Morgellons, the mysterious skin disease

Morgellons disease is a mysterious skin disorder characterized by sores and crawling sensations under the skin of animals. Although Morgellons disease is not widely recognized as a medical diagnosis, experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are investigating reports of this condition.

This mysterious disease, which displays the symptoms of science fiction. Patients complaining of skin and fibrous creepy weird protruding from an open wound. Patients usually have a belief that there is something under the skin, which is an agent that can infect such as parasitic worms.

This is what makes someone scratching continues for trying to remove it. Patients will be told that he must be scratching continuously to remove these parasites from the skin.

morgellonPatients often describe something that is living under his skin as a small fiber. When viewed with a microscope is believed to be white, blue, red or black. There was also believe grains such as sand, black or white in the skin.

But it found no evidence of any infectious agent, then the symptoms are consistent arise due to the possibility of mental state. For that patients could not be treated as a parasitic disease. But it is possible to consider a diagnosis of delusional parasitosis (a condition in which patients mistakenly believed that he had been infected with parasites).

Cause
The CDC reports that there is no known cause of Morgellons disease.

Symptom

  • Skin rash or sores that can cause itching
  • There are animals crawling sensation under the skin, often compared to insects moving, stinging or biting
  • Fibers, threads or black and stringy material on the skin.
  • Severe Fatigue
  • Inability to concentrate and short-term memory loss
  • Changes in behavior
  • Joint pain
  • Changes in vision

Treatment
Also there is no successful treatment to cure this disease. Is Morgellons disease is contagious or not remains a mystery.

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