Yes, it is highly contagious and the only doctor who has researched it deeply I have found is
demodexsolutions dot com but it is pretty pricey and expect three months of treatment. garlic, neem oil, boraxHP, epsom or sulphur baths... get a system of alternating daily so all stages can be destoyed.

Topical treatment is mandatory but cleaning your body will help speed your recovery. A good time to make some healthy additions to everyones diet.

Eating a diet low in salt or no salt, Sugar and oils and favoring spicy ginger tumeric and pepper, bitter and astringent tastes your body will not provide an environment for them to grow. If he's been eating sweets, oily, salty foods his kidney and liver are toxic. Miracle-Mineral-Supplement is an option to cleaning out the system found on Genesis II Jim Humble sp? web site. Cheap and easy cleansing for 10 days. Also good for brushing the your teeth daily as the sebacious glands are all around the mouth and may be a nest. You mix 1 drop of Miracle-Mineral-Supplement to 1 drop of a solution of equal parts water and citric acid found at Indian Grocery in a granular form. You swirl it around and wait at least 20 seconds (some wait 3 minutes but I've never seen it take that long) til it gives off a gas and turns brown or yellow. Then you add it to 1/2 c water and drink it. you can go up to 6 drops of each but too much detox can make you nauseous so better to get in 1 or 2 drops 6x a day than get sick and stop before the 10 days is up. Do this 6x a day for 10 days. For a topical solution, you can even mix up 10 drops each and add 1 teaspoon DMSO and rub this onto the infected area immediately while it is still warm, but not over once a day. Do one body part then mix up some more and do another body part like, the back, a leg, an arm, head, front of the abdomen. Don't do it twice in one area as it will burn the skin too much. Matt Monarchs extreme method is what it's called on u tube. The DMSO helps get the Miracle-Mineral-Supplement deeper into the skin where the mites are. Some people us the DMSO to get rid of scars with an application of it only for 5 days.

Or 4-5 drops of oregano 3x a day under the tongue for 10 days is an easy cleanse. Helps keep the mouth clean and gets rid on white coated tongue of candida, which is a sign your digestive system in completely out of balance.

They like wet and warm environment so a clamy sluggish system is going to help them thrive. Rather than cold drinks, drink a lot of warm and hot beverages, like herbal teas, mint tea. Cut out dairy but you can have buttermilk. Use only honey for sweetner or replace white Sugar and sparinly use brown sugar. Old grains, like Barley and oats, all legumes except tofu, lentil soup is an easy one to have on hand all the time and add extra tumeric, pepper, cumin and garlic to clean the blood and make sure you have some rice and lemon with it to make a full protein, lots of green leafy vegetables, brocoli, cauliflower,asparagus, tomatoe, salads with a little vinegar and oil dressing but no potatoes or sweet potatoes. If you need a cold drink, make it lemonade and avoid eating in the evening. No ice cream, yogurt, cream butter and whole milk or sweets and avoid nuts except sunflower and pumpkin.

It may be facial mites, short and long - (demodex) which live in the hair follicles (just under the skin and cling to the hair follicle, with a small magnifying glass, you can see them if you pull out a hair there will be several Celery seed size or smaller,) or in the sebaceous glands (this looks like flat thin transparent skin often seen on the lips which might look like a ridge of dry skin about 1/4" which you can peel off). Apparently everyone has some of this in their system. Demodex folliculorum, which live in the hair follicles and the short ones, Demodex brevis, which live in the sebaceous glands.

Best, cheapest and easiest to kill them is garlic! It kills all mites. Mash it into a pulp and press the liquid out. Rub it onto the infested area. You can treat in the morning, then Epsom Salt bath or sulphur bathe before bed (to help pull out the dead parasites stagnating the skins natural cleaning process) and neem oil over night, in the morning us a paper towel and wipe it off after you've had a good long soak in the borax HP solution then have a final soak and let it stay on an hour till it dries completely before applying the garlic liquid. The garlic goes into the blood and into the mites. It burns for a few minutes but this goes away. It dries the skin with a thin film and helps cut down the itching during the day. This combination of four different substances daily is the most effective easiest, safest and cheapest that I've found.

It might burn a little for a few minutes. If too painful, you might try using mostly coconut oil with a little garlic liquid and work up to a liveable solution. You will have to keep it up for at least a month as once it sets in you must be persistent even continuing weeks after all signs are gone. Epsom Salt baths daily before bed and the final neem treatment to help pull out the dead parasites stagnating the skins natural cleaning process. The variation in the three treatments is necessary because the older mites have a protective coating on them and since you have many at different stages, you need to be daily wearing them down.

They reproduce quickly and there can be many layers under the skin. They are good at disquise and you may peel away 4 or 5 layers till you get to your real skin. If disturbed picking them out with a needle or tweezers blood can poor out and won't quit until the head is completely out. The borax HP solution will help you see them as white dots. Surprizingly, once they are gone the skin blossoms quickly.

To make the boraxHP: Fill a quart jar with 1/3 hydrogen peroxide 3% in the brown bottle at the drug store and add a T or 2 of 20 muleteam borax (just enough to stay in solution), then add 2/3 water.
Soak in this solution and leave it on. The borax can be used to wash your clothes as it kills the parasites. The HP helps bring the borax down into the tissues. Bathe morning and evening with new clothes and new sheets everyday. Don't were the same clothing from the day before.

You can sprinkle borax on the floors in between vacumming.