The Mysterious And Often Misdiagnosed Disease Called Morgellons
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The notion that medical science has identified all the mechanisms and causalities that can result in infirmity in people is an easily identifiable fallacy when stated outright. We have yet to identify all the offending insects, bacteria and viruses yet, so we can not know all the maladies that exist. This is the dilemma those who suffer from the condition now known as Morgellons face.
While this makes sense to the common person and professional alike in an academic sense, when faced with a new set of symptoms for which no identifiable cause is apparent, medical science is reluctant to accept it as a new infirmity. While it is not unique to this one disorder, it is a clearly recognizable complication for those who suffer the irritations of this mysterious disorder. Patients must not only deal with little relief, they are often dismissed by medical personnel.
There are some physicians that are so convinced this is not a new disease but is rather a case of delusional parasitosis or the concomitant experiential symptoms of known diseases that result in cutaneous dysesthesia, is the sensation of discomfort in the skin such as tingling, burning, biting, etc. These physicians are convinced the patient has convinced themselves they are ill and even concocted believable methods of infection and that no progress can be made by investigating their complaints.
The symptoms of this syndrome include serious cutaneous dysesthesia, spontaneous erupting lesions, fatigue and the occurrence of tiny fiber eruptions with black, red or blue hues. There are also mental symptoms associated with the syndrome, such as depression, bipolar disorder, and impaired thought processing. The defining symptoms for the condition are the disturbing feelings within the skin and the eruption of fibers.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting an epidemiologic investigation in an attempt to identify the symptoms and causes for this condition. While the center is reluctant to define the condition as a disease or syndrome, it finds the experiences of the patients to be real and occurring in sufficient numbers to justify an examination. The investigation is being conducted by Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, which coincides with a large cluster of self diagnosed sufferers.
The name for this malady with the consistent constellation of baffling symptoms was coined by the parent of a child presenting. It refers to the writings of Sir Thomas Browne from 1864, who described a condition among children highlighted by the appearance of rough hairs on their backs. The moniker, however was not meant to express the belief that Sir Browne was necessarily describing this same condition, but rather to give it a name beyond the unflattering diagnosis from the world of psychiatry.
This investigation gives hope to those who have been experiencing this accumulation of symptoms, which have been reported all over the world. The Centers for Disease control and physicians at the Northern California Kaiser Permanente location acknowledge there is a controversy about this illness at the outset. For people who believe they have Morgellons, this is good news, the physicians involved can take a completely neutral approach to the investigation, which is better than they have experienced to date.
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