Try scraping the cheek just where your nose and cheek meet. You have to
scrape quite hard with your nail or something hard. You can soften any
skin/sebum with 10% KOH which should leave any mites intact.
Happy hunting.
Alan Garnett
"Walter Freyne" <walter.freyne at pandora.be> wrote in message
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> Dear Sirs
>> I am trying to find demodex mites in the sebum of the face but for one
> reason ore the other I cant find them, does anyone know the best way to do
> this ?
> I can easily find them on the hair roots but that is not what I want.
> I think I find one on the surface of the skin but I am not sure,
> I think that one problem is that the sebum is a bit hard and while
smearing
> the sebum on the glass and make it thin enough I also destroy the mites.
> It would be ideal to dissolve the sebum with something so the mites are
left
> but is that possible ?
> Ore a other way to make them more visible ?
> I would like to be able to define how much the concentration is from those
> mites.
> Maybe this will sound stupid in this group but I am just doing this as a
> hobby
> and would like to learn something.
> My apologies if this is impropriate question for this group but I dont
know
> where to go else.
> Thanks in advance
>> email: walter.freyne at pandora.be>>>>
