My daughter is 13 and profoundly disabled. She is non- verbal. Were moved into a different house almost 5 years ago. From the very beginning strange things started to happen. I started finding clear jello like crystals on my daughter.I would find them on her buttocks. I would find them around her vagina. I would find them on her stomach and legs.
The pediatrician tried to tell me that it was coming from the inside of the diaper. That was the first thing I thought and dismissed it almost immediately because I find them even when the diaper is completely dry. It would be impossible if the diaper was completely dry for these crystals to come out of the diaper.
I found myself in a dispute with every pediatrician that I took her to because we had to change pediatricians over the things that I was finding on her.
To this date I still do not have a diagnosis or a reason for the crystals showing up on my child.
What I did have was carpet beetles after moving into a different house and putting brand new carpet in that apparently wasn't treated at the warehouse. I noticed the crystals before I noticed anything else. After the crystals I noticed lines of scabs occasionally in various places such as her stomach, her shoulder and her butt and they would be maybe 4 to 6 small scabs in a row. I never was able to get an answer from a doctor as to what was causing this. I was labeled comma as the parent, as being stressed out. It turns out that if a carpet beetle walks across skin of someone, possibly while they are sleeping, the legs of these little insects will penetrate the skin and leave little scabs in a line or a zigzag line.
I'm not saying that I know that the carpet beetles are related to the crystals. I just find it a unique situation that at the same time the carpet beetles appeared, the crystals appeared.
From doing so much research on the internet to find out what the crystals were on my own because I could not get help from any physician anywhere, I had also come across the word Morgellons. I found out that if you go into a hospital or a doctor's office and mention the word Morgellons that you are automatically labeled as crazy.
I'm still not sure, after all of these years what Morgellons really is, however, myself and my daughter exhibit signs of morgellons and it is not contagious. It is, however, transferable from mother to child during birth.
I moved out of the house to see if the symptoms would stop and what I noticed was the symptoms got less and less over time. We haven't been out long enough to figure out if they will stop or not.
While living at the house that had the carpet beetles I gained 20 lbs in 2 months after being thin and athletic my entire life and could not lose the weight no matter what I did. No one could explain the rapid weight gain to me. I developed sores from head to toe that would not heal. I started to assume that I had Morgellons because of this. By then started to think that maybe I was allergic to the carpet beetles.. I was sent for allergy testing with all of the needles but they would not test to see if I was allergic two carpet beetles. I do not know why they would not test but I still do not have the answer. We had to move back into the house where the carpet beetles were and we have since moved out again there is a relation between the carpet beetles and the crystals or this is Morgellons, whatever that really is. My daughter does not like having bowel movements since the start it and she does not like having her anus White after bowel movements since this started. It's like there is something causing her pain.
The clear crystals are sometimes hard now when I find them and I just finished reading an answer from someone else that said that she may not be able to tolerate the uric acid so this is something I'm going to look into next.
Similar things to look for would be sores on the body usually in groups of two or more that won't heal for months. I developed a polyp in my new three different times and I've never had this before. If you are finding small holes in your clothing or any natural fiber in your home it may be carpet beetle related. My daughter and I both had become anemic. I was also told recently for the first time that the 20 pound weight gain that I have since lost was due to an allergic reaction. That does make perfect sense to me.
Since we still do not have a properly diagnosed answer I'm curious to know if you have anything besides the crystals going on and if you ever found them in a dry diaper or on your child after taking a dry diaper off.
I'm sorry this was so long but I really would like to clear this issue up and get an answer and the only way to do that seems to be to team up with other parents who are experiencing this problem and not label it incorrectly as coming from a wet diaper.
Just for Giggles, try looking at the Crystal under a microscope and Watch What Happens.
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