally validated tonight that I have Morgellons or a parasite that is in my house.. I have the hard thing that feels and looks like small hair, and I just tonight had one that I could pull out and I looked at it under the microscope and it is alive.It looks like the ones I have seen before. I have struggled with this for over 14 yrs. I am going to make an appt. with a morgelllon dr. on Monday. I have been told for yrs. I have delusional parisitosis. I have been humiliated, told I was a faker. get your grandmother to a dr. in your area that treats morgellons. I am also taking Chlorella you can look it up on web or I can send you dr. report etc.
I have had this for about 20 years. Unless it goes into our heart or lungs it shouldn’t be fatal.
I just pull this stuff out with tweezers and treat it with peroxide and mupiricin. It’s not something from Mars. I think it is our bodies reaction to this toxic and nuclear world we live in.
I was exposed to a lot of radiation and chemicals and I figure that was the cause for me. I never had scabies, nor do I think scabies has anything to do with it. I don’t expext to find a cure, but I take many vitamin supplements such as C and chlorella. I am not a doctor and what works for me may not work for you. I see a Chinese traditional herbal doctor and he prescribes vitamins and drugs and takes blood pressure, glucose, hdl, ldl and other readings. I had a shaft of bone growing out of my upper jaw removed by a dentist, a hair as thick as pencil lead growing out of my abdomen and another thick hair growing out of my cheek. Also red, white and blue fibers growing on my biceps. Patriotic!
How exactly does one have a psychiatric condition when there is an observable physical cause? One does not say one has a psychiatric condition when, say, they are itchy due to the chicken pox or flea bites. We say they are experiencing physical symptoms only. Even if they become irritable from said symptoms it is not psychiatric. Unless we allege that crazy people can conjure multicolored threads, but I know of no physical law which would allow such a thing.
I find it particularly annoying that everywhere we look the patient is described as crazy first and then the facts evaluated. It’s sickening.