Testing for Demodex sp.
Material: Scrapings/Eyelashes
Test price: PLN 55.00
Waiting time for results: result after 5 working days
Reservation:
Test price: PLN 55.00
Waiting time for results: result after 5 working days
Reservation:
- Check the opening hours of the collection point and where an appointment is required.
Preparation for the examination
General
- The material for testing may be a skin scraping or eyelashes.
- On the day of the examination, the skin should be clean and not lubricated with anything (ointment, cream).
- On the day before the test, the collection site should be cleansed of any cosmetics (face powder, eyelashes, mascara). It is not permitted to remove cosmetics from the face immediately before the test.
Description
The test aims to detect the parasite (mite) causing the inflammation.
Demodex mites, which cause inflammation and the disease known as demodicosis (Demodex sp.), are a member of the acarid family and, like other species, are common in our environment.
Their favorite habitat is the face: sebaceous pores and hair follicles on the forehead, nose, chin, cheeks, and eyelashes.
Demodex infection is easily transmitted through contaminated clothing, sponges, body brushes, towels, combs, contaminated cosmetics
and cosmetics (lipstick, lip gloss, creams, mascara, eyelash powder, powder sponges, eyelash and eyebrow brushes, eye shadow, blush), and blankets and bedding.
Various studies have detected their presence in nearly 90% of adults.
Despite their widespread occurrence, full-blown symptoms rarely develop.
Its course is often so mild that it is not associated with infection. Itching, a few bumps, red spots, and periodic tickling sensations in the eyebrows and eyelids
are not alarming enough to be considered a disease.
Some people (those with allergies, immunocompromised individuals, or those with individual predispositions) develop full-blown symptoms severe enough
to warrant appropriate treatment.
Characteristic symptoms of advanced demodicosis include profuse loss of eyelashes, eyebrows, nasal vestibule hair, pubic hair, and scalp hair, chronic inflammation of the eyelids and conjunctiva (swelling, itching, redness, burning, tearing, purulent or oily discharge),
cutaneous vasodilation, and patchy redness.
Demodicosis is often confused with eczema, dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, folliculitis, and acne.
Persistent, long-term treatment with traditional methods (steroid ointments, antibiotics, eye drops) of skin lesions, conjunctivitis,
itching, alopecia and the like, which does not bring the expected results, may suggest Demodex infection.
Demodex mites, which cause inflammation and the disease known as demodicosis (Demodex sp.), are a member of the acarid family and, like other species, are common in our environment.
Their favorite habitat is the face: sebaceous pores and hair follicles on the forehead, nose, chin, cheeks, and eyelashes.
Demodex infection is easily transmitted through contaminated clothing, sponges, body brushes, towels, combs, contaminated cosmetics
and cosmetics (lipstick, lip gloss, creams, mascara, eyelash powder, powder sponges, eyelash and eyebrow brushes, eye shadow, blush), and blankets and bedding.
Various studies have detected their presence in nearly 90% of adults.
Despite their widespread occurrence, full-blown symptoms rarely develop.
Its course is often so mild that it is not associated with infection. Itching, a few bumps, red spots, and periodic tickling sensations in the eyebrows and eyelids
are not alarming enough to be considered a disease.
Some people (those with allergies, immunocompromised individuals, or those with individual predispositions) develop full-blown symptoms severe enough
to warrant appropriate treatment.
Characteristic symptoms of advanced demodicosis include profuse loss of eyelashes, eyebrows, nasal vestibule hair, pubic hair, and scalp hair, chronic inflammation of the eyelids and conjunctiva (swelling, itching, redness, burning, tearing, purulent or oily discharge),
cutaneous vasodilation, and patchy redness.
Demodicosis is often confused with eczema, dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, folliculitis, and acne.
Persistent, long-term treatment with traditional methods (steroid ointments, antibiotics, eye drops) of skin lesions, conjunctivitis,
itching, alopecia and the like, which does not bring the expected results, may suggest Demodex infection.
Preparation and development of material (applies only to contractors)
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