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Stephanie Mize #844813
Asked August 08, 2023, 6:29 PM EDT
Please help me! I'm experiencing the same thing as the other lady's testimony regarding the black dots all over her floor and how they're coming out of my pores and skin as well! I can't live a normal life! They're embedded very deeply in my skin, they itch and my complexion is ruined due to the scarring. The black dots are all over my apartment. I can mop my floor and five minutes after mopping they're right back! Can someone tell me what this is! It is for certain some kind of parasite. Please help me. My quality of life is terrible! Is this bed bugs? I do not see any bed bugs at all on my mattress. I can be walking around the house and all of a sudden I get bit! They're in all of my clothes. There is something feeding on my skin. Could it be some kind of mite? My son is also desperate for answers and a solution as well. We're both extremely infested with this. Can you please help us? Thank you.
Hamblen County Tennessee
Expert Response
I cannot diagnose anything on your person or that comes from your person. For that you need to seek help from a physician. I can look at samples from the environment. I cannot look at clothing, vacuum bag debris, or samples collected with lint rollers or tape. The best way to collect samples is to place out sticky traps in various locations around your home, leave them in place for 5-10 days, then bring them in so I can identify whatever was captured on the sticky traps. If you place sticky traps in multiple areas, it is a good idea to label them with the specific locations so that if an arthropod is identified, we can tell from the labeled trap where it came from. You can find more on sticky traps here: https://citybugs.tamu.edu/factsheets/ipm/what-is-a-sticky-trap/
