The mites in the skin of our faces • Hacker News Board

Since you can’t know if they’re there or not, you won’t know if anything kills them or not. So, no matter what you do you’ll imagine them having sex on your face all night and engorging themselves on your skin oils then pooping on you. These are things that can’t be unthought. Sorry man.

Re: The mites in the skin of our faces

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Post by alchemist1e9 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 8:04 AM UTC

nullifidian wrote: post #14

sumy23 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ivermectin cream. They are believed to cause rosacea, but are typically harmless if not beneficial.

>Ivermectin cream. For a moment I thought it was a joke. Such are the times.

Definitely not a joke. I use Ivermectin cream to control Rosacea and it works well. The goal isn’t to eliminate them but to prevent overgrowth which is likely what causes most Rosacea.

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Post by octagonal » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 8:08 AM UTC

ilaksh wrote: post #3

How do you kill them?

Why do you want to kill them?

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Post by nmeofthestate » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 8:32 AM UTC

jonplackett wrote: post #11

sgt wrote: post #6

We have penis mites in our faces? Unacceptable

But they _do_ have an anus. Which is apparently good news.

Reminds me that the no-op garbage collector is considered one valid implementation of a garbage collector.

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Post by quickthrower2 » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:06 AM UTC

justsomehnguy wrote: post #12

jonplackett wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But they _do_ have an anus. Which is apparently good news.

Quite surprising sentence to encounter on new comments feed.

The comment made no sense to me, then I read the article and .. aha!

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Post by matheusmoreira » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:08 AM UTC

trhway wrote: post #13

ilaksh wrote: post #3

How do you kill them?

may be instead they can be trained/convinced to perform some useful function, kind of like nanobots.

A mitepunk future, huh...

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Post by smilespray » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #22

ilaksh wrote: post #3

How do you kill them?

They're probably mostly harmless or there won't be 8 billion humans on the planet.

This is the kind of perspective that actually works for me. Thanks!

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Post by matheusmoreira » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:19 AM UTC

mfgs wrote: post #2

> Their reproductive organs have moved anteriorly, and males have a penis that protrudes upwards from the front of their body meaning they have to position themselves underneath the female when mating, and copulate as they both cling onto the human hair. Does this mean they’ll die off relatively quickly if all body hair is cut off? Or does this happen beneath the skin?

The hair follicle is inside the skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_follicle

There are hair removal methods that permanently destroy the follicle. It's unknown whether Demodex can cope with that. Wouldn't that be an interesting study...