is my doctor going ott?????????/

[bigrichinit]

my doctor said that when you goto bed at night the dust mights eat the dead skin off your boddy and this can cause intense itching at night
has he gone mad? or is he right has anyone else heard of this

[guitarman]

    Hi
    My answer  is i itch during the day does this mean i not alone, is my question , i think that you just itch more at night because during the day you may just be concentrating more on work or kids or stuff , i think the doc is well nuts ,
          Andrew

[ellagy]

i think he mite just be bigrichinit

[dobbin]

An interesting thought.  Why not try spraying your bed with a dust
mite killer?  Or is it that our bodies become more dehydrated in bed?

[SJ]

No, he is actually right on the dust mite thing.

Our mattresses and our pillows are FULL (I mean millions and millions) of tiny mites that do indeed live off dead skin. Remember, even non-P people shed squillions of microscopic skin cells every day...these mites just live off them.

If you saw a magnified piccy of a pillow/matress/carpet you would be truly shocked...there is a whole eco-system going on!

Now, if you are the kinda person who is allergic to these mites, life is terrible for you. You will scratch and wheeze and have adverse effects. That is why you can buy special mattresses etc and buy special treatments for them. Some people's lives are miserable because of this.

But, IMO, the doc may well be barking up the wrong tree if he is putting intensely itchy P down to dustmites! P can itch like mad, particularly if you are flaring, using certain topicals or can't control your temperature in bed...

SJ

[prentice]

i think the ithc from dustmites come more from allergic reaction to there poo rather than they munching away.

[Han]

mmm a lovely thought.  I think it must be down to allergies as I've been living in halls of residence last year and those mattresses are some kind of helath hazard and my P didn't itch more.

[RosieP]

i think if we all saw our beds under microscopes, we would never get in em again!!! lol

I've heard about bed mites too...there was a programme on tv last week about them wasnt there? Must admit....not a nice thought, having dustmites poo over you in yr sleep! lol

[tab]

I think that mite be too big a theory to swallow ...  

[lisalu]

Think I'm gonna get a new mattress!  I'm itching at the thought!