Talk:Matchbox sign

Morgellons Really _Is_ Caused By A Mite

Not long ago I read quite a long article about the Morgellons controversy by an uncommonly diligent investigative reporter.

Eventually word of this fellow's research reached a Dermatologist in the UK, who then invited said reporter to visit.

It was there that the Dermatologist produced microphotgraphs of the mites which had burrowed into his hair follicles to feed on the blood at the roots of his body hair. The stiff fibers that are commonly observed were the mite's legs folded back behind it then outside the follicle and above the surface of the skin.

After collecting some samples of his mites, he has some manner of arthropod expert identify their species. I don't recall what that species actually was, but it was I think some manner of South American Mite, or maybe it was a Cuban one. 70.102.74.164 (talk) 11:40, 28 February 2019 (UTC) User_Talk:MichaelCrawford PS: I studied Physics at Caltech.

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Is this page truly necessary? I feel it may have been created solely to undermine sufferers of the disease/syndrome referred to as "Morgellons." Is there a way to see if other articles link to this page? I have a sneaking suspicion none do. There needs to be a real citation to verify this term's currency in the medical community in any case.

The reference to AAFP.org (cited in the article) shows that the term was already being used in 2001 (Leitao went public in 2002), and was common enough that the author did not feel the need to describe it as new terminology; in fact, my personal opinion is that term had been coined in 2001, it would have been quite different, because by 2001 matches were much more often sold in packs than in boxes. And to forestall any suggestions that it might have been used in the AAFP article as a reference to Leitao, note that the authors of the AAFP article were in California, and Leitao was in Pennsylvania. They would not have attended, met, or even known of her. DS (talk) 14:48, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Maybe this article itself was created because of all the fuss around "morgellons" but the concept itself being used to describe delusional parasitosis sufferers in general is much older. Earliest reference to it is a letter to the Lancet in 1983. And as the above user notes, the term "matchbox sign" would never have been coined in the 21st century. Instead we'd be calling it the ziplock bag sign, or the out-of-focus smart phone photo sign. --2.125.31.119 (talk) 01:42, 15 July 2015 (UTC)