Lotus milk and empty fingers

Empty fingers is not actually a disease. It is a picture that first circulated on the Internet. Someone photoshopped a picture of a finger and a picture of a lamprey's mouth together. Lotus breasts refer to women whose breasts are ulcerated due to myiasis. The spot in the middle of the chest is filled with black substances, which look like a lotus pod. What is so scary about puffy breasts and empty fingers? In fact, it is using people's psychological barriers to scare them.

Lotus breasts are essentially just a layer of transparent paper pasted on the breasts. So, beautiful breasts are still beautiful breasts, just with an inappropriate sticker on them. If you are not used to it, peel off the inappropriate sticker and there is still beautiful skin behind it. It is just a thin layer of cover to protect the beautiful mystery behind it, nothing more. Similarly, empty fingers can also be photoshopped using this method.

Therefore, whether it is lotus breasts or empty fingers, they are all used by pranksters to scare people by taking advantage of the psychological barriers caused by people's personality and thinking habits. This psychological disorder is called cluster phobia.

The main symptom of myiasis is the mechanical irritation of the maggots to the host or patient. The hairs, hooks, spines, and migrations on the body surface of maggots can irritate the host's body wall. Patients may feel tingling, pain, itching, foreign body sensation, migration sensation, etc. in certain parts of the body. For example, patients with nasal maggot disease may sneeze and feel like there is something foreign in their nose. Patients with urogenital myiasis may experience tingling, migratory sensation, frequent urination, urgency, and pain in the lower abdomen, urethra, and vagina. Patients with cutaneous maggot disease will feel a tingling pain under the skin, a sensation of migration under the skin, and even visible tunnels left by the migration of maggots under the skin. In addition, maggots carry bacteria on their bodies, which may cause infection. The maggots that cause nasal mycorrhea may enter the cranial cavity through the sinuses, causing serious consequences or even death. The maggots that cause ocular myiasis may enter the eyeball, destroy the tissue inside the eye, and cause blindness. Some fly maggots, such as the screw-worm fly, feed on the host's body tissue. The consequences can be serious, even death.

(1) Creeping rash When the fly maggots pass through the skin and migrate in the subcutaneous tissue, red edematous swellings appear on the skin. The larvae are hidden in the normal skin at the front end of the blisters.

(2) When the furunculosis type first occurs, nodules or lumps of varying sizes and depths appear on the skin, accompanied by pain and tenderness. The maggots live in the nodules. When the larvae are about to drill out of the skin, the lump gradually increases, local edema intensifies, the pores on the skin expand, there is a pricking pain and a sense of worm crawling. After a few hours, soybean-sized blisters appear on the surface of the lump or nodule. The blister wall is thin and tense. If the blister wall is punctured, the larvae can be squeezed out of the yellow-red mucus. The lump then shrinks and the inflammation subsides, leaving a small perforated hole in the center and healing. If the maggots are infested deep in the area, the nodules may take several months to break, which is rare. If the nodules do not rupture, the maggots may sneak under the skin for several centimeters and then new nodules or lumps will reappear. Small papules will appear on the surface of the lumps, forming pseudoabscesses. This type is called variant cutaneous myiasis. Furunculous cutaneous myiasis often occurs in loose areas of skin, most commonly on the eyelids, lips, abdomen, and deep forearms, with 1 to 2 or more than 10 in number.

1. Exposure therapy is to force the patient to accept the things that cause him fear. Suddenly exposing the patient to the thing he fears will cause him to suffer great psychological stimulation. If successful, it will enable the patient to establish a new understanding of the fear impression and understand that fear is unnecessary. The patient should look at it more until he feels nothing. Forensic medicine students eliminate their fear of corpses by having more contact with corpses. This is called "desensitization."

2. The basic treatment principle of Morita therapy is "let nature take its course". Letting things take their own course means accepting and obeying the objective laws of how things work, which can ultimately break the mental interactions of neurotic patients. To let things take their course requires patients to face negative experiences under the guidance of this attitude, accept the appearance of various symptoms, and focus on what they should do. In this way, the patient's motivational conflict is eliminated and his pain is alleviated.