Bed Bug Bites
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We’ve all heard the phrase, and we say it to be cute, but in reality, a bed bug bites are no laughing matter. They are in no way dangerous, unless you have a severe allergic reaction to them (which is quite rare) but if you have a bed bugs bite, you can attest to the fact that they are nothing short of annoying!
Sleep tight! Don’t let the bed bugs bite!
It’s important to understand that bed bug bites can be difficult to diagnose. Some doctors even misdiagnose bed bug bites as another skin issue entirely due to the fact that everyone reacts to them differently. Most people find them extremely itchy, and this is a person’s allergic reaction to the chemical that a bed bug bite injects into your skin.
What do bed bug bites look like?
If you want to know, what does a bed bug bite look like, here are some Bedbug Pictures.
The appearance of bed bug bites will vary.
No one reacts to a bed bug bite the same way. Some people will notice a rash-like appearance that is raised up and itches. These will appear on one particular area of the skin where the bed bug will focus on. However, others experience little red welts all over the body, and some people may just have whitish, pinkish bumps concentrated in a certain area. It varies from person to person, but a big key to understanding whether they are bed bug bites or not is by knowing when they occurred and what activities you were participating in before you got them. This will help you determine whether they are bites from fleas, mosquitos, spiders or other pests that commonly bite human skin. The symptoms of the bite aren’t enough to tell you what made the bite.
Bed bug bites happen at night
Bedbugs feed at night, thus bed bug bites do not show up until you get up in the morning. If you find the bites seem to have appeared while you are sleeping, I would really look into if you have a bedbug infestation. Has anyone had any bites they thought to be bedbugs, but ended up being another insect? Let us know in the comments if you have any experience with bed bug bites.
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I have had an allergic reaction to something bitting me at night. I have so many bites and whelps and rash all over me that I have been diagnosed with hives, scabies, bed bugs and chicken poxs. They appear sometimes in threes and occassionally in ones. I have just only found 2 little brown bugs in my bed with in a 5wk span, but use scabies medicine and that has often worked. I bomed my house and mostly all of the bites appeared on my arm at night and I have over 30 bites, but only found two bugs and they ooze clear fluid…I’m questionable!!!
Zeta, c’mon. Call an exterminator. Even if you don’t have bed bugs (though it sounds like you do) you need outside help. Stop suffering.
I have no idea if it was bed bugs spiders, ect. All i know is that i had a severe allergic reaction and now have to carry an epi pen with me everywhere…
I have no clue how i got bed bug bites. I just woke up one morning and they appeared on my arm. I thought they were mosquito bites but they looked a little different.Then a coplue more days later they appeared on my other arm
Wow maybe now I can stop wondering what the heck bit me!My first thought was spider, but I’ve seen many spider bites and the rash I had was totally not from a spider bite. Just as Kim said, first my right arm and shoulder started out with many bites and then it spread to my left arm and shoulder and I itched like crazy!
When I was going to sleep last night my bed felt itchy. I took some benadril and chalked it up as an allergic reaction. Now I woke up and still feel itchy and on my chest there is a collection of small red dots they are not itchy, can you see the bed bugs? Is this bed bugs? Everything was fine the night before and I have not slept in a hotel in a while. Any ideas?
I woke up with 4 HUGE welts on my arm, when the welts shrunk I noticed it was 30 small bites on my arm. I took all my bedding off and vaccuumed my bedroom thoroughly. The next morning my husband caught a bedbug on my pillow!!! I immediately called the exterminator. Bedbug bites tend to come in small clusters so you may have 2 or more bites in a row, almost like a straight line. Apparently they can bite as much as 60 times in one sitting depending on how restless you are when you sleep.
my mom got bed bug bites on vacation. In the past few days, my 2 year old has gotten ithy bites on his ankle bones and wrists – pattern seems uncommon for bed bugs but the one def looks like pics of bed bug bites – could it be?
FYI! Please, please, please, when buying a used mattress, have them fumigated or refuse them! I thought I was doing my daughter and a fellow neighbor a favor, by replacing a broken mattress set and getting my neighbors mattress set off of her hands. As soon as the bed was setup and slept in, within a week, my daughter is complaining of a rash area on the small of her back that itches really bad and resembles the pictures that I have seen online. In the future, I am investing in new mattress sets!
I’ve been getting bites for months. Oddly, I’m the only one at my house getting them. First I thought they were from the cloth on my couch, then an allergic reaction to the dust at work. Then my soap. Then spiders. I couldn’t figure out what it was until I found a bug today! I can’t wait to be itch free.
I was at a meeting at my daughters school and started feel itchy on my neck and shoulder. I suffer from hives so I thought it was that. This morning I woke up itching and the bites look just like the picture, they are even in the same area. I haven’t been anywhere besided my school and my daughters school all week. Could it be from just sitting in school? (I go at night and my daughers program was at night)
It is possible, there have been many reports of bed bugs in schools in the recent news. Make sure to check all the mattresses in your house just to be sure.
A quick trip/call to your doctor may be in order also.
Good luck!
My husband and I are pretty sure we brought bed bugs home from a cabin we stayed in. After talking to a friend of mine who is into natural health, she recommended Diatomaceous Earth. After investigating the expense of hiring an extermintor to the cost of a 5oz bottle of diatomaceous earth ($10), I bought a jar and treated my entire house. Not only are my husband and I not getting bit at night, it also took care of an ant problem in the kitchen and come to think of it, I haven’t seen any bug or spider in the house since. Well worth the $10, I would have paid a lot more.
I started getting bumps which I believe to be either scabies or exczema from my Girlfriend’s house after the first couple of weeks of staying over and since then I’ve gotten what I believe to be bed bug bites on my elbow and on my penis, which is an incredible nuisance. I’m going to the doctor’s this week to get checked out.
ok i am seriously freaked out! my family and i just got back from a vacation after t-gives from an indoor waterpark called the greatwolf lodge. we spent one night in a hotel and now my legs are covered in a red rash. but i also have single bites and 3 bites in a row and a few large red clusters. i am trying to diagnose what they are without spending a ton of money at the doctors, but everyone seems to have a different experiance with them. i cant sleep knowing i might have brought them home with me! how do you get rid of them?
Sara, Diatomaceous Earth!!! You can get it at any health food store or if you are like me and live in nowhere, you can order online. It has now been over a month and no bites.
So in the past month i have woken up with 6 bites that look like Mosquito bites they itch and hurt a little but its all ready cold where i live so i am almost sure their are no more Mosquito around DOES ANY KNOW WHAT THIS MIGHT BE? (BED BUGS?)
We just bought a new bed about 6 months ago then recently discovered what we thought were mosquito bites but sometimes they would be 3 in a row or a couple near each other but noyhing like the pictures of giant clusters. So we chalked it up to spiders or something else but just yesterday my wife found a bug on my pillow that sure enough looked like the pics of bed bugs. Does that mean we picked them up from someone or something and they just havent turned real bad yet. What do we do now we have two babies and a very limited budget can anyone help?! please and thanks
Nick,
Sorry to hear about your problems, it’s good that you caught them though. Check out this page and see if it’s something you could do http://www.bedbugmundo.com/bed-bugs-treatment.html
Thanks-a-mundo for the blog.Much thanks again. Keep writing.
i bought a beautiful attractive used bed frame at a thrift store and set it up for my dautghter , it was infested with bed bugs we saw them crawling on frame mattress and wall , then those stupid little suckers made there way to my bedroom !!! i cant believe it we are all bitten up, ive since got rid of her bed frame i only bought an used bed frame but they were all hiding inside the frame soo gross, i never really knew bedbuggs existed and i like buying used stuff but NEVER NEVER AGAIN will iever buy anything used its such a big problem i cant even sleep at nite but i vacuum at least 3 times per day and cover all my mattress and box springs with the plastic covers.
My aunt bought a “new” mattress from Big Lots about 3 weeks ago and 2 weeks ago we killed 5 bedbugs that my cousin felt on her. Can we do something law wise either to serta which was the brand of the mattress or to Big Lots? We took pictures of the bugs the bites and the info of the mattress?
Monica,
I would try to contact the headquarters of the department store that you purchased the mattress from. They may want to look into the store to make sure it is not infested!
How do i get rid of the bites and itchyness Dx ? i have school tomorrow and a huge bug bite on my forehead from sleeping at my cousins house . care to help ? anyone ?
sorry to hear about this, to bad you have school tomorrow. Lucky that they will go away without any issues, but it will take a bit. Try this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamine
In my experience, the problem comes from the mattress.
It doesn’t even have to be that old to cause problems if there haven’t been sheets on it or not cleaned often.
The skin flakes can easily build up and attract the little buggers.
If the problem is mattress related, vacuum the heck out of the mattress and then try one of those hand held carpet steam cleaners. Steam will kill anything it comes into contact.
I never realized that bed bugs could create such an effect like you have shown in your photo. Eye opening, thanks.
Selena,
Author at Cellulean
Is it possible to get a bed bug bite during the day? I work at an apartment community and have one apartment that had a problem. The exterminator has found no additional activity but the residents claim they are still getting bitten. One of them came into my office for about 10 minutes yesterday and I am terrified that I now have them too. I have one tiny bite on my arm that I discovered yesterday evening and now I have a matching one on my leg. I’ve heard that the bites open up in the middle unlike a mosquito bite. Is that true? And if so, how long does it take for them to do that? Thanks!
This is why there is an epidemic all over, people not knowing what the hell they are talking about and trying to self treat without proper education. Learn about bed bugs the right way before posting your stupid ghetto home remedies on the internet! You’ll not solve the problem at least and at worst spread it, and make it worse.
i have the same bites but i only get bit once every now and then but we have a bed bug infestation . by the looks of the bumps they dont look like chicken pox. my mom gets bit everywere and we sleep in the living room… we also did the same thing you did we cleaned and disinfected and even used pesticides but we didnt realize what they were untill just a week ago when we found than in our bed and crawling on the bathroom wall. i hope this helps.
I reckon the key thing is not to worry too much about bedbugs or any other tiny microbes that live with us. Sure, we need to react to them when we are affected by bites and so on, or if we have any allergies, but I don’t want to live in a paranoid world. It would be too easy to do.
i got my matress at big lots and bought the serta and am having the same issue
When beds get infested with bedbugs, how do we really get rid of them? Can the usual washing eliminate the problem or we still have to use special solutions or others? I hope somebody can help me with this.
Amiel
I have been sleeping on a couch at a friends house for over a month now and just within the last 2weeks i have noticed mosquito looking bites on my body. I just woke up this morning with three new bites, one on my right thigh, one on my left calf. and one on my upper left arm underneath. I’m getting sick of this shit. My friend doesnt get any in his bed so why am I getting them on the couch?
I see this bed bugs problem as a serious problem. Because from what I heard, bed bugs might play a role in the spread of hepatitis B. Very serious disease caused by tiny creatures. Thank you for giving the information…
I have bedbugs all thru my house. I even noticed them in my car. They only come out at night but I sometimes find casings in my mattress and my mothers also. Yuck~ wish they would go away!
I think I may have been bitten at a resort last week…my questin is this: what does the bite feel like? When I was bitten (in bed, middle of the night), it was a like a bee sting, it did not itch until a day later. I was wondering what others say about the bite itself. I only had one bite on my knee the first night and then one on my elbow the next night. Not fun! How do you treat the bite itself?
Here you go Nancy: Treating Bed Bug Bites
This was very entertaining. I have been reading your blog regulary last week and now its in my bookmarks.
Those of you who are not going to a doctor for your bites, should be. The doctor can at least prescribe things to alleviate most of the itching and prevent or get rid of infection from scratching. The CDC should be trying to get a solution to this problem as it is becoming epidemic. But the really stupid government we have is more interested in ecology so they won’t bring back DDT which WOULD eradicate it as it has done in the past. Morons. You know what they say, it’s not a problem TILL IT HAPPENS TO THEM.
You can spray your mattresses with 91% alcohol and place plastic bed covers on beds.
I went camping and stayed in cabins wednesday thru saturday. On the following Tuesday evening after coming home from work I noticed a grouping of red itchy welts on my right bicep. By later that Tuesday night the welts were up and down my arms and neck. QUESTION: is there any delay factor after being bitten? Can it take a few days for welts to emerge?
Been bitten like a hundred times. Can’t find one of them, so i’m assuming it is either a new infestation (babies) or Scabies. How do i tell them apart?? I used one of those steamers that straighten out curtains and such. They seem to blow much hotter steam than a steam cleaner, But i am STILL afraid to sleep on this heavy sleeping bag. It’s not even a mattress so unless they jumped out and ran for cover, they couldn’t have had many places to hide. I sprayed it with pesticides and left it outside for two days. On the third I steamed in upside down and inside out. Slept on my desk last night. When should i try sleeping on it again? AND, how do i differ scabies from bed bugs. I can’t find them??? HELP!!
I’ve also taking andantol?? The lady at the pharmacy gave it to me but i’m afraid it only helps with symptoms. What tha’ hell?? A lady in Costa rica gave me a two pill treatment over a two weeks. it was all gone, but i wasn’t sleeping in the infested area anymore. This is in my new place!!
I must have had bedbugs like 7 or 8 times in the last 10 or 11 years. I sojourned with my brother for a month and he had bedbugs. When I moved in with my friend, I brought them with me. Luckily, the infestation was low and was able to get rid of them with a bedbug spray i got from Home Depot. It was maybe two weeks ago that i was sitting on a bench on the sidewalk, ou mytside of a cafe. I noticed a red bedbug crawling across laptop bag. I killed it. Blood spilled into my fingers. I went home, not so calmly, I was disturbed. i took off all my clothes and placed it in a laundry bag and tied it up tightly. Even my sneakers went it there. I took them to wash. Guess what, earlier today, as i was sitting on the bench plaza where I live, i was so concious of bedbugs. i wound up spotting one trying to get away. Yeah, it took some of my blood. I went upstairs and placed everything I was wearing into the laundry bag. I looked inside the shoulder strap bag i had on top of the bench. A small bedbug crawled out. I was so upset. It went to bedbug heaven. Just before i finished typing this message, i felt an inchiness just below my right elbow. It seems like my intentions of quarrantine wasn’t 100 percent proof. I mean really, what is the purpose of having bedbugs in the animal kingdom? Such bastards that they are!
I slept over at my bpyfriend’s house last week. When I got there, he told me he was worried he had bed bugs, or something. I had been there the week prior and didn’t notice anything, and honestly he can be a bit dramatic. I was not quite sober, so willing to risk it. I am so mad at myself. It has been a week and I have horribly ichy welts. The first two days were the worse but now. They are only on the right side of my body, from my foot up, up to my calve and then on my back and shoulder.
I have been taking antihistamines and using cortizone cream. It has been a week. I have been trying so hard not to itch but, at night when I am sleeping or when I am drinking I am unsuccessful. HOT showers are the only thing to relieve the itch and I could stay in there all day if I didn’t have to worry about the water bill, lol.
I am just wanting to confirm that these are bed bug bites. I have cleaned my bedding twice since sleeping over there, just in case. I have searched my mattress and sheets for any signs. never found a bug, feces, blood nothing. I haven’t checked his though. Is it normal for the welts to still be present and itchy even after a week since the bites?
Can one person sleeping in the same bed get bitten all over, while the other not even one bite?
I have very itchy bites all over my body, especially arms and legs, while my husband who naturally sleeps in the same bed, has absolutely nothing. Could it be bed bugs?
I have found three small brown bugs with black horizontal lines withon a 3 to 5 week period and i have sort of become paranoid about it. At night when i lay awake it feels like a bugs crawling on me but lately its been from my sunburns peeling and i have alot of mosquito bites from fishing and i cant tell if one red bite on my arm is from the bugs or from the skeeters.
I showed my grandpa one of the bugs and he said that it was a wood bug but i thought it was strange to find multiple of them. I have also recently found that it feels like something is walking on me but when i look a small red bump is there and it still feels like its moving but i dont see the bumps move or anything so im not sure on anything and really wish for some helpfull advice.
We just went on vacation to a resort and I am breaking out in linear pattern of 3-4 bites that seem to reflect bed bug bites. One site I looked at said that the bites can appear up to 9 days later. I am guessing we got them at the resort as we have never had this problem in our home. But my concern is could we have brought the critters home with us or were we just possibly bitten at the resort?
I was at a sleep-away camp, and continually woke up with more and more red bites on me every day, they were even on my face! I just thought they were mosquito bites, but when I got home, my dad said they were probably bed bug bites. We looked online to see the symptoms, and pictures of these particular bites. Turns out my dad was right, and they are indeed very itcy, and all over my arms, and legs, and face. Some anit-itch lotion helps some, but scratching the bites will indeed prolong the healing of the bites.
Went on a mini vacation.. and came back an less than a month later my 6 month (at the time) started getting bites.. so I cleaned her bed and hers stopped.. then a couple months ago.. I started getting attacked every night with dozens of bites!! All of a sudden I find many many bed bugs.. along with what I think are eggs.. I just bought a bed bug spray.. so we will see if that works… but can getting bit so many times be harmful? or cause any problems?
Well I just moved to port Arthur tx..and we are renting in some expensive apartments…very clean and all…we bought new everything …new mattress box spring tables living room set…we have been living here for 1 months and my daughter of a yr and half seems to have bed bug bites…can I still have them even though the furniture is new…oh yea we have carpet…not sure if it was new when we moved in ….pls someone answer me because i cant see to get info in any other website !!! Pls!!
Diana.. does she have a lot of bites in one area of her body? Itch a lot?
i have recently moved and all of a sudden im covered in bites. i have checked my bed and all the places i was told to look. how ever i have bites all over me. i spray mosquito spray on before i go out side and i only wake up in the morning itching. the bites look like mosquito bites that are kinda close together. Would any one have any advice on how to distinguish the two from each other? please and thank you!(:
I started getting these “bites” on my legs,arm,back and torso about 2 months ago. I went to the Dr. and they said it was Scabies and they treated me with permetherin cream which I had to sleep in for 12 hours – very poisonous pesticide – well they didn’t go away so I went to another Dr. and she said it was Norwegian Scabies and again treated me with another dose of permetherin cream – 12 hours again. I went back to her and she treated me 2 more times with the same poisonous cream to no avail. So I went to a dermatologist that did a biopsy on one and all it came back was an insect bite and he is treating me with cortisone cream for the itching. As I look at the pictures of people with bed bugs – mine do not look like that. Some are big round welps some look like a pimple and some just look red and flat and form a scab. What could this be??? Somebody please help me as i am miserable. And I do not want any more poison on me while I sleep.
I went to my families home in another state and my children and I woke up after 4 hours of sleep itching… we are covered in bites, hundreds of them. I found some of the bugs in the bed my kids were sleeping in and my grandmother told me they were bed bugs. That was 4 days ago and I am still itchy. The kids say it has gotten better but they still have the welts on them but they aren’t red anymore and they aren’t itchy… I’m scared I have brought them home but I haven’t seen anything, I took the kids out of the car and into the garage, stripped them down put on clean bathing suits and let them swim at home and I’ve washed everything that we took with us but I am still itchy so it make me nervous that I brought them home with me. What do I do? I’m not seeing any new areas biten but with so many bites I don’t think I would notice a few bites a night… HELP ME PLEASE!!!
Taylor.. with the bites showing up in the morning and being close together I would say they are bed bugs. Everyone reacts to a bed bug bite differently. Are there more than one in a small area? Kind of like in a line or pattern?
Michelle.. it sounds like you have an advanced case of bed bugs… I would call an exterminator. Do not try Bed bug foggers as they do not work.. I have personally tried them. All they do is make them hide deeper.
Debi-lynn.. Check your mattress in the corners where it creases and under your mattress in between your boxspring and mattress, if you have a headboard, look on the back of it. These are all common hiding places for bed bugs.. The way you are describing I would say you have bed bugs.
since may my daughter has broken out with something all over her body and it itches realy realy bad, now we all starting to itch and get little bits ,we have tried everything,. what do i do?
i spent one night at a hotel with my sister and the next day
had 3 bits sort of in a roll with 2 other on my butt. that same day
i developed other bites on my foot, right leg and left thigh. 3days later i have one on my arm. my sister did not ge bitten.
i left my bag in the car, and its still there and i checked my purse
before i came into the house. i even check the hotel for bedbugs.
my bits look like the picture on the web of bedbug bites. my concern is that 3 days later i have anther bite, is it true that bites can appear several days after you are bitten.
i too have found them in my apartment. i woke up one morning and had a spider bite on my leg, i went to the doctor and got treated. a couple of weeks later i got bit on my arm by what i thought was a mosquito. so i dindnt think about it. then i woke up one morning and my whole right arm was covered in a red itchy rash, that hurt. so i put some itch gel on it, that made break out into a differnt rash up and down my arm. so i went to the doctor and was treated for scabies. i put the permethrin cream on like it says i go to bed next morning, no new bites that night. the next night i wake up i have a couple a new bites. so i use more of the cream that i still had left over. the next morning more bites and i go back to the doctor thinking that nothing is working. i felt really helpless, i stayed up really late racking my brain unil 2am and turned the light on in the bedroom and saw this bug running to the top of the bed and unfortunatlly for him and his family and his friends will be dead soon. im sad, only because i have to throw away my bed.
Last year due to the spreading of bed bug in US, I simply just refrained myself from going to any place for vacation. But my godness, I started to feel itchy after two people came to visit last month and the bump place included my head while no eggs can be found when I suspected it was lice. After I got straight line bites on my leg, I was told by a neighbour that they werebed bug bites. I used sprays from Home depot, it works. I am going to use fogs tomorrow to ensure that no single bug can survive. The bug experience is really annoying and, stinky.
Hey eery1 I just want y’all 2 kno it takes about 2 years for bed bugs 2 fully go away cuz once u fumigate they lay dormit for a while so if u have them u might have 2 bomb more than once..trust me I kno and now I have them again Thanks 2 a neighbor >:0…and when washing clothes remember alwas hot water and always dry urr clothes on high heat…if u have spare boxes throw them away..dnt be afraid 2 sleep in ur bed cuz ho thy spray u actualy have 2 slep in ur bed. Help kill them
As I was reading through the comments, I noticed that many initial reactions to the rash was spider bites. This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine; but spider bites are actually rather uncommon. Unforunatly, people develop an unexplained rash and jump to the conclusion that i the vast majority of spides are just too small to even t was caused by a spider. Even doctors will diagnose an unexplained rash as a spider bite just to give a diagnosis. Unless the culprit is actually found, a spider should be your last thought! Remember that most spider species do not leave their webs and that the vast majority of them are too small to even open their mouth parts wide enough to bite us at all, let alone to break the skin. Think other invert bites or stings or even staph infections first!
okay this is what i know bed bugs suck and it’s a pain in the butt to get rid of them. the exterminator said that to help get rid of them though vacum as much as possible. spray alcohol on all non porous surfaces because bed bugs will hide in anything and the alcohol will kill them. you have to bag up everything airtight to keep them from spreading. heat of 120 degrees will kill them too so all of your clothes, pillows, blankets, shoes put them in the dryer to kill whatever is hiding there. but what i found interesting was that you have to keep sleeping in your beds because they will go wherever the body heat is so if you change where you sleep they will just follow you. you have to get sprayed more than once generally to make sure you totally get rid of them because the eggs will hatch after about 2 weeks…..hope that helps somebody….i got my information from an exterminator.
These silly little pest!!!!!!! ruined my perfectly nice skin im so upset my skin will never look the same again. bedbugs are the worst seriously
Jordan…well my daughter bites kinda look like the ones in the picture..but she has them on her cheeks by her ear and some in the leg..i bought a steam washer for the carpet and i have notice that she hasnt gotten bitten also i bought a special mattress cover that is special for bed bugs..but like i said before my mattress is brand new..so its kind weird to me..
Hi,
I just moved into a new apartment, and a few days after my stuff arrived from the moving truck I started noticing bites on my body. I first got 1 big welt on my left arm and then 3 or 4 bites in a row on my right arm. I also had 4 bites going up my left leg. The bites look like mosquito bites – red raised welts that itch. What makes me suspect bed bugs is that they often are in groups. (I noticed them 5 days ago and they stopped itching 2 days ago).
For the last two days I didn’t notice any bites, but today I woke up with a bunch: two on my left foot and one on my left ankle, one on my left thigh, and one on the back of my left upper arm. They’re pretty far apart from each other (other than the ones on my foot an ankle) but they are all on the left side of my body.
My boyfriend who lives with me has not noticed any bites and we sleep in the same bed, however, I know that some people do not show any reaction to bed bug bites.
I checked my mattress (which is new) and bedsheets and did not see any bug feces or exoskeletons, but I guess it’s possible I have a small infestation that is about to get worse, or the bugs could just be hiding elsewhere.
Does this sound like bed bugs?
Thanks for your help!
last week i stayed at a holiday inn with about 10 other people (2 rooms) and my dog. I was the only one getting bit and got about 20 bites..5 on my stomach, 4 on my neck, 2 on my face, 2 on my arm and 1 on my leg. Since ive got home ive washed everything and checked my matress. I have not gave my puppy a bath but she did not sleep on the bed i got bit (can dogs carry bed bugs?) Since ive gotten home i have not seen one bed bug but i feel as though im still getting bit. I have 2 little bumps today that i just found but they do not look red like the other bed bug bites..just swollen. WHAT DO I DO I DONT KNOW IF THEYRE BED BUGS AND MY BOYFRIEND DOESNT BELIEVE THAT THEY CAME HOME WITH ME. Someone please help, i live in an apartment complex and do not want this to spread.
Okay…At first I thought my bites were mosquito bites because I have spent the last four nights outside in shorts. But when nothing cures them I am starting to think it’s these…I don’t know what to do. How on earth do I get rid of these mystery itchy spots?
I see this bed bugs problem as a serious problem. Because from what I heard, bed bugs might play a role in the spread of hepatitis B. Very serious disease caused by tiny creatures. Thank for this information!!!
Diana.. if she has stayed somewhere, or a hotel, or went anywhere she could of brought them back. Those mattress covers do work.. try looking in it now and see if there are any in there? Dont let her sleep anywhere but there because they will follow the body heat. We used Bed Bug spray and bombs.. so far so good!!
CAN YOU SEE BED BUGS??
AND WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE??
OH SO THEY ONLY COME OUT AT NITE
Just back from 11 days in a condo on Hawaii. Started noticing the red bumps as website describes a few days after arriving home. Could the bumps be showing up later and/or did I bring the bugs back with me? I have washed and cleaned today as much as possible. What do you think? Is there a chance I left the bugs there? Thanks- L
Does the bite of a bed bug effect kids more then adults?
ok.. bed bugs DO NOT carry Hepatitis B.. just to clear that up. Cindy, yes you can see them.. there are many pictures on this site that show them in their different stages. Robert, no they do not affect children more than adults. However, different people react to them differently, they release a numbing agent when they bite and that it what a lot of people have an allergic reaction (which is what happens when you welt up and itch) so your child may be allergic to the numbing agent. My fiance and I sleep in the same bed, and when we had them I got attacked every night and would have up to 20 bites on one arm, and we could not see one on him. It just depends on how you react to them.
On June 13th, we brought a couch in from the road (had been outside approx 30 minutes, no other furniture near it). Being paranoid of bugs, it sat in the garage until July 2nd. I did a very close inspection of the cushions, the seams, the foam inside the cushions, and the underside of it before bringing it up to my apartment. It has a heavy cover on it. I have slept on this couch from time to time and lain on it at night and had no problems, so I thought everything was ok.
A week ago I found an itchy bump on my hip when I woke up that has since become a pinkish welt, and today I woke up with a line of 4 bumps/welts on my chest (the third of the 4 bumps seems to be a series of smaller bumps very close to each other). Terrified of bed bugs, the mattresses and box springs of the bed were inspected and we saw nothing. My fiance is not having any itchy bumps (he has also slept on the couch).
Is it possible that it took that long for (assuming it is) bed bugs to start biting me? Why wouldn’t they have attacked from the couch?
okay so i started with three skeeter looking bumps on my ankel at a friends house on a wensday, by friday they were gaint red welts bigger then quarters going up and down my arms i had some on my tummy and a few bites on my upper thighs went to the doctor 3 times only one accullay helped she said “i feel really sorry for you” she said i looked like i got attacked by bedbugs (before the 3rd doctor vist i thought i had some allregic reaction to something) she put me on sometype of steriods and to take
sorry its so long lol i just need somesort of advice…
benadrel (like four pills every 3-4hrs) and a bunch of itch cream,it helped SO much!! its been a few days and the bumps are gone just got the marks to prove it happened but now im worried that their in my room (or house!!!) because im getting one
or two bites but im not sure if i got them
from my friends house,what i really need is proper advice in how to get rid of them where to look,(altho my bed room is now empty i took everything out even my carpet so its a new bed just the mattres the tv set and a side draw) or if im getting them from my friends bed why my friend? because i feel like i got the very 1st bites at his house then might of brought them to my house, i slept over yesterday & today and this morning i noticed four new bumps on my arm even tho i wore a sweater im just really worried that i already had them before sleeping over and that i got bitten at home while i took a nap or slept idk im the only one getting bit ( at home and at my friends) idk what to think
Ive been getting these red small bumps.. First it was on my left leg then next day on my right leg I thought it was mosckitos then again on my left leg but on my thy I thought it was chicken pox my friends and mom said it doesn’t look like it then this morning I got another one on my left arm AND right shoulder… There not HUGE bumps there small red and itchy!! Is this bed bug bites??? Please help!!?
All the people claiming to have 3 or 4 bites in a row – thats usually a trait of fleas, not bed bugs. Fleas will often bite, then walk forward and bite again… and will keep doing so until full.
Exterminator comes out for ours in a few days, however, when is it safe to put our clothing back in our rooms? All clothing has been dried on high for at least 15 minutes, but should we spend the next year keeping our clothes in bins? Or are our clothes in the closets safe?
Also, we’ve yet to see any bites on our kids in their 3 rooms over the past month since our bedroom got infested. We are constantly checking their beds/rooms out and vacuuming as well. However, we’ve spent the past week sleeping in our daughters room. Is this a bad idea? Do we need to be staying in our room to draw them out?
Dustin… Actually, having several bites in a row is a sign of bed bugs. They do the same thing, bite and walk, bite and walk, and so on until full. The older/bigger the bug the more bites you will have.
We’ve been inspecting the bed weekly (no evidence of bugs that we see) and I haven’t had any bites since the 26th or so (though the one on my hip welted up again, same spot). So now I don’t know what to think.
I have bed bugs how do I get rid of them?
To answer some of what people have been asking: yes, two people can be sleeping in a bed and just ONE will get bitten up severely. I had just that situation happen to me when I was three months pregnant!! My husband was sure it had to do with the pregnancy until one day he said “hey, what itches on my back?” and he had a line of three welts. Now, I had them all over my legs, arms, abdomen, neck, and starting my face at this point.. in rows of two and three and over 10 new ones a night!! It only took the appearance of ONE crawling on the bed that I saw one day and that was it !! I had the ALLERGIC REACTION… HE did NOT. At my in-laws, my husband saw one crawling on his brother’s shirt. NO ONE in the house was being bitten. It’s my belief that he brought them home from there.
Now.. almost EXACTLY 18 months later and I have a son turning a year old in weeks to come.. I honestly believe they are back. The treatment we used merely “scared” them into their hibernation until starvation. Now they are feeding on my SON !! I saw two good sized welts on his face the other morning !! I think last time, since I focused on our bedroom, they “retreated” to the further points. We hadn’t set up the nursery yet. Now that’s where they are. Vacuuming, steaming, dryer at high temps, and D-Earth.. trying it again. This whole thing plays so much with your mind !! But.. bite my baby??!!! Not getting away with that !!
I was at a retreat this weekend and there were 5 in the room but only 2 of us got bit. Our bunks were up against a wood-paneled wall. I was almost asleep and kept feeling something on my neck – it was a prickly feeling, kind of like when you get your hair cut and it “pricks” your neck where the loose hair falls onto your neck. But, it also had a very slight sting to it. I finally got up and turned the flash light on my bed. There were several bugs on my pillow. I have another pillow – dark in color and it was covered with tiny, tiny, pin-head sized white dots that moved!
The people from the retreat camp came right over and investigated it. They said they were beg bugs. They looked like ticks to me – ones that weren’t engorged. They were very flat and pretty easy to crush.
My question – My roommate and I both FELT the bites – all I’ve been reading today say you don’t feel it – just wake up and find bites! AND I have NO welts or bites that I can see, nor does the other girl. So were these really bedbugs?? I did break out in hives from my toes to my chin (within about 1/2 hour of the bites, but I guess that could have been from the stress of it all. I have had no other reactions.
I go to my cousins house n it is 11:35am i fell asleep on the couch for 3 mins woke up and i have bites that look like the picture on my collar bone area very bad.it itches alot
I had them some time ago. These bites will not appear after u woke up. It can happen during a day.
I also thought I’ve got some allergy…while they were living with me approximately 6 months.
Guys if u have problems and want to solve it yourself, so buy one really strong spray KAPO choc!!! I was fighting with them 3 days every day from morning till evening. Then did it again after one week. Its needed to throw out furniture which can be their “home”. I changed 2 beds and mattresses. Those who are ready to suffer or don’t want to throw their furniture – it will take more time, ’cause of eggs.
One more thing, my friend has them and we both know she does, but she claims there are no bites, spots on her body. These insects are crazy and clever.
So, good luck.
P.S. Do not waste your time!
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diana on July 25th, 2011 at 4:29 am
Well I just moved to port Arthur tx..and we are renting in some expensive apartments…very clean and all…we bought new everything …new mattress box spring tables living room set…we have been living here for 1 months and my daughter of a yr and half seems to have bed bug bites…can I still have them even though the furniture is new…oh yea we have carpet…not sure if it was new when we moved in ….pls someone answer me because i cant see to get info in any other website !!! Pls!!
Diana,
I too just moved into a new apartment, a very nice, expensive one in Port Arthur Texas. I did have a bed and no history of bed bugs. Bought a new couch… I don’t even own a dresser. I had them within a month of moving in. I have since thrown out everything I own and moved out (Moved out with nothing to prevent carrying them.) They made me pay for the extermination (which the majority of the signs were in the baseboards) and I am paying an exorbitant amount to get out of my lease. I just wonder if we are experiencing the same infestation. And if so, we should not be held to wasting our savings on getting out of it.
OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! im freaking out i sleep over at a friends house the other night i notice the next morning i had big fat red welts and i started to itch and they just appear on my stomach my arm my left foot my elbows is that a sign of bed bugs ?
i have 3 bites then 2 bites in one big long line.they aren’t welts at all they are just the puncture wounds.it could’nt be a spider because spiders have two fangs but i have 5 bites.its 3 bites then a long space then 2 bites i think it got 3 then got two more then i moved and it got interupted. Im scared i might spread them to my mom’s house.i know they are extremly contagious and extremly hard to get rid of. what do i do? i need help.
I never knew bed bugs could do so much damage
Ouch.. Hope that girl was ok!!! After reading all of this, I’m going to hire a “Smoker” 
to come check our place for bugs. I don’t think we have any but it’s better to be safe then sorry.
Trisha Benet
apartments in normal il
Okay….I have bites but they are only at night. They only are on my torso………not arms or legs….not neck or face. What kind of bug will travel past arms and legs and go to the covered torso area???? I thought of chiggers but the bites are not around those areas where there is clothing constriction. I have sprayed and cleaned and washed. I am at a loss. Does anyone have an idea???