It’s the stuff of nightmares. But I thought I would go mad from years of itching, swelling and weeping eyes. Then I discovered that microscopic MITES were living in my eyelashes

When Charmian Edgerton saw a photograph of herself taken by a friend on a night out, she thought she was going mad.

‘My eyes had a sort of stitching effect around them, like tiny dots that were forming a line in the upper lashes and in the lower lashes,’ says Charmian.

She had not noticed the ‘stitching’ when she looked at herself in the mirror – but for the previous few months she had been dogged by swollen, itchy and irritated eyes that would often weep.

‘It was irritating and embarrassing,’ says Charmian, 83, a retired artist and jewellery designer from Fife, Scotland.

‘I

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