Delusory parasitosis is the erroneous belief that the body is infested with invisible bugs, mites, worms or other parasites. It is also called Ekbom Syndrome.

Aug. 2, 2004 -- The arthropod Collembola (Springtails) is a common factor in patients originally diagnosed with delusory parasitosis, according to the results of a case-controlled study published ...

Delusory parasitosis may lead to intense scratching, scraping, cutting, and use of caustic or toxic chemicals. In my last entry, I discussed insect-based hallucinations and illusions. A delusion ...

Delusory fears of king Dasharatha. Even as all earth shook in the presence of the Rishi Vishwamitra, especially when he made a request to King Dasharatha to send his son with him to the forest to ...

Delusory parasitosis—the false belief that one is infested—has a long history of tragic cases extending back more than a century. Two of the most infamous cases involved scientists in ...

She suffered from a psychiatric disorder called delusory parasitosis, a condition in which patients try to find physical evidence for the sensations they perceive, often to their own detriment.

My theory, and it is only a theory, is that a small percentage of these cases are delusory parasitosis, but the rest may be the results of something else, possibly pollutants.

When this delusory thought is gone, since the thought and the consequent feeling is unreal, it automatically ceases to exist. The limited identity is real as long as the delusion prevails.