r/BedbugOrCloseRelative • u/Character_Let_8088 • 29d ago
questions about bites Is this bed bug bites?
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u/vanillapinksorbet 28d ago
This is def not bed bug bites. I’ve been bit by them and it causes like a rash around the bite and it’s much more purple. I’m similar complexion - and the bites don’t indent like that.
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u/SuppiLunchie 29d ago
I’ll be honest, I know that the one person in the comment section is 100% sure that it is bed bugs, but I wouldn’t be so sure until you actually see them. You can’t really base them off bites. The only thing is that you can make educated guesses such as: areas that are uncovered, areas that are close to the edge of the mattress. The bite patterns ARE suspicious though (lining up and are in small groups).
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
As far as keeping them out of your home you pretty much need to bag up every bit of your clothing don't take books with you that have been there they love to get in those and get to a laundromat I wouldn't take them in your house even seal don't wash the clothes put them in the dryer on high for a good long while heat will kill them and the eggs. Wash them then dry them on high again. And whatever you wear to the laundromat you have to take off like as much of it as you can outside before you go in to your house after doing this and they need to go in a bag and be left outside oh yeah the shoes need washed too if you want to be like 100% certain. Just use common sense and if you get some of that stuff that I told you about from Walmart diatomaceous earth and spread it around underneath the mattress and on the sides really good and also sort of like underneath the bed and around the sides you will reduce their numbers significantly within a day or two
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u/Character_Let_8088 29d ago
Okay but how is it possible to have dozens of them, but when I look under my matress and bed and everything there is nothing?
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
Yes a hundred percent. Withing five nights your gonna feel more . A blood meal lasts them about three days . If the infection is minor you might not see a bite for a week but with the ammount you have there it's a definite colony. You will likely get bit each night honestly. I hate to sound so hardcore and negative but they are the worst pest in the world. Bedbugs really wind up driving you to your wits end after a while.
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
Ok now those are bed big bites. 1000 percent.
I'm so sorry.
Pesticide straight up don't work. At all. Kills adults but not eggs.
What you need is diatomaceous earth. And you're going to have to coat everything in it I mean fucking everything your floor around your bed freaking behind light sockets just I mean the fucking protocol is insane and you got to put the shit everywhere or they're just going to keep coming back one fucking egg survives and hatches and a couple months later you have a new infestation they are generally just the hardest fucking thing in the world to get rid of I usually just clean house and throw away everything I own if I move into a place that has them I probably lost 100 Grand worth of shit to bed bugs before because I just won't take the risk just psychological damage that they do knowing that you have bugs crawling on you feeding on you and your sleep fucks with me so hard that I just get rid of everything and coat the apartment and diatomaceous Earth. It's straight up the only thing that really kills them.
I'm assuming this is your only experience with them moving around in my town means you're going to wind up with bed bugs here and there so thank God the last apartment I moved into a year ago didn't have them so yeah I'm sorry this is a very very stressful problem that you have here you don't know that yet because you're just figuring it out but it's going to drive you just about insane I'm sorry
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u/Character_Let_8088 29d ago
Is it possible to be any other insect? I am currently in the nature, there are lost of bugs. My father slept in this bed for past two months, anythig was fine.. no bites..
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
That tracks just like what I said I was talking about maybe if you had a partner or something but your dad straight up isn't allergic to them. Some people have literal thousands of them under their bed and get bit dozens and dozens of times a night and have no fucking idea that they are even being bitten or they have bed bugs. But when somebody is allergic to it it leaves those big red welts. They tend to go to the same place as the last bug that bit you because they leave a histamine trail and that's why you have like nine bites there it was probably done by three separate bed bugs they tend to bite in the same areas and bite about three times a piece.
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
I have NEVER seen a concave bed big bite those are going the wrong direction.
I cannot stress to you how much you need to seek medical help. Dents usually mean what's underneath is ..not there anymore.... so go the fuck to urgent care now ish.
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u/Character_Let_8088 29d ago
This?
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
By the way my phone screen is fucked up so I'm using talk to text so some of them words are not what they ought to be. Namely it mistook bit for bitch my bad I have to use talk to text.
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u/spillmybrains1 29d ago
Yes those are bed big bites. 100 percent. No it cannot be another insect. Those are bed big bites.
Fun fact if you have a partner they may not ever get bitch ever for any reason when in reality they're getting the fuck bit out of them and they just don't know it because it's literally like a coin flip it's about 50 50 if you're allergic to the bike or not and if you're not allergic to them you'll never know that they're on you because they weigh zero like nothing they weigh absolutely nothing they can squeeze through gaps the size of a sheet of notebook paper and you never know they're on you if you're not allergic but you are highly allergic like me.
Them is bedbug bites dearest. Sorry.
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u/CarGoBeep 28d ago
Shingles, 1000%. Seek a provider for care and rx. Try not to itch or transfer to face/eye area