Generally when one thinks of skin parasites, they think of scabies and ring worm for which the medical profession is well equipped.

Unfortunately I contracted the types of skin parasites about which doctors know nothing. I was in the middle of my yearly back yard Spring clean-up when it happened. As I pulled a strangulating vine from a tree I noticed a cloud of dust descending upon me. I disposed of the vine, decided to call it quits, and took a shower thinking no more of the dust cloud.

Two days later my fiancee and I began itching all over our bodies. We immediately left for home and took hot baths which provided relief. But within hours we were both itching again. The next few days were horrendous and confusing as we used everything we could to get rid of them–anti itch creams, rid, Nix…

I deduced the source of the infection was that cloud of dust but that did little good. Next we realized that our bedding was contaminated and we began laundering our bedding daily with bleach. We took scalding baths two-to-three times per day to control the itching and biting. And then we realized that the bugs were all over the house-on the furniture, in the rugs… Thinking it must be some kind of mite, I ordered diatomaceous earth and dusted it all over the house.

My profession is about managing stress and the use of hypnosis for eliminating unhealthy habits. Within a month my life changed to the point that I was on the brink of anxiety panic attack.

Realizing how prolific the mites were, I treated my rear and front yard and all the shrubs with an insecticide that kills jiggers.

My significant other went to her doctor who found nothing and at her urging he prescribed Elimite. We both used it thinking life would soon be normal only to find that within four days all symptoms returned.

I went to a dermatologist who after observing all the bites and rashes, took a plug sample for analysis and prescribed antibiotics along with Diprolene. Again we had about four days of relative freedom and then all symptoms returned. My doctor called to inform me that the results of the plug sample showed nothing.

I tried everything I could think of–boric acid, sulfur… I mixed sulfur with Vaseline and applied it to my skin. I looked like I was jaundiced with liver disease; my silver hair was yellow. I noticed that my arms sparkled in sun light-maybe the eggs of the parasite.

After about three months of living in this hell. I experimented with approximately 30,000 mg of garlic and found that the symptoms stopped. After a few days I thought I was cured and stopped the garlic only to have the biting and itching return within days.

My significant other moved away and got rid of her infestation with a product called Liquid Needles and ice baths. I could never bring myself to an ice bath and the Liquid Needles were just like a band aid.

I relied heavily on garlic and eventually was at about 200,000 mg per day-I was popping those little round capsules like candy. I really didn’t notice any garlic odor about me so my body must have been using all the garlic or I was oozing it from my pores and was oblivious to it.

Ultimately I confided in a friend who suggested that I experiment with diet-an alternative to garlic. I began only eating eggs and within a day all symptoms of itching and biting had subsided. Life can get boring with only eggs so I began adding one new food at a time. I found that anything with wheat or oat flour caused symptoms to return. Rice was safe. Fruit was a big problem. The next couple years was about experimenting with various foods.

Eventually I found an old-timer doctor who was familiar with bird mites. He prescribed ORAP which along with the diet enabled me to eventually expand my diet to what I identify as Stage II of the diet. I stopped the ORAP after ten weeks and I remained on Stage II of the diet for nearly ten years during which time I got married, had normal intimate relations, and was free of being contagious as long as I remained on Stage II of the diet.

Since then I’ve helped hundreds of other sufferers rid themselves of the symptoms with the diet. I also found that the itching and biting symptoms can be caused by several different organisms:

• • Fungi
• • Nematodes such as Strongyloides stercoralis
• • Morgellons
• • Collembola (spring tails)
• • Mites

I also learned that Lyme and Protozoan infections often accompany the parasites compromising one’s immune system further complicating any attempts at treatment. And what’s more frustrating is that the Lyme and Protozoan are not easily diagnosed except for special labs such as Central Florida Labs in Florida and Igenix in California.

I learned that there are diagnostic tests for some of parasites but with most of them there are no diagnostic procedures much less treatment.

All of what I’ve learned is in an e-book, Soothing the Itch Within and the Diet to Control It. It has all the specifics of the bentonite clay, ionic minerals, rifing, faith healing–a chapter of testimonials, treatment of Lyme, Protozoan…

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The first defense to managing stress is not Tylenol, Motrin…, but instead deep breathing. Caution, if you suffer from panic and anxiety and or agoraphobia, this technique is not recommended until after the symptoms are history. This is because breathing techniques require internal focusing which is not recommended for anxiety sufferers. For them external relaxation techniques are recommended–see the resource box.

As we react to stress, it is normal that our breathing is immediately affected. It becomes shallow and upper chest which is actually part of the defense mechanism. Even that stress relief sigh is usually a tense upper chest unhealthy breadth.

We generally make three basic mistakes in breathing:

• Then when we do take a deep breadth, we force our lungs to expand against our chest putting chest muscles in spasm. This can create chest and back pain.
• We’re so consumed with our appearance that we learn to hold in our stomachs which greatly limits our breathing to the upper chest.
• Some of us lift our shoulders to take in that deep breadth. It’s called “clavicle breathing” and it contributes to neck and headache.

Life is about stress and as we adapt to higher and higher levels of stress from one year to the next, our normal breathing becomes tense. Even as we sleep, we may breathe in a tense manner. The tense breathing also affects our posture, blocks our Chakras–the natural flow of energy through our bodies, and starves the body of much needed oxygen.

No matter what the physical health problem–headaches, neck aches, muscle pain… (all direct effects of stress), or disease such as cancer, heart disease… it’s important to address breathing (except for anxiety sufferers as previously noted). The problem is that no one makes any money from deep breathing. No drugs are required so you will not hear an announcement on the radio, “Remember to do your stress reduction deep breathing exercise!”

Look for times during the day when you are feeling defensive, in a rush, under pressure, stressed… It’s during these times that instead of tensing as you normally would, that you instead remember to do your stress relief deep breathing.

And all you have to do to engage your first defense against stress is to consciously become aware of your breathing. Then shift from your upper chest tense breathing consciously to an abdominal breath.

How to take an abdominal breadth—the first defense against stress:
• Let your stomach and abdomen relax.
• Breathe down through your chest into your stomach.
• Let your stomach expand outward.
• Let your chest expand slightly at the end of the breadth.

As you exhale:
• Pull your stomach inward.
• Expel all the air up through your chest.

If you can hear yourself breathe, you are breathing too fast. Ten to twelve breaths per minute is fine. If you feel your shoulders lifting as you inhale, it is a tense breadth. Just let your shoulders be loose and limp as you inhale and exhale. Let your arms hang from your shoulder like rope.

If you have the time, take a class in Yoga breathing to get in some serious breathing. Yoga will provide many healthful benefits.

When to do your deep breathing: Make a list of times during the day when it would be appropriate to take advantage of the deep breathing stress management technique such as:
• Whenever you’re at a red light.
• Before answering the phone or making a phone call.
• As you’re waiting for your computer to load a program or shut down.
• Before eating or drinking.
• Before entering a building or an office.
• As you listen to someone conversing with you.
• Whenever you can remember to take a deep breadth.
• Whenever you notice yourself feeling stressed.
Remember, no one makes money on deep breathing so you will not hear an announcer on the radio reminding you to take your deep breadth exercise to manage stress.

Several deep breathing exercises are available one one inexpensive cd to manage stress, live longer, and even eliminate hyperventilation. Practicing the exercises produces real results. Go to http://hypnocast.podbean.com/ for the podcast version of this article.

Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified is a prominent figure in the field of stress management. His best selling cds for managing stress are at http://www.PanicBusters.com and http://www.DStressDoc.com He aims to raise awareness as to how using basic stress management skills can be used to promote health. To find out more please visit http://www.dstressdoc.com/stressSeries.htm

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It’s 3:00 am, your sleep has been interrupted by something crawling on your face, legs, private parts-and you don’t know what to do. First you wonder if it’s your imagination, but then the crawling feelings are accompanied by a biting, stinging sensation–sometimes it seems to be from under your skin. You get out of bed, turn on a light and take a look to see what’s causing the problem. You see nothing. Hoping for relief you scratch it. Moments later, the biting returns and it’s relentless. The next day you may find a rash developing or what appears like bites on your skin.

The only evidence of something going on is that you might find a gritty sandy like substance-black specs-in your bedding or some strange fibers developing on your skin or or tiny sparkly specs of light reflecting sunlight on your arms.

In some cases, it looks like a mosquito bite or the beginnings of a zit but it never goes away. In fact it multiplies in a short period of time.

What’s causing the biting, rashes, lesions, and what do you do about it? First you try some over the counter remedy such as Benadryl or Gold Bond medicated powder and there’s no benefit. Then you go to your doctor expecting a prescription for a skin cream to quickly eliminate the problem. Your doctor examines you and can’t find anything wrong except that he accuses you of scratching your skin causing it to inflame. You might convince him to prescribe something like Quill or Elimite and it works for a few days and then it’s back to the hell of itching and biting. Finally your doctor may take a biopsy (plug sample) and you’re looking forward to finally identifying the culprit. The test comes back negative and eventually your doctor suggests to you that it’s Rosacea’s Red Face, in your imagination, stress, anxiety, general nervousness, or worse yet that you have acrophobia. This news is almost enough to give you an anxiety panic attack.

Actually, you’ve may have been invaded by one of several strains of skin parasites. While most skin parasites are harmless, there are some skin parasites such as Morgellons (of unknown origin), unknown to most doctors, that can make life a living hell.

Job, of the Old Testament in the Holy Bible, may very well have been the first human on record who suffered from these skin parasites which are in the form of collembola, skin mites, skin fungus, and or nematodes.

Some species of parasites that usually live outdoor on plants and animals can adapt to living both in human skin and bring protozoan, bacterium, and fungi organisms that live systemically (in the blood). Without guidance in an effective treatment the parasites can reside in one’s skin for years and make scabies (a form of mite) look like the common cold.

To further complicate life, this skin problem can be easily transmitted from animal or human to human by simple contact, i.e., beauty parlor, lying down on an infested couch or rug, trying on new clothing in a store that was tried on by someone who was infested….

My hell started from a cloud of dust that descended upon me after I pulled a strangulating vine from a tree in my back yard so the medical specialist I consulted couldn’t pull that acrophobia stuff on me. Early on I experimented with garlic. I tried other things like curry, but garlic was the ticket. I started with 30,000 mg. of garlic per day and ended up at around 240,000 mg. per day before I freed myself of the parasitic itchy bity symptoms. For me, garlic completely tamed down the symptoms of the itchy parasites to where I could be human. Of course I tried many different medications during this time and each time I went off garlic to see if the medication or remedy was working, it would flare up again because none were working. Eventually garlic lost its magic and it was back to itching hell.

Fortunately shortly thereafter, I discovered the value of the diet which is called the King Diet. It was the first hope I had in handling this scourge. In fact I’m convinced that no treatment will work without getting on the eating diet and staying on it. There are foods such as fruits and many carbohydrates that feed the parasites and foods that starve them. I started it as an elimination diet–ate only eggs initially and within a few days I was itch and bite free–it worked that fast for me. It took over ten years to discover all the nuances of the diet so I could enjoy foods like shrimp scampi, chicken in butter sauce…

It’s a three stage diet, the first of which is very strict. After symptoms disappear with stage I, one can advance to stage II within a week or so and eat more leniently. It didn’t take long to think I was cured, but every time I went off the diet for a week or so, the itching and biting returned. In time with certain medications, I could advance to Stage III of the diet and enjoy limited types of fruit, honey, chocolate cake…

Suffering from skin parasites raises some important questions. What lotions or skin creams provide results? How do you bathe? How do you get skin parasites our of your rugs, bedding, furniture…? Although your doctor has no answers to these questions there are real down to earth answers to get your life back to normal.

Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E is the author of Soothing the Itch Within and the Diet to Control it e-book. His aim is to provide a,b,c direction for diet, bathing, disinfection techniques, and medical options to get rid of skin parasites. To find out more please visit http://www.SkinParasitesEbook.com. He is also author of best selling self hypnosis stress management cds at http://www.DStressDoc.com

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Each year more than 20 million Americans, more than 5% of the population, seek treatment for an anxiety condition. These individuals can take any number of pathways to start overcoming anxiety. Let’s discuss some of the main pluses and drawbacks of each form of anxiety treatment generally available.

The most common method treating anxiety is through medications prescribed by a mental health specialist. These medications are typically any one of the benzodiazepine class of drugs, examples of which include Xanax and Ativan. These drugs are effective at alleviating acute anxiety. Unfortunately, they are less effective in treating incessant anxiety conditions. The main disadvantage of benzodiazepines is that they are terribly addicting and have a horrible withdrawal syndrome associated with them. So if you do start on a course of these medications you will have to continue to take them daily to have any effect and you will experience severe withdrawal symptoms if you stop taking them. Consider these drawbacks carefully before beginning.

The next option is to begin therapy with a trained psychotherapist. There are several advantages and disadvantages of this method as well. The first thing about therapy is that it is generally not very effective on its own at alleviating anxiety symptoms. It can help with certain disturbed thinking and can be great for brainstorming but it is also expensive and time consuming. Therapy also is not likely to result in an anxiety cure.

The dirty truth about therapists is most of them, themselves, do not suffer from anxiety conditions. Therefore they have no first hand information about which therapies are most effective for treating the symptoms. They do however undergo a lot of training in order to obtain their license. There are several ways in which therapists could begin to better understand the plight of their patients.

The next treatment option is to check in to a psychiatric center for an extended stay. This type of inpatient treatment can be very helpful if your anxiety is crippling to the point that you are unable to function in life. It can be especially helpful if you are contemplating suicide or harming yourself.The main thrust of inpatient treatment is to teach individuals new coping skills so that they will not consider suicide. In this way the treatment options provided by an inpatient clinic are usually not very precise for dealing with more subtle forms of anxiety.

Most hospitals use the dialectical behavioral model to direct treatment. DBT teaches simple distress management techniques and mindfulness therapy. If you are a severely low functioning human being with a history of suicide attempts or self harm then DBT may be for you. On the other hand, less severe cases will benefit less from this type of therapy.

Finally, in patient treatment can be very expensive. A decent clinic runs at least $750 a day and if you do not have insurance the cost becomes prohibitive. Still if you are close to taking your life and need the immediate intervention then an inpatient psychiatric clinic may be your best bet.

Those are three of the main methods for treating anxiety disorders. If you want to start dealing with anxiety you may want to consider one of these options.

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