Soothing the - Itchy Skin Parasites

Kuhns
And when I explained that the person I was living with also contracted
them, he gave me a hand-out which explained that "many times their
beliefs," (referring to the belief that one is infected with parasites), "are
shared with others, in which case it's referred to as folie a duex or trios
which is defined as a madness shared by two or three.
This disorder is part of a psychosis and is rarely amenable to medical
treatment." When I handed him another microscope slide with what I
thought was part of a specimen of the parasite, he was ready for me as
he handed me a handout which also had a heading, "Delusions of
Parasitosis," in which it states, “Delusions of parasitosis are firm
fixations in a person's mind that he suffers from a parasitic infestation
of his skin. The belief is so fixed that he may pick small pieces of
epithelial debris from the skin," which I did, "and bring them to be
examined, always insisting that the offending parasite is contained in
such material." He examined the slide and found nothing out of the
ordinary. After I begged for a blood sample, because I thought they
might be systemic (in the blood), he took blood samples from me and
ordered several blood tests and a biopsy.
Thinking that finally this problem would be resolved, I was shocked
when he called a week later and reported that aside from a slightly
larger than normal CBC (complete blood count) nothing was found in
the extensive tests. He indeed believed my symptoms were mental and
did also say that perhaps the parasites were gone because maybe the
massive doses of garlic did kill them--if I had them to start with. I
reminded him of how Lyme disease went undetected for many years
and tried to convince him to do a research study, i.e. if I gave him a
towel I had used without washing it bleach or ammonia, whoever used
that towel would contract the same itching and biting within days. He
thought the idea amusing and said he'd get back to me. He never did
and I thought, "Who knows, maybe they are gone."
Were it not for the smell of garlic oozing through my armpits and God
knows about my breadth, I would have kept taking garlic simply for
insurance. I wanted to stop the garlic, but I wanted to wait until my
son--he was six years old at that time--had gone back to my ex-wife
after our vacation together. I had done everything I could to keep my
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