How tear-ible! Over 20 million Americans have dry eye disease, which means that their eyes don’t produce enough tears or their tears evaporate too quickly. Dry air, wind, certain autoimmune diseases, ...

The mites that live in your eyebrows and can lead to unpleasant infections Eyelash mites, also known as Demodex mites, are microscopic parasites that live in hair follicles and oil glands ...

Demodex face mites eat skin oils (sebum) and live inside your hair follicles and sebaceous glands.u2028They are nocturnal parasites — coming out only at night before slipping back into your ...

To determine whether demodex mites are the cause of skin irritations, dermatologists can tape or lightly scrape the top layer of skin and place the sample under a microscope, Ricardo-Gonzalez said.

If you’re creeped out, Perotti said, “don’t be.” Demodex mites are more often friends than foes. In exchange for cleaning the gunk out of our pores, we offer these miniature vacuums our melatonin, a ...

Think eyelid irritation is just dryness or fatigue? Think again. Microscopic Demodex mites — yes, actual eight-legged parasites — could be crawling around your lashes right now. Remember the ...

Find out more about Demodex mites and the role they play in the development of eye and skin infections.

Demodex mites spend their entire lives parasitizing the inside of pores, and it was thought that as their numbers increased, they would cause inflammation in the host's skin.

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily ...

A skincare expert has raised the alarm about some common errors that attract face mites, which can cause irritation and skin roughness.