Dust Mites
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i don’t have any photos on me, i think they are all back home, but I am pretty sure I am allergic to dust mites. I broke out in intense itchy bumps for almost a year, they were very bad when I woke up in the morning. I tried everything, from buying new sheets, to vacuuming my bed everyday. It did not work, I had to stay doped up on Benadryl all the time. I then switched to Zyrtec for my itching, it is by prescription only, unfortunately, and pretty expensive too, but it was well worth it for me. Finally, ran out of Zyrtec and didn’t go back to the Dr. to get anymore, and believe it or not, there is no more itching. Well, I get the usual every once in a while itch, but no more breaking out in bumps and whelps or waking up covered in bites. I am not sure what changed the problem, but I have done nothing else different besides the Zyrtec. After a year of itching, and a 3 month regimen of a zyrtec tablet a day, it has been right at 4 months since I had my last breakout. I hope this helps others, it is worth a shot for you to try if you are as miserable as I was
I seem to be experiencing the same problems as everyone else. I’ve recently started to wake up in the morning with one or two small bites either on my arm or finger and then there are other red spots to go along with the bites, but the red spots do not itch. Some are small and some are larger (dime shaped). They last about 2-3 days and then are gone. My roommate isn’t experiencing anything and when I stay at my boyfriends, my skin is fine. I’ve done everything I can to clean the mattress, sheets, etc. and am still getting this. I’m also in my late 20′s–is this something that comes and goes? Do I need to let more sunlight in??
I am a pretty woman and i was wondering why i am breaking out with red and itchy patches on my face everytime i wake up in the morning. It is uncomfortable and people are laughting at it and stuff. It is not funny and i need advice.
Are these dust mites and SHOULD i go see a doctor?????
Many of you may be suffering from a follicle problem with the skin rather than dust mites. My son has always had bumpy, red skin with pimple-like postules. We went to a dermatologist in the early summer and he was able to diagnose it as soon as he saw it. I believe the name was Keratosis pilaris, not to be confused with Keratosis pilaris.
Keratosis pilaris is a condition where the hair follicle doesn’t shed properly. It can be treated to look much better with special topical antibiotics and a special lotion. The dermatologist also suggested that he wear as little clothing as possible to help the skin clear up and also to expose it to the sun regulary. His skin looks much better and he only used the cream and antibiotics for a few weeks.
I hope this helps. BTW, it is a genetic disorder passed on from one or more parents and usually affects 1/3 of the children born to them. Maybe more, maybe less.
This is Hell!!! At first I thought i was getting small, red, itchy bumps from an allergic reaction to a detergent. I’ve since changed detergents 3 times to no avail.
This has persisted for about 2.5 months, and I can’t take it anymore. I’ve been researching dust mites and am so fed up that my friends and I are considering having a Bed Burning Party, which I think is a good idea, but I can’t pollute. Even if I get rid of the mites in my current bed, it will not do. That damned thing is out today. I’d rather sleep on rocks than deal with this any further.
Layman’s Advice: don’t bother seeing a dermatologist, they aren’t going to help you in this situation. They will make suggestions such as to start cutting things out of your diet, change detergents, soaps, perfumes, etc. They really won’t know what your problem is, unless they say, “Dust mites,” which they can do nothing about.
I put my pillows in the dryer on high heat for twenty minutes every time I change my sheet which is once a week and I heard that kills the dust mites. Does anyone know if that is true??
I have this one place on my right leg that has not healed properly ffor three months. Now I live in a basement and I have three more on my left leg~on my ankle, on my shin and in the back of my knee! They itch profusely and drive me crazy. I just want to make it stop itching.
Please how do I get rid of these dust mites. I’ve tried smothering them with fingernail polish and used anti itch creams that don’t work and I don’t like the fact that it never heals. Also, I have a few places on my belly that don’t really itch but they don’t heal either. I’m not sure exactly what they are because I can’t see them but I sure can feel them bit me…it hurts really bad. Can anyone help? Please!
hi! i just would like to know how you find out if your mattress has dust mites. Is there a home test that you can use without buying those test kits available?
I remove dustmites from their hideouts, they love to breed inside the mattresses, woollen clothing, carpets, pillows etc. by using a high end vacuum cleaner. Traditional vacuum cleaner can’t do the job, the normal choking and porous vacuum bag cause dusts to escape back and the bad odor during vacuuming is from bacteria.
Your 5 year old bed has an average of 5 to 10 million mites.
You could also kill the dustmites using steam vapour but must use one of those high end vacuum cleaners with a high rpm water filtration to suck out the deeply buried dustmites from pillows and mattresses.
I woke up on Saturday with a small nickle sized red mark on my forarm arm that I believe to be caused by a dust mite. There was a dot in the middle, sort of brownish…there was a small bubble on the top, and then it popped and drained. Now the next day (Suday) it is about the size of a dollar coin, maybe a bit larger, very hard, very tender, and very hot to the touch.
I don’t even have to touch it to know its hot…its a weird feeling. I have some throbbing pain in my shoulder, and my hand feels sort of weak. I have been taking benedril and put some triple antibiotic ointment on it. Is this enough? Should I go to a doctor?
for the past 2weeks ihave been itching like crazy an i have redbumps in my skin, at first i thought it was fleas is the cause of it, but i dont see anything. can you please help me i dont know if its dust mites or somthing…
I have these red itchy bumps that i thought were mosquito bites but they aren’t.They are so close in range and it looks like i have the chicken pox, I only get them when i wake up in the morning and they itch really badly. Are these dust mites? I just moved to SC and thats when i started getting them. I need to know what to do, i had such beautiful legs, but now they are scarred by dark marks from the bites, on my stomach, and my back and my feet, my family thinks thy’re just mosquito bites and dont want me to go to the doctor, but i know i need to go, i get more everyday…what should i do???
I was thinking it was hives at first, then I looked at pictures of hives and mine are so small and not the same as hives. When they itch so bad I make them bleed a bit and then they make a small scab and itches around it. I have like 15 of them all over my body and think these are from dust mites. My daughter was complaining about getting bit when she slept on my bed and I never was bit untill she asked me about it. Now i’m going crazy scratching. I’m going to the doctor tomorrow, its just too itchy now. It’s my second day now.
I live in a hot humid climet and suffer form dust mite bites a few tips that I follow which help.
-When you change your beding vacume your matterace paying perticular attention to the seams.
- Air you bed for at least 1/2 an hour before you make it and pull the fitted sheet as tight as you can. At boarding school they used to make us bounce a coin on the sheet to see if it was tight enough
- Air your matterace at least once a month and give it a good beating
- Flip your matterace at least once a month
- Fluff your pillows every day when making your bed
- Dry Clean your duvet every 2 months, I have 2 so they take it in turns
- always keep air flow in the bedroom either by a/c or a fan, dust mite breed in areas without air flow
- Vacume your lounge once a week and your car as they travel with you on your cloths
- Ladies waxing your legs works because it removes all the dry dead skin which they feed off or exfoleate every day in the shower.
- A soak in the bath also helps to soften and remove dead skin
I hope this helps you.
I have those same very tiny whitehead pimple-like bumps all over my body too.. started almost 2 weeks ago. They can get quite itchy. I can scratch them until they bleed/burst open and they can still be itchy. I can also squeeze them like I would whitehead pimples, but I know they are not pimples, because pimples don’t itch like this.
I must have like 30+ little bumps, perhaps from dust mites and they are not congregated in just one area too. They are on my back, my stomach, my arms, certain parts of my legs.
I haven’t tried any new soap or anything like that. If this persists, I’m going to have to see my doctor.
Oh yeah, but the thing was, over a month ago, I noticed three very painful bites/stings or something on my left outer leg. I believe that was a spider bite because I can’t think of it being anything else. When my wife touched it and rubbed the area by accident, it hurt like a bad bee sting. It hurt for like 2+ weeks straight, and then gradually the pain went away. Finally after the 3rd week or so, it started to itch somewhat.
Now, it’s essentially entirely gone. However, I sometimes wonder if that is related to these little bumps all over my body because they seem to have appeared one after another.
Hey I have bites only on my left leg! Go figure! And I am the only one in the family getting them! I seem to get bitten when on my living room couch, which is odd. And my son will lay or sit on the couch and not get bitten. But in the evenings when I relax on the couch, I will get bitten! And only my left thigh area! And they are very itchy, and from what I have read seem like dust mite bites.
My skin appears to be allergic to them, so this is very uncomfortable. I know with sheets or something you can just throw them in a hot wash, but what about couch cushions? Does anyone know of any treatment for that? I have tried vacuuming, but I cannot see the dust mites of course. No help. Please help if you can!
i am the same as jan! but its weird, because they are ALL on my right hand. strange, no?? Im not sure what it is, but i am thinking some sort of spider bite
I have same as Dana ,shower twice daily but each morning seem to have new bites espesially on my body. Red bumps with little yellow heads. Are these dust mites? HELP
For all of you with itchy red spots and itching at night you may find that you have bed bugs! Take a look at Bed Bugs for more information
I have red little bumps on my arms and legs, with tiny white heads that almost look like pimples. You can pop them and then i have red marks all over my body. I am very clean and shower atleast 2 times a day. Every morning i wake up with new ones. Could these be bites from dust mites?
I have the red bumps and get the red itchy scales only on my face. I have put the mattress and pillow casings on my pillows, but not on my husbands. Do dust mites jump or move? I washed the sheets and was okay for about a week. Now the red bumps are back! Help!
I first noticed the itchyness whenever i lay in bed about 3 years ago. i have tried washing my sheets every week, tore up my carpet (hard wood now), vacuum my mattress, chairs, curtains regularly, it improves but then the dust mites always comes back.. anybody who’s succeedingly gotten rid of them for good.. please tell me how….
i have been bitten and not sure what is is….my leg has a bigggg bump that is hot top the touch and very tender its opnly in one spot…could that be mites or a spider….
I have red itchi bumps on my hand, body, leg, neck and some on my face. Is that dust mites?
The red itchi bumps are in different sizes. some are small n some r big…
It’s been around a week..
It started with 1 than spread to 2, 3 n more…
pls help.. is itchi..:s
hellllllllllllllp. ok ok so i woke up 2 days ago with an itch on my hand, now 2 days later there are these bubbles on my hands and i dont know how to get rid of it. the spot i was bitten is rock hard and red and itches, this is so not cool
I have a similar problem to Bernie’s…
I have been spending my nights scratching and itching (especially on my arms and tops of my feet) and waking up with what look likes mosquitoe bites. I’ve spent countless nights flicking on the lights to try and find the little criters and have found nothing! Unless i scratch them, the bites disapear quickly (within 2 days). I worked in a hostel for a very long time and am convinced that these aren’t bedbugs, so what are they? Please help, i want to sleep!
Me and my family have been getting bites for a month now I don’t see anything that flies I’ve washed all clothes and beddings I don’t know where do we get our bites. I inspected our matresses during night time I don’t see any trace of bed bugs We see our bites in the morning. I have fumigated our house twice already and have thought that it could be dust mites, please advice on what is the best thing to do. Thank You!
Hi, I get something like eczema spots on my body but they are smaller and pink, can it be from dust mites???
I am having problems with my itching. I decided to check read about mites. It looks very much like I might have them. I am going to a Dermontologist May 14 so he can help me. Thanks for the information I received from the questions and answers. Peggy
It’s really hard to avoid them completely. And some of us seem to be more affected by dust mite bites than others.
Apparently, in Japan, they have different names for 2 common dust mites, and they identify the types by the bites made. One type makes a single bite and wound, and the other type’s bites come in pairs, next to or very close to each other.
Anyway, I used to react quite badly to the bites, with terrible itching and clear fluid oozing out of the wounds for days. I have since discovered that when I’ve taken large doses of Vitamin C, about 1000mg, the itching stops and the wounds start healing up. Also, I don’t get any more bites as long as I maintain at least 500mg or more of Vit C daily.
Another remedy I’ve found effective is to take large doses of garlic oil. Whenever I get a fever or am down with influenza, I will take 2 x 20,000 unit garlic oil capsules every 4 hours. That not only helps clear up the illness but also seems to fend off dust mites and considerably lessens the severe itching of their bites. Since these capsules are so strong, if I’m not ill, I will just take one in the morning and one at bedtime if I feel I need them.
I had an exterminator for what we beleive is dust mites in the lower level . Yesterday I had to call them back because the problem still exists…..What should I be looking for in terms of what the exterminator uses for this…..He sprayed , I realy don’t know what he uses. My roomate is getting bites……HELP
Perhaps you should consider the fact, that human hair is long, so can be seen perfectly well. Try to cut from hair long enough piece to match its thickness… thats right folks, not so easy to see now, is it? And also, as they are mostly white in colouring, they are not that easy to spot amongst all the dust that lies around your house or whatever. If you put them on plain dark paper, you just might be able to see them. But dont expect them to wave at you, or move like faster and bigger spiders. They just are like your normal dust on the black paper.
Yes. I share Ray Lopez’s question about the dust mite. If these creatures are 0.0003 meter in length then I should be able to see them with my naked eye in the right circumstances. That size is four times the width of a human hair. It is about the size of one printer’s point (1/72 inch), the size of a period in 8 point text.
But I can’t seem to see the dust mite. What am I missing?
i am thinking of breeding dust mites in my mite-farm, here in alberta. would anyone be interested in contributing unwanted mites? i shall pay a hefty compensation.
I’ve read that dustmites are ~300 um in width and a human hair is ~60 um in width, so why can’t you see dust mites with the naked eye? Also a history of dust mite discovery would be a nice feature to add.
RL
These dust mites are itchy and form red bumps, please help make them stop.
Hi Jay,
These Dust mites are tiny microscopic relatives of the spider and feed on the flakes of skin that people shed daily and love a nice warm and humid environment.
Dust Mites are said to bite, but in most cases they are referring to the common house mite which eats skin – dead skin that is! There are many types of mites, but the dust mite is what we are covering here.
Most everyone that has been diagnosed as being allergic to dust (house dust) is really allergic to the feces produced by the Dust Mite. Although the house mite may catch a ride on clothing, they do not live on people.
Hope that helps!
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