So.. how does a demodicid, a tiny mite, actually find it's way to your eyelashes and various facial pores?

Question

The demodicid is a small worm like creature less than 0.4mm in length. Without them, our facial pores would clog up pretty bad.

I'm curious, given their tiny size, how is it that when we are born, we eventually pick them up? How do they ever find their way to my face? I feel quite positive that they don't crawl along the ground and up my leg and into my eyelashes.

I sure hope my mother didn't give me them... what a jerk!
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source: demodicid - [http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/eyelash/creatures.html ]

well.. I know for a fact that I didn't have much of this "face to face" time because my parents were in the hospital my entire first five to six years of life, and I had next to no human contact, other than food, clothing, etc..

as well, no one in my family much likes touching other humans

Answer 1

This is what I have read before. Infants do, indeed, get these mites from their parents, both mother and father, or from other people with whom they have close contact. If you watch parents with their small children, you will see plenty of face to face contact. Just a fact of life.