• CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    18 days ago

    Fun fact, there is almost a hundred percent chance that Demodex mites live on the skin of your head and face at this very moment.

    The burrow into our follicles and live on the oils we excrete. They come out at night to mate. On our faces.

    They are microscopic and mostly harmless though.

    • GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyzEnglish
      6·
      18 days ago

      I’ve been dealing with dry eye and they’ve gone a little crazy on my eyes. My eye doctor actually had to give me eye drops to clear them up a bit

      The little crusties you get when you sleep. Got so bad that I couldn’t open my eyes in the morning

      Since taking eye drops to clear out the demodex and doing a bunch of eye hygiene, I now have almost no crusties in the morning