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[White Fox]

I used Tea Tree Oil for 3,5 months to kill the mites without any improvement.

[RockstarNailbomb]

I used Tea Tree Oil for 3,5 months to kill the mites without any improvement.

According to some lady on youtube, you can kill them with ordinary cold cream. The idea is pretty much just to suffocate them until they die, and just keep reapplying until the eggs hatch and they die also. Than you will get rid of them for good. The lady said it costs hardly anything and it works. I have not tried it though, i was hoping one of you guys would and let me know how it goes. Im just afraid that it will break me out.

[moralatheist]

I'm not a doctor, but I live and work in Ukraine now. They very much believe in Demodex being a major cause of acne here. My girlfriend had a test and surprise surprise she has Demodex mites, well we all do, so what. Any way the doctor suggested some stuff thats been around in Easter Europe for a very long time (I was very skeptical)..... But to my absolute surprise it actually worked!! I found a web site that sells the same thing *Moderator edit, URL removed - read the board rules. *, hope this helps.

[Pheisty]

Well, I was about 95% positive that I had these mites, so I began the cold cream treatment by removing my makeup right away when I got home from work, and then left the cold cream on for the rest of the evening. I then applied another treatment before bed and slept with it on.

Just like the crazy lady on YouTube said, I broke out in "oogles" of whiteheads for two weeks. It was bad. Probably not as bad as some people, but at 36 years old it's pretty difficult to go out in public with major pubescent-looking zits all over your face. However, I persisted because I could tell that my skin was improving in texture, even with the zits. Also, I noticed that my nose and cheeks went back to the way they looked when I was in my early twenties (smaller). It's like everything shrunk back to normal. I know that sounds crazy, but even my husband noticed this. for the last ten years or so, I don't even want to get my picture taken because my face looked so 'puffy'. Even when I weighed 110 pounds, I just looked "puffy" in the face. Not any more.

After two weeks, I cleared up pretty well, and then about ten days later had another massive breakout on my left side jawline...but more under my jaw and onto my neck. It was like I had chicken skin...it was completely bumpy and itchy. Then I knew...I had demodex.

I used some sufur ointment, tea tree oil, neem oil, olive leaf glycerite (internally), coconut oil (internally and externally), and seabuckthorn oil, alternating most of the treatments so the mites couldn't become immune. I also spray colloidal silver on my face about three times a day and take Borax baths at night (once per week).

I do believe that the Borax baths and the cold cream did the majority of the work on the mites. The cold cream MUST have sodium borate (borax/boric acid) in it to work properly. Ponds has changed their formula and has removed the sodium borate, so keep that in mind. Borax is a natural insecticide. by the way. The sulfur ointment helped to dry up the zits that did come. Keep in mind that when you kill the mites, the zits they create can seep for a number of days, and you'll most likely get a couple really big zits. (I thought of them as 'nests' or 'hives', as disgusting as that is. Yuck.)

Anyway, the mites did try to migrate down my neck, onto my chest, and onto my legs (desperate for survival, I imagine), but they must have not been able to survive off of my face because I would just get a stray pimple here and there to mark where they died.

It's been about one full months, and I am now almost completely zit-free (after suffering for 12 years with cystic acne) and my skin is glowing and smooth. I hardly have to wear any makeup, which is HUGE for me. I no longer have neck pain and my lymph nodes are no longer swollen on the back of my neck. I also dealt with constant swelling of my tonsils. That, too, has gone away. I now sleep better than I've slept in years. My eyebrows and eyelashes have stopped falling out. I really think that these things have a lot to do with other illnesses.

I would also recommend supporting your immune system while you kill the mites, since they usually will take over a person with a compromised immune system. (I used to smoke, which does horrible things to your immunity, so I assume this is how I got them. I quit almost eight months ago.) I take vitamin C, acidophilus, magnesium, drink a lot of water, and eat a lot of raw foods.

Anyway, people can laugh and deny the idea of mites causing acne all they like, I truly believe that a lot of people with acne have them. I would recommend anyone with acne to try the cold cream (MUST have sodium borate in it) for three weeks. If you don't see an improvement in your skin, stop. If you do, just continue and I think you'll be surprised and very happy with the results.

Best of luck to all of you! )

[chunkylard]

LOL. OMG I just watched the video you're talking about. She's so...insane... I'm not sure if she's just really happy or really angry.

Here's the video just in case anyone's curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4CTK6Zw1pI

[dejaclairevoyant]

At some point in my acne war years ago I came across this theory and thought strongly that the mites might be my problem. I ordered those expensive skin creams from china, slathered it on my face every night. It irritated the HELL out of my skin. My acne went from severe to just... disfiguring. My entire face burned and was like an open sore. I wrote the site for help and got replies back about how I should "keep using the cream because the irritation was just the mites dying"... so I fell for that and continued using the cream for awhile. After a couple months the breakouts on my face had probably tripled if not quadrupled in both size and numbers. The "lotions" (otherwise known as chemical poison) were not even letting my skin heal anymore. It was literally an open wound.

Finally, this open wound became infected with staph and I had to go to the hospital and be put on antibiotics for weeks to deal with the infection. That was one of the most painful things I have experienced (I couldn't even laugh or move my face the pain was so bad). That was my breaking point. I stopped believing in the mites and threw away those god awful creams.

And years later I finally discover that my bad diet and messed up gut was causing my acne. Yeah, goes without saying that I felt ripped off. I truly believe this whole theory is just total crap that prays on DESPERATE people who will do ANYTHING to cure their skin. It's truly evil and I hope none of ya'll fall for it.

[Jaerid]

Wow, this is ironic. A company comes forth and says:

"Hey, nobody wants you to know you have MITES because the rest of the world just wants to fuel the pharmaceutical companies and make money from your naivety by selling you products that don't help you. Don't despair however, because we have a special product to help with the real cause of your problem for just $9.99!"

Whhhattt?

Edited by Jaerid, 03 May 2011 - 05:26 PM.

[fakeplasticgirl]

Tried this in my desperate period, ordered some smelly creams off the Chinese site (demodex solutions?)..2.5 months later, it did nothing. Maybe only further irritated my face. Can't believe I ever bothered with this.. sigh.. Acne makes one desperate

[soodeh31]

Hi
I'm a veterinarian and I know that demodex mites can cause skin lesions and hair loss in dogs and cat specially the very young or debilitated ones. I also suffered for more than 10 years from acne and also something like rosea. I had lots of acne and also pimples on my face and lots of scars. I tried accutane about 8 years ago but it had lots of side effects on me and my acne got back after several months. At last about a year ago I notice the articles about demodex and some drugs like demodicin and etc. I live in Iran and I was not able to buy them but I used the permethrin shampoo and creme which is used to treat other mites in human and also demodex in veterinary medicine. I had read that there is a kind of gram negative bacteria inside the body of these mites and that causes the redness in the face and also the acne after the mite is dead. This is the reason that most of the acne treatment remedies first exacerbate the acne and after continuing the treatment improove it gradually. So I was prepared for a flare up after starting the treatment. I read some were that the bacteria is sensitive to metronidazole. so I administered permethrin creme and then shampoo once to my hair and face and entire of my body and I used the metronidazole gel to my face evry 12 hour for 10 days. after 2 weeks I repeated the procedure and also I washed all my dresses, pillow covers, towels, combs and etc every other day. My acne got worse for 10 days but afted that it started to improove. I also used minocycline for a long time and I continued to use it for this 10 days. after about a week my hair loss stopped and in a magic way I found that only a few hairs fall in each shower while I suffered from a severe hair loss too. and after 2 to 3 week my skin redness diminished to just a normal skin and my acne was much less. finally I could even stop taking minocyclin and I had almost no acne in my face. Before this treatment when I stoped minocycline my acne used to back in about 10 days but this time I could last 2 mounths without minocyclin. I found that the mites will return so easily and I have to continue the treatment at least once every 2 weeks but only with permethrin shampoo which I apply it to my face too. and still I change my pillow cover frequently. I had seen my demodex mites under the microscope and also I seen them dead after the treatment. The most interesing thing was that whole of my family had these mites but the more acneic skin they were the more mites they had and amoung them just I had lots of demodex bravis while others had demodex folliculorum. Demodex bravis is the mite which lives deeper in the skin and I think this is the reason of my deep and painfull acne while other members of my family had just small pimples and very rarely develope a smal acne.
I really belive that the main cause of acne and even hair loss is demodex mites. Since then my hairs stopped falling and my nose and scalp does not itch any more.
I hope it is usefull for you too

[soodeh31]

temp123, on 22 November 2008 - 10:00 PM, said:

Demodex are routinely killed in veterinary practice. Even things like tea tree oil kills it.

If you have published papers that show that demodex is a factor in most peoples acne, please point us to them; I am aware of none. Personally I like to stick to things that have been scientifically shown to work because a) they work and that makes me happy b) I don't waste my time c) I don't waste my money.

I'm funny like that.

I'm a veterinarian and I know demodex is one of the mites that its eradication is very difficult. In dogs and cats it needs to inject Ivermectin for multiple times and also for a long time beside the use of lindane or permethrin and all of them just reduce the number of mites and can never eradicate them. For myself I could just reduce the number of my demodex mites and it improoved my skin so much.

[Update13]

There appears to be a correlation between numbers of demodex mites and incidence of acne vulgaris and acne rosacea that is supported by a large number of studies. (Which are mostly Chinese.) There are no studies showing that increasing the numbers of demodex mites causes acne. It's just as valid to draw the conclusion that having acne or acne prone skin (i.e oily skin) leads to the increase in numbers of demodex mites.

Something worth considering for any one looking to buy treatments aimed at controlling numbers of demodex mites; Felt that was worth pointing out even though this thread is originally ancient.