What is Morgellons Disease? - Answers

Morgellons Disease: What are the symptoms? Are there treatments? What do the fibers mean? Answers to questions like these about Morgellons can be found here.

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Q. Is Morgellons Disease contagious?

A. Truthfully, no one knows yet. However, It has been shown that in many cases. If one family member shows signs of having Morgellons many if not all others in the same household also have the signs and symptoms of Morgellons.

Q. Is there a cure for Morgellons Disease?

A. Currently, there is no "cure" although, Morgellons has been shown to respond to the same types of treatment given to those that tested positive for Chlamydophila pneumonia. So if treated in such a way for a longenough period of time with the correct antibiotics do show a decrease and in many cases the symptoms are resolved. It still is to early to say that there is a cure all formula for Morgellons.

Q. What is Morgellons Disease?

A. Currently, it is hard to tell exactly what type of disease Morgellons disease really is. It is fairly new and still not understood and in some parts of the medical community it isn't even recognize as an illness however this is quickly changing as others begin to take note of the existence of Morgellons, For example in January of 2008, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) began a large urgent study of Morgellons when it noticed many reports being sent in and other families registering in a morgellons database which as of this writing totaled more then 11,000 families. Of the families in the database, around 500 of them are said to be in the Bay Area of California.

Many doctors are beginning to think that Morgellons Disease is a chronic infectious disease. This is in part to the fact that members of the same household that have one member of the household that shows signs and symptoms of Morgellons will also have many if not all other family members living in the same household showing signs of Morgellons.

Many if not all patients that show signs of Morgellons always complain of an itching, biting sensation and feelings of bugs "crawling" on and or under the skin, other signs of Morgellons are skin legions which also have "fiber" like growth from within the legions. Also reported are fatigue, cognitive changes, loss of memory, changes in mood and serious hallucinations