According to reports, there are numbers greater than 14,000 families whom are suffering from Morgellons Disease. These families have children and having the skin condition made them deprive from their ideal childhood days. Kids with Morgellons find it difficult to be fully involved and be engaged in recreational activities with friends and colleagues involving sports and leisure activities. Some have even “dropped out of life” or not even attend school because of fatigue, discomforts and trouble with mental concentration. Same goes with adult who are loosing their jobs due to the same condition. Sadly, this figure will continuously grow unless the mystery behind Morgellons is solved.

Typically, the afflicted individual exhibits skin rashes or sores that have fiber like protruding in various colors such as white, red, black or blue. The rashes are painful, may also ooze, heal slow and may change in color and texture. Crawling and stinging under the skin are common sensations felt by the patient along with the persistent itching.

It is still big question whether Morgellons is an infectious disease or a state of psychiatric issue. Individuals who self-diagnosed themselves with Morgellons through the aid of internet are claiming that they are in need of medical intervention. On one hand, dermatologist suggests that this occurrence is one case of delusional parasitosis and the lesions are believed to be self-inflicted. Other doctors understand what Morgellon patients are going through and support the authenticity of the sensations, but they relate them to hyper-stimulation of nerve signals and not to an infectious disease.

Although the medical community has no firm stand about the skin condition, some patients are treated symptomatically. They are given symptomatic relief rather than a permanent cure. Some patients undergo antibiotic therapy similar to those with Lyme’s disease and it yields to some positive result but if halted, signs and symptoms reoccur.

The affliction brought by this unexplained condition to patients is something that isn’t easy to understand. Because physicians are not well knowledgeable of about this condition, patients are sometimes left untreated with feelings of hopelessness. Health care professionals believed that Morgellons is a chronic infectious disease, which leads to unemployment of afflicted individuals with diminish financial resource due to their desire to get cured.

Morgellon Research Foundation