To feed the bug, human blood is needed. Only in a hopeless situation can use the blood of animals or birds. To saturate adult bed bugs, 3 to 7 ml of blood is required. The female needs food more. One bug bite can give 1.5 ml. The insect has to bite several times. For one meal, he does it 5-7 times. Given that it is not always successful. Traces remain in the form of a track. And in the place of repeated bites, a red spot is observed.

Interestingly, the bugs bite more women and children. In men, the skin is somewhat rougher. Therefore, if there is a choice, bedbugs attack the gentle representatives of humanity. In children, the reaction to bug bites is much more pronounced than in adults. In addition to the skin, the psyche, nervous system and general well-being suffer.

Symptoms of bug bites

Damage to the skin after bedbugs is not much different from other insects. If we consider a separate bite. A red spot, swelling appears on the skin, in the center is visible clotted blood. All this is accompanied by severe itching.

Bites of bugs by the following principles:

1. Plurality. Bed bugs feed in groups. Each of them makes 7 bites. The body is simply covered with red spots. By the number of bites, they judge the degree of infection of the premises with bugs.
2. Periodicity. Bites on the body may appear periodically. With a small degree of infection 1 time per week. With a large number of bugs - 2-3 times. Some pass bites, others appear.
3. Night time. Bedbug bites show up in the morning. At night, a person may feel uncomfortable, wake up. But by this time the body is already bitten and the meal of the insects is finished.

The severity of symptoms after bedbugs depends on the individual characteristics of the body. Sensitive skin reacts faster to damage to the skin. People with less sensitive skin may not notice bites at all. Since minor red spots appear on the body, which pass by themselves within a few days. The tendency to an allergic reaction plays a large role in the manifestation of symptoms. You should also beware of the fact that bedbugs bite immediately after birth. If they began to bite more and more often, it means that the family of bugs has replenished.

Allergy to bedbugs

The saliva of young bed bugs is considered the most dangerous. When an allergen enters the bloodstream, it spreads throughout the body. In this case, a local reaction may occur at the site of the bite and a deterioration in the condition of the whole organism. It is not difficult to distinguish an allergic reaction from ordinary bites.

• The red spot after a bite of bed bugs does not exceed 1 cm. For allergies, it is much larger. One spot from a bug merges with another, a red surface appears. Additionally, a rash may appear.
• Bedbug bites pass independently after 3-4 days, even if untreated. When an allergic reaction lasts for a week.
• Bites of bugs are always accompanied by an itch. With allergies, this is a constant intolerable itch.

In addition, additional symptoms of severe allergies appear:

• runny nose, nasal congestion;
• headache;
• weakness;
• dizziness;
• labored breathing.

In especially severe cases, bedbug bites can cause Quincke's edema and anaphylactic shock.

The effect of insect bites on health

Usually bug bites do not cause major health complications. Red spots and swelling disappears after 5 days. Itching ceases to bother after 2-3 days. In such cases, it is enough to use folk recipes for insect bites. Bugs are no stronger than mosquitoes or flies. The appearance of the first bites on the body is often associated with these insects. Bedbugs are not distributors of dangerous diseases. Although viruses were found in the body of insects. Dangerous bug bites can only be in the event of an allergy or an additional infection.

Constant itching from bites makes a person constantly itch. Large combs contribute to the penetration of infection. As a result, the skin becomes inflamed, blisters, suppuration appear. If bug bites in case of allergy are treated with antihistamines, then when they penetrate the wounds of the infection, they use anti-inflammatory drugs. Treatment is prescribed only by a doctor.

Sleepless nights due to bedbugs lead to poor health. There is drowsiness during the day, weakness, headache, nervousness, depression. Children are especially hard-hit by bedbug bites. In some cases, the help of neuropathologists, psychiatrists is required. Prescribe sedatives, antidepressants. The child has a fear of bites, he is simply afraid to fall asleep. Bedbugs seem to be everywhere.

How to treat bites

1. Rinse the bite site under a stream of cold water. This will relieve itching and redness.
2. You can use the hot bath with the addition of herbs - chamomile, calendula, St. John's wort. It acts the same as cold water.
3. The affected area should be disinfected. To do this, use alcohol or any alcohol tincture.
4. Put pieces of ice or cold meat from the freezer.
5. Lubricate the affected area with aloe juice. You can make a bandage. Cut the sheet, attach to the wound, bandage.
6. A soda remedy relieves itching, inflammation and removes puffiness. To do this, dissolve soda in a small amount of water. The resulting paste is applied to the wound.
7. Soothing soap or tar soap.

If there is no desire to use folk remedies, you can use ready-made pharmacy.

• Balm "Asterisk". The most harmless drug. But with insect bites it helps in the best way. It is enough to lubricate the wounds 2-3 times a day. The skin will recover in 3 days.
• Bepanten - a drug used to restore skin with dermatitis in children. Approved for use from birth. The itching remedy does not relieve.
• Fenistil gel - a remedy used after bites of various insects. Including bedbugs. It quickly removes all inflammatory processes, removes itching, swelling.
• Psilo-balm - the drug has the same properties as the previous one. Additionally has a cooling effect.

If you have an allergy, you should seek help from a doctor. In this case, antihistamines are prescribed in the form of ointments, creams, tablets. Most of them are hormonal. A clear dosage and course of treatment is required. Even more dangerous is the situation with the addition of an additional infection. In this case, antihistamine ointments are strictly prohibited. Self-medication can harm your health.

How to prevent a bed bug

Getting rid of bed bugs is not an easy task. Sometimes the process drags on for several months. It turns out that you can prevent the attack of insects at night. Used means with a deterrent effect. Bed bugs have a good sense of smell. In the body of the insect there are odorous glands that emit an odor in case of danger, during reproduction and to alert other bed bugs about finding food. The bug focuses on the smell of carbon dioxide, which is released by a sleeping person. So the insect finds a prey. This explains the fact why bedbugs bite at night.

1. Before going to bed, apply a few drops of lavender, lemon balm, peppermint, St. John's wort, chamomile essential oil to the body. You can add the product to the cream.
2. In the room in the evening burn a scented candle. Or use an ordinary candle, just drop 2-3 drops of your favorite essential oil on it.
3. Apply 2-3 drops to the nightlight, and do not turn it off at night. The lamp will heat up and the oil will evaporate. The aroma will be present in the room constantly.
4. Arrange the branches of plants under the bed and in the corners of the room. Suitable wormwood, tansy, chamomile, mint.
5. The back and frame of the bed should be treated with Chalk Mashenka. The tool is weak enough to destroy bed bugs. But it has a deterrent effect.

The insect is able to get used to smells, therefore protection needs to be constantly changed. Meanwhile, to conduct an effective fight against bedbugs. It is not worth counting on the fact that insects stop biting on their own. They live long under favorable conditions and even longer under adverse conditions.

In typical forums dedicated to insect control tips, the question often arises: how do homebugs bite? It is quite relevant, since the enemy must always be known in person (or in a small reddish little body). We will try to disclose this topic in more detail.

Suspicious people, without real reason, often complain about biting bugs. By the way, not only they are capable of irritating a skin area, but also mosquitoes, fleas, midges.

Mental aberration of people can be explained:

• Stress at work. This problem is well known to many. It happens that the boss is naughty or the staff will set you up. Hence a bad mood, a breakdown and paranoia.
• An allergy. Redness of the skin in some occurs as a result of allergic reactions. An unpleasant itch appears.
• Chickenpox or dermatological pathology. Industrialization keeps pace with urbanization - many unpleasant diseases appear. Mostly points on the body indicate chickenpox or another disease. If so, try to understand: where the spots might have come from. In any case, do not be too lazy to see a doctor.

Characteristic

Bed bugs bite with addiction, leaving five to six adjacent points on the human body. Hunger is quenched by the insect once a week. If one individual has settled in your room, this is not so scary. But when their whole horde ... one way or another, but want to think.

In a heavily infected room, obviously, a huge number of bugs. A person waking up in the morning can detect up to several hundred bites on his skin. It is extremely difficult to feel the craft of creatures. But with a sensitive dream at night, you can interrupt their feast. Of course, everyone creeps on the body when leaving a state of sleep. But this pleasure is not enough, and indeed people with poor sleep have a tight time.

The best evidence of the presence of bedbugs will be bite tracks. Judge for yourself: why did the mosquito need so much blood? By the way, here's what you need to notice about mosquitoes ...

The main differences between mosquito and bug bites

How to distinguish a mosquito bite from a bug bite? The question is somewhat complicated. It all depends on the conditions. For example, in the cold season mosquitoes do not exist in homes. They prefer warm conditions, so that their activity falls on the summer season. Unable to fly creatures do not react to temperature. Even in a cold room, they can calmly attack residents.

The size and color of the lesion does not differ. So relying on these options is useless!

In addition, mosquitoes are able to bite through thin tissue: gauze, chintz and other materials. Bedbugs specialize only in open areas of the skin. Most of all they are impressed with necks, arms, legs, faces.

But not only mosquitoes can cause trouble.

A few words about fleas

Earth fleas inadvertently can be settled into an apartment. They get into the living room from the porches or basements. The risk increases if you have a pet, say a cat or a dog.

The pernicious activity of fleas is easy to distinguish from how the bugs bite. Firstly, the spots themselves are smaller. In the center they have no blood points. Secondly, bites almost never swell. Thirdly, they feed on the waist, feet, armpits.

It is impossible to write off age features in the analysis of red spots.

Did mosquitoes bite or just acne?

The material, naturally, is serious, but nevertheless you will remember: how old are you. The likelihood that redness on the skin are common acne is extremely high. It is worth highlighting several characteristic signs.

If the spot is somewhat swollen, and when pressed on it a painful sensation arises, then you have to deal with an ordinary acne. Also their distinguishing feature is a white accumulation of pus in the middle.

However, the presence of acne is not always associated with the pubertal period. It is enough to sweat, walk down the street in the wind, and pimples may form the next day. Their placement on the body is not subject to special laws, and in most cases they can be instantly recognized.

Well, behind all those who bite at night in bed except bed bugs. Move on!

The main arguments confirming the presence of "bloodsuckers" in the room

The list is not very extensive:

• Severe itching. His people regard it as the least pleasant property of a bite. Try to refrain from excessive scratching. Yes, it is pleasant and relieving, but it only gets worse.
• Stain Resistance. They go away on their own in a week. You can get rid of them earlier, however, more on that later.
• Sanguine stains on walls or bedding. It can be blood coming out of the bite, or a bug that is discredited in the right to life. Often the murder of a freak pumping blood occurs unknowingly. During sleep, a person does not control body movements. Troubles for the lover to feast on the cherry fruit juice come suddenly. After feeding, the insect becomes clumsy, and therefore it is easier to smash.
• Bad smell. When the bug is destroyed, a stench begins to emanate from it, resembling rotten forest berries. When you have fixed the troglodyte’s place of death, sniff. Mosquitoes, fleas and other creatures do not emit any harsh fluids. So the diagnosis will be made accurately.

When was the bite taken?

Try to control your fingers! Nobody wants to have a dozen dried up festering wounds and scabs! It’s best to gently stroke and massage the palms of the spots. So the desire to scratch the tracks will decrease.

In addition, you can resort to a folk remedy. It is based on the use of soda and warm water. Its efficiency is high, believe me.

Two teaspoons of soda should be diluted in 100 ml of warm water. Then take a piece of cotton wool, dip into the liquid and moisturize the affected areas of the skin.

Similarly, any alcohol tincture can be used. In pharmacies, it is worth curious about this. Pharmacists are ready to offer active ointments based on sea buckthorn oil or tea tree oil.

At a minimum, in the absence of these things, you should wipe the bites with soapy water. Among the antibiotics, Acriderm and Hydrocortisone are useful. The first relieves inflammation, and the second eliminates red spots.

All of the above is what to do if you bit the bugs in the first place!

Are all prone to bedbug bites?

Creeping children are treated with much greater interest. Adults sleeping with children in the same room, they leave for later. In a child, the body is only forming. The skin of the baby is softer, so this source of food is quite tempting.

Pets do not touch pets. First of all, because they have abundant wool. Fat flesh with a fair amount of sebaceous glands also plays a significant role. It is rather difficult to pierce it with a small proboscis (the main tool). And why should this be done if a more nutritious liquid tissue is freely available?

When the presence of bedbugs in the home is unequivocally established, you do not need to lower your head (by the way, about that, read in a separate article). There is always the opportunity to protect yourself from them! Just know.

Difficult grasses create difficult tolerance conditions. As an option, it is advisable to consider wormwood, tansy, calamus, cloves. Having acquired these representatives of the natural world, divide them into several equal zhmeini. After that, you need to scatter grass in the corners of the room and not far from the bed. The smell should scare away the pests.

To get rid of bugs for some time, ordinary water will help. Attention: this method is used only in conditions of high heat. So, here's what you need to crank. First, dampen a pillow with plenty of warm water, then a duvet cover and a sheet. Wrap yourself in it and try to fall asleep immediately. This style of action is not pleasant, but arthropods are disoriented for a while.

And how to spread, so as not to bite? You can use cologne or alcohol. Perfumes are also suitable. The latter used to be often used by women, faced with the same turmoil. It is important not to overdo it with the quantity, otherwise it will become very bad! Peppermint essential oil in addition to protecting against bugs tones the skin.

Sometimes chalk "Mashenka" shows itself on the good side. Cross-cut the pentagrams next to the bed and go to bed.

Serious substances will be needed for a quality fight. About allowing, read in other articles on the site.

Final discussion and VIDEO on the topic

We have considered with you options for what to do so that they do not bite bugs at night, why some bite, and others do not have other questions. You just have to draw the appropriate conclusions.

Although, you can still watch the following videos, in order to know for sure all that is needed about bedbug bites ...

Video on how to distinguish bedbugs from any other:

You woke up and found 3-5 red spots located next to each other on the body, you were bitten by bugs. In the photo below, the bites of bedbugs are clearly visible. In fact, the bugs do not bite, but suck blood through the proboscis, which consists of two tubes. With the help of one tube, bedbugs suck blood, and the second serves to deliver a special substance to the wound, which reduces sensitivity, and bites go unnoticed.

The most painful bites of young bugs, because their body does not produce an anesthetic substance. Having found a place suitable for the skin, the bugs make a hole and drink blood for several minutes, after which they pull out the proboscis and look for the next place where another hole is pierced, for 5 times the bug is completely saturated with blood and goes to a secluded place for digesting food. Bed bugs drink blood twice as much as their own body weight, which allows them not to eat for more than a week.

What do bug bites look like?

Bedbug vinegar leaves a small red spot, and skin often flows around it. In addition, the bites of a home bug are located close to each other. People with sensitive skin may experience swelling and severe itching.

Bite marks differ from other blood-sucking creatures by the presence of 4-5 red spots located at close range, other bloodsuckers leave one wound.

Many people are allergic to bedbug bites; in such cases, a bedbug bite causes severe redness and swelling in the bite area, which itches a lot. Now that you know how to bite bugs, it will not be difficult for you to distinguish them from other insects, if you are not sure, you can compare the bites with the photos below.

Are bug bites dangerous?

A bug cannot make a person a strong dirty trick with his bite. In order for the consequences to become serious for human health, traces left after bites of bedbugs must be combed and an infection must get into them, which often happens in children. If such a situation occurs, you should go to the hospital for a consultation with a doctor.

Bedbug bites themselves are not dangerous for humans, because bedbugs are not carriers of infection. Viral infections, getting into the bug, die or go out with the products of the vital activity of the insect. A bug bite is not life threatening, unless you specifically sweep it with dirty hands.

If you are sure that you were bitten by bugs, you should quickly treat the wounds to get rid of discomfort and inflammation.

Remedy for bug bites:

• Fenistil
• Psilo balm
• Elidel

In case of severe skin sensitivity, bite marks itch a lot if the bite remedy is over? Take a hot bath, water will vaporize the skin and relieve irritation.

Alternative methods of removing skin inflammation:

• A moistened sheet of plantain is placed on the bites for 10 minutes.
• A good remedy for bites, a swab dipped in urine.
• The bulb should be cut in half and attached with the cut side to the bite.

Bedbugs can choose a victim

For bugs, a victim who has thinner and more delicate skin will be preferable, therefore women and children will suffer in the first place. In children, the skin is much more tender and bed bugs can easily pierce it with their thin proboscis and get to the skin.

Bed bugs can find vulnerabilities on male coarse skin, but it takes longer, so the female sex suffers more from bedbug bites, although the consequences of bites are the same as for men and women.

However, bedbugs can be dangerous for smaller pets (parrots, hamsters, rats).

Bed bugs are nocturnal creatures and are dangerous only at night, in order to get to the blood, a person must lie still, which happens only in a dream. Therefore, bedbugs are most active from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m.

Bedbugs can bite through clothes

If your nightie is sewn from a thin fabric, the bug can bite through it. Thick clothes are also not a reliable protection, as they can crawl under clothes and bite unhindered.

Where the bugs bite

Often bedbugs choose places on the body where softer and more tender skin is to freely reach the blood vessels. Bedbugs usually bite for the most open and accessible parts of the body, such as the neck, arms, legs, back and face. If you find 3-5 bites in such areas of the body in the morning, you can most likely say that these traces were left by bugs. Photo of bug bites

How to get rid of bedbugs

Now there are many tools that will help get rid of bed bugs in the shortest possible time. Modern drugs for bedbugs are practically not dangerous to human health, therefore, when using them, minimal protective equipment should be used.

How insecticides act on bugs

The most popular and trusted customers deserve:

• Executioner;
• Insecticide;
• Combat
• Karbofos;
• Fufanon;
• Medilis Ziper;
• Raptor
• Raid.

The list is far from complete, you can add a lot of drugs that are quite effective in fighting bugs.

Specialized services

The easiest way to combat bugs and other insects is to call specialists from the pest control company. Despite the high cost for the services provided, after the work of experts in the field of extermination of insects, you will be sure of the quality of the work performed.

Unlike the bugs sold in stores and various bugs, specialists use stronger substances that cannot be purchased by an ordinary buyer, since their use involves the use of certain protective equipment.

After processing the premises, insect control specialists should leave the room with the windows closed for one hour. Then it is enough to ventilate the house for several hours and you can safely return to the room without insects.

Most insect killing companies provide a warranty for a specified period, and if you find bugs during this period, they will re-process the premises for free.

We advise you to read:

Waking up in the morning, people bitten by insects usually write off everything on. As a last resort on. But there are more and more tracks and they are arranged in groups. This is how a bed bug bites. It is difficult to believe in this, since a person does not see any insects in bed. It’s more logical to blame everything on a flying mosquito. Before blaming a flying bloodsucker, you should carefully check the secluded places not only outside, but also inside the sofa, on the back of the bed and even under the wallpaper.

Lifestyle and hunting time of a bed bug

How often bedbugs bite depends on what is meant by this. One individual eats every 7 to 10 days, but during the "session" makes several punctures. If there are a lot of bugs, then they will bite every day.

In allergies, bitten bites can look like large areas of swollen, inflamed skin. With a severe allergic reaction, the victim may develop Quincke edema.

Is it possible to mitigate the effects of bites

When combed, a secondary infection gets into the scratches and the case takes a bad turn. If the infection enters the bloodstream, it will already require medications, which the doctor should prescribe.

How to eliminate the consequences of bites

Any allergic reaction is relieved by antihistamines:

• Diphenhydramine;
• Suprastin;
• Loratadine;
• by other means.

As a first aid, any external remedy is suitable,.

There are a lot of antihistamines of the first and second generations today. You need to choose the most suitable. But this can only be done by trial and error, even with the help of a doctor who can only advise the most suitable remedy from his point of view.

In pharmacies, creams for external use are sold with the active substance - antihistamine:

• Elidel made in Switzerland;
• Psilo-balm produced by Nizhpharm and Germany;
• remedies against stings of bees and wasps, the last is the Zvezdochka balm.

You can soothe irritation with ammonia. All poisons produced by insects do not withstand the effects of ammonia.

Ethyl alcohol is useless.

Folk remedies to relieve irritation

  If there are no antihistamines in the house, you can try to relieve itching with the help of improvised means:

• a hot bath will vaporize the skin, accelerate the movement of blood due to which the poison will spread over a larger area, and relieve itching;
• moistened sheet of plantain - moisture on the attached sheet will cool the irritated places, and the itching will subside slightly;
• a compress moistened with a concentrated soda solution, soothes itching well;
• ice cooling reduces the local temperature of the inflamed skin, the itching subsides;
• lotions with decoctions of antiseptic herbs: chamomile, St. John's wort, plantain, cool the bite;

Of the dubious folk remedies can be called a compress with urine and an onion cut in half. If there are scratches in the wound with urine, pathogenic microorganisms can be introduced. Urine is not as sterile as “traditional healers” assure. Fresh onion juice burns tissue. If it does not harm healthy cells, then inflammation and scratching will only get worse.

How to protect yourself from bites

The bugs have a great sense of smell, and in search of food they are guided by the smell. The insect creeps into unwashed clothes and “moves” with it to another room or another person’s house.

  When the first point irritation of the skin appears, you need to carefully examine the back walls of the furniture, look for baseboards and wallpaper. If the wallpaper has peeled off somewhere, a whole colony of bugs can settle under them. Adults can be seen upon careful examination of the inside of the furniture; the larvae that have just emerged from the eggs are very small and almost transparent. This must be considered when trying.

On a note!

The larva of the bug in the first stage of development is easily mistaken for a louse.

With the instruction "spray the places of accumulation of insects" for bugs are not suitable.