Shereene Idriss explains demodex mites, tiny organisms that live in your sebaceous glands and hair follicles. They can trigger blepharitis, rosacea flares, eyelid irritation, and itching, especially when you wear makeup.
Say hello to your little friend. The demodex mite. Quite literally a parasite that will kill your appetite when you see what it looks like. It's not cute, but lucky for us, it's invisible to the naked eye. It is just not invisible underneath a microscope. Science is real, nerds, and this is what it looks like. It looks like a medieval torture device. And for most of us, you will not feel it, you will not see it, you will not hear it. But for a lucky sensitive few, you'll get blepharitis, which kind of looks like this along your eyelashes. This is an eyelid, by the way, or it might make your rosacea flare up. You can get itchy when your makeup is on, you name it, and it is just a pain in the ass. And worse, it lives rent free on our skin and it lays its little eggs within our sebaceous glands on our hair follicles. And I hope this video lives rent free in your head for the rest of time. Let me know if you guys have any questions below about demodex mites, how to treat them, how to address them, or if you just don't ever want to hear about this again.
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