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Invisible creatures have sex on your face while you sleep - voila! health

2023-05-20T21:28:47.463Z

Highlights: A disturbing video from the YouTube channel "Journey to the Microcosm" shows the small mites called Demodex, which live on the faces of most humans. During the day they eat our skin and fat cells and at night they have sex with each other. Most of us have these mites on our faces, according to the researchers. Because they live in our pores they are very difficult to get rid of. People may have a large amount of them on their faces, creating a shine that some doctors call "demodectic frost"


A disturbing video reveals that we have small mites called Demodex on our faces. During the day they eat our skin and fat cells and at night they have sex with each other. At least someone here is enjoying themselves


Demodex lives on human faces (Journey to the Microcosmos/YouTube)

Thank us for this information later: invisible creatures have sex on your face while you sleep and feed on skin and fat cells when you're awake. How much fun are you now discovering this?

A disturbing video from the YouTube channel "Journey to the Microcosm" shows the small mites called Demodex, which live on the faces of most humans - probably since childhood. The video shows footage taken by the author of The Hidden Beauty of the Microscopic World, James Weiss, after finding a black spot on his head. This black spot turned out to be Demodex mites, which are less than one millimeter long and have eight small legs.

There are two types of Demodex mites: Demodex polycolorum, which inhabit our hair follicles and eat skin cells, and Demodex brevis, which live on our face and near the sebaceous glands and eat the oil secreted from human skin. During the day, they roam in our pores and at night, looking for other mites on our faces to mate with.

There are tiny mites that live on your face called Demodex (Photo: Screenshot, Journey to the Microcosmos/YouTube)

At night, they mate on your face (Photo: Screenshot, Journey to the Microcosmos/YouTube)

The disturbing part doesn't end there. "When they're done mating, they return to your pores to lay their eggs there," explained host Hank Green. Green added that the adult Demodex will lay about 20 to 24 eggs in your hair follicles — and within about three to four days the eggs will hatch. "Their lifespan will end a few weeks later, at which point the dead mites will break down in your follicles or sebaceous glands — turning the tiny pockets of your skin into small mite cemeteries," Green said.

Although all of this sounds very disturbing and it didn't really help that you washed your face now, mites are harmless and are found on almost all of us. Yes, you too currently have mating mites. "Almost all of us have them," Green explained in the video, "If you watch this video, you probably have Demodex on your face — and if you don't have them now, eventually you will."

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The mites were first discovered in 1841 by two scientists who couldn't quite figure out what they were, according to Discover magazine. They were first studied in 1842 by a German scientist named Gustav Simon.

Demodex are classified as spiders, which are closely related to insects like spiders and ticks, according to the Cleveland Clinic. These mites are usually spread through "physical contact," Green said, but he also cited a 2015 study that found these mites were passed down from one family member to another over generations. "They're not dangerous in a broad sense because we all have them and most of us seem to live with them in good faith," Michelle Traoutin, an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, told NPR in 2019. "We share them mostly within family units and settlement seems to begin shortly after birth, probably by passing from the mother, traditionally in human history," she added.

Most of us have these mites on our faces, according to the researchers (Photo: Screenshot, Journey to the Microcosmos/YouTube)

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The creatures feed on the oil on our skin (Photo: Screenshot, Journey to the Microcosmos/YouTube)

Because they live in our pores, they are very difficult to get rid of, and very rarely people may have a large amount of them on their faces, creating a white shine that some doctors call "demodectic frost."

In the future, this Demodex mite may have symbiosis with us, according to Green and a 2022 study published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. This means that mites and humans may depend on each other at some point – but today that hasn't happened yet.

According to Trautvin, Demodex and humans have long been closely related. "We have a very ancient and intimate relationship with them — and it seems obvious that we've had these kinds of face mites with us throughout human history," she said, "so they're as old as our species, as old as Homo sapiens."

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