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Bugs eating your face and shitting all over you, scientists say.
Millions of people have rosacea, a common condition that gives you a red, rosy and slightly inflamed looking face. Bill Clinton has it. Prince Harry has it. And now, scientists know what causes it. Tiny anus-less mites. Tiny mites, without a butthole, eating your face, and when they die, they explode, staining your skin with their poop. Lovely.
As it turns out, the mites, which spend daytime hours in the glands that produce sweat and sebum, harbor a certain kind of bacteria in their digestive tracts. When the mites die, the bacteria spill out into the glands, according to a new report published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology.
That’s not a problem for most of us, says the study’s lead author Kevin Kavanagh, a researcher at the National University of Ireland. But when people have an especially heavy infestation of the little bugs, the release of bacteria can set off rosacea.
“In normal skin, the density of mites is low,” Kavanagh explains. “In rosacea there is a high density and therefore a large number of bacteria are released. We believe that the high level of bacterial toxins overwhelms the immune response and leads to the inflammation. It is interesting to note that [the mites] do not have an anus and therefore all their waste is stored until they die and then it is released in one go.”
Skin problems only occur when mites die while in the glands during the day. At night they pop out and crawl around the surface of the skin often in search of a mate. Kavanagh notes that the mites can cover a lot of ground – moving as much as 4 inches before heading back to the glands.
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posted 31 August, 2012
by yenski
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LOL
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NO SHIT! (see what i did there? Tell me why am i so funny)
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dzus77 reblogged this from iheartchaos and added:
Bug shit make Bill Clinton’s face red. True story via
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fcukginG HELL
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Hey….you got some shit on your face. No…to the left. More left. Nope…still there.
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This is fucking disgusting. Excuse me while I go wash my face until I start to bleed.
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Shit Happens.
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I have rosacea. I now want to peel my face off. *shudder*
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