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In spring 2005, Randy Wymore, associate professor of pharmacology at Oklahoma State University, stumbled across an article about morgellons. Reading about the fibres sufferers believed were the byproduct of some weird parasite, but which were dismissed by dermatologists as humdrum environmental detritus, he thought, "But this should be easy to figure out." He emailed sufferers, requesting samples, then compared them with samples of cotton, nylon, carpets and curtains. Examining them under the microscope, he got a shock. The sufferers' fibres looked utterly different.
Wymore arranged for fibre analysis at the Tulsa police department's forensic laboratory. Moments into his tests, a detective with 28 years' experience of this sort of work murmured, "I don't think I've ever seen anything like this." The morgellons particles didn't match any of the 800 fibres on their database, nor the 85,000 known organic compounds. He heated one fibre to 600C and was astonished to find it didn't burn. By the day's end, Wymore concluded, "There's something real going on here. Something we don't understand at all."
I contact Dr Anne Louise Oaklander, associate professor at Harvard Medical School and perhaps the only neurologist in the world to specialise in itch. I email her describing morgellons, pointing out it's probably some form of DOP. But when we speak, she knows all about morgellons already. "In my experience, morgellons patients are doing the best they can to make sense of symptoms that are real. They're suffering from a chronic itch disorder that's undiagnosed. They have been maltreated by the medical establishment. And you are welcome to quote me on that," she adds.
Originally posted by dreamingawake
"Bed Bug" infestations are bigger than ever.
The symptoms of Morgellons are related to "bed bug". These mites, also know as scabies infections, break from the skin, leaving a grain like white egg behind.
Make sure you know if it's scabies/bed bugs before hand.
Originally posted by Suspiria
Originally posted by dreamingawake
"Bed Bug" infestations are bigger than ever.
The symptoms of Morgellons are related to "bed bug". These mites, also know as scabies infections, break from the skin, leaving a grain like white egg behind.
Make sure you know if it's scabies/bed bugs before hand.
Bed bugs are completely different to scabies mites. Bed bugs just nibble on you, Scabies mites burrow under your skin and leave track marks.edit on 11-5-2011 by Suspiria because: (no reason given)