I don't really know as there is so much info on this on the web. Sometimes in the delusional nature of things, the creepy crawly feeling is imagined. Sometimes there is a real parasite or fungus that can grow in the skin or emerge from a lesion in the skin. The CDC effectively said the fibers they were able to examine were just on the skin from environmental fabrics. There are other symptoms that are more systemic and have been said to be from Lyme disease, but I believe that connexion has not been proven, from the WebMD site. My neighbor certainly thought it was Lyme and was treated for it, but never cured.
Having been closely involved with the neighbor who had this and with her did a lot of research on her behalf, I was totally baffled by the whole thing and never saw any fibers that she could demonstrate her claims!
It is interesting that the fibers often are on the face, and my neighbor was always poking her face with tweezers but I never saw the fibers she said were there. I sound a a cynic I know, but only as I could not verify her claims.
It could be a mixture of real and imaginary symptoms, and that makes it all so much harder to figure out.
Sorry that I do not have references and quotations but there is so much stuff out there with differing conclusions that I could not do that. |