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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:18 PM
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Is there any such thing as an eyelid parasite?
Sometimes I get this weird feeling in my right eyelid.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:33 PM
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1. Whatever you do, don't blink
It excites them, and they'll gnaw their way up your optic nerve, straight into your brain.


True fact.
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:33 PM
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2. that's comforting
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:36 PM
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5. Yeah. Well.
At least I didn't include a pic...
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:34 PM
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3. Here ya go...
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:34 PM
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4. Do you look like this?
Edited on Fri Jan-09-09 10:38 PM by Revolutionary_Acts04







:shrug:
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:36 PM
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6. like a square with a red dot in it?
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:39 PM
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7. I don't even see a red dot in the square.
Maybe I should have my eyes checked.
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RevolutionaryActs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:39 PM
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8. One day I will learn not to hotlink.
In the meantime it has been edited. :D
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:46 PM
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9. Yup.
They're extremely common, but harmless. Most people have them. They're more like what's called a "commensal": a critter that lives in/on your body, but does no damage whatsoever. They live off the oils on your lashes/eyelids and just hang out there.

Do not under any circumstances Google an image of them! They're microscopic, but you really don't want to know what they look like.

Of course some unfortunate folks have been known to get crab lice on their eyelashes (use your imagination). Those aren't normal, and can be really itchy. And there are some nasty tropical parasites, but they're pretty well unheard of here in the US.
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:00 PM
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11. Can they be shooed away
?
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:21 PM
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13. Ask an opthamologist
Edited on Fri Jan-09-09 11:24 PM by FloridaJudy
Though most would be try to discourage you from treating something that harmless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_mite

edited for spelling: "opthamologist" is not something that trips easily off my keyboard!
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MsTryska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 10:57 PM
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10. i dunno, byt my psycho ex-roommate
used to get the Herp on her eye.

I never asked how, altho I have my suspicions.
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FloridaJudy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 11:13 PM
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12. In a perfectly innocuous way, probably.
Most herpes above the neck is good old Herpes Type 1 - the kind that causes fever blisters/cold sores on the lips. The eye's a particularly nasty place to get it, though. Most of us who have it (and that's more than 50% of the population) are luckier than that.
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