Morgellons Disease

Morgellons is a rare and very unusual disease that is affecting more and more people. It is a multi-symptom disease that is now just being researched, even though the first modern case showed up in a 2 year old boy in the year 2001. It was in 1674 the first actual case was reported, although it was misdiagnosed. Often it is diagnosed as Delusional Parasitosis. Morgellons Disease is often overlooked by doctors because they are simply unaware of it, or have yet to understand it.

Morgellons Disease is a parasite-like infection that literally makes a person feel like their skin is crawling. So far it has been mostly diagnosed in Florida, California, and Texas but every state has reported at least one case. It has also been reported in Japan, The Philippines, Australia, Indonesia, Europe, and South Africa. Thousands of people have Morgellons Disease and yet no one can figure out how the person gets it, or if it is even contagious.

The symptoms are intense and painful. They include:

- Non-healing skin lesions with highly unusual structures
- Sensations of bugs crawling, stinging, and biting under their skin
- Joint pain
- Decline in vision
- Appear of blue fibers and granules that look like sand coming out of the skin
- Fatigue which can be diagnosed as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Short term memory loss
- Brain fog – Impaired thought processing
- Attention Deficit disorder
- Bipolar or Obsessive Compulsive Disorders

There are some disbelieving doctors that truly think all of these symptoms are part of another illness, or worse yet, delusions. Since so much of Morgellons Disease has yet to be discovered they simply don’t believe it is actually happening.
Yet it is, and in increasingly large numbers. Over 3,000 households have registered with the Morgellons Research Foundation which is leading the way in finding the cure for this incredibly painful

and progressive disease.

Both adults and children are affected, although not necessarily in the same family. There are many families where one person has Morgellons Disease, but others do not. There is no specific season that it is more prominent in, and the symptoms do not seem to go away. Some patients have said they have had Morgellons Disease for at least 2 decades, although presently some doctors are prescribing the same medication that is given out for Lyme Disease. In some cases it works, but in others it doesn’t.

This is why the cases are so perplexing, and why the researchers are desperate for answers. Morgellons Disease is growing but doctors and researchers are ill equipped to handle it. The Morgellons Research Foundation is currently working with physicians, nurses, patients, as well as other research scientists to increase public awareness and hopefully find a cure.