A Rare Case of an Elderly Woman with Delusional Parasitosis (Ekbom’s Syndrome)

Introduction: Delusional parasitosis is a form of relatively rare psychiatric disorder in which the sufferer holds firms false believe their skin being infested by parasite. On 1938 scientist Ekbom published case report detailing 8 patients suffering from this delusional perception and hence condition also known as Ekbom’s syndrome.
 Case Presentation: We present 67 years old normotensive non diabetic female patient who was brought to outpatient Department her son with complain that, insects are crawling under skin. She has been for three it causing tremendous psychosocial physical adverse consequences. never on treatment any specialist before but received traditional village healers little improvement.
 Conclusion: syndrome yet important disorder. This hard treat that Doctors should be aware of.