Please, please someone offer an asnwer. These are not mites, thrips, collembolla, morgellons. They cannot be eradicated from cloth. Have tried over one hundred solutions. Have seen some people on the web say it is coming from overseas in cloth and clothing.

Hi,

I was wondering what else you know about this parasite?

I have been finding type 1 and 2 of this creature and experiencing all symptoms. I caught one on my skin. It was the oblong one it looks like a rolled up wood shaving almost, but this one had a piece of red attached I had just felt a bite son I guessed it was my blood. That fell off by the time I got it to the magnifying loop. It started to change. looks like a crystal now and is slowly growing...

I found you post on demodex, I have had the symptoms from that as well, and have been using suggested treatments from internet ( borax, tea tree oil, and buckthorn) but I had put the white things out of my mind because the treatments seem to be helping the demodex symptoms. I kept thinking the other symptoms , did not add up still with the demodex.

The biting and sting started with the purchase of new clothes from Old Navy in Oct. If you meant landing that I feel as well.

Thanks for your info.

I also have the same thing. I can't seem to get rid of it. I have been to 3 doctors including 2 dermatologists. I wash all of my clothes in scalding hot water twice but it doesn't help. I have thrown so many things away. I am getting ready to throw away the mattress as well. Help! Does anybody know what this is? How the hell do I get rid of it? I thought it was lice?

I found out 2 things and am getting better. It is not a parasite. It seems to be a staph infection in the pores of the skin. I got rid of most of the symptoms once I started understanding staph. I use a UV light to sanitize computer keyboard stopped ( "biting" ) at computer. Used to sanitize lots of other items I touch a lot to stop reinfection. Has to make my 3rd dermatologist swab my nose for staph after her insisting symptoms do not match. Came back high-med growth even though my nose was coated inside with bacitracin. I read an article about a study with people treating inside of nose for staph for a year and recurrent skin infections cleared up. I have taken 2 rounds of antibiotics and it helped but then stopped working. What works... honey makuma ( sp )topically from new zeland, red tea and black cumin seed tea ( immunity ), drink 1-2 T apple cider vinegar mixed with water after meal, ACV topically ( where you have staph may get tiny scabs from this but only where you have staph and they go away in a few days no scar). I use it after a shower in the morning, at night good bacteria strains mixed with milk. Sleep with this. I have tried lots of other natural remendies but best progress from this. Do not use Tea Tree oil. Bacteria becomes immune then grows in it.

I am having the same problem. Not sure where this came from but I did buy cotton underwear and a new sheet at Walmart prior to the infestation starting. Really don't know what to do. I'm at the end of my rope here. Tried so many things.

The only thing that really seemed to kill the eggs is boiling or microwaving - make sure you wet the item thoroughly before putting in the microwave. I zapped the items 2 times for 30 seconds on high. Try this with junky stuff first. I put holes in some items.

Boiling is only good for things like underwear, sheets, towels and jersey-type items. Most clothes I boiled got so wrinkled and ironing doesn't get out the wrinkles.

I recently soaked my clothes in a washing machine with a gallon of ammonia. This did kill the suckers, but not the eggs... within an hour they were hatching in my slacks...

I went to 2 entomologists. One refused to see me and the other, who was very nice and tried to be helpful, told me what I brought him was pieces of skin...

I called the CDC, but got blown off...

I am still searching. If anyone has any advice, please post it ASAP! This is a nightmare of monumental proportions and is destroying my life!

I am experiencing the same, but I have small bites on the back of my scalp, shoulders, chest and arms. I have been going nuts cleaning, disinfecting. I do feel the lighting sensation thats unnerving and today finall saw a tiny white (looked like the tiniest spider you'd ever seen or mite?) It flys and jumps. Tiny. Everything in my house is new, nothing in my bed. I do have 2 small dogs that are clean and have been treated with lea/tick solution. I am itchy and feels like I am nuts, sounds like it too I suppose. BUT normally rational person, just trying to figure out whats going on in my home. I live in CO and it's hot out, but we've had a lot of rain this year. I have an unusual amount of earwigs this year as well. Once winter hits will these things die? What can I put on my skin, I have tried cortisone cream, young living oils, hydrogen peroxide and lotion. I will be very interested as to what the solution is to get rid of the problem.

I usually shower with a Neem Oil & Lavendar soap - then I leave it on for 10 minutes. Then put tea tree oil on straight. When that dries I use mentholated powder.

I've used another product which is a natural orange pesticide I purchased at the health food store or you can find online. I spray it on my sheets, just in case anything is alive when I go to bed. It's safe for people and pets. When I called the co. I was told that it would kill head lice if used on the scalp when the scalp is dry. Just wish I had head lice! That would be a walk in the park in comparison to this...

I've bought enzymes and used them in the wash. They kill the bugs - or whatever it is - but not their eggs. I generally have to spray the enzymes on my clothes throughout the day, as the eggs hatch and start biting.

I've also used a gallon of ammonia in the wash - and soaked it for an hour - but the while it kills the bugs -- it does not kill the eggs.

I don't know if cold will make a difference.

Wish I had an answer for all of us...

hi there i too have had the same thing for about seven month nothing will kill these things i live in australia but have a bussiness that imports clothes the only thing i have found that brings some peace is pest bonbs it dose not stop them but dose slow them down as i find they get really nasty after i have cleaned the house i have been on about 7 lots of antibotics along with a number of other medication nothing works i have scares on about 30 percent of my body from these things but my main concern is my 10 yr old son so far he has been left alone by them but 2 weeks ago i seen him scratching and sure enough there they were please if anyone has anything please let me know as children can be quite nasty and i dont want to see my son suffer like i have

Hello, I am dealing with the same and more not only is it attacking me but it is also destroying my furniture, clothes, wood floors and my carpet. Is it possible that this insect/parasite?? able to co-exist with another house insect. If so, PLEASE can someone tell me and everyone who is dealing with this nightmare how to be rid of it once and for all.....

So glad to find this posting. I have been dealing with this for between 3 and 4 months. I also have little black things that look like poppy seeds I find on bathroom floor, carpet, towels, kitchen floor, well... everywhere. They all bite. I am so sick and tired of being bit and itching all of the time. I can't have food at home because they get into it too. As crazy as this may seem I had to have a transfusion last month because I was so anemic, and I can't help but feel it was caused by ingesting these things. If we bring food home from a drive through even though you cannot see them you know they are in the food by the way it (the food) appears...(it's movement)... when you move it. I know this sounds crazy but I am not delusional. I am insightful enough, I know when I am allowing myself to get carried away with something and with this I am not. I believe I got the things, in my clothes I purchased this summer. I have seen the same things at a high end department store a few weeks ago trying some clothes on. I even saw the little black specks. I tried to push on one of the black specks with a metal clothing clip I found on the bench in the dressing room and it kept jumping away. I went to a clothing store today to Purchase some clothes and found that they had them too. If purchasing clothing is how we have gotten them in our homes, how long will it be before everyone has them? Has anyone else noticed that their bath towels have the little black specks in them. If I look real close it appears to have them all over. I wrap my hair in a towel after my shower while I brush my teeth and wash my face. Then my head starts to itch while I am doing this I believe because the black specks are biting me. I see the black specks jump in the carpet. When I try to sweep them up with the sweeper or pick them out of the carpet they cannot be picked up, because they attach themselves to the carpet fibers so fiercely. My teenager is not bothered by them. I see them on his clothes in the laundry but they don't bite him. I have been to the county extension office, an exterminator and a entomologist. They don't see any bugs or mites. I think they are something new or just not your typical pest so they don't know what they are looking at, therefore they don't think they see anything. The entomologist was very insulting. She was rude and even though I did not come off acting paranoid, crazy, or obnoxious she let me know she thought it was delusional. I will not let these peoples opinions affect me other than the fact that it perturbs me. God and I know they are real and that is what matters. I am looking forward to getting this whole ordeal over with. If I get concrete answers for what it is I will let these "professionals" know they were real that they were wrong, and they should not be so quick to dismiss someone in the future and make such rash judgments.
I have tried boming the house, sprays, borax and epson salt on the carpet (read this helps somewhere on the internet). None of these things have helped. I have thought I was dealing with bird mites until recently. I am going to try another bomb or fumigation this weekend.