The Dermodex war...do not try this at home. Seek medical attention!

Well - this may be one of my most bizarre and personal posts ever! And the tale I wish to tell begins last week, when, during a conversation about how to look 35 when you are actually 57 (and she really did - Botox and fillers, but even so!) she told me all about dermodex wipes..

Other then the discomfort of thinking about spider-worms living in my eyelashes, I suddenly realised that perhaps I too needed to wage war on my dermodex!

After Covid 2, I've not really recovered?

Who knows!

And my poor eyelids have been so sore, and one of them looked really infected, and it looked as if someone had punched me - it was that bad, and the other one wasn't exactly healthy looking! And yes I took a day off to get to the doctors - but I was told that the doctors no longer do 'eyes'! That I needed to make an appointment with a pharmacy - who all had waiting lists two weeks long!

I stayed in bed and listed to hypnotherapy instead - thinking, 'it's come to this'.

Anyway, red-eyed on and on and sometimes a bit better, sometimes not. Then the conversation about deromodex...

But it occurred to me that, well, if I kill them then the problem gets worse! Because the living dermodex don't cause problems, it is only the decaying horror of the dermodex graveyards that block the pores and cause infection!

What to do?

First thing, baby shampoo! So eyelashes can now be washed properly under the shower. And after a few days I thought that it was making my eyelids more sore and red - oh no! 

Nevertheless I continued...perhaps the getting worse was dermodex death? So not such a bad sign then?

But this morning I made an alarming and exciting discovery!

I thought what happens if I put eucalyptus oil on my eyebrows - eyebrows are another popular site for the worm-spiders. So I did. The fumes made my eyes sting a bit, but nothing to worry about, but then I noticed 'pus' forming at the base of my eyelashes....actually I couldn't believe what I was seeing, so I will repeat this each morning until I know for sure - but....but...I think I was seeing demodex trying to get away from the fumes...so quick, into the shower, baby shampoo, hot water, wash, repeat and?

And now my eyes feel such a lot better.

OK, so obviously I am not telling you to try this. But it is really interesting because if this method really works as it appears to work, the living demodex are washed out of the eyelashes, and they are now dead elsewhere, not stuck in my eyelids blocking and causing infection! 

Perfect!

I also wish to say that I'm sorry it has come to this. But I'm assuming Covid has left me depleted in some way, and also it appears that dermodex populations can explode and get really out of hand! But, but I've been practically four weeks without eye-liner and feeling like I'm on the Event Horizon - 'where we are going we don't need eyes muwhahahaha'. Something had to be done! And I'm still enjoying - 3 hours later - the effect of the eucalyptus treatment.

It's a tough world, demodex!