Bed Bug Bite Symptoms
Bed bug bite symptoms don’t appear immediately, usually after a week victims notice small bumps.
Watch your skin for red welts. These red welts may not cause any itching initially to some people. During the initial stages they are small and hard to recognize. The most common sign of bed bug bites is that they will occur in a regular line of three. This pattern is referred to as “breakfast, lunch and dinner” by infectious disease experts. They cause an itching and burning sensation after a few days.
It’s not surprising that bed bug bite symptoms differ from individual to individual. Only allergic people show symptoms due to hypersensitive reactions, whereas some barely feel an itch. Nearly 60 percent of all exposed are unaware of bed bug bite symptoms.
Your skin reacts differently in different parts of the body. The skin of the face, hands and feet react the most when bitten by bed bugs. These are quite innocuous and are often misdiagnose as skin disorders such as scabies, rashes or mosquito bites.
- With exposure to harsh conditions, itching increases. These harsh conditions can be a warm bath, exercising, chlorinated water of swimming pool, etc. Polluted environments also make us more reactive to bites. Those people whose skin develops blisters within a few minutes after a bite should visit a doctor immediately. To confirm bed bug bites, look for the following:
- Red bumps in a “breakfast, lunch and dinner” pattern a regular line of three.
- Little red bumps, similar to mosquito bites but longer, and often accompanied by itchiness and swelling in that area. This swelling can be up to 20cm in diameter. This bump eventually grows into blisters like lesions.
- Redness
- Swelling
- Check for dark fecal spots on bed sheets. This is due to the gland secretion by the bed bugs. This confirms the infestation of bed bugs in your house.
- Rashes are periodical. This is because of the feeding habit of bed bugs. These bugs usually feed once a month or every few weeks.
- There may be swollen pus type formation.
- Above mentioned symptoms eventually lead to anxiety, insomnia and stress.
- Some victims have even gone into anaphylactic shock due to the allergen content of the saliva.
- It can also lead to damaged local tissue.
The time span between the time someone has been bitten and the time symptoms appear is usually about 9 days. Bed bugs take advantage of your rest and are most active during night while you sleep tightly.
Bed bugs are fond of biting the face, hands and feet. The bite remains normally for three to four days and then slowly fades away if it is not severe. Even old bites can flare up from time to time. This is due to stress, the environment and many other factors.
Do not make your bite susceptible to secondary infections by scratching it. This can easily expose your wound to microbes which infect it and can also lead to infection in other parts of the body.
Though bed bug bite symptoms are difficult to recognize, when they are detected they must not be left untreated.
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this is the first site I learned that it takes up to 9 days for the bites to show up. When I came home from vacation I only had a few bites which I thought were from a spider. Then they started appearing all over my body, but not at one time.
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yes this is s good website but i need to know if i have one my so far symtoms are
*red patches of skin
*bumpy skin on bite
*and non stop icthing
is this any symtoms of a bed bug bite?
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This website is very helpful. We came home from a six day vacation and the bites appeared 9 days from the first nights stay, we continue to see them appear but less frequently. Tomorrow is the 9 day window for the last night stay, hopefully no more new reactions after this.
We hope not to have brought them home with us. Did all the preventative measures, obviously they have 9 plus days jump on us to set up home, lots of crying due to this anxiety. We will keep our eyes open and hope for no infestation, this was a wake up call, no pun intended!
I had to have steroid therapy due to extreme reaction and already spent over 150 on mattress covers, RX, sprays never mind my electric/water for washing everything. Can’t put a price on lack of sleep!
Good luck to all, the calm will prevail! Keep your eyes open!
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Just woke up and found bumps like mosquito bites on my legs and neck. Is that consistant with bed bugs?
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i’ve woken up the past few nights with a few bites. only about three sets so far though, but they haven’t lasted very long. They definitly are in linear sets of three, but they’re usually mostly gone by the afternoon. Are these from bed bugs?
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@lynn p:
I have a similar situation. Stayed in a cabin at a campsite 9 days from our first night my bf and friend woke up with bites all over!! Today is day 10 and I just noticed bites on my arms. In the middle
Of washing everything and used bed bug/flea spray all over the place!!! Im freaking out!!! All 3 of us are freaking out and praying our homes dont have them now. Please let me know if you have any further signs of them. And what you have tried to do…this is HORRIBLE!!!
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I hate bed bugs!
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I had a carefree life before the bb epidemic came into full-swing last year here in NYC.. that was in early 2010, when I began putting my clothes in the dryer every night, and not sitting on wooden benches, etc..
I kept hoping a chemical would be on the markets soon to begin wiping them out.. hoped some more..
Now it’s late 2011, they’re still multiplying in NYC.. I’m blessed not to have the bugs, however I’ve stopped being overly vigilent because it’s obvious that BB’s aren’t a big concern to whoever is in charge of finding and producing an effective/safe chemical that they won’t resist..
* I think it would also help if bb’s were categorized as disease-spreading at the DOH and CDC. (AT THIS POINT, they AREN’T) Because are they healthy to have around? Do we need them?
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I had a relative visit for 4 days, and for lack of space, she opened her suitcase on my bedroom floor. The day before she was leaving I woke up with a few itchy areas on my arm and leg, but thought nothing more about it.
That was two weeks ago. Now I’m waking up almost daily with maybe a few bites at a time. Some are very large welts, but not red looking, and only slightly itchy. Some are a little smaller.
I don’t wake up with numerous bites, but always a few new ones. I’m getting totally freaked out by this whole siutation. I’ve been having nightmares about bed bugs for about the last three years….ever since I heard that one highrise in Toronto Canada was basically totally ridden with them and it was declared an epidemic.
I’ve been checking the piping all around my matress ever since I first heard about bed bugs on the news. I still can’t see any little red spots, nor have I seen anything that looks like a little apple seed.
I hope there is another reason for these bites. I’m on the second floor of a three floor condo building. I have a long balcony and many times leave the door open so my pet and I can walk in and out. She is a cat, and I absolutely no for a fact there are no fleas….been there, done that. My cat shows no signs of itching or discomfort and sleeps with me in my bed.
I truly hope there is something else (temporary) going on, or I’m living my worst nightmare. I bought a hand steam machine some time ago.($60) after I heard steam can kill bed bugs, but I bought it with the intention of keeping my bathroom, kitchen extra clean.
If I have the problem I’m fearing, then I guess it will serve another purpose. I am really, really SO distressed about this.
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About a month ago a good friend of my grandfather gave me a twin bed for my 4yr. old daughter. Soon after that i started getting a couple single bites on my arm and hand. I was definitley leary about taking the bed but since it was a family friend i took it anyway like an idiot. It might be totally coincidental but there have also been mosquitos in our car in the a.m. and i swear i saw one flyin around the house but im not sure. Its got me freaking out! I have to do a little investigating but all of your comments and knowledge have been super helpful. So, we’ll see what happens!
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Because it’s been so hot here in Los Angeles, I’ve been sleeping on the couch where the only a/c is. About 2 months ago I noticed these terrible bites on my thigh. I am pretty sure now, after reading this article and seeing photos that I’ve been bitten by a bed bug. I thought it was a spider cuz I have a lot of those around my house. But they have that “breakfast, lunch, dinner” pattern. Two of them actually (6 bites) so it has to be bed bugs. The weird thing is the area has been itching for almost 2 months!! It hasn’t spread but they won’t go away!! I put straight white vinegar on it about a month ago (old family cure) and the bites dried up and stopped itching. Then two weeks later they were back with a vengeance, itching like they were brand new. It’s driving me insane. I must be allergic to them. I hate to take medication, so I guess I’ll try buying topical anti-itch. I just hope they go away. I look like a freak scratching my leg all the time like a dog… :/ Now I have to boil everything and vaccuum the couch. I hope that works… this is a drag!!
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@rene:
copy the address and paste in into the body of your email. it should show up as a link for them to click, which should bring them right to this page.
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Stayed at a resort last week. After first night, found bugs in our bed – two dead, the rest were alive… about 30 visable. We took pictures and checked them against web photos and they looked exactly like bed bugs. Hotel claimed they were chiggers – problem is chiggers are so small, you can barely see them, and oh, they are RED; these were reddish brown, oval, and full of blood. Had blood smears all over the sheets. We got moved to another room. My bite marks showed up 8 days after that night – they are all over my neck, arms, legs… all in a straight line, in a “breakfast, lunch, dinner” pattern AND extremely itchy. I work in a place familiar with these bugs and they’ve never seen someone with so many bites. Did not bring any of our belongings/clothes into our house. Put them through a sanitization cycle in our washer/dryer. Sprinkle luggage with Diatomaceous Earth — this will dry the bugs up and kill them. What a nightmare!
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@rene: you can copy the web address at the top of the page and email them the link
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@Cate:
They’re gross, they’re creepy, they’re disgusting. They certainly make you uncomfortable because the bites itch and give you that creepy-crawly feeling due to paranoia that something is crawling on you.
However, after reading a bunch of literature on them written by several entomologists (Google it!) I learned there is no medical or scientific evidence that they spread disease. They have been found to carry human pathogens, but are not effective at spreading them to people, and no documented cases of humans getting diseases from them exist. As household pests go they’re actually fairly innocuous. And so it would be incorrect to classify them as disease-spreading.
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My husband has been taking regular trips to his dads home in another state. The house is very dirty. We don’t share beds or sleep together. I am finding bites on my hands and wrists. I haven’t been anywhere in months! Could he have brought them home with him?
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I woke up at my daughters home about 2 am, I was itching on my back, my arms, face, legs and feet and and my skin was the color of fire, hot to touch and I actually felt like I was on fire. The only thing I could find that was soothing was cold water yet the itching and the burning remained for almost 2 hours. This morning my skin is still red, feels tight but I only see a few visible bites. I’ve never had this happen to me before in my 61 years. I’m from Kentucky but am visiting Ohio. I’m afraid to go to bed tonight for fear it will happen again. My daughter is going to look for signs of bedbugs today.
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i noticed bumps on my left arm and ended up on both arms the doc. gave me cream to use but so far nothing has changed will it get better or worse
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You guys, this IS an epidemic. Those little bastards have made my life hell for the past 6 months.
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i am relieved to see so many comments! honestly for the past 3-6 weeks ive been feeling like a “sick kid” or a girl with a pretty sever acne problem. im 23 and have always had the occasional pimples but over a month ago ive been breaking out on my thighs, calves, scalp, neck, ears, and face! and its not like your typical little white heads although thats origionally what i thought. ill wake up and feel these itchy welds with no open wounds. i never thought of them as bites before but sometimes they itch like poision ivy or something. assuming they were zits at first i would squeeze them to move along the healing process and nothing would come out. they would then swell 5 times their origional size! then they turn bright red and the reddness looks like the wound was huge and scared. the color doesnt go away for weeks. ive been throwing on so much foundation i feel like my pores cant breath and even without touching my face, ill be walking outside and just feeling a breeze will make me want to scratch my face off. my legs are REAL bad though. yes ive had the occasional ingrown hair and razor burn, but i must have had about 9 bites on my left quad and maybe 4 on my right. this makes sense since i always sleep on my stomach and never wear pants to bed. plus i have a tendancy to put the pillow over my head and sleep face directly on the mattress. im just realizing all this. this makes sense. but these bites even when they are so small at first, with the slightest little scratch hell breaks loose and these small surface like zits turn into large inflamed deep welds. i know i was picking at them for a while so i tried stopping and when i did they got so infected a green puss would start to form around and under the scab. so then id take tweezers and the wounds are so deep.. i feel like maybe the saliva eats at the skin a little or something? anyway its embarissing. ppl look at me like ive got some disease or something and i have no clue what to say. this has def never happened to me b4. please tell me someone else is getting similar wounds? i havent seen any bugs and am wondering if there are different breeds
anyone know whats going on with me?! please share!
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I’ve seen where everyone says they bite on the extremities. What about the stomach? Also, can you get them by being around another person that has had them?
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OMG!!!…I’M UP AT 4AM BECAUSE I COULDN’T SLEEP..I SPENT THE NITE AT A FRIENDS HOUSE ON fri AND Saturdy MORN I STARTING ITCHING ON MY BACK AND RT ARM…BY. SAT NITE BY ARMS BACK FACE AND HANDS ARE INFECTED….I HAVE RED VERY PAINFUL BLISTERS ALL OVER AND THEY ALL ITCH SIMILTANIOUSLY…..ITS DRVING ME FREAKN CRAZY..I went 2 THE STORE IN 5 IN THE MORN 2 GET SUM HYDROCORTISONE, WHICH IS GIVING SUM RELIEF….BUT HE THOUGHT OF LIL BUGS CRAWLING ON ME AT NIGHT..COUPLED WITH THE CONTINUOUS ITCHING..IS DRIVING ME CRAZY….I WILL NEVER GO 2 HIS HOUSE AGAIN.
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The last 2 nights I have got random bites on my body. They are teeny tiny. One on my elbow and one on my hand, one on my ear and one on my forehead. Could this be bed bugs? Please help! I see now black spots or blood or any bugs but I have been getting bit.
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It could be scabies…
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im glad i came upon this site. i was in microbiology class when i noticed two bumps in my left arm, at first i thought they were mosquito bites, but the bumps seemed a little different than regular mosquito bites. when the weekend came by i started noticing several other bumps in the same arm and then on my other arm. the unlucky thing for me is that i dont know where they are coming from; they could be from the bed at my apartment or the bed at my moms house.
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Hello,
I woke up and have bites similar to the pictures on random spots on my body, back of my leg, my inner arm, my ankle…
They are not in clusters, just maybe one or two here and there, but they itch.
I am concerned they are bed bug bites but I do not see any traces of bed bugs on my mattress..not yet at least. Is it possible to get bites without any signs of them on my bed? Could the bites be from something else?
Please help so I can prevent them from spreading! Thanks so much.
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@M Lawson: could also be allergy to detergent or fabric softener used on bedding. Even remnants from someone else’s detergent in a laundromat.
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VERY POSSIBLE….i’M LIVING THE NIGHTMARE NOW.
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Not sure if this is what I have but bites are appearing all over my body. My cats just recently contracted fleas so I thought it was that but the welts are too big. Anyone who has had thing does it burn a little when you scratch them? That is what I am experiencing now
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I was waking up this morning, minding my own business. All of a sudden I started itching/burning (it was dark so I couldn’t see what it was), so I start rubbing it and I feel a bug and I squish it. I turn on a light to see what had happened and I see 3 bumps that looked like a mosquito bite, on each bump there was a red dot. What bit me? I think it may have been a bed bug. Or maybe even a spider. If anyone knows, please tell me.
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I work for an airline..I travel often..I’m 42 years old and I NEVER EVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE..I just got back from Hawaii and actually not nine days later, but the same night I arrived back home..I started this crazy itching attack…my neck shoulders and ear were on fire and I wanted to take a knife and just ease the itch…after a few days it finally stopped but it still burns and itches every so often….I’M SO UPSET THAT THIS HAPPENED TO ME…IT HURTS….
I hope it never happens again….good luck to everyone that has been affected by BB…..they suck….
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Just got back from ONE night away and the evening I got home thought I had a mosquito bite on my neck. Started itching during the night and woke to discover bites on my shoulders, arms, hands, stomach. My husband had slept in another bed and was not bit (at least nothing so far). Can bedbugs be that specific and not infest an entire room? Looked thru luggage very carefully and washed the clothes we brought…..no sign of anything. Am praying we didn’t bring anything home……
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So, it appears that I have bed bug bites all over, but my husband does not have any (we sleep in the same bed). Is that possible to still have bed bugs? or are my bites/bumps something else? Please help!
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I don’t know if I have these things or not, I usually get a rash on my face at times but lately its been crazy, been looking for any sites of infestion but I don’t see anything. My boyfriend says he say two, that were dead, can you only have two? I am highly allergic to bites of any kind and the gnats have been bad and I recently discovered by sisters dogs has fleas. Have not seen a pattern so far just wondering if I should get one of those heat cleaners to come in? Is it worth it I live in an apartment complex.
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to all who posted comments from sept. 5th,-oct. 30th..ive had bed bugs for a month now my place is being treated professionally. It is the landlords responsibility to pay for treatments if the complex consists of 4 or more units anything less its the tennants responsibility. i have been searching any website i can get my hands on for home remedies and i will try every single one of them. I need to know that i did everything in my power with the power of the professionals and first and foremost the power of Christ pray and be patient. to those with rashes seeing no sign of the bugs heres what I suggest first look in every crevice of your home including plug and switch outlets be vigilant about this even if you find nothing so to prevent a large infestation should you ever get them. I have lived in my apt. complex for 3 years now and didnt get them untill a month ago (my apt. is directly across from the buildings laundry room!). if you still see no sign of them then see a doctor. I have seen shingles and scabies and they appear just as Alicia has described. Do as much research as you can. Everything that i have read so far will hopefully lend some help to this plague, speaking of which i fully support the idea of bed bugs being considered an epidemic and getting any and all organizations involved. And last but certainly not least do what you can to treat the emotional aspects of your situation trust me your gonna need it! Ive suffered from PTSD in the past due to 3 major car accidents, and i havent gone 100% postal over the bed bugs….yet! Just keep praying and try to have a light spirit about this its all in how you approach this as to how you get through this its all in the attitude baby!!! Pray for me and I will Pray for you.! Let me hear your battle cry!
With love and God bless during this war against bedbugs,
Simone
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If you live in an apartment complex, don’t waste the money! Your landlord should pay for it. They are going to have to do the entire building! If only one apartment is done, the bb’s will run to another apartment, and eventually come back! At least this is what I have read.
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My son had bed bugs in his room. We had to burn his bed…raw wood with tons of cracks…and throw out his mattresses. We bombed his room and suprise surprise we ended up with them upstairs in our room. I had three bites that itched like crazy and looked like small grease burns (2nd degree blisters). We then bombed and sprayed our room. We bought bed bug mattress and pillow covers. We also had an exterminator come to our home and spray. Expensive procedures but worth a piece of mind. We did not have a bad case of them but the thought of them feeding on me or my family at night gave me the creeps. I had severe anxiety and insomnia due to those little creepy bugs…thought i was gonna need therapy/ zanax. My husband was not bit at all and thought i was crazy. Btw bombing is the worse thing to do…found this out after the fact…because bed bugs run upwards away from the bomb and this is probably why we ended up with them upstairs n our room. Good luck to all of you…i never thought my family and i would be victims of bed bugs. My son may have gotten them from school. I know now they dont discriminate.
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Yes it is possible. He is either not getting bit or not having a reaction to the bites. My husband didnt have any bites but i did and we sleep in the same bed…@Rebecca:
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I have been getting bites on my thighs. I took my mattress /box spring apart and used a flashlight and a magnifying glass and have found nothing…This is going to drive me crazy…
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I decided to do my own investigation after noticing a nasty insect bite that my Grandaughter had yesterday. I was aware of it a day after when coming home in the evening time. She was running of fever of 99..0 degrees fare height. Right away I did my research online determine to find what insect had bit her. The bite is prone to left arm lateral to wrist, it was warm at touch, swollen red pustule with thin-like blisters inside of it. There was no itching, maybe pain present(grand-daughter 2 y.o) wasn’t complaining about it. As a Grammie I did my fingerworks
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A family member gave me furniture from his house because he wanted all new furniture. I was glad to get the furniture. I remembered having all these bites on my arms and I thought they were mosquito bites, until one night I looked on the wall and there was a bed bug crawling on the wall. I immediately inspected the bedroom furniture. In the cracks of the night stands were live bed bugs trying to hide. The whole thing was a night mare and the bugs traveled from room to room until 5 out of 6 of us were bitten by bed bugs. My grand daughter’s eye was rendered shut from a bed bug bite. We were fortunate to get rid of the bugs and threw out the bedroom furniture including the headboard. We all slept with the lights on for months. I slept in my recliner in the livingroom for months. I don’t wish bed bugs on anyone. An absolute nightmare.
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Came back from a trip and had sores like red marks all over my buttocks and legs but not on back or head or neck or hands/feet areas. Doctors said scabies or bedbugs. Cleaned room so far no noticeable bedbugs alive or dead. Left silica powder all over the place, to kill any insect within 36 hours that crawls out of hiding spots.
No new bites since I cam back but then I switched beds. Putting cortisone and calamine lotion on body. AND got anti scabies lotion just in case. Put that on as soon as I was back. Bites noticeable but seem to be slowly healing. I m cleaning room where luggage and bed is by putting sheets in the dryer daily daily and checking bed area before sleeping. Bugs cant hop or fly so its good to not have bed touching stuff and put posts of bed in antibug fluid in a can so they cant get on the bed. Mattress had no sings of them after a 3rd day. Look for any dead bugs or skin sheets as a sign of the pests. Blood stains on sheets too. Small blood stains, where buttocks and legs usually are perhaps. My upper thighs and buttocks had many bites. Not sure when they occurred. Doctor one said scabies, so I got treatment for it. Other Doctor said bed bugs as scabies leave red looking burrows. Either way I am dealing with things and just letting my body heal up. I’m using Alovra leave fluid on the skin. We have one of the sharped edges leafy plants in our home. I also photographed myself when I realized what I had (bites), so I can see progress and perhaps any new bites. I believe I had them before after travelling, but cant find any bugs for now. If you do an inspection, KEEP, that is Keep all insects dead or alive (put in plastic see through bag) and get them identified by a professional exterminator or bug (biologist) specialist. Go through every little corner of your space to see if any, ANY insects can be found. Collect them and keep them (dead ones) for a future reference. In case you need to tell a professional what WAS in the room. I wonder if keeping a small low wattage light on all night helps keep the bugs off you! They hate the light. If you think you have bed bugs, maybe invite a bug bite free person to sleep in the bed for one day and see if they get bitten. THEN you might know for sure. I heard bleach and citrus (to get rid of smell for people) will cause the bugs to not CROSS the line. I had this weird habit of “photographing my legs and body”, so now I can see the difference and know when the bites occurred. That private photo job might come in handy when you travel as you can have dated photos of your body and go “hey I had no marks back then and now a few weeks later I do!” Before and after photos. You can actually time the point you got exposed to a possible infestation (when auntie came “over”, when you traveled, etc) If you getting new bites at home immediately switch beds and let the bites heal (don’t scratch them, use creams skin is vulnerable). Start cleaning room and using anti-bug stuff along baseboards, door frames, in closets etc. Check everything so you know or don’t know there are bugs. Look for carcasses, tiny pin sized black poo. If its poo it will “melt” in warm water! Vacuum up the room and wash everything that was near bed and floors. Get rid of all clutter, so you can see the underneath of bed or behind dressers etc. Look at your body every day and “do a bite count”, write it down. Or photograph your bitten areas. Document it either way. Clean the bitten red areas daily and put the cortisone (anti itch cream) on a few times a day. The skin “red rash” marks are sensitive and you can not take a chance they will break. Scabies might be on it too, and they burrow and even after they die (after lotion treatment) the bodies are still there and the feces and that itches until the skin regenerates. No matter what it takes skin weeks to regenerate. Live you life but avoid the bug area and use the creams and lotions. Get yourself healed. Do not get re-bitten. If you not sure about your bed area sleep someplace else so what ever wounds you have, can heal. Heal first. Clean the affected items and area, treat it. Act on it. Don’t panic unless your a model and need clean legs. Live life. You will heal eventually! And make sure their are no bugs in the house or in the bed and area stuff. I went through almost everything and so far only “dead small insects”please save them and get “pro” to look at them. BE 100% SURE!! No live bugs at all discovered in cleaning. lOOK 100% EVERYWHERE! In the room. Possibly near it. Bed bugs can travel 20 feet, can’t fly or hop, only crawl. Scabies can spread and burrow (pin prick bite felt). Put all sheet and clothes in dryer daily for 20 minutes high heat if you can, while your using treatment lotions for 2 weeks (once every 7days). Vacuum under everything from bookcases to beds, to closets to drawers, vents,outlets etc. Seal all luggage and vacuum inside. Bed bugs (hide and suck blood at night (3am till 6am)then hide, and scabies (burrow marks under skin and eat skin (feces causes rash), live/lay eggs in skin) can happen to anyone at any time. Be vigilant and stay clean and treat wounds for itch and avoid any areas where you think you have bugs. Stay out of room till you “know for sure they are not brought” home by people. A bite mark does not mean they exist in your home. They might have occurred while travelling. No bugs harbor “disease”, but scratched wounds can infect your red blister marks, and cause them to take longer to heal.
So that is my bug tale. I’m happy just to know whats going on and happy to get the ball rolling to deal with everything. Life goes on. Unless your a model let your wounds heal. Scabies people stay away from others so it don’t spread because bug still in skin unless you kill them with lotion from drug store. Good day.
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I’m not quite sure if I’m having an allergic reaction, but about 2 weeks ago I got bed bug bites, and ever since have been dizzy, and have blacked out a couple times. My doctor (he really is an idiot) says he has no clue whats wrong. DO you think this is an allergic reaction to bed bugs or not
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argg, bed but are so frustrating, im been dealing with them now for the last two or 3 months, thought they were spiders at first with just a few bites not seeing any bugs other than spiders at my old place i used to live with roommates at, but a month and a half ago i moved back in with my mom and i kept waking up with more bites, so i did a little research and found out it was bed bugs (by the pattern, blood dots, ect.) so i had to let my mom know so we could start working on getting rid of the suckers. she gave me so much crap for bringing them home with me when i told her i was getting bed bug bites, she made me feel super crappy and ashamed, and its already a pretty embarrassing situation to start with, so now i have to deal with her harassment daily, asking me if i have any new bites and its hard for me to tell because i already have so many, and if i say i think i do (wich i think i am or there re itching after a few days of not itching) then she scolds me and totally just makes me feel at fault. so ive been getting bitten all over by these bugs, my moms mad at me for accidentally bringing them to her house, im completely stressed by it all, i cant hardly sleep, and when i do i imagine bugs crawling all over me and freak out and wake up and cant get back to bed. ive laid alot of silica powder all over the house (diatomacious earth) about a 2 weeks ago and im not sure if its helping or not. my next step is getting into see a dermatologist, im so tired of being itchy/scratchy all the time.best of luck to ya all, this obveously cant go on forever.
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I currently have multiple bites in multiple areas, predominantly on my arms, and more are now showing up on my leg. My mom has recommended that I spray the bitten areas with rubbing alcohol and the pour salt on top of the alcohol (partially for it to remain on the bitten areas) to pull out the infection. So far I’ve tried the alcohol, cortisone, even triple antibiotic ointment to get the bites to heal, and so far, it’s not working well.
What is going to be the best way to get them out of my house without spending a whole lot of money…because I simply don’t have it.
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Just returned from a trip to the USA, at some Motel, these little punks were waiting for me, they are worse than politicians! One morning I found myself scratching in the dark, at first I thought I was allergic to American beer, but then I saw the pattern of the bites, its like the little bastards had a picnic, uncontrollable itchiness set in, and I scratched each spot with determination,then I googled bed bugs and all the sites said “don’t scratch” – problem solved. What followed was the application of natural potions made from plants I never knew existed, followed by anti-bacterial and cortisone creams, followed by American beer. Its been 6 days now, and I still look like the victim of a shotgun blast. The odd spot, I have scratched down to the bone, still no relief, I am no doctor, but I have a theory: these bastards are trying to take over the planet. When they plunge their ferocious little beaks into your skin, they give you a mild anesthetic, suck your blood, THEN they inject about one thousand eggs into you. 9 days later, these eggs hatch, and the infant bugs start looking for mommy and daddy….in your body. Those telling you not to scratch, are in cahoots with the bugs, they are ex-humans who have themselves been taken over by these alien invaders, if you scratch, you free the little monsters, and they go looking elsewhere, if you don’t scratch, they are trapped inside you and they eventually find their way into your brain and take it over.
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@Alicia: I am 26 yrs old I had bed bugs in an apartment I lived in. And I got bitten 22 times in about 3-6months. From that I have now developed something called Auto Immune Deficiency Disorder Translated Cronic Hives. I’ve had these hives since March 2011 it is now november 2011. It all steamed from those nasty little bugs my landlord didn’t warn us about. If they swell when you scratch them beware you could have an allergy to the bug bites and a few months down the road more symptoms could come of it. I wish everyone luck with this. My thoughts are with you all.
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Sorry Alicia I ment March of 2010 – November 2011 My apologies.
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I found some bed bugs in my bed after a few days having red marks in my skin. I bought bug killer, washed every blanket in hot chlorine and plan to spray every week. Should I throw away my mattress. It is almost new and expensive. I found the “nest”in the spring box and the mattress seems unaffected. Can somebody advise please!!! I am scared!!!
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I’ve been getting a bite one every week on average, but only one bite on my foot or ankle and i just got one on my shoulder. This is has been happening for 2 months now. The bite swells similar to when I get mosquito and spider bites but I think it could be bed bugs because they are much more itchy and I get at night. Has anyone else had this? If I did have bed bugs would they be biting me more frequently.
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Use a hair dryer and go into all crevaces under your couch and chairs. When you sit in the livingroom you transfer them from wherever. Heat is the most effective killer. Use the hair dryer on high every day where you suspect they are whether it be the bed or furniture. Extreme cold works too/put the cothes in the freezer over night. Depending on the size of the freezer a bunch at a time. Keeping the bunches you have treated away from the ones you haven’t. Just keep doing this until you are waking up with no bites. You could use the freezer idea for blankets and sheets as well. You might have to keep your freezer empty for a while but what the hell. Heat works on everything else. I like the idea of the blow dryer because you can keep doing it everyday. It’s not letting up that gets rid of the problem. Our apt. building was treated twice and I still got them AGAIN. And moving isn’t always the answer because you could actually go from bad to worse. So HEAT HEAT HEAT. And if you have a balconey and its the middle of winter put the couch or chairs your using and suspect of being infected – on the balconey for a week in below zero weather. I live in Canada our weather in January and Feb. will kill anything!!!! For those of you without a balconey or live in US Freezer and blow dryer. The key is not to stop!! If these little bastards live for a year without eating then do it for a year.
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Bed bugs are disgusting and can be difficult to get rid of. You most check every crack and crevice thoroughly.I killed 75 bed bugs on my own and still had to infumigate my apartment.They are the WORST bugs to be infested with. If infested u MOST read everything about them and take EVERY precaution…..trust me
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@Rick: Sorry Im not laughing at you. I just thought the way you told your story, It was so funny. are you feeling better now. lol
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@p kreitz: Mother of god these little s**ts are the devil. Curse HOTELS!!! These little effers have mauled my arms. I look like I have the beginning stages of f***ing leprosy. Bed bugs will make you contemplate suicide. (Not literally) but close to it. They have me in a near murderous rampage and if even one of them gets back to my house with me I will go insane. Never in my life have I come into contact with these little bastards but I can say that it has been the single most irritating event thus far in my life. I would take poison ivy ANY day over the bites these damn things leave. Why does every stinking bug that thrives on blood have to leave such miserable itching bulls**t behind when they are done? I would almost rather have chicken pox. God help the front desk cause they are about to have a bad morning.
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i no how yall feel i used to always get up from my bed and iching alot 1 time like at 5 in the morinq and there were like 5or 3 bites on my back it was so terifying
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dang that iz so mest up dued
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like about half an hour i killed one bed bug crawling on my bed i saw it just nearby on me,i got a piece of paper and put him there,when i pricked him i smell it and confirmed its a bed bug..i got a lot of bed bugs biten every week the worse is that bites getting red and u feel that area was a bit warm on surfaces..i dont know what to do??im just freaking out cant sleep at peace at night because of this sh*t,this is a serious matter that i need to pay an extreme attentions..i have to clean all over spray and use the hair dryer all over..God help me!!
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Words Of Wisdom ~ Before Renting Any Apt. Always Ask If The Carpet Has Been Cleaned. Two Weeks Ago I Rented An Apt. That Was Not In The Best Shape But I Figured That It Was A Cheap Place To Live For A While. A Week After I Rented The Apt. And Got Moved In I Noticed Some Small Red Rash One Morning After I Got Up. I Did Not Think Much About It Until The Next Day I Woke Up And I Had Raised Red Bites All Over My Hands, Arms And Legs. That Carpet Was Very Dirty When I Moved In So I Knew That There Were Bugs Infested Into The Floor. I Called The Landlord And Told Him My Problem. He Told Me That He Would Replace The Carpet But I Told Him That I Would Move. The Thought Of Staying In That Apt. Just Was Not Something I Wanted To Do After This Incident. He Told Me That He Would Give Me My Deposit Back. I Have Called Him And He Won’t Return My Calls. So I Am Thinking About Talking To A Lawyer About This Incident. My Hands Look like I Have A Bad Case Of Poison Ivy. That Is Not Going Away Or Getting Better Even Though I Have Been To The Dr. I Am Very Angry That I Rented Such A Dump To Live In And Now I Am Paying For It!
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Back in January i had a party and my friend slept in the spare bedroom. The next night i slept in that bed. I woke up the following morning and i felt like there were a bunch of spiders f clothing i feeg all over me. Everytime i put on a peice of clothing i feel somthing like spiders are hatching and i look down but nothing is there. I cut peices of hair and put it in the toliet and i see someting clear attached to the strands of hair. At one point i thought i had lice. The lice shampo helped but i felt the same feeling of spiders all over me again. Last night i thought i saw a bunch of worms flying. Whatsympthoms am i having?
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So i moved into a new place about 7 months ago. when i woke up with some itching i thought nothing of it because i live in a garden unit. so spiders are not a big deal. weeks ago i woke up scratching my stomach, then my inner thighs. last week i noticed some raised bumps on my arm. then they started to itch. a few later my other arm too. I still thought nothing of it until i remembered seeing this poster on the train about bed bugs. so of course immediately check the internet for photos of bed bug bites. i guess a lot of them are severe and didn’t look what i have. but then i started to read that they leave a funny pattern. and while i don’t have a straight line they are close together. so as soon as i got to my apt. i washed my sheets and bed covers. i checked my mattress and box spring, and i used my blow dryer on it and nothing. i didn’t see one of those little fuckers. this morning i woke up bitten. the thing is i haven’t seen a a single one near my bed! what the hell?!? this is driving me insane and its been less then a week that i even entertained the thought that i might have bed bugs. im completely mortified not to mention embarrassed. i dont know what to do. i live in a three flat, should my landlord pay to have it checked out? im staying up until 4 tonight to see if they come out.
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I’m sure they are here. I think I found one hiding in my diningroom chair, I went through the couches and mattresses and I can’t find any blood spots or molting or eggs or anything! My kids dont get bitten, only me. They are definitely multiple bits in a line. Sometimes they itch but they look like tiny flea bites, I sleep with the lights on hoping they wont come out-when I sleep at all…a I really going to have to throw away all of my furniture? Is there a cheaper way to handle the problem…after this I dont think I will ever sleep comfortably-with both eyes shut again.
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So, I’ve been driving myself crazy over the past month. I initially had a few bites about a month ago, and figured it was a bug outside my apt. Then I found some sort of red larve on my mattress and immidiatly went into anti-bed bug mode. Ive sprayed my bed and mattress, ive encased my mattress and washed and vaccuumed everything (including my couch) though I keep getting singular red welts on my arms and legs. They do not itch, it fact they burn if I itch them. They go away in about a day or two. This has been going on for a while and Im at a complete loss as to what to do now. Any suggestions would be helpful, and any ideas if my welts are actaully bed bugs, or Im just going out of my mind….
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Sadly, I tried all the home and over the counter medications/remedies…. None of them worked. I had over 100 bites on my legs and arms (thankfully none on my face). They lasted for about 3 weeks and they only got worse and worse. As a last resort I went to my Doctors and they gave me a topical spray. It did work but I went through 2 bottles of it. The scars lasted for a month, and they are finally gone. However, because of this incident I’m always paranoid. I always check beds, bedsheets, couches, chairs, and car seats. And sometimes I think I feel them crawling on me, but there’s nothing there. It is an experience I will never forget, or want it to happen again.
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i have wors bed bugs then you i have it all over my legs ti is WORS THEN LAST time! and i have it on my back arms and legs my face
evry where and i dont know how to STOP it. it’s wors.
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I got the bed bug problem 3 years ago and didn’t told to my landlord since then. I finally brave enough to admit to him that my parents and I have the problem, and the pest control came and med our apt 6 times. It was really bad, and I felt very bad for myself and for the landlord to waste a lot of money to pay for it. He even said that if it happen again, we have to pay for it. Good thing now is I am not getting any bites. If I do, I first tell my dad and he says it is just a rash caused by oil that I release. You know like sign of becoming adult like getting pimple. However, since I had the problem for 3 years, I am now total paranoid about it. At least, now I will face any consquences from this and learned a valuable lesson. There will be an inspection comming this month in few weeks to check if there is any problem. Today, my dad and I got rid of this old, broken bookcase that might had where the bedbug came from in the first place.
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@Jennie: If you get rid of the couch you will get rid of most of the pest that hides on the inside frame of the couch where you cannot possibly reach w a vaccuum since you would have to disassemble the entire thing. Get a futon couch made of metal, bbugs hate metal, cover the futon with a mattress cover sold at targe and those things will not be able to make a home. They only like couches and mattresses that are not covered. Do all this during the day since all these bugs return to their home after exploring the rug, tv, laptops, kitchen and restroom during the hours of 2am to 7am.
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I stayed at a motel and didnt notice any bites until after one nite. Does the nine day symptom thing alway apply? Could the bited show up only after a day?
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About a week after a trip to New Jersey I came home and noticed a few red blistery bites on my middle back that were insanely itchy. Then more bumps showed up until I had about 20 in the immediate area. I went to the doctor after having them for a month with no improvement from over the counter ointments, etc. He said it was shingles or a gliuten allergy. I’ve taken all of the steriods, and prescription creams and they are still on my back. It has now been 6 months. Does anyone know what this might be?
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This little bugs are so nasty i wish they were gone foever and naever existed
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I don’t think that you want a bed bug in your room pr your kids room
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just copy the link at the top of the page, http://www.whatdobedbugslooklike.net/bed-bug-bite-symptoms.html and email that to your son or daughter in law. @rene:
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okay my family and i have recently acquire bits for last three month thinking it was just some spiders we didn’t worry about them but ive seen them they look almost like a roach but they bit us and drink blood ether when we very still or when were asleep is that bed bugs the bites aren’t as bad as others and take a cupple days to show but there in mass supply
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you are one crazy but funny dude!!!!!
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@louise gerber:
“Wow “so sorry!
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So I woke up this morning at my boyfriends apartment and noticed some itching on my toes. I then started to notice it on my legs. I thought maybe I was having an allergic reaction to something and thought nothing of it.
We went clothes shopping and as I was trying on clothes, I noticed more welts had appeared on my arm. Most of them were random bites, but there was one area that had a linear bite trail.
I mentioned it to my boyfriend who said that he had not gotten any bites on his body, only what appeared to be hives. We checked the bed and only found one small bug that was black and round.
12 hours later, I’m still developing new bites. I probably have at least 15-25 bites all over my body. Is it bed bugs or something else?!
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In my case the itchyness and redness lasted for about 3 months. After they seemed to have faded away, I double checked to see if these particular patches of skin had fully recovered. I took some Niacine pills which for me cause the Niacin flush effect. Eventually my back was completely red due to the flush effect. However, the spots where the bed bugs had bit me were pure white rather than red.
But over time, (months), these white spots, about 1 inch diameter, faded away and flushed red as did the rest of my back if I again took some Niacine. Finally, I thought, the problem is gone. Plus I had caught the bed bugs. Quantity 2. One large, one small. That was the last of being bitten.
However, 6 months later the itching returned and multiple red pin sized bump appeared in each location. This time it was more like Eczema. Each of these individual cases were located in the exact same place as a previous bed bug bite.
Not all reached this itching level, and it looked like the other bed bug bites were not making a come back, but if I took Niacin, the white 1 inch diameter spots were back instead. Thus they did make a come back to a degree.
What next?
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@Rebecca:
Rebecca, one of the things that make these bugs so elusive is that different people react in different ways to the bites. You, along with many of us, may have an allergy to the bites. If your husband does not, he may not notice the bites as they won’t itch or swell. On another note.. if the bugs are nesting under your side of the bed (most commonly box spring) then they could just be eating where it’s convenient. There are a number of plausible explanations. Bottom line, yes, they could very well be bed bugs.
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Where do you find this formula? Does it work and is it easy to apply
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Sorry. Go Go Bed Bug Killer
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ONE DAY I MOVE AND PUT MY MI STUFF IN pods AND THE AFTER A FEW WEEKS I TOOK IT OUT THEN PUT MI STUFF IN MY HOUSE AND A FEW WEEKS LATER I HAVE BED BUGS I GOT MAD AND I SAW 1 TRIED TO SMASH IT BUT IT WAS STILL A LIVE AND THEN AFTER I KILLED IT I WAS WONDERING WAS IT WAS MY MOM SAID THT IT WAS BED BUG I GOT SO MAD SO I STARTED SLEEPING ON THE FLOOR NOT KNOWING THAT THEY BE ON THE CRAKES ON THEY FLOOR SO WHAT SHOULD I DO SHOULD I GO AND GET BOMES CALL SOME1 TO COME AND FIX IT OR TAKE MTTERS INTO MY OWN HANDS I DONT HAVE ANY MONEY SOOO SHOULD I JUST MOVE OR THEN ANOTHER TIMES I WAS SLEEP AND WOKE UP AND SAW ALL KINDS OF BUMPS ON ME AGAING DID NOT KNOW WAT IT WAS SO I THOUGHT THT THEY WERE MEQUTO BITES SO I DI NOT SAY NOTHING THEN THEY NEXT DAY I WOKE UP WTH MORE OF THEY THEN I STARTED THINKING THIS IS NOT MAQUTO SEASON SO I THOUGHT AND SAID TO MY MOM WAT R THESE BITES SHE SAID IDK SO LATER I ASK MY GRANDMA SHE SAID I SAW ONE OF THEM ON ME THE OTHER DAY BUT I DONT KNOW WAT THEY ARE SO SHE TOLD TO GO AND LOOK IT UP ON THE INTERNET SO I DID SHE TOLD ME TO LOOK UP BED BUG SO I DID HOPING THAT THAT IS NOT WAT I HAVE SOO I DID AND SHE SAID THT IS THE BUG THAT WAT ON ME THE OTHER DAY THEN I LOOK @ HER LIKE I AM VERY CLEAN AND THERE NO WAY THT I CAN HAVE BED BUG SO I THOUGHT AND LOOK BACK AND SAID WE DID HAVE OUR STUFF IN STORAGE 4 A LONG TIME SO MAYBE IT CAME FROM THAT AND SHE SAID MAYBE IT DID BUT I HOPE THAT IT DID NOT SO LATER I SAW ONE AND THOUGHT THAT THIS IS ON OF THEM SO WAT SHOULD I DO ABOUT THEM IF I DO NOT HAVE THE MOVEY I DO NOT NO WAT TO DO BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER HAD THEM BEFOR AND I DONT KNOW WAT TO GET
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Stupid BeD BuGs!Y do they excist?!!
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@Bryan G.:
You’re house is full of bed bugs so far but I will need a picture and see it to make sure that I’m positive in my theory.
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it was a bed bug
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These bastards made my and my mother’s life a living hell!!! The money it cost for extermination, totes to put everything in, garbage bags for the rest of things, having to live out of the bags and totes…I could go on and on. Although we have not seen those vampires in about 3 months, we’re not taking it for granted that they’re gone. We search everything!!! We vacuum every single room at least a few times a week, got mattress/pillow encasements and are investing in a sofa encasement, washed everything we owned (which cost a fortune) and dried other things that were already clean but needed the heat to get rid of them.
We still look everywhere for them and use lint removers on our clothes when going from room to room and on the mattresses before we get into our beds.
They drove me over the edge since I moved here after a nasty divorce and lost most everything…needless to say the bed bugs were the straw that broke the camel’s back. My mother is 76 and I am on disability, which made it even harder on us.
I sympathize with those of you who are still dealing with it. It certainly can leave some PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder)
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Yes could definitely show after one day! I had itchy spots, which turned into raised lumps on day one…followed by 2 weeks on ongoing spots appearing. Doc thought it was an allergy to something, I thought it might be chicken pox as the spots formed blister type heads….very itchy, and very painful. Piriton did help with the itching.
@Jeff:
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How do you know if it’s bedbugs or scabies? I began to get intense itch on my back and suddenly alot of tiny sores with scabs appeared in no particular pattern on my back. I had impetigo and shingles before, thought it was that. But first doctor said scabies and gave me elimite but I am afraid of the chemical. Second doctor says it could be an infection or eczema. I’m using anti-biotic and cortisone creams now. I have felt sudden pin-pricks that felt like bites. I haven’t seen anything on my sheets that look like bedbugs. I am very confused and so depressed. If it’s scabies I’m afraid to use elimite all over my body because I am very sensitive to chemicals. Are there any alternative natural products that eliminate scabies, and bedbugs?
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Here is a trick.
I was covered with bed bug bites on my back and shoulders.
On the left side I covered the bites with a mild tooth paste and placed duct tape over these areas and left it as is for 7 hours. This kept the tooth paste moist and cut off the oxygen supply to the surface of the skin for 7 hours. During that time the skin itched like crazy. After the 7 hours I removed the duct tape and cleaned the skin.
After 2 days the skin began to heal and the itching was gone.
On the right side however the itching of all the bites seemed to go on forever.
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when i start itching at night i wake up and find a bite on my foot than i looked at my pants and found one really red which means they just bit me. and i had a bite a sec after they bit me? everytime i find a bite mark i look around and wil find a bedbug right next to me getting ready to hide and digest. so i dont know why they say it takes 9 days after u get bit for ur bite to appear cause i got ibtten tons of times and everytime i have a bite its becuase i gotbite a sec before that! im confused on why this might be?
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Wer do u find bed bug powder or go go bed bud?
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they are ugly i has 20 bite on me
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We are a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your website offered us with valuable information to paintings on. You have done a formidable activity and our whole group will be thankful to you.
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Cleaning bite area with very hot water helps ease itchinng and a Vitamin E Lotion or a vitimen E gel tablet. Open tablet and apply the gel on affected area . Eases itching and vitamin E heals skin. @Rick:
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What are you on ????@Rick:
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i’m 6months pregnant and for the past couple of months i have been getting bitten, i thought it was bed bugs but i did a search on my mattress and found nothing, i toss and turn every night and scratch while i’m sleeping.. the crazy thing is my husband is not getting bites at all, he thinks its all in my imagination, i told him if thats the case why do i have these marks on my body, i feel like its crawling all over me, its so bad that i dont even sleep in the bed i go on the couch but i know i have to get new mattress now cause i’m afraid wen our baby comes she may get bitten too : (
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Bedbugs scare the heck out of me! I’m always reading around about them to find ways in preventing them. And just in case I’m ever in contact with them I also look for what works best. In my research I’ve found that a pill called Xanax works. You take it along with another pill called Oxycontin and you’ll find the infestation not so out of hand. While nodding out on this mixture bugs may in fact bit you still but it won’t matter so much. Side effects include but are not limited to: not giving a sh*t buot some fu*king bugs.
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hello i belive i got bed bugs what gets ride of them what medicine do i use
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After realizing i have this bed bug problem, and doing tons of research, i have come to the conclusion the one way to not get bitten, (or the best solution i see, so far..) is to:
CHANGE your bed to the kind that has taller long legs.
GET containers – ideally tall cans (like large soup or bean cans, after opened and cleaned out)
FILL the containers half full with food grade diatomatious earth (get at hardware store, or do a local web search).
THEN, when you sleep, make sure nothing drapes over the edge and touches the ground.
Make sure your bed is at least a half a foot or a foot or more from the walls.
make sure you don’t have any dangling electrical power supplies (laptops, etc) because they can climb up that.
take extra diatomatious earth and you can sprinkle it any other place you like, including spots that are ‘on the way up’ to your bed.
You can also get two sided sticky tape and put that around the walls or on the way to the ceiling, that is a supplemental approach.
For example, I had a nice bed. i covered it in a plastic cover and got rid of it. even tho i steam cleaned everything twice (couch and rugs) and washed my laundry a bunch of times, and kept it in plastic bags, none of that seemed to matter. I still got bit.
What matters is not letting them get to you at night, and the diatomatious earth actually kills them by cutting them. This is new for me ( a week or so). last night before bed, i examined my containers to see what was up. i’m sleeping on a COT currently and the legs are slanted, so it’s harder to find the right containers to put the 6 legs in, but i just got some plastic sandwich containers from the Container Store and they are long, like 9 inches and 5 inches wide or something and that allows enough of a trough or ‘moat’ around the leg.
So last night i find TWO bed bugs dead in the diatomatious earth. One was in a plastic container, and one was up in the cross beam where the legs cross on the cot i’m sleeping on, where i also sprinkled the diatom. earth.
Eventually i’ll get another bed that has straight legs, like an army bed or like the bottom of a bunk bed, where it’s a foot or more off the ground and has straight metal legs. then i’ll get the cans. there is an article online about a homeless shelter that has been bed bug free for two years by doing this. what a pain in the ass, huh?! can’t even sleep in a nice bed anymore, damn!
Who knew? i’m in San Fran, and my friend in NY did not know about this Diatom. earth business. She told me in NY they are heating the building professionally and that seems to work, too, but expensive i imagine.
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@Shmitty:
Hahaha…. lmao! Shmitty, I think your remedy should solve the problem!
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@Emily:
Make sure they are not fleas. Flea bites are hard, raised in a point with a white tip at the end and they itch like the devil!
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My son has been staying at hotel with a friend for a few weeks and I told him not to bring his clothes upstair to my hamper, well its 3 to 4 weeks in and I’m now waking up with small raise bumps that don’t itch, happens when I wake up. I’m going to the doctor to rule out any kind of rash.
Now, I can’t take any chances. I have a bag of Diatomaceous earth from a few years back when I had fleas in my house, and I will have to use it plus buy a new bag and cover the entire 2nd floor this weekend, just to be on the safe side. I will have to wash everything and put it in the dryer. Before I do all this damn work, I’ll check to make sure I don’t have a hash. I will also have to get some Tea Tree Oil and put it all over my body before I go to sleep.
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Omg…i been freakin out latley I have a cover on my bed & I still wakeup with bites. I need help I check my bed no signes of bugges sometimes I feel wen I get dress dey bite me more I sprayed da room wat can I do to stop gettin bites?
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The other day i spent the night over my sister house and slept on the couchall of a sudden…in the middle of the night i felt my hand burning…i touched my hand and it was hottest like fire. I thought i was bitten by a spider…by the morning my hand was severely swollen and i could close it or use it to do anything. I decided to go to the hospital because this was very scary. The doctor told me i had Ben bitten by a bed bug and i was allergic. . He gave me motrin and benedril. I was also bitten on my the back of my neck and my ear. My neck swelled up and i was unable to turn my head. My ear swelled up so bad it looked like will Smith’s ear in the movie hitch. I hate bed bugs!!! I would like to knw where they came from
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I have red,itchy,burning but its only on one foot and two red welts.
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I would like to give some quick a easy but smelly effective ways to kill and stop the bed bugs from reproducing. Rubbing alcohol it kills the bugs and their eggs instantly. I bought a bug sprayer the kind you pump to build up pressure so it sprays, put like 3 bottles of alcohol in it open all the windows remove children and pets take beds outside, spray carpet closets about a half a foot above the wall spray beds, box springs inside box springs and in any creases Im not sure what it will do to couches if you spay it. If you think it might effect the color try iy on a little spot to find out,wait for it to dry, vaccum and then use a bed bug spray(find at local hardware store walmart is more exspencive) the spray says keeps away bed bugs for up to 16 weeks this is safe for kids alot of schools use this. Also spray back pack and other things brought home from school. Ask your childs school if they have had any cases and if you live in an apartment they will spary like they do for roaches.Just with a different chemical. I hope this helps
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fuck bed bugs. i cant stop itching. just moved into my gf dads house and about a week an a half later here i am itching everything there is to itch. at firs i thought it might have been chicken pox but i highly doubted it so fuck. im about to burn this fuckin house down. im tired of the itchiness
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please someone should help me out.am experiencing it right now as i write.give me suggestions to clear i t out
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February 9, 2012 this was such good information concerning bed bugs. It covered everything I needed to know. I will be sure to pass this wed site on to friends and family
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February 9, 2012, this information from this web site covered information from A to Z. I will pass this web site on to family and friends. This web site has detailed information////I caught the bed bugs symptoms right away and this web site help me to ID them.
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I have been getting bit by something for 7 months now. i thought it was hives at first but after reading this site I think I think I have the bedbug curse. i have cleaned everything searched my whole house and not found one sign of bedbugs. My boyfriend has not been bitten once in this time period. He sympathizes and helps me clean and go on bed bug hunts but we still have found nothing.
The other night i was bitten or whatever this is about 30 times. About 10 on each wrist and about the same on my chest. They are small and can flare up and get itchy for about 5 mins and then they calm down.
I have a prescription from my doctor for a strong steroid hydrocortisone cream that works great. She didn’t think they were bed bug bites but she only saw the remains. She didn’t see them when they were red and itchy.
Now my daughter is showing signs. Yesterday she had one on her arm and then this morning she had two on her leg and one on her other arm. Hers go away pretty fast when i put the cream on them. The one from yesterday has completely disappeared.
My dogs, roommate and boyfriend are all fine. We do not have a messy home and have no carpet in our house.
I am going to purchase an all natural bed bug spary called “Stop bugging me” (has anyone used this?) and spray my bed. I think I will also try the Diatomaceous Earth as I have heard it has been successful with bugs in my friends houseplants.
Seriously though, What could this be? You would think that after 7 months that I would have a full blown infestation but I have not found one sign. No blood spots on the bed, no dead bugs, no egg casings, NOTHING. My roomie and bf are fine too. WTF? I am going crazy and am sick of itching. I will be incasing my bed this weekend to see if that helps but wonder if it even will at this point.
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my bits you can barley see they creep me out thow
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