Meth Mites occur when a person uses methamphetamine.
Meth Mites are not actual mites or bugs, but rather the result from the chemicals in the metmethamphetamine causing the skin to dry out and become flakey. Most
Meth users
will continue to itch or pick at the skin causing sores, and in some cases the sores to become infected.
Meth Mites can appear on someone who has only used
Meth once, and another
Meth user may never develop them.
Meth Mites can form anywhere on the body, but most commonly on the face, back, chest, and upper arms. They usually become worse because of the picking I mentioned above, and also a lack of hygeine in the
Meth user. Meth Mites usually start off looking like small pimples or whiteheads, then they become dried out and the small spots become flakey leaving red spots and scabs. If they are picked at they become worse and worse, and can lead to possible infection. The only way for the Meth Mites to go away is to
stop using Methamphetamine. Unfortunately, in most cases the damage has been done, and even after being sober from Meth, the Meth Mites have already left the skin with reddish or bownish spots all over the body, these spots do not go away and are pretty much a bunch of small scars.
