Today we will respond to a reader who has been dealing with some sort of infestation for months. While she knows something strange (and possibly worm-related) is going on, she hasn’t been able to find any bugs or worms. She does find “tiny black things” that are so small they are impossible to identify. She has been cleaning, doing laundry, and vacuuming nonstop trying to get rid of these things, and even wears gloves because they get under her nails. She wrote, “at first we noticed white worm-like things all over. We don’t see them anymore but now there are eggs attached to the walls, furniture, appliances, etc.” She sent a photograph she took on her phone of a few of the “tiny black things” that she pulled off the roman shades in her bedroom:
We really want to help our reader and offer some amazing advice, but we are a little stumped. When first hearing about the “tiny black things” we thought our reader might be dealing with drain fly larvae. These microscopic black larvae live, breed, and eat in the organic gunk that builds up in drains, and are super common household pests. However, they don’t have the same thread-like appearance as the creatures in the photo. Also, while they can be found in several rooms of the house (kitchen, bathroom, laundry room….really wherever there is a drain), they don’t live on furniture, shades, or walls. So, we have to rule them out as being a possibility.
The fibrous, stringy look of the “tiny black things” does remind us of organisms/fibers related to Morgellons Disease. Morgellons Disease is a relatively uncommon, controversial condition that isn’t fully understood by the medical community. According to Mayo Clinic, one of the symptoms is “having fibers, threads or black stringy material in and on the skin.” Since our reader didn’t report much personal discomfort, just exhaustion with dealing with these pests in her house, we don’t think this has anything to do with Morgellons, but we thought it might be worth mentioning just in case. If she is suffering from any symptoms, we, of course, advise her to see a doctor ASAP.
Sadly, we aren’t sure what our reader is dealing with in her home. Our main advice for readers dealing with infestations is normally just to clean clean clean, but it seems our reader is already doing so. We think the next step might be calling in a professional who can assess the situation in person. We wish our reader the best of luck!
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I’ve been dealing with it and my 4 year old daughter since April of 2023…
Tired of being told I’m crazy
SOMEONE HAS TO KNOW
I have been suffering from this since November 2021 & experiencing some of th same symptoms mentioned in other comments. Daily I am wiping hundreds(maybe even thousands) of these microscopic black & white hair like fibres or fluff from my body & under magnifying app on my phone (x16) various fibres resemble the borrelia bacteria on lyme disease, while others dust fibres or particles or fluff balls that contain hundreds of tiny white/ black (sometimes blue or red) microscopic fibres coiled together.
Now im constantly cleaning as i finding these fibres or fluff balls throughout my home, my,sheets & pillow cases are literally riddled with them every morning, despite changing bedding daily. In terms of symptoms – when these things come to the surface of my skin I feel either a dull or very intense sting & immediately have the urge to scratch as it feels intensely itchy – when this happens u can almost always guarantee that youll find a black or white wormy/ squiggly looking fibre or tiny fluff ball thingy around that very spot. My head is worst affected with clusters of lesions across 70% of my scalp (that just dont seem to heal). Nothing seems to work, doctors & specialists inc my family all think i’m losing the plot & I guess if this continues I eventually will, thats if this thing doesn’t kill me first.
I believe this is widespread but dont understand why many doctors & specialists are ignorant to its existence. In the meantime, I will continue praying & searching for some relief & a cure.
Has anyone come up with anything? Could someone please email me. My husband swears I’m crazy but I know this is so real. I can prove it. My whole house is infested and I’m scared to eat here. Has anyone noticed a putrid smell with them?
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Has anyone figured this out yet?! I got some too. They’re coming out my husband everywhere. They’re everywhere in the house, I don’t know if they’re on me yet. I don’t have glasses so I’m thankful I can’t see what you guys do. WHAT ARE THEY?!
I am also going through this since 8/2021 and have been treated like I am a drug addiction and 2 doctors wanted to have me committed, I had to seek counseling because I have OCD, I would take 2hr showers. I have photos of them on my skin with a lesion they just came out of, and my hair was failing out. I’ve spent $5,000 on specialist, tests and I’m still being told it’s not a parasite there isn’t 1 that can live inside and outside the body. Now my dog who has an autoimmune problem has them.
I have these thin long like apparently worm like something that is under my skin, ears, nose,mouth and my eyes. I’ve had one to come thru my left eye and have lost most of my vision in that eye one came in my ear and busted my ear drum also same side lost most my hearing sometimes in stool can’t see them but feel them on my face mostly at night hands stay tingling and very painful severe rash on both feet been 10/13 can’t get no one to take me seriously I’ve lost about everything and stay in pain visible trails in hands had a soft knot on side of temple come up and went into a seizure had two cases where I had them in my mouth and could breathe out but not in till I passed out once I don’t wanna die and I’m a single dad with two kids at home and 53 years old.
Did you ever find out what this was? I have the same thing going on.
I started having this same issue for the past 3 years. So many doctors and hospitals, I just gave up on that cause I didn’t want to be put in a padded room quite yet. No one seems to know what these ever changing things are. I have been looking for an answer on the internet and search almost daily in hopes of figuring it out but not yet. I do know that this thing is wide spread and not just local it seems to be almost everywhere. I hope that one day the answer will come and maybe I can be rid of this Neverending hell of a nightmare.
We have been to 4 doctors,stool tests come out with no worms. But small white worms comes out of skin.they come out in toilet,and on inside butt cheek.they have left us both with sores on legs and arms.my husband has had them in mouth and gums.we find white things dryed up on side of bed.and some small black things Comes out of our skin .we have taken invomection tablets.and Albendazole,Mebendazole,and pinworms meds reese from Walgreens.The doctors think were crazy.but we know something is inside an out our body’s .we have been trying to find out we have,we have had this at least 8 months.please help us .
I have the same thing. I think the white things are demodex mites but I have no idea what these thread like things are that show up in either black or red colors and even sting and bite. It’s as if I’m plagued with something yet my husband is not. Whatever this is, I hope a doctor will soon take it serious cause if it takes me out of this world, I sure hope there will be a cure for others.