Morgellons Disease | CDC Says Morgellons Disease Sufferers Are Delusional
Morgellon Disease Is Not A Disease
01/26/2012 | 02:41 PM
Is Morgellons Disease a Disease? or Syndrome? or a Delusion? According to the Centers for Disease Control (who have finally weighed in ) - if you suffer from Morgellons Disease it is likely it is in your mind - and not an actual physical condition.
Morgellons disease is an illness that is creepy, literally - crawling, itchy, buring, biting - those are all words used by people apparently suffer from Morgellons disease. People who reportedly suffer from Morgellons Disease display lessions, and report fibers under the skin.
Morgellons Disease Background
Morgellons (also called Morgellons disease or Morgellons syndrome) is a name given in 2002 by stay-at-home-mom Mary Leitao[1] to a proposed condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations (formication); finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores). Most doctors,[2] including dermatologists[3] and psychiatrists,[4] regard Morgellons as a manifestation of known medical conditions, including delusional parasitosis.[5][6][7]
(source: Wikipedia)
Related
Morgellons Study, 2008
The greatest number of reported cases of Morgellons came from California where people began to organize and lobby state and federal authorities. CBS Reports "Many of these people lived in California, prompting one of that state's U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein, to ask for a scientific study. In 2008, federal health officials began to study people who said they were affected by this freakish condition
called Morgellons disease - named from a 1674 medical paper that described similar symptoms. (source: CBS).
Now after conducting, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) says the evidence to date indicates that "Morgellons is likely to be a mental illness and should probably be treated with the same drug and psychiatric care that works for people who suffer delusions, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. "There were some possibilities of what could be causing this, and we've taken a couple of the big ones off the table. That's a really big step forward," said Dr. Mark Eberhard, director of the CDC's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria and a lead investigator in the study (source: SF Gate)
The CDC research focused on an area of 3 million in 13 counties concentrated in Northern California since many reported Morgellons sufferers had health insurace from Kaiser Permanente.
"Culling through Kaiser patient records from July 2006 through June 2008, the team found — and was able to reach — 115 who had what sounded like Morgellons. Most were middle-aged white women. They were not clustered in any one spot. That led to the finding that Morgellons occurred in roughly 4 out of every 100,000 Kaiser enrollees. "So it's rare," Eberhard said. Roughly 100 agreed to at least answer survey questions, and about 40 consented to a battery of physical and psychological tests that stretched over several days. Blood and urine tests and skin biopsies checked for dozens of infectious diseases, including fungus and bacteria that could cause some of the symptoms. The researchers found none that would explain the cases. (source: AJC).
The CDC conclusions ecoho a similar finding from the Mayo Clinic " A study conducted of 108 patients at the Mayo Clinic was published in Archives of Dermatology on May 16, 2011. The study failed to find evidence of skin infestation despite doing skin biopsies and examining specimens provided by the patients. The study, which was conducted between 2001 and 2007, concluded that the feeling of skin infestation was a delusion, delusional parasitosis.[41][42][43]
The reaction to the CDC Morgellon findings have been mixed. Some people on Twitter have taken to denounce the CDC claiming Morgellon disease is caused by chemtrail spraying while others like the writer of the Morgellon Watch blog write " recognize that the people who think they have “Morgellons” are really suffering. But the answer is not in inventing a new disease. I recognize also this report will be a disappointment for them – but hopefully some will take it as an opportunity. It’s not a strange new disease. The fibers are not alive. You might just have some known conditions that can be treated. Talk to your doctor. Keep an open mind. Good luck. "
Morgellons disease is an illness that is creepy, literally - crawling, itchy, buring, biting - those are all words used by people apparently suffer from Morgellons disease. People who reportedly suffer from Morgellons Disease display lessions, and report fibers under the skin.
Morgellons Disease Background
Morgellons (also called Morgellons disease or Morgellons syndrome) is a name given in 2002 by stay-at-home-mom Mary Leitao[1] to a proposed condition characterized by a range of cutaneous (skin) symptoms including crawling, biting, and stinging sensations (formication); finding fibers on or under the skin; and persistent skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores). Most doctors,[2] including dermatologists[3] and psychiatrists,[4] regard Morgellons as a manifestation of known medical conditions, including delusional parasitosis.[5][6][7]
(source: Wikipedia)
Related
Morgellons Study, 2008
The greatest number of reported cases of Morgellons came from California where people began to organize and lobby state and federal authorities. CBS Reports "Many of these people lived in California, prompting one of that state's U.S. senators, Dianne Feinstein, to ask for a scientific study. In 2008, federal health officials began to study people who said they were affected by this freakish condition
called Morgellons disease - named from a 1674 medical paper that described similar symptoms. (source: CBS).
Now after conducting, the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) says the evidence to date indicates that "Morgellons is likely to be a mental illness and should probably be treated with the same drug and psychiatric care that works for people who suffer delusions, researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. "There were some possibilities of what could be causing this, and we've taken a couple of the big ones off the table. That's a really big step forward," said Dr. Mark Eberhard, director of the CDC's Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria and a lead investigator in the study (source: SF Gate)
The CDC research focused on an area of 3 million in 13 counties concentrated in Northern California since many reported Morgellons sufferers had health insurace from Kaiser Permanente.
"Culling through Kaiser patient records from July 2006 through June 2008, the team found — and was able to reach — 115 who had what sounded like Morgellons. Most were middle-aged white women. They were not clustered in any one spot. That led to the finding that Morgellons occurred in roughly 4 out of every 100,000 Kaiser enrollees. "So it's rare," Eberhard said. Roughly 100 agreed to at least answer survey questions, and about 40 consented to a battery of physical and psychological tests that stretched over several days. Blood and urine tests and skin biopsies checked for dozens of infectious diseases, including fungus and bacteria that could cause some of the symptoms. The researchers found none that would explain the cases. (source: AJC).
The CDC conclusions ecoho a similar finding from the Mayo Clinic " A study conducted of 108 patients at the Mayo Clinic was published in Archives of Dermatology on May 16, 2011. The study failed to find evidence of skin infestation despite doing skin biopsies and examining specimens provided by the patients. The study, which was conducted between 2001 and 2007, concluded that the feeling of skin infestation was a delusion, delusional parasitosis.[41][42][43]
The reaction to the CDC Morgellon findings have been mixed. Some people on Twitter have taken to denounce the CDC claiming Morgellon disease is caused by chemtrail spraying while others like the writer of the Morgellon Watch blog write " recognize that the people who think they have “Morgellons” are really suffering. But the answer is not in inventing a new disease. I recognize also this report will be a disappointment for them – but hopefully some will take it as an opportunity. It’s not a strange new disease. The fibers are not alive. You might just have some known conditions that can be treated. Talk to your doctor. Keep an open mind. Good luck. "
