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Bed Bugs.. Worry, or Disregard?
Long story short, I went to my boyfriend's yesterday afternoon. His apt is infested with bed bugs, and didn't know until I sat down and saw one crawl out of a pillow. Freaked out, left, and inspected myself.
I went home a nervous wreck thinking I have bed bugs now. I looked clean when I inspected my clothes and purse. I have no worry about my car because it sits in 100+ degrees heat anyway. My mom helped me clean my room, my bed, including the mattress, the sheets, she and I did my laundry, did everything! Dusted walls too. I kept inspecting for bed bugs several times yesterday, but found nothing. I found one small blood spot on my sheets afterwards, and I don't know if was me (because I have a skin infection, I sometimes bleed at night) or an actual bed bug. No evidence of fecal matter either.
Well this morning, I woke up with light red, small bumps on my hand. Freaking out, I again inspected my bed. Nothing again. Did research to try compare mosquito bites with bed bug bites. Only thing I got was bed bug bites have a white center, and mosquito bites usually don't. And bb bites last for a weeks; however mosquito bites last a day or two.
That being said, they were small, light red, and itchy. I applied calamine lotion, and relieved it. Well it's been approximately 7 hours, and the redness and itching already went down. My take is it was a mosquito bite, but never thought they bite multiple times..
I just need second opinions on this. Please, don't call me super paranoid, or insane. I already have staph on my skin, I don't need any more skin problems right now. It'll just make it worse.
Thanks.
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Um, ignore that first answer. You're not paranoid. It makes sense that you're worried if you've already got staph.
It sounds like you covered most of the stuff you can do though, so hopefully it's just a mosquito bite.
This'll show you what the bites look like + tell you how to get rid of it if you think you have one:
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And in case you end up with bed bugs in your house:
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Hope I helped!
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You have a right to be concerned about bedbugs. They can infest your home if you've brought a couple back with you from your boyfriends. If he comes over your house with some passengers, you have to worry, too. He should have his place treated by a professional. Bedbugs can spread like wildfire and their bites are often dismissed as mosquito bites.
Bedbugs like to hide in cracks and crevices. Crevices of headboards and mattresses are good hiding places. Look along the edges of your mattress and in the cracks of your headboard. They feed at night, so get up at night and pull back the covers. If you don't see them over a period of a week, then you're probably safe. They feed on blood, so you would be their meal ticket and they would have to come out of hiding to get to you.
You are probably safe. The concern is if you brought a female bedbug home with you, it could lay eggs. The eggs are very small and are curved and in a cluster and sticky. When you inspect your headboard and mattress, be on the lookout for eggs, too. My guess is, you are probably safe, but, every now and then check to see if they've taken up residence. I can't stress the importance of your boyfriend having a pro look treat his place. All you need is one female on him for an infestation. Good luck!
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WOAH! Reading your passage I could totally feel the intense paranoia you got there. Even if you didn't want to hear "Your too paranoid", TOO BAD. You also asked for 2nd opinions :)
So, let me get this straight. Your freaking out because you have skin issues. It's probably one of those things that's ALWAYS on your mind. So, your real paranoid about anything ruining your skin more than it already is?
You've inspected your house...cleaned everything...even walls...YOUR FINE.
Calamine lotions good. Take a hot bath, too.
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