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.

Morgellons also termed as Unexplained Dermopathy by CDC is a condition involving skin lesions with fibers-like protrusions accompanied by sensations described as crawling, stinging, and biting which occur all through out the body. Other symptoms are chronic fatigue, cognitive impairment, and depression. This condition is associated to Lyme disease, Delusional Parasitosis, Chronic fatigue syndrome, OCD (obsessive compulsion disorder) and ADHD (Attention deficit and Hyperactive disorder) due to its diverse symptoms.

Morgellons continues to challenge physicians and other health care professionals regarding its true nature and complexity, provided of the symptoms ranging from skin up to neurological manifestations. People who claim to have such skin disorder experience diverse clinical signs and symptoms such as crawling, stinging and biting sensations beneath the cutaneous layer; rashes or oozing sore with fibers-like protrusions which varies from white, red, black or blue. Aside from the skin symptoms, some patients exhibit mental confusion, short term memory loss, visual changes, depression, and behavioral changes which are all considered as neurological.

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.

Unfortunately, what causes this skin condition is not yet identified by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Morgellons Research Foundation. Although research has been made they failed to gather sufficient data about this condition. However, they found out that Morgellons is contagious and might spread to family members once a member has contracted the disease. Organizations and health institutions are continuously taking action in order to stop this mysterious epidemic.

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