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Never washing my face again for these cuties
How kawaii!
Very few things have ever provoked cute aggression from me faster than these two silly pink circles.
improve their genetic diversity by providing evolutionary pressure (industrial antiseptic face wash), and introducing to different population (rub your face against other people).
Does this imply that everyone I’ve bumped uglies with is literally forever a part of me now?
IIRC they actually like it when you wash your face; more of your natural skin oils for them to eat that isn’t tainted by unholy substances.
Might just be making than up though. Thinking of a Demodex Skin Oil Priest rn.
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The future of farming
Horrible day to have eye ._.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as You, is in fact, Demodex/You, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Demodex plus You.
I like the meta of this comment
Shut up Stallman lmao
Thought I was on linuxmemes for a sec
At least it’s kinda cute. Unlike the other body mites
Pretty brutal life getting scalded, mushed, and drowned in lotion whatever.
My penis: “First time?”
Your penis mites got it rough, dayum.
That second picture seems to suggest it might be visible to the naked eye, rest assured they are microscopic
Not as reassuring as it could be, but it helps.
aaa mutant waterbear
Or as I like to call em, my little buddies.
Question:
If I were to come up with a way to rid myself (and others) of these face mites then what would happen? Would it be a positive or negative thing for me?And the same question about human body mites. If I were to get rid of human mites completely would that be good or bad?
The other commenters are well meaning but don’t really know what they’re talking about. I have chronic dry eye from staring at screens too much (remember to blink!). My tear ducts have gotten overworked and started to produce thicker, gunkier, tears which blocked them and cause styes. I’ve lost a bunch of my tear ducts. Once they’re gone they don’t grow back.
These little mites eat the gunk my eyes produce and, when they get overpopulated, leave a ton of gunk on your eye. It’s called blepharitis
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/demodex-blepharitis
I’ve had it so bad that I’ve had trouble opening my eyes in the morning. There’s a relatively new eyedrop that clears them out. Combining that with hot dye compresses and lid scrubs have helped keep them under control and has drastically increased my eyelid health
I hope that helps answer your question
How many years of staring at screens did it take, if you don’t mind me asking ?
It must be a personal issue because I have been a screen starer for 35-40 years and don’t have this issue. One of my kids got itz and the remedy was morning and night eye washing.
The doctors say it’s common for screen starers. It’s certainly not going to be everyone but I’ve been playing video games/using the computer heavily since I was a kid
My doctor’s practically predicted I was a programmer when they saw the problems I was having with styes and dry eyes
https://www.trieyecare.com/dry-eye-optometrist/electronic-devices-and-dry-eye/
I’ve been using computers heavily for over 2 decades
https://www.trieyecare.com/dry-eye-optometrist/electronic-devices-and-dry-eye/
My eye doctors have impressed on me the importance of eye lid health and hot eye compresses. They say everyone should do it twice a day
I’m not sure if I’d go as far as to reccomend that (plenty of people do fine without it) but my eyes get gunky FAST if I skip hot eye compresses
So like do you wet a washcloth with hot water and drape it on or is there a different way?
I have an electric hot eye compress
https://www.wizardresearch.com/products/dry-eye-relief-mask-electric
It’s over priced for what it is but it’s the ones my doctor recommended and I haven’t found a better one. I often will put a damp paper towel on it for moistness
The doctors office itself uses a microwaveable version. The important thing is to use it for at least 7 minutes
Thank you for the info!
I have rosacea and apply a 1% ivermectin cream to my face every night to kill the mites. It costs 300 dollars a tube.
But if you live in the bible belt, your face skin would never get covid
Not a doctor but I watch YouTube sometimes.
You can remove them with some oils and it helps some people with things like acne.
If you did this, they would just come back after a while. If you don’t have any skin issues, they are harmless to you.
Awww. Who is a demodex mite? Is it you? Is it you? Yes it is!
It’s kinda cute tho
Pretty sure that’s a Waterbear. This is a Demodex.
Tardigrades don’t have visible eyes like that in the left picture. That’s some ai-generated slop image of a demodex mite.
So ugly it’s wrapping back around to cute, Imo.
Literally it’s entire world
We are gods.
Very different to Pubus Crabus (my made up name for crabs)
Me when I realize I am an entire ecosystem
I love demodex
I love venon
So parasites? They couldn’t be symbiotes and give us some superpower, like the wisdom of an ancient species who mastered FTL space travel. Oh, no. We just get parasites that feed on our face. Great. That’s just great.
Your face mites don’t reveal the secrets of the universe to you?
What if they are symbiotic, but we accidentally evolved past them and can no longer hear their wisdom? How embarrassing!
Idk about you, but I’ve felt weirdly out of step with my colony of face creatures, for like. A while now.
At least they love me and need me and appreciate what I have to offer.
