Look at these pore souls. Dr. Scott Walter — a board-certified dermatologist in the Denver area — is raising awareness about ...

This common bedroom habit could increase the risk of your lashes becoming infested with demodex: microscopic mites that mate ...

Millions of people experience some discomforting itchiness in their eyelashes at some point in their lives, especially when ...

An eye doctor has opened up on finding parasitic eye infections in his patients that he says are commonly caused by one ...

They're called Demodex mites and they live on all mammals. If you haven't heard of them, you're not alone. These mites are so small that most people have no idea they exist. At about 0.15 to 0.4 ...

Dr. Scott Walter — a board-certified dermatologist in the Denver area — is raising awareness about Demodex, a type of tiny eight-legged mite that resides in hair follicles and oil glands on ...

But what about pore cleaning mites like Demodex folliculorum that spend their entire life living deep in our faces? At night, the 0.3mm long organisms leave the pores to find a new skin follicle ...

Yes, it's true. At least two species of mites live on human skin: Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis. They're usually just called eyelash or face mites, though they have been found in and on ...

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"Treatment with topical ivermectin may improve the symptoms of rosacea through modulation of the skin microbiome beyond decreasing Demodex," the authors concluded. "The results of this study,” they ...

The first-of-its-kind campaign, called “Your Mitey Problem,” provides viewers with an inside look at a Demodex mite ‘party’ taking place on a patient’s eyelids. The uninvited eyelid ...

In the ad, the camera zooms in on a woman’s irritated eye to reveal a “mite party” in full swing on her eyelid, with a group of actors dressed up as Demodex mites hanging out among her ...