Post by New Contributor Lori Travers!

You’ve got scabies.

This is not something you want to hear upon visiting your integrative doc’s office.

For a split second I was happy to hear that there was indeed a diagnosis…then reality hit.

At a very base level, this microscopic, but extremely annoying creature lives under the skin of humans. They cannot survive outside of a “host”. They can live there for weeks without the unsuspecting human ever noticing. But when the symptoms occur, they start out as small irritations…hardly noticeable. Then they become increasingly annoying…

scratch…scratch…SCRATCH!!  Eventually, the proverbial “all...