Causes and symptoms of demodicosis.

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What is demodicosis?

Demodicosis is a skin lesion microscopic mites. This mite is called Demodex. Demodex mite lives in the sebaceous glands in the hair follicles, for this reason, places its distribution – it is the eyelids, facial skin, the area of the brow, forehead, nasolabial folds and chin, the external auditory meatus. Places with abundant secretion most favorable habitat for the ticks. In the body of a healthy human Demodex mites also can live in the skin, eating dead skin cells. However, in order to penetrate into the deeper layers, they need to wait for weakening immunity, then they cause inflammation.

Demodicosis in its manifestations very similar to rosacea and acne. Very often these diseases are combined, because ordinary and rosacea inhibit the natural protection of the skin. According to various sources, approximately 70 to 100% of the population are carriers of the mites. In their naivety, people do not believe about this neighbourhood, though a failure occurs in the body, and pincers "attack".

Men one suffer twice as often than women, and women with white, delicate skin. The reason for the development of this disease may be: a failure in the endocrine and digestive systems, stress, reduced immunity, and happens the use of expensive cosmetics with hormonal or other biological additives. A life tick might violate the excessive use of black coffee, alcohol, hot spices, spending long periods at the computer, frequent visits to the sauna or Solarium.

If I had the opportunity to look into the hair follicles from which the hair grows, or immediately in the glomeruli of the sebaceous glands, it could be considered small, colorless, covered with bristles "worms". That is what looks like mites of the family Demodex.

Very simply reveals the mite in laboratory conditions is carried out directly in the patient's presence in the office. To do this, take 8 of the cilia with each eye – four with the upper eyelid, the same with the bottom. These lashes are placed on a glass slide by dropping alkaline solution or a mixture of 1 ml of glycerol and 9ml of saline. Further covered with a blanket and examine the cilia under a microscope.

Signs of demodicosis.

acne, teenage acne, rash, acne pink, abscesses, sores, etc., appearing on the face, can indicate the presence of demodicosis. Neglected these pimples cover the skin of the back, chest, and thighs;

red spots on the face;

very oily skin and enlarged pores. Areas affected by demodicosis, look wet, greasy, have a characteristic luster. Particularly affected skin on nose and cheeks;

the skin bumpy. Inside the rough skin is formed "scar" tissue and many small clumps of calcium, and it is kind of pasty and lumpy skin;

the nose increases in size, sometimes quite strongly: nose is like a big blue-red plum (rhinophyma);

a feeling of crawling, tingling and light itching. Very often people do not pay attention to tickling and scratching myself at the moment automatically. By the evening the itch is getting stronger and continues to be disturbed throughout the night. It says the most active life ticks and the time of their mating.

the hair of the head itches, the hair loss. Early baldness can also speak about the activity of the mite Demodex;

itching of the eyelashes. Loss of eyelashes is also most often a consequence of the activity of demodectic mites living in the roots of the lashes. At the base of the lashes start to itch, eyelashes become thinner and fall out;

itching ears

The symptoms of demodicosis.

As same appears of acne and what are its symptoms? To the symptoms of the disease include fatigue, itching, swelling, hyperemia of the eyelids, the appearance of scales at the roots of eyelashes for a long time, a high degree of infection of others, which gives the opportunity to identify demodicosis by visual inspection. Kind of amazed century is quite typical: it is a plaque on the edge of the eyelids, eyelashes stuck together, covered with bloom in the form of a clutch. History: regular styes, loss of eyelashes, progressive acne, psoriasis.

Reasons.

The cause of demodicosis is a conditionally-pathogenic tick – acne Zheleznitsa (Demodex). From the naming of the tick and the name of this disease – demodicosis. Inmostly acne develops in people with weak immune system often in the elderly.

The beginning of the development of this disease are failures in the endocrine and digestive system, stress, use of cosmetics with hormonal supplements or other biological components, diseases of the nervous system, liver, gastrointestinal tract, disorders of the endocrine glands to malfunction of the sebaceous glands and changes composition of sebum, which leads to a pathogenic form of the development of demodicosis.

Usually diagnosed after will reveal Demodex mite after examination of the damaged areas under a microscope.