Dermatologist Shereene Idriss explains how Demodex mites, normally harmless, can overgrow and cause red, inflamed, itchy skin and rosacea. Antibiotics often don't help. She shares a practical fix to calm the inflammation.
99 problems with our skin doesn't have to be one. Skin hacks. I refuse to gatekeep as a board certified dermatologist. You're red, inflamed and itchy. You have really bad rosacea. You try to cover up with foundation and you just can't. Worse, you've been prescribed every single antibiotic under the sun with zero improvement. Instead, this is you and you can't stop scratching your face, it's so itchy. My friend might be infested with mites. These little guys right here. But before you freak out and call pest control for your face, just know that many of us have these little mites living living on our surface of our skin. It's part of our natural microbiome. But every now and again these guys get angry and cause a revolution and they overtake our bacteria, causing our inflammatory process to go wild and our skin and our faces to blow up in the process. This. This is going to save your face.
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