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Antiquemooses t1_ja13a9b wrote

What if aliens can see all the bugs on our skin and that's why they don't contact us, because they think we're super gross?

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Whitestride t1_ja15oqh wrote

Kinda already the case with mental illness haha. For some anywho.

Imagine a higher being fixing that problem quickly, oh these neuron pathways are all wrong, and done, then they ask some weird questions since they did something for you.

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Whalesongsblow t1_ja16s8k wrote

This website is cancer and doesn't work in the EU unless you give up your privacy rights.

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PeachSnappleOhYeah t1_ja176l5 wrote

oh, great. thanks. now everytime i feel an itch i'm going to be freaked out.

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Granolapitcher t1_ja1adlb wrote

Tiny janitors. This is why I smash birthday cake and feces into my eyes once a year as a thank you to my eyelash mites.

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BrokenEye3 t1_ja1bhkz wrote

Eh, I wasn't using my dead skin anyway

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on_ t1_ja2sc1o wrote

The person who discover it probably had a hard night that day. Is the world ready to embrace this nightmare?

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ZootOfCastleAnthrax t1_ja329ua wrote

My dermatologist told me there's a theory that rosacea is caused by sensitivity/allergy to these mites. He said Ivermectin (of purported COVID-cure fame) has been successfully used to treat rosacea b/c it's an anti-parasitic.

Which led me to wonder how people decided that an anti-parasitic could treat a viral illness.

And, to wonder whether people with oily faces are drowning the little buggers.

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Marconidas t1_ja4msyr wrote

Some Alzheimer drugs were firstly designed as a anti influenza medication.
Antimalaria drugs are used for autoimmune diseases.

It's not a long shot assuming that a anti-parasitic drug can be used to treat viral illness. Other research has shown Ivermectin to have in vitro efficacy vs some viruses.

Unfortunately, it didn't work so we're left with far more expensive medications or medications that have some sort of anti-HIV activity, with the potential to increase HIV resistance as HIV is a virus that mutates too rapidly.

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logosfabula t1_ja5alf8 wrote

Question: if I wash them all away everyday, how come they pop up again? Where they come from?

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sryii t1_ja8h95k wrote

Why would you want to? I hate to break it to you but there are MANY creatures actively living in you and on you right now. It is just a part of being a large organism on planet Earth.

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sryii t1_ja8ipcl wrote

Ivermectin can inhibit some functions of integrins which are needed to bring viral sequences into the nucleus. We actually knew it could inhibit other viruses from infecting cells prior to COVID-19. So we gave it a shot and while it CAN do it in cell culture it doesn't work in a full organism, at least not in a safe dose.

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