A scientist scraped a black dot on his forehead and put it under a microscope. He saw dozens of tiny face mites, aka Demodex mites, crawling around on the plate. Demodex are harmless and like to live ...

While you're dozing off to sleep this evening, just know that tiny eight-legged mites less than a millimetre long are having sex on your face. Described as looking like 'tardigrades with big butts', ...

Mammalian skin, especially the face of many humans, is infested with mites called ' Demex mites.' Dr. Alejandra Perotti, who studies Demodex mites at the University of Reading in the UK, explains the ...

Your face is teeming with mites. These microscopic critters, called Demodex, live on our hair and eat the oils in our pores. Unlike most mites, the ones on your face have stumpy legs and long tails, ...

They're microscopic parasites that naturally live on your skin, and they're usually harmless. They're mainly in your hair follicles and the oil glands on your face, neck, or chest. But sometimes they ...

The Demodex folliculorum mite is a type of parasite that lives on humans. Most of the time, these mites are harmless and will go unnoticed. However, larger numbers of D. folliculorum mites can cause ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cases of anterior blepharitis that do not resolve with antibiotics may actually be caused by Demodex mites, ...

The Demodex mite is a ubiquitous microscopic ectoparasite that colonises the pilosebaceous units on human skin, notably the eyelids, where it may contribute to conditions such as blepharitis and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A variety of skin diseases can be caused by an imbalance in the immune mechanism, triggered by a high Demodex ...