Thank you for all the support! - Advice re: contagiousness of this also needed

September 11, 2010

Just wanted to thank you all for the support and advice over the last few days.

We are new to bird mites and are really struggling. You gals gave me many good

ideas and many new things to consider. I still cannot believe that in 2010

there is not more information regarding mite infestations......how can this be?

How do we change that?

Besides the spraying, we are following the shaninspirations protocol and have

added a few things of our own. I am allergic to sulfa based drugs (septra and

cipro) but I am willing to at least try sulfur topically at this point....I am

thinking that perhaps applied to the skin I may not have a severe reaction. I

will ask the infectious disease gal about this on Monday.

I also wanted to ask how contagious do you all consider this to be? We've had

symptoms for nearly 14 weeks. Our enviornment is improved but not perfect and

the car is still terrible along with my scalp. Because I look like something

out of an alien world (no hair and white scars everywhere I had mite bites) I

have been avioding most folks. I go to the health club (and wipe down every

single thing I come near, grocery store, etc. and drive my kids to and from

school. Should we be pulling the kids out of school? They do not currently

have active bites but every once and a while something pops up. My Mom wants to

come down and stay for a month or two to help (in a separate apartment) but I am

scared to death we will pass this to her. We are not using baby sitters at this

point and we don't let the friends have kids in our house. But how long should

we be living like this - because it feels like not living at all??!!!! The few

things that have worked for us - methol crystals, vicks vapor rub (of all the

things), borax, Xtreem Clean, ivermectin (although we get relief we then

reinfect in our house so we don't currently take it as I am afraid of toxicity

issues with all the perm and iver my husband and I (not kids) took). Please

advise.

All the best!

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