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My Granddaughter has bed bug bites all over her body. What can I do to get rid of the bugs and help heal the bites?
I initially got on this site looking for pics of spider bites for my husband, he has one on his inner thigh, and we were trying to identify what it was that bit him. Then I happened upon the bed bug link and here is my story.
Back in Feb 07, my husband and I bought a box springs from a local thrift store. Ours was one of those cheap ones, and had been broken for a while. We did not think much about it, since we would not be directly sleeping on it. It was not long before I was covered in little bumps. All over my arms, legs, hands, anything that was not covered by clothes. I would have literally hundreds at a time. I was pregnant, so I went to the doctor and she told me it was a “crazy pregnancy rash” that would go away after the baby was born. She gave me a prescription for a topical cream to relieve the itching. I had so many of them, that it took almost the whole tube to cover them all.
The end of April, I went into premature labor (2 full months of itching…with no idea what was causing it) While I was in the hospital, they put me on antibiotics and several other meds to try and stop the labor, and the bumps went away. I thought it was because of the antibiotics, but now I realize that I was sleeping in a “clean” bed.
My baby came early, at 27 weeks, so after 2 weeks in the hospital, I went home. Woke up the next morning with about 20-30 bites on my arms/legs. I would wake up daily with more “bumps”. Not knowing what it was, we tried changing laundry detergent, soap, everything I could think of. I thought I was having an allergic reaction to something.
When I went back to my doctor for my 6 week checkup, I showed them to her and she put me on steroids. The bumps went away, the itching stopped. It was like magic. Then, after the 14 day round of steroids, they came back. I called my doctor, and she phoned me a different type of steroid, and set me up an appt with a dermatologist. It was July before I could see the derm, so by this point, I had been itching like crazy for 5 months.
When I saw the derm, she took several vials of blood - to check for any kind of infection, then determined - in her expert opinion - that I had an old fashioned case of the ‘hives’. Since I am nursing my daughter, there was very few meds I could take, so she put me on some antihistamines to try and do whatever, and told me that basically I had to deal with it.
About 2 weeks later, around the first of August, my husband (he had been in the same bed as me the entire time, and never had any on him at all) anyway, he woke up with a bug on his hand, we stripped all the sheets off the bed, and raised up the mattress and box springs.
Inside, there were literally hundreds of bed bugs. All different sizes. He threw both the mattress and box springs in the back yard to burn. We started sleeping in the LR. The next day I started doing research online and determined for myself they were indeed bedbugs.
There is only one exterminator in the area that treats bedbugs, and that was going to cost somewhere in the thousands. My husband and I are now in the process of moving. We are taking each thing out one at a time. Washing in hot water and drying what can be washed and cleaning everything else by hand. My daughter had a co-sleeper bassinet attached to the side of our bed. We have a small (8′) pool outside, so we put it in the pool to try and drown any bugs that may be in it.
I have since done more research, and found that anything that you cannot wash, you can sit outside, sealed in black plastic, for a minimum of 4 hours in the hottest part of the day. The bugs cannot survive the heat that is generated by the sun and the black bags.
I currently have a recliner wrapped in about 4 black contractor bags on my grandmother’s patio. This was a complete night mare for us. I have been itch-free now for about a month and a half.
It was weird, though, how the bumps would look. Some would swell up like mosquito bites, while others would get a clear liquid filled head on them.
I would never wish these pests on anyone.
My grandson attends a day care center. He came home today with a red welt on his lower back and what appeared to be a bite in the center. There was only one. The welt is not raised. He did not appear to be itchy. The kids sleep on cots for their naps. The sheets are supplied by the parents. Have you heard of bed bugs in Day Care Centers and can there be one bite rather than a group of bites? Thanks, Ruth
HELP!!!!! I lived in a new state and rented and had bites all over my body for many nights and my landlord had an exterminator come and inspect. He barely looked at the room and bed when he said you don’t have bedbugs. Then he sprayed for regular bugs. I asked why i had been bitten and he said i don’t know but its not bed bugs. I kept getting bites. Now I have moved away out of state to a new place. I did not bring my furniture, I sleep on an air mattress, I have washed and dried all of my clothes and inspected everything.
After 4 days of living in new place i have bites again, i searched and found possible white eggs in a cluster on the bedroom wall baseboard. I wiped them off with a paper towel and they came off easily. I flushed them. These are my questions ans please answer them as bedbug person because i notice that you answer some questions but not all of them. PLEASE help!!! I appreciate it.
My questions are
1) Can the eggs come off that easily and what size are the eggs?
2) at what point of not getting bit will one know that they got rid of bedbugs?? How long of not being bit?
3) are there any pictures anywhere of what the nymphs look like with the naked eyes and not enlarged 100 times? DO bedbugs leave little dots of brown or black lint looking things on the sheets and if so, do they always have blood or do they sometimes not?
Thank you so much and I look forward to the answers.
Can bed bugs appear “fuzzy”?
This morning I noticed what looks like a bed bug (based on photos I googled after) on the carpet of my bedroom floor in a house I’ve been renting for just over a month. Its body was identically structured to that of a bed bug, but the main difference was that it was all fuzzy. I read jmosk’s post on Sept.24th in which he describes a similar insect.
I have not noticed any bites on my body. I inspected my mattress, bedding, headboard, footboard, boxspring (inside and out), baseboards and nightstand and did not find any other bugs, eggs or excrement spots.
Is the picture above that of a bed bug? If so, why was it covered in what looked like beige dust/lint?
Thanks for your help!
I recently stayed at a hotel in West Yellowstone and received over 500 bites on my arms, legs, neck, and head.
I am now paying for this in the form of extermination fee’s and doctor fee’s. I’m not sure what else will come later.
If anyone knows how I can protect myself from other costs please let me know.
I’m so happy Ross posted bed bug pictures, I awoke this morning feeling real itchy, especially my ears and head and thought it might be my meds even though I never had problems in the past with them. As the day worn on I started feeling itchy all over and went to the lady’s room at work only to find my whole torso looking like Ross’s arm and head. I haven’t been anywhere except to work . My boyfriend brought in my firewood yesterday, I think too early but I couldn’t say no to an offer of throwing in 5 cord of wood. I called him and told him to get my dogs out of the house and bomb the heck out of it. My dogs are well protected from biting critters but I wonder if they would still hitch a ride? Last year I picked up something on a plane, when I got to where I was going, I infested my sister. An elderly Mexican friend told us to use boiling water and a certain cactus juice, no luck finding the cactus so we nearly gave ourselves 3rd degree burn with hot water, worked great for her she was fine in a few days, I was not and I did the hot water thing for longer. She’s darker skinned than I, I’m very fair skinned, fair skinned seems to have more problems.
My name is Kimberly I am 9 months Pregnant. I have been seriously bitten i thought first thought it was maybe Chicken poxs then I thought it might have been measles. Then concerdering that I was Pregnant, I thought it might have been stress bumps the doctor says that Pregnant women get werid rashes. I started to get more man they itch like crazy i was going insain. I didn’t think bed bugs because i never had to go through with bed bugs before recently I was staying at my Boyfriends sisters house. I used to sleep in the kids beds and barley getting bit but, I was getting to the point were I couldnt walk upstairs so I had to sleep down stairs on the futon in the Kitchen. In the kitchen it was hot so i kept the door open for awhile and the next morning I woke up to find Mesquito bites they were fluidly like and I was itching like crazy again the bite had changed they didn’t look like Chicken poxs they looked like the mesquito bites. So i didn’t think so much about them and I was really thinking man I was really getting bit buy mesquitos. Well My boyfriends sister noticed that everyone was getting the same bites. She was sitting up stairs and noticed that there was a werid shaped bug on her bed she killed it. She had told someone about it and she said they are Light brown, flat shaped body, a small head, and they move real fast, that person told us that it was bed bugs man we kept looking there was nothing well they apartment complex sprayed there house for roches a every 6 month thing the complex does and then they started to notice alot of bug they moved the couches and there were tons of bugs eggs and left over shells . They look like Sue #28 (Bites) and Sue#33 are the bugs man they are so nasty I now went to my house i was really carfull about bringing something in the house well I went back to my house and now my Mother has spotted a bug she thinks it may have been a bed bug. Bed Bugs are a serious matter and very hard to get rid of u can use any spray they get stronger on alot of sprays. They are every where you pretty much got to throw everything away and extermenate the house. And buy all new fruniture and wash all your cloths in hot water and Dry your shoes in a heated dryer. Well If anyone has any Ideas to let me know how i can get rid of the bed bugs in a way where i can aford it would be well apreicated thank you.
My nightmare began around the end of Aug. I started to see the bugs before the bites. I know that’s odd but I get up at 4:00 am. So I was able to make my bed an island early on. They still get me but not as much as they would have. I think they are getting the poor dog. I try to keep him away but he cries.
My daughter was the one that seemed to be bit the most. My bites are no where near as bad as some of the pictures I see posted here. They look the most like Emily’s but fewer
Everything I own (in the bed room) is in plastic bags. My cloths are not up here any more. My bed has a mattress cover and a sheet. I cant use my blankets they are dark colored and I cant stand not knowing if the bugs are on my bed. I burn two 100 watt lamps 24 7. There is diatomaceous earth scattered all over my room. Mostly around the bed.
Bug spray doesn’t kill them any more. I am using drione dust, gentrol and anything else I can get my hands on. I also have an exterminator. He’s pretty useless but I am stuck in a contract now. Even he has bedbugs! He told me he can’t get rid of his!
After all I have done the little bastards are still alive and kicking. They are now nesting up by the ceiling. I forgot to mention I also caulked every crack I could find, Bought a steamer and steamed EVERYTHING even the furniture. All the bottoms of the furniture are covered in Vaseline and nothing is touching the wall.
I cant sleep. I lay here crying watching them and killing them all night. I cant even sleep in the day now. It seems they no longer care if its night or day. All I can do is pray now. I pray they stay only in this room. I would rather they bite me then my kids.
I THINK they are gone from my daughters room. She has no more bites and we haven’t seen one there for about 3 weeks. I got her a loft bed I think that helped. My other daughter has a metal loft bed in her room and she never had the bed bugs. I thought I would mention that because it really seems to help. The diatomaceous earth is the newest thing I tried and I THINK it might be helping. Even if it does look like it snowed in my room.
I was wondering, do any of you think you will ever be able to sleep in the dark again? I know I wont. I always feel like there are bugs crawling on me. I have my moles ripped apart because I had it in my head they were bites. The lack of sleep is really making me lose my mind. I am hoping someone here can tell me, how do you know when you are winning? I will go a few days only seeing 4 or 5 then a week later there are 20 climbing up the walls.
What else can I do? Is it true that in a few weeks when it get cold I can just open the bedroom window and freeze them to death? I feel like burning the house down.
Jackie
i got bite by something in a motel room on sat night in fresno cal. in Oct. it started out like a lot of red ink spots then by tues it started to bother me they got bigger and got pus in them. then by fri it swelled my leg got 2 blood blisters and bites kinda look like a flea bite then they connected together now it looks like rigimortis set into my shin of the leg but still can feel my skin i have about 100 bites on the right leg and 10 on the left leg including the feet of both legs 2 bites on the stomache and 2 on the right arm. i have been bite by flea’s before but it doesn’t do this to me i went to the hosp. sat morning one week after i couldn’t take the burning pain anymore it was just really bad now its been 8 days and i still look like i have rigimortis in my shin and the bites are still there all it feels like now is an infection and small amount of pain the dr put me on anitbiotics and steroids but i don’t think it’s getting that much better what do you think i might of been bite by
I’m a 29 year old female I was dealing with a guy that told me he had bedbug in his house unfortunately I let him sleep ova and apparently he wasn’t alone. a couple of weeks later I noticed all these bite marks I immediately threw my mattresses away and bought an air mattress in the meantime.
I have a younger son that is 1 1/2 he sleeps with me and him till this day are getting bite. I have little dots everywhere so many scars front scratching everywhere especially on my behind. I have been to the emergency room 3 times already. first time they gave me and my son steroids and benedryll and send us on our way it didn’t work, then I went they said it was a skin infection and they gave us antibiotics and a different type of anti itch cream, my son got worse he started getting what looked like boils.
He has them on his hands neck leg he even has one on his neck and five on his head. Now I was scared because of that boy in Brooklyn that died recently of mrsa (staph infection) so I went again I made them take blood and it came out negative for mrsa.
So now, they said its scabies they gave me a one time application of a cream for me and the baby. It has been almost a week since the application and so far, it is just getting worse. I am not sure what other options I have.
If you would please give me some advice, I would appreciate it. Thank you
mine looks like a mosquto BITE and it kind of stings like sort of a bee but only when i touch it and feels tingley when i dont touch it and i only have one but i need to know what it is or hopefully was HELP PLEASE I WANT TO KNOW is a little bit redder than my skin BUT NOT a lot ans its pretty big thanks
Am I glad I’m getting the hell out of here. It’s a Hud owned bldg. but Marquette University bought it in a 50 million dollar deal so they’re throwing everyone (blind, disabled, sick, poor) out. And just in time. The “mgr” of this bldg. (looks like he might be a relative of the bed-bug) came by last week with a kid and a spray can to look for bed bugs. They didn’t find any but might have dropped some off from one of their other stops. Nasty minute maggot like creatures don’t seem to care if you’re concious, they bite like alligators. This’ll give those students something to study.
Hi there…
Question on these bites…I didn’t find any evidence that these bites where caused from a bed bug. They are just peppered around my ankles…and a few on my wrists. I noticed I was being bitten when I recently took the thick sleeping bag from the camper and used it…
I have now put it outside….freeze whatever was living in the sleeping bag, with the help from Wisconsin winters.
Yes, they itch something terrible, and find that I wake at night….wanting to itch them. Seems like I get new ones…
I noticed that this condo unit….sure does have a lot of spiders…
spider bites, spider mites, bed bugs or something else?
Please help….
bitten in Wis.
I went to a cabin and got bed bug bites. It was not pretty so make sure you check before you sleep!
I just wanted to update and tell you all I havent seen a bed bug in more then 2 weeks now. I havent had a bite in weeks.
Dont give up! you can win!
I hope i never see another bed bug again
We’ve been dealing with bedbugs for about a year now. I thought we got it beat. Havn’t seen a trace for about two months. we bought matress covers, emptied all the rooms, treated with boric acid, even patched and painted the walls,but tonight my son found one. In the couch. I just want to cry. This is becoming a full time job!
Sally (#15) –
I stayed at the Fort Des Moines in October while on business and got bed bug bites all over my stomach. I was upset but got truly upset when I developed a staph infection from them. Call the Fort and let them know what happened to you. This MUST stop! They claim they have no bed bugs, but you and I don’t know each other and have very similar tales. –Amy
I’m suffering the most from Bed Bugs! I slept on my grandmothers couch and when i woke up i was itching like crazy. now i’m just washing and putting ice on every single bump i have. The bites look horrible and i have to go to school everyday…. What i should do??
i moved in to this trailer and noticed that i kept on getting bites and finally got exterminator here and he told me they were bed bugs and we seem to be killing most of them but not all they seem to be more since he has sparyed what do i do im really scared of any kind of bug i cant even sit on my couch with out them crawling all over me my husband seems not to be bitten by them its like they pick on me what do i do theres got to be a way to get rid of them all and soon .
A few montha ago I let my son’s frind stay at our house for a couple a weeks. At the time he had this really nasty rash on his body, he said it was some kind of reactin to something. About a month or so after he left, my son started showing similiar symptoms. A week went by and the rash spread uncontrollably all over his body. He couldn’t quit scratching, nothing helped. So I made him a Dr. appointment, the Dr. tells us it’s his nerves and prescribed him some kind of anxiety pill with antihistamine in it. We proceeded to take the medication as presribed. Only his rash got really bad. So I took him back to the Dr. He said the same thing again. Only I made the Dr. prescribe him some kind of antibiotic cream. After awhile it seemed to start to go away, but now my 2 year old daughter is now showing the same symptoms. Do we have bed bugs? I’ve looked for the signs that are mentioned but I dont see anything what am I not doing right? I dont have any photos believe me I wish I would of kept a diary of it all.
Hi there,
I’m so glad I’ve found this site. I’m very, very down. I live in London and less than a month ago I moved into a lovely three bedroom flat which I was hoping to make my home and my clinic as I’m a Sports’ Physio. To cut a long story short, I got bitten, bitten and bitten again. Told my Landlady who promptly called a Professional Pest Control & he sprayed my flat. But the problems did not go away I got bit again, he came back & re-sprayed and promised they would go. Here are four pictures of the bed bug bites I have:
I have read every bit of info on bed bugs & doing everything I was advised. I don’t know what else to do? How do I know that my Landlady used a reputable Pest Controller? He said I will get bitten now & again and seemed to think that’s normal. But I’m allergic & its draining me, especially with my job its very debilitating.
Please, please can you help me? What are my rights as a new tenant? Is it possible to ever get rid of bed bugs? If so how and who should I call to properly spray the flat? Please help me, I’ve come to the end of my patience!
I went to California about 2 months ago. About 2 days after we came home I started to get this rash that really itched on the top of my legs and my stomach. I scratched them so bad that I have scabs. They started to spread all over my body. I now have them everywhere but my face and feet.
I have been to my regular doctor and a dermatologist and even to the hospital to try and find out what they are from. All the doctors just stare at them? And say I don’t know what it is but here is some cream for it. Which of course doesn’t work. Then I got a staph infection on my shins from scratching so much and they gave me meds for it. But that has gone away. I’m still getting new ones and the itching has gotten so bad that I could jump out of my skin.
I have tried every kind of itch cream that there is out there but nothing works. I have a hard time taking a shower because the water feels like acid on my skin. I can’t wear a coat or anything heavy because it makes me sweat and I itch more (and it was 23 degrees here to day). When I was with my in-laws today we were talking about it and someone said they heard that a lot of people were having trouble with bed bugs and that I should check my bedroom. My husband and I checked our bed tonight but didn’t really find anything that we could see.
Tomorrow I am going to take my room apart and see if I can find anything. Does this sound like anything that anyone else is experiencing? Especially with the water on there skin and the heat making it worse?
Ok, I was wrong
The bed bugs are not gone. I saw more this morning. They are living in a crack in the ceiling.Or shall I say WERE living a crack in the ceiling. What I don’t understand is why i have no bite marks.
I killed the one and it was full of blood. Do they always leave a mark? Do they always make you itch? I am puzzled.
Jackie
As a qualified Aromatherapist, I’ve found a few things that have helped me out with the bites…..First dab Essential Oil of Basil with a cotton bud on each bite, this will cause the ‘poison’ the bug has deposited to surface, if possible lance with a sterilised pin (flame heat/wipe clean), then dab with tea tree oil & finally lavender oil seems to stop the itching for me…..I’ve also found that bed bugs seem to hate lavender oil…so I’ve started putting it everywhere. I’ve had no bites for a few days…..I’m hopeful …
I wish I had taken pics, but at the time I didn’t know it was bed bugs. I found out after being treated for an allergic reaction. I washed my clothes because the dr. said maybe it was my laundry soap… in that process I washed my sheets and there is where I found alot of ‘fed’ bed bugs. I must have been there ‘dinning place’ for at least 1 week. A week after I found the bed bugs the dr. done blood work because my knees, ankles and wrists we hurting and swollen. The blood work confirmed I now have LYME desease. No one wants to say it came from the bed bugs, but I am not convinced… I have been fighting Lyme now for 6 weeks… I hope that the dr. can fix my problem and that someone will concider that it is possible that bed bugs now carry some blood deseases.
I was very silly, I moved into a new house November 1st and 6 days later I was lying with my 7 month old son on my bed and I noticed a bug crawling beside our heads. I quickly got a kleenex and killed it. To my surprize it had blood come out I thought what kind of bug bleeds I looked it up on the internet and sure enough it was a bed bug.
I called the health department and they confirmed it was indeed beg bugs. We found a couple on my mattress anyhow I had my place fumagated that day threw out my bed boxspring that someone had given to me and took all my laundry down stairs. I am loaded with bites and I just had my second fumagaiton on friday nov 23rd now I noticed that my 7 month old has bites and don’t know what to do.
I am trying to vaccum everything what if they got deep in my couches I even found one in my sons blanket it was dead though its weird I have not noticed any bites on my 17 month old nor the kids dad only me and now my 7 month old.
How can I get rid of them??????????????please help
Bit of a strange question here. I’m in the act of attempting to identify a bed bug problem. Being bitten but not so often that I can confirm it yet. But one night out of one of the bites there was a yellowy-white thing sticking out…looked like a spear of rough skin. I’m wondering if this was an egg sack? I know that sounds stupid but I don’t know what it was as I don’t eat in my room or anything. Look at pictures though and egg flasks seem too rounded to be able to penetrate skin. Any thoughts/experiences with this? Many thanks xx
I found an insect that resembles this bug a whole lot and the bites I’ve been having are very similar to the pictures on this site but, I found an infestation on my indoor palm plants and the plants are covered with little white eggs the size of ants which I’ve heard bed bugs have.
I have been to many websites and none of them ever state that the bed bugs dwelling can also be plants. If anybody knows of this please post info as it would be very helpful to my family curiosity.
lei’s picture reminds me of the bites i got earlier this year around knees and upper legs, upper arms, stomach and groin; according to the dermatologist, and confirmed by the vet, my cat had transferred his ear mites to me. i was itching and scratching in a frenzy, particularly at night and the single treatment of crotamiton creme followed by lotrix creme for 15 days cleared it up. i found this site today because i’ve started itching again!!! think it might be dust mites , the cats are ok. just got woolies and cords out of cupboard and wearing them since yesterday, they were washed before being put away, but i wonder if they might have picked something up during the hot humid summer months.
We have a person at work-that have them bad. What can the co-workers do to prevent them to have it…We don’t want this.
I’m totally losing it. I’m pretty certain bed bugs in my car. I spend a lot of time in hotels and am afraid I’m tracking them everywhere.
Can you kill them if you microwave your clothes?
Do they sneak into books?
I’m thinking about sticking the hair blower nozzle in the suitcase with the zippers open just far enough to get it in and then blasting the thing on high for about 15 minutes. Will that start a fire?
I’m creating welts from scratching where there are no bites.
Thanks.
We’ve (my boyfriend and I) just moved to room that we are renting and after just 2 nights I saw few little spots on my left hand (it was the same day that I’ve got a new job at a medical records). 3 days later my both hands were all swollen, covered in red bumps.
I’ve managed to count about 48 only on my left hand (from fingers to the wrist) and 26 on the right one. It looked really horrible. We’ve found about 10 of bed bugs and killed them. 2 days later I was fired because nobody believed me that my hands are covered with bite marks - everybody was afraid that it’s some kind of rash that they can be easily infected with.
I’ve went to see the doctor today, he’d phoned them and told them, that they can’t get infected by that but they found someone in my place
O!! and the doctor was little strange, he told me that he suspected that these are not bedbug bite marks (although I’ve told him that I’ve even saw one that was biting me) but that I have Scabies!!!!!!!!! funny man 
Well, I’ve got rid of the bedbugs now by spraying the room, and steam vacuming the bed. Now I’m washing all the clothes and linen, ironing them and putting them into the plastic bags - We’re moving out in a week :))
maniana,
I worked in the medical records department a long time, had a terrible reaction to the the dust mites that love to hang out in file rooms. Also , i did get scabies but from a fellow employee in the fileroom. Yuckie !
Hello, I have been trying to figure out what keeps biting me. I have had 6 of these bites in the past 6 months. They are itchy, then they scab up with a black center. It is about nickel sized, sore, puffy and not draining. See picture below please.
I am looking for help on how to treat these so they don’t leave scars and red marks, AND I need to figure out what is biting me, so I can kill it!
Thank you!
Liz
I think that I may have bed bugs at night while am asleep I feel something biting me whatever it is, is leaving my skin red. It is leaving a black mark on me after the bite. The bites itch like the dickens and I need to know how they look on black people.
My 21 year old son has not changed his bed linen for over 4 months,regardless of endless telling.
My question is can he get any form of bed bugs/spiders?
Wow, it has been a nightmare, I have had my place treated twice by so called professionals and then we bought stuff from the pesticide store..(large jug, aresol and powder)..we have rapped mattresses and washed everything, for the hundredth time…do these things die…geez…we have done everything as I said 3 times in the past 1.5 months…then, I found one crawling over my daughters pillow..also, I threw out my couch and a dresser too…what is going on!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my God!! Finally i am not the only one!!! I thought I was crazy i have been sleeping on the same mattress for three years now but in the last 6 months I have suffered from various bites on my arms ankles but most often my bottom!!! The only consolation I have so far is that they haven’t bitten my face. I am black and they turn red at first then bruise if I scratch too hard. Black and blue bruises. I already have extremely sensitive skin i already use fragrance free and dye free soap and detergent, no perfume or fragranced lotion just to give you an idea of how sensitive I am!
I thought they were mosquito bites because i do have allergic reactions to them but soon realized they couldn’t be, because of the severity of the reaction and the # of bites(so, many) I just don’t know what to do. Then i thought they were Japanese beetles, (which look a lot like ladybugs), but they bite,because I did see a couple of those in my bed. Now I dont see those anymore but I am still getting bitten they welt up, and come to a head with pus in them.
They itch worse than any bite i have ever experienced. My skin is becoming scarred up, been trying to use cocoa and shea butter to retone my skin. Here is an example of the most severe bites on my bottom cheek.
the guy at the hardware store said a bed bug bite could take 14 days to surface/show once bitten. Is this true or do the bite signs show immediately. I am treating like crazy with powder/sprays but all of a sudden we had bites start appearing. I can’t find this answer anywhere.
renee
I have bugs in my bed but I am not sure if they are bed bugs. First off, I don’t think I’ve come up with any bites. I just come across these longish, thin bugs lumbering across my sheets occasionally or under my pillow. I’ve found them in my laundry hamper as well, and in my backpack? I’m totally confused and really hoping these aren’t bedbugs as I have NO money to be dealing with an infestation. I’m wondering if it is some kind of moth infestation? I am currently dating someone and spending many nights outside of my apartment so my bed is rarely slept in. I wonder if this could be a factor? I will try and take a picture of the bug and send it in. Again, no bites that I have noticed, so at the moment, I am stumped.
My Mom had had this weird possible bug bite on her back for months now. It has a hole in the middle of the bite. When you squeeze it worm like pus comes out, and of course, it hurts her. There is always a mound of pus under the skin. When I put hybrogen peroxide it, it does not bubble what so ever. We don t know what to do, it even hurts her to wear a bra. Help!
I’m scared because I got bit by something (i’m almost sure it was @ school but i don’t know if it was a bed bug or something else) the bite is a red circle (VERY small red circle) and a little white head. Sort of like a pimple but not as swollen. Please tell me what you know!! Should i tell my mom to take me to the doctor? Do you know any home remedies? I put neosporin on it and put a band-aid on it. Just as my friend and science teacher adviced me. everyone tells me its not bad. What do u think??
I am staying at a mission.
I got bed bugs. My brother and I are the only ones being attacked. I know they are bed bugs because my father stepped on one and said “its a baby cockroach” It wasn’t because I looked up and found a picture of the exact bug.
He doesn’t believe me but I am printing six or seven pages with bed bug pictures and info to show him.
We are sick of them and if I get and infection I will be very disappointed.
I think we are currently dealing with bedbugs. I every morning wake up with new bites, and feel as though something is constantly crawling on me. My husband never gets bit. But for some odd reason I find them on my back neck,arms, and legs always in a row. What over the counter products can be used to get rid of these annoying creatures.
hi, i had my house sprayed three times for fleas but after reading all this information, I’m wondering if i could have bedbugs? my daughter and husband are the only ones getting bit and my daughter is covered and it looks like when she gets attacked it’s all at one spot?
How could i check the difference? i had seen the fleas before in my house but i’ve done everything and nothing is working. I always thought that because my daughter’s mattress is new that there would not be bed bugs in her bed and her bed is plastic.
Help.
My daughter came and showed me some bites about 10 days ago. I thought that they looked like mosquito bites, but it’s winter here. I really didn’t give it much thought until a few days after that. She came to me again and there were more. Again, never thought of bed bugs.
I didn’t know what they were. The next time she came, I started researching on the web. We haven’t found any bugs or evidence of them. But, her mattresses and frame are really old. The mattresses have definitely seen better days.
I sprayed down the mattresses with lice and bed bug spray. We washed the bedding, but I still have her sleep in her sister’s room on the top bunk bed. I have gotten up a couple times in the middle of the night to try and see the bugs, but haven’t seen anything.
No one else has any bites. I think I’ll get some sticky boards and try and catch the little nasties, if they’re present. After reading these posts, I think I will put the old mattresses in big bags and into the dumpster. They are ripped, so the bugs could be in there.
It sounds like this bed bug thing is going to be a nightmare.
To Aldana #93:
I don’t want to scare you, but check with the doc and see if it is a spider bite. My uncle was bitten by a brown recluse and never knew it. It looked like a pimple. He got sick, flu like symptoms and thankfully was taken to the hospital in time. He had to get skin graffing on his arm. Safer to check it out.
I have been getting bitten regularly for about a month. I decided that I would sleep somewhere else in the house since I seem to be the only target (my husband sleeps right next to me and never gets bitten). Pictures are listed below:
I started sleeping on the sofa bed but then about 2 days ago I noticed that I was being bitten again even though I have stayed away from my bedroom and again my husband has been sleeping with me on the sofa bed and he is not affected. I have searched our sheets and mattresses and found no evidence of any type of bug.
We do have a cat and I have checked him for fleas and found nothing. I even bathed him in a flea killing shampoo even though he had none that I could see but I am still getting bitten.
I am the only target of these bugs and I want to know what they are.
I hope this is not bed bugs but I wake up several times at night to feel a tiny sting. Sometimes I see a tiny red dot but most of the time there is nothing there. I feel these little bites on my arms legs back and neck. I don’t get any reaction to these bites. Also my husband doesn’t feel anything. Does this sound like bedbugs? Is it possible that I am able to feel them bite?