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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Fun fact, there is almost a hundred percent chance that Demodex mites live on the skin of your head and face at this very moment.

The burrow into our follicles and live on the oils we excrete. They come out at night to mate. On our faces.

They are microscopic and mostly harmless though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been dealing with dry eye and they've gone a little crazy on my eyes. My eye doctor actually had to give me eye drops to clear them up a bit

The little crusties you get when you sleep. Got so bad that I couldn't open my eyes in the morning

Since taking eye drops to clear out the demodex and doing a bunch of eye hygiene, I now have almost no crusties in the morning

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Who knew demo jizz was so problematic

[–] jwiggler 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I found this fact particularly fun. thanks for sending me down a lil rabbit hole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Wrong hole, buddy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

You had to say mostly