And in under two weeks ... Normally, you'll have around 1 or 2 mites per square centimeter of skin. But one study found that people with rosacea had 10 times the normal amount.

The mites burrow into your skin and cause itching and discomfort and the female mites lay eggs under the skin. A few days later, the eggs hatch, move to the skin surface and begin the cycle again.

“Scabies is a common skin infestation caused by the Sarcoptes scabiei mite,” explains Dr Miriam Mikicki, GP and functional ...

But deep on the surface of our skin is an ecosystem you may not be aware of. Those are demodex mites. We all have them, and they're found on the scalp and face. See those guys? They're chillin' in ...

Besides making your bedroom look and feel unclean, dust can also trigger allergies, causing you to sneeze and preventing you ...

Sometimes you can even see the worms moving under your skin or across your eyeball. But not EVERY egg-laying invader is sinister. Face mites are pretty innocuous. They live on pretty much EVERYONE ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum we secrete is its meal of choice. It's hard to know for sure ...

Dust mites tend to live on fabrics and upholstery that frequently come into contact with human or animal skin—like furniture ... Vacuuming under and around the bed on a regular basis; and ...

So we asked Hull-Martin and gathered tips from some of the top home blogs about how to rid your fluffy pillows of the dust mites, bacteria, and dead skin cells that they're secretly harboring.