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Needham, MA (PRWEB) May 19, 2005 -- If it weren't so tragic, it could be the
story line in a Stephen King novel. Each day the National Pediculosis
Association (NPA) is contacted by individuals describing the torment and
horror of oozing skin lesions, sensations of bugs biting and crawling under
their skin and doctors who diagnose it as nothing more than a delusion.
In a 1994 Ladies Home Journal article about children who suffered seizures
after being exposed to Lindane, a treatment for lice and scabies, the NPA
provided a toll free number to launch the first national reporting registry
for lice and scabies outbreaks, product failure, and adverse reactions to
treatments. Adverse reaction reports to the NPA registry about Lindane led
to the FDA giving Lindane a black box and its strongest warning. The NPA
registry available at www.headlice.org
also provided the earliest reports of
head lice having developed resistance to the most widely used pediculicides.
However, almost as soon as the NPA's registry was launched, reports of a
bizarre health problem began to surface. Individuals reported biting and
crawling sensations -- symptoms for which they could find no explanation and
assumed were related to lice and scabies. But such symptoms were
inconsistent with lice or scabies, signaling a very different problem.
The compelling nature of the reports prompted the NPA to contact the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC)in 1995 and on numerous occasions thereafter.
Deborah Z. Altschuler, NPA's president says the CDC as an agency has not
shared the NPA's concern.
Unable to find any studies where such a population had their skin assessed
in a single site clinical setting, the NPA in 2000 conducted its own
clinical research in conjunction with the Oklahoma State Department of
Health. The research identified Collembola (also known as springtail) in 18
of the 20 participants. According to Stephen Hopkin, author of The Biology
of Springtails, Collembola are among the most widespread and abundant
terrestrial arthropods. Collembola can be large enough to be seen on the
backside of a leaf, but also minute enough to require the use of a
microscope. The majority of them feed on fungal hyphae or decaying plant
material, but they can also feast off of each other. Known mainly as
soil-dwellers, they can swarm and aggregate in the millions. Referred to as
decomposers, their primary function is to break down organic matter.
The report on the NPA research was published in the Journal of the New York
Entomological Society in the spring of 2004.
(http://www.headlice.org/news/2004/pr071204.htm
)
The report spoke to the challenges of the trailblazing research and
demonstrated how easy it had been for these minute arthropods to remain
overlooked by the medical community for over a century and also by the
entomologists who had not utilized the NPA's approach. Entomologists have
thought it impossible for Collembola to colonize humans, although they've
acknowledged them as first of the decomposers to appear on human corpses.
The research provides evidence of tremendous numbers of these organisms
concealed, if not disguised, in their own aggregations. Yet the CDC
maintains the position that Collembola cannot be human parasites and
therefore they are of no medical importance. While the presence of
Collembola in human skin continues to be met with skepticism by some
collembologists; the relationship of Collembola to humans is an area of
research the NPA maintains has not been adequately explored. Where's Dr.
House when you need him?
It was in the late 1800's that people with the sensation of bugs in their
skin were first classified as having a delusional illness, a diagnosis still
accepted although now challenged by the NPA's research. Many physicians have
never heard of Collembola ・let alone expect to find them in humans.
Dermatologists and entomologists appear comfortable diagnosing Delusional
Parasitosis (DOP)on the basis of the reported biting and crawling and
without consultation with a psychiatric specialist. Some physicians will
attempt therapeutic trials with pediculicides, scabicides, fungicides and
mega doses of antibiotics, using treatment failure as a basis for a delusory
diagnosis.
Individuals can often pinpoint a time and place when they first noticed the
feeling of being bitten. A young mother in New York said the first time she
felt the skin problem was in the middle of the night while sleeping in a
hotel. Others first noticed symptoms after taking in a stray animal. Many
have had water or sewage problems in their homes. A number of nurses
reporting these symptoms remember caring for a patient who had a shaven head
or was covered with skin sores. Reports also come in from individuals who
have moved into new homes built on land previously used for agriculture or
cattle grazing. Others, and most worrisome, report symptoms after being
exposed to someone with this condition.
A nurse from the state of Washington says that both she and her ten year old
suffer with this condition and came down with it at the same time. "I'm
outraged that my human rights have not been taken into consideration because
my complaint of having parasites did not fit into the medical community's
way of thinking. This in turn caused my family to abandon me as 'crazy' I
have not been allowed to see my five beautiful grandchildren for 2 1/2 years
now."
The NPA reports advances in its image research technique since the original
digital imaging work was done in 2000. However, interpretation of slides and
digital images still requires skill and experience. Without it people are
left misdiagnosed, misguided and with secondary complications from the
arsenal of chemicals and pesticides they feel forced to use in desperation.
To date, the NPA reports that Collembola in human skin appear impervious to
treatment.
Whether a crisis of delusional illness or Collembola, the longer it takes
for the medical community and the Centers for Disease Control to take this
seriously, the more widespread and well established it appears to become.
The National Pediculosis Association is a 501 (c)3 nonprofit organization
serving the public since 1983. It's website is www.headlice.org
.
実はコレ、カナダの友人が「日本語に直して、日本の医療系BBSに書き込みたい」と言ってるモノでして(笑)。
ワタシ個人も訳してはいるんですが、もっといいのがあればそっち教えようかなーと(;^^)ﾍ..