It feels like a person who is infested with insects: strange disease makes many people miserable

That said, although tiny, insects always make people terrified because of them, even in imagination.

None of us would feel comfortable if any insects "parked" on people. This is even more accurate when most of them are intermediaries that transmit diseases to humans.

But now, we still have to face a more frightening mental illness - we always imagine the body is being "invaded" by a series of insects that crawl, just like on the movies. so weird

This is called a deceitful parasite (Delusional parasitosis) or Ekkbom syndrome (Ekkbom's syndrome) that is very rare in the past.

However, the truth is .

According to the latest announcement from the Mayo Clinic medical system, more than 90,000 people in the United States are suffering from a deceptive parasitic disease, a very significant number with an uncommon pathological condition (under 1). % of the population) like that.

Based on estimates, for every 100,000 people in the United States, 27 people experience this unpleasant emotion.

"Deceptive parasites are a type of anxiety disorder that is not directly related to arthropods," said Gale Ridge, an entomologist at Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

"With psychological instability, these people always believe that they are bitten by insects and default to this to everyone around them."

Worse, these hallucinations can make you "dose" so much, using very toxic preparations to kill unpleasant fantasy creatures that surround yourself as soon as possible.

Explaining the cause of this strange disease, scientists say this could be a consequence of the use of sedatives, or common psychological disorders such as depression, separation. social, or schizophrenia.

The dizzying rise of deceptive parasites has raised concerns about human psychology in the present life.

"This issue provides a more insightful view of medical problems that are less common in medicine , " said Daniel Wollman, Quinnipiac University clinical researcher.

"And with the current reports, it is likely that we will have a specific solution to face this mental illness."