February 9, 2012 | 
Author Scottsdale doctor claims to find cause of skin crawling disease
By Heather Moore - bio | email KPHO
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (CBS5) -
“It will make you crazy because that’s all you can think about,” said Stacy Hillman, who describes 2011 as the year from hell. “I was suicidal,” she said.
Last March, Stacy started feeling pin pricks on her skin and a few weeks later, lesions covered her entire body.
She tells CBS 5 News, ”It felt like there was some type of bug, thousands of bugs, crawling all over my face.”
Stacy and her husband, Jeff, spent thousands of dollars going from doctor to doctor, trying to get help.
Jeff remembers those visits. “They basically would look at her like she was crazy.”
Stacy shared that skin-crawling sensation with thousands of people all over the country.
It’s common name is Morgellon’s syndrome, which the CDC doesn’t recognize as legitimate. Critics say it’s a mental issue.
Stacy fires back, ”Pray you don’t ever have it for a day or a week, and then talk to me and tell me if it’s all in your head.”
The Hillman’s found relief in Dr. Omar Amin in Scottsdale.
He’s a parasitologist, but since so many sought his help believing they were infected by bugs, he wanted answers.
“I’m a hard-core, old-fashioned scientist,” said Amin.
Amin believes the problem actually comes down to dental material, that is not compatible with the body’s immune system.
The exposure to those toxins causes nerve damage, which makes it feel like the skin is crawling.
Amin says, “the nerve cells will misfire. You have no normal nerve impulse anymore, and that misfiring will cause the sensations of movement and pinprick.”
The lymphatic system tries to eliminate those toxins through the skin, which breaks out in sores and invites other biological organisms to nest, like spores which grow long-stemmed fungus.
The concept is new to science and easy to dismiss, but Amin warns thousands are at risk.
“Everybody who has dental work, and that’s just about everybody who lives in this culture of ours, is an open game,” he said.
Amin calls the disorder, NCS, for neurocutaneous syndrome, and sees patients from all over the world.
The Hillmans came to seek treatment from Los Angeles. Stacy is taking homeopathic remedies, and her dentist has started to replace her fillings with more compatible material based on her individual blood tests.
If you would like more information on Amin and his Parisitology Clinic in Scottsdale, visit his website here.
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What are the Treatments for Morgellons Disease?
By: Joseph Lackey of livestrong.com
Patients with symptoms including persistent skin rashes and sores, accompanied with sensations of burning, stinging, biting or the feeling of crawling insects under the skin frequently diagnose themselves with Morgellons disease, usually after doing research on the Internet. However, the majority of doctors regard Morgellons as a manifestation of known medical conditions, most commonly delusional parasitosis, according to an article published in the “American Journal of Dermatopathology” in May 2010.Treatment
Numerous and diverse causal factors have been linked with Morgellons disease, including bacteria and parasites, as well as purely psychological factors, emphasizing the necessity for tailoring treatment programs toward the specific needs of each individual patient following physiological, dermatological and psychological assessments, according to the Morgellons Research Foundation.
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By ERIN ALLDAY of seattlepi.com
Sufferers describe ghastly symptoms; but some doctors skeptical of claims
The Bay Area might be home to a small cluster of a horrifying and as-yet-incurable disease that leaves patients with open sores all over their bodies and strange, unidentifiable objects poking out of their skin.
Or not. It’s possible that this mystery disease is all in their heads.
The disease is called Morgellons, and no one knows what causes it or if it’s even real.
After more than a year of pressure from patients convinced they have Morgellons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will begin investigating the ailment for the first time and determine, once and for all, whether it exists. The CDC started organizing a committee this week for that purpose.
“Not a day passes when I don’t talk to somebody who claims to have this,” said CDC spokesman Dan Rutz. “In the absence of any objective review, people have jumped to conclusions and found each other on the Internet and formed their own belief structure. We really need to debunk this if there isn’t anything to it or identify if there is indeed a new, unrecognized disease that needs attention.”
No one knows how long Morgellons has been around, but about four years ago a South Carolina mom who says her three children have the disease was researching their symptoms and found reference to a 1674 medical study that described a similar condition, called Morgellons.
The disease sounds like a nightmare. In fact, one Web site claims Morgellons was “invented” recently to help promote a summer horror movie. A search on the Internet reveals dozens of people who have posted magnified photos of their symptoms — usually twisted, thread-like protrusions from the skin and sometimes hazy images that look like small bugs.
It doesn’t help convince skeptical doctors that many sufferers complain of hard-to-believe symptoms. One San Francisco woman describes “tiny green shrimp” that come from her face, and she said she saw a fly pop out of her right eye. Even doctors and patients who believe Morgellons exists cringe at such reports.
“There really are physical symptoms that occur in people who are not crazy, although once they have it, it usually makes them pretty crazy,” said San Francisco Lyme disease specialist Dr. Raphael Stricker, who has seen several patients with Morgellons symptoms. Stricker and a handful of other doctors believe Morgellons is somehow related to Lyme disease because so many patients have already been diagnosed with Lyme disease.
Source: seattlepi.com
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Bizarre Diseases: Morgellons
The CDC describes Morgellons Disease: “Persons who suffer from this condition report a range of cutaneous symptoms including crawling, biting and stinging sensations; granules, threads or black speck-like materials on or beneath the skin; and/or skin lesions (e.g., rashes or sores) and some sufferers also report systemic manifestations such as fatigue, mental confusion, short term memory loss, joint pain, and changes in vision.”
Victims complain of skin rashes or sores that can cause intense itching, crawling sensations on and under the skin, often compared to insects moving, stinging or biting, fibers, threads or black stringy material in and on the skin, severe fatigue, inability to concentrate and short-term memory loss, behavioral changes, joint pain and vision changes.
Some health professionals believe that Morgellons disease is a specific condition that needs to be confirmed by future research.
Some health professionals believe that signs and symptoms of Morgellons disease are caused by another condition, often mental illness.
Other health professionals don’t acknowledge Morgellons disease or are reserving judgment until more is known about the condition.
We’re a long way from understanding this disease and hopefully helping patients, but like such conditions as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, it’s likely to take a famous person getting the disease before someone starts to consider it as a legitimate diagnosis, much less figure out its origins.
And, no, Peter Parker might relate, but I don’t think any time soon we’ll be renaming it “Webbing Disease.”
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