Insects have a tricky human attack mechanism. Once on the skin, the individual pierces the cover with a thin beak, and then injects saliva. Saliva contains a special substance that has a painkiller effect on the human body. This allows the insect to calmly saturate the blood of a person painlessly for the latter. Thus, the victim will sleep peacefully while the bugs go about their business.

Is it so easy to immediately identify the bug and whether everything always proceeds according to the same scenario, we will understand in this article.

What look like bites of bugs in humans

Externally, bug bites look like a series of flat redness. They can easily be confused with traces of mosquitoes, ants and other insects. In different people, the traces left by bedbugs on the body can vary significantly. For some, they can be almost imperceptible, while for others they will lead to severe irritation and itching. In the case of allergy sufferers, an attack by bedbugs can lead to serious allergic attacks.

This is how bites of bedbugs in humans look like. A distinctive feature of bug bites is the characteristic location. Bedbugs practically do not move around the human body, attacking the same place. In the morning on the body you can find a cluster of tracks in one place or a path of tracks along the back, legs or other part of the body. The most typical picture: a group of 4-5 punctures, which are located from each other at a distance of a couple of centimeters.

Additional confirmation that bedbugs attacked you will be red dots on the sheets - the result of bites.

Where the bugs bite

As already mentioned, the reaction can be very different: from almost imperceptible redness to unbearable itching, accompanied by pain. It all depends on the individual characteristics of the body.

Similar traces appear in a couple of hours after an insect attack. However, this period also varies among different people. Sometimes it takes much more time for bright traces to appear. Redness lasts for several days, and then begins to fade.

The most serious consequences of bedbug bites can be an allergic attack or infection with a dangerous disease. After all, bedbugs, like other insects, can transmit infections from one place to another, from one person to another.

Allergies can trigger the following complications:

• Severe inflammation of the affected area of \u200b\u200bthe skin.
• Erosion of the skin.
• Vomiting
• Loss of consciousness.
• Breathing problems.
• Flushing.

How to treat bedbug bites

The first thing to remember - in no case do not comb the bites of bedbugs. In the process of combing, it is very easy to bring the infection into the blood.

In some cases, this is enough, but sometimes the symptoms are much more pronounced, a person experiences severe discomfort and pain. In such conditions, it is best to use a special tool. In the pharmacy you can find a number of drugs for these purposes, which are both in the form of ointments, and in the form of drugs for oral administration.

Bedbug bites certainly should not be ignored. With mild discomfort, it will be enough to rinse the affected areas and apply some agent containing cortisone.

However, in some situations, traces of bites do not pass, they begin to hurt, itch. Pus may form. In this case, it is likely that the infection got into the wound. It is necessary to immediately see a doctor. Do not engage in self-diagnosis and self-medication.

How to distinguish bites from an allergic reaction

Since traces of bedbug bites are a scattering of red spots, they are often easy to mistake for allergies. To avoid this, we will tell you how to avoid mistakes in determining the cause of redness:

Bed bugs are harmful insects that feed on human blood. Individuals have a flat body of oval shape. The length of the body varies in the range of 3-8 millimeters. There is no uniform color and size; these characteristics depend on the age of the individual and their satiety. The color of an adult insect most often varies from beige to dark red.

How to avoid a bug attack

The only way to protect yourself from bedbug bites is to destroy the insects themselves. This is done by modern sanitary services. To solve the problem of bedbug bites, it is enough to make one call, and in a day you can be calm about your home.

Advice from a specialist at Eco-Processing

When you settle in an apartment that you bought not in a new house, be prepared for the fact that the premises may be infected with bedbugs. It is strongly recommended to conduct an analysis of the sanitary situation in the apartment and, if necessary, a fighter disinsection procedure.

Nowadays there is no need to waste time, nerves and money, as the sanitary services sector is replete with various offers. Destruction of bugs is a popular service among urban residents. For a fixed amount, you can completely and quickly get rid of adversity, avoiding the risk to the health of yourself and loved ones.

The Eco-Processing service methods are diverse. Each technique solves its own problems. The assignment of this or that type of processing occurs only on the basis of information received from the client. An individual approach is the basis of our approach.

The most effective technology is recognized as hot fog. Processing by this technique involves the use of a special apparatus - a fog generator. Features of his work consist in heating the chemical composition to ambient temperature and spraying it in space. In this case, the substance is split into very small particles, which ensures high penetration of the disinsecticide.

Stages of professional pest control

The pest extermination procedure consists of three stages:

1. Preparation of the apartment.
2. Treatment.
3. The final manipulations.

For the first and third stages, the owner of the premises is responsible. The object should be prepared for the arrival of the master. To do this, several simple actions are performed under the guidance of the service operator, namely:

• Wet cleaning is required to remove dust and contaminants and increase the efficiency of future processing.
• It is important to remove all personal hygiene items, food and utensils from the disinfection area. Otherwise, they will have to get rid of.
• The aquarium must be disconnected from the air supply system and closed with a lid.

After that, the master arrives at a strictly agreed time. His work proceeds according to the algorithm:

• Assessment of the situation. The work does not begin until the master, being in place, inspects the object and makes a final conclusion. This will help if necessary to adjust the assigned work, as well as determine the dosage and concentration of chemicals.
• Processing takes about 30 minutes. It is a key stage, however, its effectiveness completely depends on the quality of preparatory and final events.
• Issuing recommendations. Based on the analysis, the master tells the customer why, in his opinion, insects appeared in the house and what to do to avoid this in the future.

When the master finishes the procedure, he leaves the apartment. But the pest control process does not end there. To consolidate the effect, as well as to prevent poisoning, you must do the following:

• Allow the drug to infuse for an hour without opening the window.
• Then start active ventilation so that the odor and excess chemical fumes disappear.
• Easy wet floor cleaning should occur with a deviation of 10 centimeters from the baseboards. General cleaning is possible only after 21 days, when the funds expire.
• Work surfaces must also be wiped with a damp cloth.

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4. Safe chemicals. Our products belong to the 4th class, that is, they are harmless to humans and animals (subject to basic safety precautions).
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      to the customer, why it arose and how to protect the apartment in the future.

Bites of domestic bugs often provoke an allergic reaction. The occurrence of severe complications is less than 1%. With a long stay inside the house, apartment bugs provoke a number of complications. A person looks like bug bites as swelling.

• together with new or old antique furniture;
• clothes;
• linen bought in a second hand.

You need to know what the bite of this insect looks like.

For young children, pregnant, lactating, before using any drugs, you need to see a doctor.

After an insect bite, such measures are taken:

• treatment of wounds with soda, soap, alcohol solution;
• treatment of a wound with a special ointment, gel, cream against an insect bite;
• applying cold to the area of \u200b\u200bswelling (ice wrapped in a towel or gauze moistened with cold water);
• an antihistamine is taken to eliminate itching (this also applies to those who have a tendency to allergies);
• the use of sorbents to lower the level of toxins, prevent allergies;

First of all, after detecting bites, you can take a bath or a warm shower, this will help relieve symptoms.

Drug treatment

To reduce discomfort, the use of antihistamines is prescribed. For instance:

• Fenistil-gel. Relieves itching, reduces the risk of an allergic reaction.

• Star. Reduces itching, has a disinfecting, cooling effect.

• Menovazine. It is prescribed to people with an allergic addiction, with multiple insect bites.

If the wound is suppurated or mucus appears inside it, you should immediately consult a doctor. Antihistamines (Suprastin, Cetrin, Claritin), sorbents (Activated Carbon, Smecta, Enterosgel, Polysorb) are prescribed to reduce the risk of allergies, removing toxins from the body. What drugs should be used are prescribed by a doctor.

Alternative treatment

As a symptomatic treatment, they often resort to traditional medicine. So, folk remedies on a natural basis will help relieve itching, reduce irritation, and have a disinfecting effect.

The site of swelling is lubricated with such means:

• juice of plantain leaves;
• propolis tincture;
• a decoction of chamomile;
• st. John's wort broth;
• tea tree oil;
• soda solution;
• lather;
• aloe juice.

It is important to conduct a complete disinsection of the apartment, close all the cracks in the floor. If this is not done while a small amount is started, then it will be more difficult.

There is no 100% way to prevent bug bites. If you don't know how to bite bed bugs, there are other methods to find out. Special adhesive tapes are sold, attached to the bottom of the bed, sofa, and in the morning you can take a closer look at the insect.

They have no wings, like cockroaches, or strong paws, like fleas, so they don’t fly or jump long distances. Unlike lice, they have a more round body, and the bugs are larger in size. However, they live long enough to have time to run across from one apartment to another. They do not appear immediately in the house, but soon bring a lot of trouble.

Advice! If you have been in a room where there are bedbugs, then upon arrival home immediately send all things to the laundry, treat them with vinegar, boil or put in the cold. Usually, it is by the clothes that the bugs get into the house. The same thing must be done if the person was in a room where someone recently got rid of lice.

The insect is quite difficult to crush due to the flat body, so it is rare to see a dead bug on furniture. Many people don’t even know what bugs look like. But their signs of stay are noticeable - dark spots (excrement) on sofas, bedding or curtains.

  How do home bugs live

These insects feed on human blood, but do not live directly on the human body. Usually they go “hunting" at night or in the morning, so people who live in their homes often have trouble sleeping.

Insects molt, so often in places of their accumulation you can find chitinous shells, which are often mistaken for dead insects.

  Signs that bedbugs have appeared in your home

• In the morning after sleep, small red spots appear on the body. They do not go to heal and they appear every day.
• An allergy appeared, the cause of which cannot be determined by the doctor.
• Small dark spots are visible on fabrics, walls, carpets.
• The characteristic smell in places of their accumulation, similar to the smell of rot. The aroma is enhanced in those places where the most insects.

If there are suspicions that there are insects in the house - check their presence in hard-to-reach places: under the bed, behind cabinets, under baseboards.

Another detection method: Before going to bed, put adhesive tape on the floor near the bed. If at night the pest goes hunting, then sticks to it.

  Bed Bugs

On the body of a person who spent the night in a room with bugs, small spots - bites - will be noticeable. There are always several, most often 3-5 in a row. Since they bite most often in bed, traces are usually found on the back, arms and legs. It is quite difficult to recognize them, as they look like an allergic reaction.

Bites itch, in extreme cases - it hurts, the skin in this place can swell. It is quite simple to distinguish a bug bite from a bite of another insect.

• Unlike lice, bug bites itch and are not under the hair. The spots from lice are smaller, and are in one particular place, while the inflammation from the bugs is located at a distance from each other.
• Unlike mosquitoes, there will be more bug bites, but they themselves will be flatter and smaller.
• Unlike ticks, insects do not remain on the body, and bites from bedbugs are numerous.

Bedbugs often bite women and children, because they have thinner skin that is easier to bite through. In children, the reaction to bites will be more pronounced, but everyone needs to treat the consequences. Any person can get allergies due to bed bugs.

  Why is it important to cure a bite?

It is scientifically proven that bedbugs are not pathogens, unlike ticks. But their saliva, which is released during a bite, can bring bad consequences for allergies, up to anaphylactic shock. According to statistics, 70% of the population are allergic to bedbug bites.

Due to the fact that the bites itch, because of them, suppuration can begin. Especially often abscesses appear in children, as they comb spots and can bring infection there. Therefore, it is important to smear the bite site with antiseptic agents.

Advice! It is necessary to treat the place of the bite, but along with this it is important to bring the bugs out of the room.

It is important not only to minimize itching and redness, but also to use antiseptic agents so as not to infect the infection. If traces of bedbugs are found on the body, then you must immediately take measures:

• Take a hot bath. Temperature reduces itching.
• Use an antiseptic ointment.
• Use medications to reduce inflammation.

In some people, bedbug bites can cause serious consequences: inflammation, fever, chills. In such cases, simply smearing the bite site will not be effective, and it is important to consult a doctor to prescribe the correct treatment. Also, for allergy sufferers it will be useful to take antihistamines to avoid serious reactions.

With severe itching, with allergies or prolonged redness, it is recommended to use Menovazinum solution or Afloderm ointment. Funds are sold in pharmacies and are inexpensive, they should be smeared several times a day. They also help from bites of other insects: mosquitoes, ticks, horseflies. If Menovazin did not help with an allergic reaction, then it is necessary to take an antihistamine in tablets and consult a doctor to prescribe a comprehensive treatment.

Advice!To treat this type of inflammation, it is better to choose an ointment rather than a cream: the latter is absorbed too quickly. Treat the bite site immediately after detection.

  Treatment of bites by folk methods

• The easiest way is to wash the places of inflammation with household soap.
• Fresh mint leaves will help relieve itching: they must be applied to itchy places.
• They also use a chopped onion - it needs to be cut and processed with juice by the bite site.
• Among other folk methods: garlic juice, parsley leaves and wild garlic.

If you are allergic, you should consult a doctor immediately to prevent the consequences. You also need to go to the hospital if none of the remedies helps for a long time.

  How to bring out bugs

There are several effective methods for destroying bedbugs in an apartment. But first of all, you need to get rid of old furniture or carry out its complete disinfection.

• A chemical product that is sold in specialized stores - spray, powder, ointment. It is important to choose a remedy for bedbugs, since over the years of pest control, they have gained immunity from many chemicals.
• Temperature effect. The room and furniture are either heated to + 50 ° C, or cooled to a temperature below 0 ° C. In such cases, insects, or larvae and eggs die instantly.

If you put 40 bugs in a room with favorable conditions, after 6 months their number will reach 6000.

Photo of bites of bed bugs on human skin

There are a number of specific signs by which it can be determined that the culprits of damage to the skin are:

1. After a bite of a domestic bug, a swelling remains with a pronounced contour and a protruding bump.
2. The main distinguishing feature is the characteristic paths from bites of domestic bugs (see photo). It is not common for these bloodsuckers to make single punctures. Each insect bites its prey 3-5 times, the interval between bite marks can vary between 2 - 4 cm collectively and therefore the number of tracks can vary from a few to a few dozen.
3. With a thorough examination in the center of the cone, you can notice a trace of a puncture through which the bloodsucker fed.
4. Spots of blood on bedding, wallpaper adjacent to the bedroom.
5. Bedbug bites occur after sleep. At night, a person does not feel the insect sucking blood.
6. Bedbugs bite only at night. In the afternoon they hide in secluded places. A rare exception that can cause bloodsuckers to go hunting in the afternoon is a long hunger, which makes them especially aggressive or a high concentration of individuals, because of which they have nowhere to hide in the daytime.
7. In places where the bug bit, severe itching, burning and pain, slight peeling of the skin may appear.

The reaction of the skin to bites of domestic bugs depends on the puncture site and the thickness of the skin. The skin on the face and neck is thinner and the capillaries are close, in these places the bite marks are more pronounced.

On a note!

The bite of a bed bug in a child is accompanied by spots of a brighter color and larger size than adults.

Regardless of gender or age, the bug absorbs a mass of food, which is twice its own mass. They are smaller and have a transparent body. If you look at the larva after feeding, you can see a drop of blood in its stomach.

On a note!

One adult bug during feeding makes from 3 to 5 punctures. This amount of blood is enough for him not to experience hunger for 6-10 days. Feeding time for an adult is 15 - 25 minutes, for young animals 3-4 minutes are enough for full saturation.

  Satiety

On a note!

Differences between bug bites and other insects

The bites of all insects for an ignorant person seem similar - redness that itches. Therefore, it can be difficult to determine.

The difference between a bug bite and a mosquito

Confusing a mosquito bite and a bug is especially easy in the summer. The nuances of insect behavior and traces of punctures have a number of characteristic differences:

• the appearance of mosquitoes is usually accompanied by a buzzing, bugs do not give out their presence with sounds;
• mosquitoes can appear both in the daytime and nighttime, and bedbugs in the daytime prefer to go unnoticed and leave their only at night;
• bedbugs have sharper contours than mosquitoes;
• traces of mosquito bites are randomly arranged, and bedbugs are several in a row.

The difference between tick bites and bedbugs

Wounds from tick bites are larger. It is accompanied by painful sensations and it is easy to detect on the skin, since it is common for a tick to immerse its head under a wound.

How to distinguish bug bites from fleas

The difference between midges and bedbugs

Moshka prefers to bite on the street, in contrast to the "home" bugs. A small black insect does not pierce the skin, but literally gnaws it. A person instantly feels severe pain and the bite mark begins to itch strongly. Midge bites heal for a long time and disappear after a week.

What is the danger of a bed bug

As a result of epidemiological studies, the fact of the transmission of dangerous viruses to human life has not been proved. Big bites of bed bugs are for people who are especially sensitive to the enzyme contained in the saliva of the insect. In such cases, bites can provoke anaphylactic shock and Quincke's edema.

Cases where bedbug bites can cause a deterioration in well-being are considered isolated. For most people, they are just as dangerous as mosquitoes. To a greater extent, the appearance of blood-sucking insects in the apartment affects the mental state:

• For a fastidious and suspicious person, just the image of a bloodsucker can terrify. And what can we say about the close proximity and creeping bloodsuckers on their own body, which, in addition to everything else, can also bite.
• Deterioration of sleep leads to irritability, decreased performance.
• The appearance of neurosis, a depressive state.

How to treat bedbug bites

If the puncture site is very itchy and sore, it is recommended to treat it with warm water and an alcohol solution to avoid suppuration. There is no special effective drug for the prevention and treatment of bug bites. You can use ointments that have an antiseptic effect, essential oils, which will help damaged skin heal faster.

On a note!

To accelerate the healing process, wounds are recommended to be lubricated with Fenistil gel. It will relieve itching, swelling and reduce pain. Menovazin, Afloderm have proven themselves well. Drugs can be purchased in pharmacies, they are not very expensive, they should be smeared with damage 3-4 times a day. People prone to allergic reactions should take a course of antihistamines.

With severe allergic reactions to bites, self-treatment is categorically contraindicated. If mucus appears in the wounds or they do not pass for a long time, you should consult a doctor. Only a specialist can prescribe the right and effective medications.

Alternative methods from bites

A lot of recipes have been collected in the piggy bank of folk remedies to alleviate and eliminate the discomfort associated with insect bites.

How to prevent bug bites

Absolutely effective ways to prevent bloodsucker bites do not yet exist. However, you can pick up funds with an insect repellent odor or cook yourself.

On a note!

Bedbug bites can be a year-round nightmare. In this article, you will learn how to distinguish between bug bites and mosquito and flea bites and why a person does not feel anything at the time of a bite.

We will answer a popular question: “Is it true that even two people sleeping in the same bed can have completely different reactions to these bites?”. We will also tell you how to relieve itching after a bite and prevent the appearance of new ones. Forewarned - armed! Let's start!

Content:

The most important facts about bedbug bites

Do bedbugs itch?

During a bite, no. You do not feel anything. You do not feel pain during the bite, because the bugs inject a temporary analgesic under the skin, which helps you not to feel pain.

How long do bedbugs bite?

From 3 to 10 minutes - this is how much one full feeding lasts. It all starts with the appearance of medium or large spots (swollen or flat) on any part of the human body (among the most common places are the face, neck, hands and arms). Also, with the appearance of spots, itching and redness appear.

Outwardly, the bug bites on the skin resemble mosquitoes, but they are more painful and have clear edges.

If an adult is bitten by a bug, then a small swelling of a rounded red color with a pronounced bump in the middle will appear on his body.

Before going to bed, apply a few drops to the body of essential oil of lavender, chamomile, lemon balm or hypericum. You can add two or three drops to the cream.

It is worth noting that experts distinguish several dozen types of bed bugs. But individuals of each species bite people almost identically. All bug bites on the human body look the same, and the differences between them can be seen only with a microscope.

What do bug bites look like in children?

Children are a special risk group. In apartments or in private houses where home bugs live, it is the children who are the first to be attacked. This is due to the fact that babies have more tender and thin skin, to which blood vessels are very close. At the same time, the body odor in children is not as pronounced as in adults. He does not interrupt the smell of blood, which attracts bugs.

Externally, bug bites in children look similar to adult bites. But, if for men this situation is not a problem and the bug bite can become almost invisible in the morning, then the situation is different for children. Children's skin is very sensitive, and the bite of a home bug will leave a mark for a long time. Moreover, the areola of redness near the bite itself will be bright red and large. And if you take into account that the place where the bugs bit, itches, then young children will certainly aggravate the situation. Therefore, adults should, at the first suspicion, use a special ointment for bedbugs or other medicines.

Bedbug bites symptoms and differences

In most cases, bedbugs attack at night. And only in the morning a person notices sore spots on the body.

If you have bed bugs, bed bites, symptoms and other features, you should carefully study. To do this, we highlight the important key points that allow a person to determine that the footprint on the skin is the result of a bed bug bite:

1. severe itching and burning;
2. pronounced tubercle;
3. around the tubercle a red areola;
4. the number of bites from three to five in one area;
5. bites are located in a straight line;

Having found such features in bites, inspect the bed. Drops of blood or black dots may remain on the laundry.

Bed bugs that have drunk enough blood can easily be crushed by hand during sleep. Their remains are visible on the bed.

From flea or mosquito bites, bug bites are multiplicity. They are also redder and very painful. Unlike ticks, bugs, on the contrary, leave soft and small punctures. In this case, the bug during the bite is immersed in the skin almost with the head. They differ from allergies. An experienced dermatologist with the naked eye will notice a small puncture from a bite on the red bump.

What places like to bite bugs more?

• on the back and shoulders
• on legs and arms
• on the neck and on the back of the head.

Rarely enough traces appear on the face or stomach of a person.

In my apartment there were bugs that were discovered after the first bites. Before bed, I lit a scented lamp with the smell of lavender, put a few drops of oil on the night lamp and put lavender sprigs under the bed. Insects stopped biting.

How to bite bugs?

At one time, the insect can make five or seven bites, and only after that get enough.

But do not forget that 2-3 bites per night makes only one bug! And how many of these live in your bed ?!

According to scientists, up to several thousand bugs can live in one bed. But this is not the limit: there is a real case when 150 thousand bugs were found in a single room, most of which lived in bed! Therefore, if at least a tenth of this army of many thousands is hungry - in the morning your body may be covered with multiple red itchy bites.

Bed bugs are not afraid of light and can bite even during the day.

Despite the fact that bedbugs go out to feed only at night (usually from 3 to 8 hours), in exceptional cases this can happen during the day. This happens if the bugs are very hungry (so that you understand what “very” means: the bugs can survive TILL YEAR without food!). What is force majeure for a bug? This is the absence of peacefully sleeping at night people nearby. At risk: laundries, public transport, airports, office and any other non-residential premises.

The following follows from this fact: bed bugs will not be afraid even of bright daylight or artificial light if they want to get their portion of blood. And they will want!

Bedbugs bite year-round

Unlike other biting insects, which have certain peaks of activity, bugs will live in your warm bed in winter and summer, if you do not get rid of them.

Do dog bugs bite?

Yes, they bite. Sometimes the most severe suffering from bedbug bites falls on dogs, and, being in the house, bedbugs can eat their blood for a long time before moving on to you. Why it happens? It's simple: dogs, like cats, sleep most of the day - up to 18 hours! This allows bedbugs to drink blood without problems even at night, at least during the day.

Can bedbugs bite through clothes?

Not excluded. Bedbugs pierce the skin and suck blood with the help of a proboscis, but it is not suitable for piercing tissue, plastic or paper. If you sleep in your pajamas, this can play into your hands, but not for long - the bugs run quickly and still get to open areas of the body.

How dangerous are bug bites?

It is this question that most concerns people bitten by bugs. According to entomologists, up to 27 viruses of various diseases can be found in bedbugs, but it has been proved that they cannot tolerate diseases by means of a bite.

This fact cannot but rejoice. Unlike reactions of the nervous system to bites.

Scientists confirm that against the background of frequent bites, sleep disturbances can occur, including insomnia, stress and irritability. It is believed that bedbugs can be the cause of constant crying in newborns. Also in especially severe cases, with significant loss of blood in infants, anemia can develop, and with special sensitivity of the skin, an allergic reaction can occur in any person.

Attention!  Despite the fact that bed bugs are nocturnal insects, they are less afraid of light than to remain hungry. They will come even if you cut powerful spotlights in the room.

How long do bites last?

Bed bugs need fresh portions of blood every 3-4 days, but if they have already managed to actively breed, then the bites will not have time to heal, because more and more new ones will be added to them. Since bites may not immediately make themselves felt, you are unlikely to be able to determine exactly which day you were bitten. As experts say, before the onset of symptoms, it can take up to 3-4 days, and in some cases up to 14.

Redness, itching, swelling of the skin usually disappear in a few days. In more severe cases, for example, when a person was bitten by hundreds of bugs, it will take more time - up to 3 weeks. If the bites do not go away, you notice a growing deterioration in well-being, urgently consult a doctor - an allergy is possible, which should be treated under the supervision of a specialist.

Allergy to bedbugs

The most dangerous is the saliva of young individuals. An allergen, penetrating inside, quickly spreads throughout the body. An allergic reaction can be local and general, worsening the condition of the whole organism.

The allergy to bedbugs differs from other reactions in the following manifestations:

1. In case of allergies, a stain from a bite exceeds 1 centimeter in diameter.
2. A rash appears.
3. Bite marks last more than a week.
4. Severe itching appears.

In addition to visual signs, other symptoms indicate the appearance of an allergy:

1. Nasal congestion or severe runny nose.
2. Dizziness, severe headache.
3. Weakness.
4. Labored breathing.

In rare cases, anaphylactic shock or Quincke's edema may appear.

How to treat bug bites?

As a rule, bedbug bites go away on their own after a few days. Men are especially easy to carry. As for children, in this case, certain actions should be taken. For example, you can use a special ointment for bite bugs.

Medication or pharmacy for the treatment of bites

If there is no desire to use folk recipes, you can buy a medicine for bedbugs:

Star

The most affordable and harmless tool. If you lubricate the bite site several times a day with balsam, then inflammation and itching will disappear in a few days.

Bepanten gel

Suitable for people of all ages. The drug removes itching, swelling and inflammation.

Psilo Balm

Acts as Bepanten gel.

Comparative table of remedies for bite bugs

Treatment for a severe allergic reaction

Particularly noteworthy is the question of how to smear bites of bedbugs when a severe allergic reaction occurs. If you are allergic to bedbugs, treatment should be prescribed by a doctor. The specialist will prescribe antihistamines. It can be a cream, ointment or pills. Most of the prescribed drugs are hormonal. Therefore, it is important to correctly determine the dosage and course of treatment. Self-medication in this case is unacceptable.

Folk or home remedies for treating bites

If you do not know how to treat bedbug bites, pay attention to traditional medicine. There are several home methods that can help deal with bites and alleviate their consequences:

1. Redness and itching will become less severe if the bite is washed out under a stream of cold water.
2. A bathroom with the addition of a decoction of St. John's wort, calendula and chamomile will help relieve the inflammatory process.
3. Use alcohol to disinfect the affected area of \u200b\u200bthe skin.
4. You can lubricate the site of the bite with aloe juice or attach pieces of ice to it.
5. Household or tar soap, as well as soda, helps with bites.

Remember! Bed bugs get used to an unpleasant odor. The use of aromatic oils is the prevention of bites.

The consequences of bites on the body as a whole

It is impossible to predict the consequences. Each organism is individual, as is the reaction to a bite. It is worth noting that the children of bedbugs do the same harm to a person as adults. If the bugs on the body left bites, then they should be disinfected. Otherwise, the infection may stratify the wound, which will lead to a severe deterioration in the general condition.

After bedbugs leave bites on the human body, itching and burning appear, causing irritability, insomnia and even depression. It is necessary to immediately remove the itching and proceed to the destruction of insects.

Bedbugs in children

Danger to children

Another danger is the desire of children to comb a bite. As a result, a wound forms on the baby’s body, on which other infectious diseases can form.

Symptoms

After a bite of a home bug, redness appears on the child’s body, which itches heavily. In the middle of the red spot you can see a small tubercle. The number of bites ranges from three to five pieces. They are located in a straight line. Children become tearful, nervous and constantly scratch places of bites.

How to protect yourself from bug bites?

There are many myths on the Internet about how to protect yourself from bedbug bites. Here are the two most common myths:

1. Repellent sprays will protect against bites.

   Not true. Repellents can help against mosquito bites, ticks, and some other insects, but the bugs wanted to spit on the fact that you spray yourself.

2. Insecticidal "bomb bugs" can destroy insects and thereby prevent their bites.

   Not true: they, unfortunately, do not work either, because smoke from an insecticide cannot get into those hidden places where bedbugs are buried. Moreover: having felt such a chemical attack, the bugs will hide even deeper in their crevices - and then it will become even more difficult to get rid of them!

To protect yourself from their bites, you only need to use products that have been tested and approved by scientists, and don't forget: you need to get rid not only of adults, but also of larvae and even eggs of potential adult bites.

But not everything is so simple: you cannot destroy bedbugs by any one means. Together with thorough cleaning, other methods must be comprehensively applied, for example, how electronic bug repeller.

Here are 3 main steps:

• use bug detectors - to detect the presence of bugs in the house and even their path.

• “Dress” your mattress in a special mattress cover in order to cure an old mattress or to secure just bought from creeping bugs.
• purchase an effective spray from bugs to treat infected areas in the house.

Remember: up to 150 thousand bugs can live in your bed! So don’t put off and start the fight right now!