I'm a Demodex folliculorum and I'm currently dating a Demodex brevis so I'm somewhat of an expert. Our host is pretty gross and rarely showers which has made the real estate in this area really expensive. We've been trying to move to another host but the opportunity hasn't come up yet. Anyway, to answer your question, we have scuba gear.
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Thanks for the insight, Greg.
I think this is the dude who stole our lawnmower!!
I did steal a lawnmower from a fellow lemming, and they were from @lemmy.world, but I think it was a different @UndulyUnruly
That smell. I recognise that smell. It’s the smell of pants on fire.
It's so good to have diverse voices to hear from.
I wish Lemmy would grow to the point when these Reddit moments of "I'm a dermatologist, and actually...” happen as usual as they happen on Reddit.
Hey at least we're at the point where people are asking the questions! Literally three days ago nobody needed to summon a dermatologist.
Literally three days ago nobody needed to summon a dermatologist.
As a nerd with regular cycles of bad skin from dermatitis since my teen years I doubt nobody in a community of nerds needed to summon a dermatologist, but we may soon hit the sweet spot of being big enough to have specific expertise in comments without people lying for clout or karma farming!
Those were the days
I like your attitude!
That used to be the case on reddit. These days you have to scroll through hundreds of lame jokes to find an actual discussion.
You will still find these on Quora. They don't even need to say what they are, their subtitle will just say it all
Except they usually won't answer your question, they'll just call you dumb and move on
As another user pointed out, most bacteria and other microscopic forms of life don't really "breath" in the way we think of it. Often they just absorb oxygen from their surrounding environments.
They can be washed away, killed by chlorine (pools), or killed by salt imbalance (ocean). However it's really hard (read near impossible) to kill them all, and even if you did they exist in our environments naturally and from other humans as well as on things we've touched recently. So they repopulate quickly.
There are some arguments that Sodium Laurel Sulfate kills "good" bacteria on our skin.
Now hear me out:
What if you jumped through a tall fire, naked, a few times? Nothing so fast as to actually burn you, but enough to make you hairless.
I'm fairly certain that would kill quite a bit of the microbiome.
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I am not a microbiologist. However I do know that bacteria are pretty resilient, and most pathogens and parasites can live for at least a few hours outside of a host. Plus your skin is really not all that smooth at a microscopic level, there are all sorts of little nooks and crannies to hold onto.
Drowning wouldn’t really be a concern for them, imo, but additives like chlorine are specifically meant to be disinfectants.
TIL I have little bugs on my skin :(
I never realised how much I really want to know the answer to this question.
I can't say I know the answer, but I do know that one of these bugs -- Tardigrades -- are extremely hard to kill. IIRC one was put into a vacuum and removed after some time. It was either completely fine right away or after a little while.
If I had to give a guess to other things, some of them probably die, yes. Hopefully someone else who knows more will be able to give more information!
Here's what Chatgpt/google bard have to say:
The answer is: not necessarily. Most of the bacteria on our skin are adapted to living in wet environments, so they will not suffocate. However, some bacteria may be washed away or killed by the chlorine in the pool.
People are downvoting because of the first line.
Yeah, I’m aware. There were like 10 comments with no replies, so I thought it’d be fun to see what the Chatbot would say. I didn’t take its answer too seriously, but I knew people might be sensitive to the answer. It would have been unfair of me to not say that it was though. Now people can at least decide whether or not to discard the information by providing a “source”.
Why are we relying on language models to answer questions. These things don’t really “know” anything right?
No one knows anything get over yourself buddy - it gave a correct answer way more polite than I ever could so who's gonna complain
Rabbits