After investigators a comprehensive, research centers, U. S. For Disease Control and Prevention have found no sign of the agent of infectious and parasitic diseases or exposure to environmental factors can explain the condition of the skin known as a mysterious disease Morgellons.
People with this condition complain of crawling, itching, burning and feeling which are often small fibers or threads that stand out from the skin ulcers.
However, I found the long-awaited government study published in the journal PLoS One, these fibers were mostly pieces of cotton and nylon.
"We found no evidence that this condition is not contagious or that suggests the need for additional testing for infectious diseases as a possible cause," said Dr. Mark Eberhard, director of CDC and parasitic diseases, malaria, the study appears in PLoS ONE.
Eberhard said the study could not prove that the exact cause of the disease, but about half the people in the study had the disease, and most were psychological in nature.
Doctors suspect has long been the case only psychological and infectious.
He studied Dr. Michael Capello, an infectious diseases in children at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and fiber from patients who suffer from this disease.
"In fact there is no disagreement, and the vast majority of doctors and researchers who have studied this have reached the same results," said Capello, who added that is known by doctors and parasites are delusional.
The first description of a rare condition in 2002, Mary Leitao of Pittsburgh, who launched a web site and promotional campaign to determine the cause strange case.
CDC has initiated led a growing number of reports and requests from the House of Representatives, to search for the cause in 2006.
"It is clear that these people were suffering from something, in fact, many of them suffer a lot. We are forced to deal," Eberhard said in a telephone interview.
The CDC team used the medical records of the care management company Kaiser Permanente in northern California, where many people have reported symptoms lived, studied 115 people with the disease.
"We are to test a wide range of infectious diseases," said Eberhard.
Many of the patients completing the clinical tests and skin biopsies. Completed questionnaires about whether patients may be exposed to solvents and household chemicals, and patients who received a comprehensive neurological evaluation.
Did not find any evidence that he caused in the case of an infection or by exposure to environmental factors. Studies have shown a fiber taken from skin ulcers, which were composed mainly of cotton or nylon, according to the fibers in clothing and carpets.
Eberhard said people may scratch the skin and environmental fiber stuck his wounds.
And a rare condition, affecting only 4 out of 100,000 patients enrolled in the health plan.
Said Eberhard ruled out infectious causes should be one that gives doctors a lot of information on how to deal with patients.
"We're really excited we are," said Eberhard. "Our feeling is what you should be very good for people who suffer from this condition."
Said Capello, who was not involved with the investigation committee, is pleased to have recently published a document.
"It is my hope that the CDC can accept the results and that this issue, at least for the time being, you can put to rest," he said.
No comments:
Post a Comment