An unsolved mystery
The Morgellons syndrome is a mystery, an unknown quantity that Science cannot yet explain: it is a particular disease, rare, extremely ambiguous and incomprehensible. The Morgellons syndrome, known more simply as "Morgellons", cannot be defined as a real disease, precisely because there is no demonstrable and proven scientific theory that ascertains the responsible cause.
However, indeed, Morgellons seems a syndrome, being characterized by a series of peculiar and inexplicable signs and symptoms that distinguishes it from other morbid manifestations: in reality, however, that of Morgellons could not be defined as a real "syndrome", given the absence of scientific evidence to explain it.
Symptoms
Morgellons syndrome generally presents with cutaneous disorders: itching, pinprick sensation, sudden and painful pangs, sores, permanent skin eruptions and above all strange filamentous fibers on the surface of the skin which, in some cases, spontaneously come out .
The disease (if it can be called this) seems to have a significant impact on emotion and cognition: these effects, however, could be considered as both cause and consequence of Morgellons.
Other subjects who have been diagnosed with Morgellons syndrome complain of musculoskeletal pain and a feeling of general fatigue.
This theory is sometimes dismantled by the presence (real and not fictitious) of particular filamentous fibers coming out of the skin, very similar to polyethylene fibers: the whole is made even stranger by the color of the fibers: Blue.
Hypotheses on the causes
The thought of the authors appears heterogeneous and the theories that have been built around the syndrome are many: some consider Morgellons a disease characterized by a series of atypical signs, others consider it only as a strange, inexplicable morbid condition, others still (among which the Mayo Clinic), believe that the disease is the result of psychological or psychiatric disorders. The shadow that accompanies the Morgellons syndrome is such as to torment many researchers who are unable to draw unequivocal conclusions. Some scientific leaders believe that the mystery that has arisen around this syndrome has fueled the minds of some subjects who, in order to "draw attention to them" may have had self-inflicted skin lesions; not by chance, through the media propaganda, the syndrome has come to the ears of many subjects who, believing to be suffering from a strange, sometimes unique disease, self-diagnose the Morgellons syndrome. This "do-it-yourself diagnosis", as can be guessed, is not based on certain and scientific evidence, but on traces too vague to be considered valid. Most of the time, these potentially ill subjects of Morgellons, are based on uncertain information read on the Internet, in magazines or on some approximate and nebulous news, too murmured to be reliable.
The research on the origin of the triggers of the Morgellons syndrome continues: it is considered possible that some mentally unstable patients tried to remove the "potential insects" that ran under the skin, causing lesions to the skin. Therefore, the scars and skin eruptions could depend on the subject's obsessive-compulsive behavior, convinced of being infested by insects.
Other dermatologists and psychiatrists believe that Morgellons syndrome is due to a bacterial infection: for example, from Borrelia burhdorferi (infectious agent typical of Lyme disease ).
However, all doctors agree on the unexplainability and indecipherability of the morbid condition: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have defined Morgellons syndrome as an "unexplained dermopathy" and an "illusory parasitosis".
Some even venture that the cause of Morgellons syndrome owes its origin to extra-natural factors.
