Did you know that this insect lives in your eyelashes? 90% of adults are affected.

Do you often experience itchy eyelids, red eyes, or an unpleasant sensation as if something is hiding there?
What if the cause of this persistent discomfort was far more unexpected than you imagine? No, it’s not all in your head:
a tiny roommate might be squatting in your eyelashes.
Invisible to the naked eye, but not necessarily harmless. Curious? Read on.
Demodex: this discreet tenant that we (almost) all share
Nearly 90% of adults host this tiny mite called Demodex. Don’t panic: normally, it lives discreetly in hair follicles and sebaceous glands, particularly around the eyelashes and on the face. It feeds on dead skin cells and sebum… a kind of natural cleaning, in short.
There are two main types in humans: Demodex folliculorum , which likes to nest in eyelashes, and Demodex brevis , which prefers sebaceous glands. As long as their numbers remain low, there’s no problem. But when their population increases significantly , that’s when things get complicated…