Waking up with itchy eyelids might seem like a typical allergy symptom but it could also be a sign of eye mites.

Demodex mites are tiny eight-legged parasites that mostly live in hair follicles and oil glands on your face, neck, or chest. As alarming as this may sound, they’re generally harmless.

The whole thing is a skit. There’s no real patient on the other end of the autofractor. But the optometrist is using the skit as an educational opportunity for viewers. The optometrist warns in the ...

Eyelash mites are tiny cigar-shaped bugs found in bunches at the base of your eyelashes. They’re normal and usually harmless, unless you have too many of them. Also known as demodex, each mite ...

2003). Similarly, an increased density of the mite Demodex folliculorum has been found in association with POD. In one study, Demodex was identified on 17 of 29 patients with POD (Rufli ...

Lately, optometrists have noticed a rise in the number of patients dealing with infestations of tiny mites, known as Demodex, ...

QUESTION: Most of us have Demodex mites living in or near our eyelash follicles. How did we come to acquire them? Demodex mites are tiny eight-legged parasites that mostly live in the hair ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum we secrete is its meal of choice. It's hard to know for sure ...