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Written by Jim on June 19th, 2006 with
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Dust mite bites are not scabies. Scabies are very contagious dust mite bites only itch for a little bit then go away they are in places were there has been dust for a while. and scabies live under the surface of your skin.
my god! i can see the dust mites in my room they eat so much they get as big as my fingertips and i take my hammer and smash them and they get cranky and growl what should i do please tell me help my room is dust mite world!
I think I have the same as Ruth. Feels like something is crawling in my hair and on my skin but I don’t see anything, it is itchy but I don’t see any red bites. I wash my hair everyday and I always take a shower twice a day and I change my sheet every other week. I am very clean when it comes to that. It just happen last week when I went on vacation and slept at the Hotel. my whole body and head is itching. what can I do ? please help…It’s been 3 days now that I am having this problem.
i had an exterminator come out and tell me we did not have bed bugs and that i should relax i can’t with these bites coming from no where i want to call the health department but i don’t want to cause problems small bites only show up out of the blue help help help!
If a parasite is living in your skin like chiggers or whatever mite person above has. The quickest cure is nail polish spot over bug spot.
dries and bug is dead and gone by the time nail polish wears off.
The only thing I find that helps is the steam cleaning vacuums and wands. I am disabled and live in an old moble home. I have a hospital bed with a kantwet mattress. The sheets are washed and changed twice every week. Moving air helps, so I have a room sanitizer. I have psorisis in addition to advanced Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Psorisis also is a skin itching problem. I have only 400 threads per inch sheets and duvet’s. These can be washed in hot water. I do find that a hot dryer does a good job. Dust mites are everywhere. Most people are sensitive to the feces left by the dust mites.
They are tiny and when you scratch you are exacerbating the problem. Use an anti-itch lotion like Gold Bond anti itch. Dust mites live on dead skin. I scrub with a lufa sponge to help remove the skin build up due to the psorisis. My care giver shaves my legs to also wash away dead skin. I have found that the anti itch shampoo is also very good even better than the prescription. Every one with skin problems should see a dermatologist. GP’s will make some guesses, but a dermatologist will find the answer.
Another possibility for these red, itchy bumps could be demodex.
However, regardless of what others say about dust mites not biting, I do believe they do. A mite is a microscopic arachnid of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic that feed on decaying matter and stored foods. If they can feed on decaying matter then they can bite! Plain and simple. Decaying matter can be classified as dry, dead skin cells which these dust mites do feed on and they are not only found on our sheets after flaking but also while still on our body. Sulphur shampoos and soaps help as well as Tea Tree Oil which comes in the form of shampoos, body lotions and soaps. Of course you can also purchase the pure oil which is good for spot treatments on the red itchy bumps. If anyone would like further info on any of the products, please contact me privately. I have been dealing with this for about 7 years and finally have relief.
when I get a bruise I will then get multiple clustered itchy welts on the bruise which spread until I have one huge welt. I can feel myself being bitten but I can’t see anything biting me. My bruise will disappear very quickly in about a day after being bitten.
my husband and sons do not get bitten. My daughter only occasionally. I get bitten every time I get a bruise. Does this happen to any one else?
I woke up this morning with itchy little red bumps everywhere mostly on my hands. They are all gone now 8 hours later and I’m scared to go to bed.
i see orange bugs all over the place! are they dust mites?
Hey. I have this weird rash, and at first, I was terrified that it would be bed bugs, but the bites/rash is smaller, and mostly located under my shirt, pant legs, and hair. I read that bed bugs don’t go under clothing, and when investigating my bed, I found no feces of bed bugs. This itching recently occured when i brought an old blanket to my room. Up till then, the blanket had been in the storage room for years. Is it possible that the old blanket could have been infested? And could the infestation spread to my whole bed? The itching is getting worse!
It is so good to know I am not the only “crazy one” in this world that suffer like the rest of you. And like some of you, I am hyper sensitive, and crawling of insect on skin and body makes me feels like I carry all these insect with me around.
The past month to 6 weeks I have been getting clusters of bites that look like tiny white welts. The welts are very evident when I first start getting itchy, then disappear or at least diminish in appearance within 30 minutes. They are EXTREMELY itchy and almost burning. I assumed they were bedbugs and called a pest control company. They have sprayed once and are scheduled to come back 2 more times. There was no improvement after their first visit. I don’t know if this is because it takes longer to get rid of them or if it means that there really weren’t any bedbugs to begin with. I have not seen a single bug or any of the classic evidence of them (I have looked on numerous internet sites for signs of bedbugs). I itch pretty much all the time. It is extremely annoying! After reading al;l these posts, I am going to research other things that might be causing my symptoms. Any advice is appreciated!
OMG!!!! it’s been two weeks now and am still itchy . All day all night . Bites all over me I hate it, my doctor is has giving me Methyiprednisolone tablets ,and a cream Permethrin for scabies, I’m on day two now with this stuff and i’m still itching.
i went to home depot an got some spray called stay away u have to try it .It wont make them disapeer but you will have some re
if I hope it works cause I had so bad I almost was admitted because I thought I was going crazy go to the cleaning isle you’ll find it.
Ive been having the same problems its good to know Im not alone try using stayaway from homedepot in the cleaning isle you”ll find some relief Ive beem going through this since Oct. of 2009 yes I do feel your pain
come on I hope someone is out there, I need your help I had a little relief but now it;s back did someone get a cure. Please help.
Looks like many of us are suffering from the same thing, but there is no consensus for what is really causing it. Bed bugs or dust mites?
In my situation, I am waking up in the morning with dozens of mosquito-like bites which itch like all Hades. My husband (and sometimes my young children) sleep in the same bed and get NO BITES. To me, this rules out bed bugs because we’d ALL be getting bit if it were bed bugs. Same thing can be said about scabies which is HIGHLY contagious. What’s more, my bug bite problem seems to only occur or exacerbated in the summer time. I live in the southern US – prime hot & humid season which would make ideal breeding conditions for dust mites.
Finally, for those people who are saying dust mites don’t bite because they feed on dead skin… Well, I hate to disappoint you but our skin is loaded with dead skin cells which slough off regularly. It doesn’t take a leap of imagination to figure out that a dust mite can feed off dead skin cells that haven’t naturally fallen off the body yet. Why do you think the beauty industry sells loofahs, creams, and lotions that are meant to remove dead skin cells?
I am getting bit in places that are under clothing, even tight clothing, and I KNOW aren’t exposed to the occasional, possible mosquito that may be in my house. Places like my behind, insides of my thighs, my stomach, etc… It seems to me that there is a lot of misinformation and opinions based upon myth and not fact. The point is that there are many of us who are suffering from SOMETHING. In my case, bed bugs, scabies, mosquitoes, etc… just don’t fit the facts. Maybe that doesn’t necessarily make the culprit dust mites but they seem to be the most likely contender based upon what I know.
Would be nice if some professionals stopped by on this subject
Okay, Okay, you can say all you want that “dust mites don’t bite,” but listen to my story. My mother was ill and in the hospital for a month, then came my house to recoup, actually out of her own bed for about 6 weeks. When she finally went home, she thought something was crawling around the nape of her neck and her backside at night. She couldn’t see anything, day or night, and didn’t say anything for a few days. All of a sudden she called me and said something was biting her at night, although there were no marks on her and no visible signs of anything. However, she was dosing her body with alcohol and showering frequently. She changed sheets and all the stuff they say to do. We have since doused the bed in dust mite spray, let it dry, vacuumed it and covered it with a $90 encasement, with a special zipper. The package said it was protectant against “dust mites.” I got her all new pillows with synthetic filling, and she has slept in the bed for 2 nights now without incident. I am praying this does it, but we’ve bought a chemical to wash the bedclothes in, and will vacuum well to try to keep whatever they were down.
My thought? I think she starved the little buggers the 6 week she was out, and they came back with vengeance. I believe it could be possible that they had eaten up all the dead skin in her mattress, and that they were crawling out of the mattress to pull skin off her directly. This might feel like a bite, but they are leaving no marks.
Good luck to all of you out there!
Just wanted to add another comment…
I bought an allergen mattress cover that works for dust mites, bed bugs, everything… Since I have put it on my bed, I’ve not had ONE SINGLE BITE. I feel this further confirms my belief that my bites were coming from dust mites and NOT bed bugs. Bed Bugs can hide in lots of places besides your mattress. Even while I was putting on the allergen cover, I did not find a single bed bug, feces, or ANY other tell-tale signs of bed bugs. Had they been living in my mattress, surely I’d have seen signs of them on the box spring. Nothing. And, if they were living elsewhere, I’d still be getting bites. Nothing. Not a single bite since I put the allergen mattress cover on.
Just sayin’…
I’ve been researching this for weeks and months like everyone else, there isn’t an answer.
It almost drives you insane because a lot of times other people don’t feel it.
I think that I have dust mites. I’m positive I can see them… not bed bugs. What I see when I look at the air above the carpet by sort of defocusing my eyes. I see tiny little trajectories. Nothing visible. It just looks like a tiny little tracer with a trajectory.
I’m 99% sure I have scabies as well. I have a derm appt tomorrow. Scabies is mites in your pores and often shows up as a rash in these locations… armpits, under breasts, between webbings of fingers and toes, writs and for me… abdomen.
Thought it was an allergic reaction to my belt at first but I’ve had this belt for 3 years. I hope it’s just scabies but I can feel them jumping on my legs. I moved out of a place I was getting bitten with an old mattress. I don’t feel like I’m getting bitten anymore but I can feel them hitting my legs.
The crazy thing is, is that it goes from around 2-5 am. It’s not bed bugs even though that’s a bed bug thing.
I just find it ridiculous that all these people who are obviously being affected by mites, are still being passed off as delusional. At some point someone important will look at these hundred and thousands of posts on the web and realize, if 50,000 people are all crazy about the same thing, maybe they are not crazy.
Definitely try and rule things out. For bed bugs, contact paper over night near the legs of the bed. Mites… I just don’t know at this point just like everyone else but I’m going to try some of the things listed on this forum.
Lastly… if someone here who thinks they have mites, figures out what to do… don’t just walk away. Spread the word. So many people are suffering.
…and please don’t let other people’s disbelief drive you to do something extreme. All this people are proof that you are not crazy. I know it’s hard to eliminate bias after something like this, but I think a lot of us wouldn’t believe it either, especially if it was contrary to all scientific evidence.
Stay strong people, and don’t give up. Reading all these people who are in a similar desparate position has given me hope.
Tiffany,
you described my situation to the T.
there is no logical explanation
however for me, I believe I’ve gotten scabies because i have developed a rash in a scabies place.
I believe that it’s dust mites, and the reason others don’t feel them is because we are more sensitive than they are.
You might be the same and not have recognized it, but I’ve always been way more in touch with my body then others, not cause religion or something abstract, an example is I can tell when my body is lacking things like iron and potassium from the cravings I get.
May sound crazy but a lot of things do before they are proven.
Every person who comes in here and says mites don’t bite obviously have never felt it, but let me ask you this… why has not one single person posted either something that solved it completely or what they figured out it is 100%.
better recognize
Last thing I want to say, I just did some research and you can get scabies from dust mites….. so if you have a rash of any kind… go to the dermatologist and rule out scabies
I believe I have dust mites… got scabies
Can take 4-6 weeks to have symptoms
If your dermatologist denies it, demand that he check, also get a 2nd opinion
my brother went 6 months with scabies because the first 2 doctors didn’t recognize it
also if you’ve had scabies before its way easier to get it again, so if you get a reoccurring rash, the doesn’t go away in a day or 2, seriously look in to scabies possibilities