Malassezia Yeast:Symptoms and Effects (P1)

                                                        (June 2012)

                                                    Malassezia Yeast

 Symptoms and Effects (PT 1)

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                                   Viewed with Digital Microscope          

                               

          “How it Looks during different Stages and Effects on the Body”

Malassezia Yeast: Symptoms and Effects on Body – Photos and Comments 

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                  ( Part 1: What it Looks like during different Stages )

 

Malassezia fatty Blob caught on a Cotton Bud

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Back in the Beginning of the outbreak at end 2009 -10

there were a dozen a day of this worm looking like ‘creatures’

caught on cotton buds each looking very much alike any other

 

My man was sceptical, believing it was just ear wax…

I differed strongly in my view because ear wax spreads on the cotton bud

and even if dryer and or thicker –depending on the individual – it would still

be impossible to come up repeatedly looking like a worm creature  ‘disturbed’ 

by the rubbing and wiping  caused by the  cotton bud.

 

Additionally, ear wax even the very thin consistency, looks rather orange in colour

or light yellow while this is a very light creamy yellowish,

-allowing photo colour variation- yet often visible to the naked eye.

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(2014 It looked more distinct gel like – not the usual ear wax consistency)

 

My search high and low to match it with any available Google worm photos

repeatedly failed. Later on when i started researching the Demodex

–since its shape appeared somewhat similar- i also tried to find a photo

matching the colour but i could not safely match it to my absolute satisfaction.

 

Now, finally after having examined Malassezia closely at its different stages

i firmly believe it is in the second semi-liquid stage of development

–of considerably reduced mobility- and hours before the next stage 

of final crystallisation and immobility, and when it looks much like this:

 

 Malassezia crystalline shard viewed with Digital Microscope

 

Back then it was my man who thought that this was definitely a Demodex

and me disagreeing  strongly because it was too big and did not seem

to look anything like near any Demodex photo i had seen.

Initially i had been sceptical and dismissed it as a possible ‘salt’ grain from the bath…

but there was no good explanation of how

a) it could it have been lodged so far inside the ear without feeling uncomfortable

    -salt not being a soft substance

b) not already totally dissolved in the bath,

c) lodging in my ear without ever ducking my head under water                                                              

Yet so closely resembling the crystalline shape and colour of a Malassezia shard

 

Now, after having seen and verified Malassezia in its crystalline form 

and even with the developing hyphae, under the Biological Microscope,

i am still prepared to consider a chance of perhaps still been a salt grain after all

but i still see it more likely as a Malassezia shard and next stage

from the semi-solidified Blob (pictured above)

 

1) Malassezia crystalline shard viewed under Biological Microscope

 

Below similarity comparison of the shape of samples collected at different times 

Photos 1: Viewed with Digital Microscope // 2-3: Viewed under Biological Microscope

All elongated, opaque white in colour, hyphae invisible to the naked eye.

 

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