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Itching on skin

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I have made slides with taking a clear tape and pressing to my skin (groin area) where I feel the crawling/moving, pin prick sensation and then placing the tape on slide.

Magnification was done at 10x. Mostly at night is when I am itching. as soon as I turn off the lights.

 

The itching is also on my scalp, face, eyebrows, legs, (the warmer areas of my body such as groin is worst itching).

 

 

 

 

Looks an awful lot like some kind of worm to me.

 

I posted more slides on this thread. Hope you can help. Thanks.

 

 

Some background information, including magnification used would be helpful.

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OPHIOLITE,

 

I posted more slides. Are these any better? Please take a look an advise if you can. Thanks so much.

 

Some background information, including magnification used would be helpful.

We need some kind of point of reference (scale), if these are only taken at 10x magnification those are probably hairs, dust and dead skin flakes

 

You could see anything as big as the lines with the naked eye at 10x magnification.

Edited by Psycho

There really is nothing obvious. In parasitology, microscopic diagnosis is an affirmative process where "looks like" means negative. Hairs, clothing fibers, whatever can be attributed to these slides.

  • 2 weeks later...

I dunno, man, pretty sure that's a crawly warbler low center of that second slide, you better follow microdude to the doc...

 

Oops, sorry, micro, meant Scienceshark, I don't wanna go spreading rumors around thIS department.

 

This was first posted a lOng time ago, I do hope you've been to a doctor.

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