Topic: News
http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/eyelash/creatures.html
Demodex folliculorum, or the demodicid, is a tiny mite, less than 0.4 mm long, that lives in your pores and hair follicles, usually on the nose, forehead, cheek, and chin, and often in the roots of your eyelashes.
(A follicle is the pore from which a hair grows). Demodicids have a wormlike appearance, with legs that are mere stumps. People with oily skin, or those who use cosmetics heavily and don't wash thoroughly, have the heaviest infestations ... but most adults carry a few demodicids. Inflammation and infection often result when large numbers of these mites congregate in a single follicle.
This is worse than centipedes in my vagina!
Posted by conniechai
at 4:32 PM PST
Updated: Thursday, 1 March 2007 4:51 PM PST
