bug bites at night

[Anonymous]

We had an incident where a place we stayed was flea infested, but apparently I’m the only one allergic to flea bites so everyone thought i was crazy for 24 hours.

Not that that’s the diagnosis necessarily, but odds are there’s just one if you allergic to whatever it is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she play in the grass a lot? I thought I had bed bugs but it was chiggers.

That happened to me too. I was so freaked out because it coincided with us moving into a new house. I thought they were in the carpets. Nope - I was getting bit on my feet and lower legs from chiggers from being outside in just flip flops or barefoot.

Exact same scenario. I bought $200 in bed bug products that are still in the box they came in. Want to buy them, OP?

[Anonymous]

Are the kids in a bunk bed? Does the bitten kid sleep on the top bunk or bottom?

Some people just have more of a reaction to bug bites. It's actually become a joke in our family: picnic, dinner on the patio, hiking, camping, pool, or generic trip to the playground, DC2 and I will get eaten alive and DH & DC1 have no bug bites at all. Zero. I've counted 20+ bites on my arms and legs while DH (who was sitting right next to me) has none. So I wouldn't necessarily read too much into the fact that one child is getting bites and the other isn't ... But if the overnight pattern is different from their normal pattern, it's worth looking in to the arrangement of their beds. Could be spider bites

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the kids in a bunk bed? Does the bitten kid sleep on the top bunk or bottom?

Some people just have more of a reaction to bug bites. It's actually become a joke in our family: picnic, dinner on the patio, hiking, camping, pool, or generic trip to the playground, DC2 and I will get eaten alive and DH & DC1 have no bug bites at all. Zero. I've counted 20+ bites on my arms and legs while DH (who was sitting right next to me) has none. So I wouldn't necessarily read too much into the fact that one child is getting bites and the other isn't ... But if the overnight pattern is different from their normal pattern, it's worth looking in to the arrangement of their beds. Could be spider bites

DP —. Luke you elaborate more on the spiders and bunk beds?

[Anonymous]

Are the bug bites in a row or v close together? That is more in line with bed bugs but not 100 percent in all cases.

Call a local company that will do a walk through with a bed bug smelling canine. It’s like 100 bucks for the test.

Then you can decide on treatment if you have them.

At this point I would do process of elimination and start with bed bugs.

We had them and had no signs. Just the bites and just my husband.

Canines are like 99 percent at finding them if you have them.

[Anonymous]

Also take her to the doctor so they can look at the bites. Doctor might be able to tell you what they are.

[Anonymous]

Have you tried getting the kid who gets bitten mosquito netting for her bed? I'm a mosquito magnet and let me tell you a fan would make no difference to those jerks.

[Anonymous]

We have this exact issue with one of our children (out of 3). He just always seems to have bug bites where the other two do not. I can say with certainty that it isn't bed bugs (I've been through that nightmare once already, so know what those look like). I was wondering whether they were spider bites, because we do seem to have some of those periodically around the house. Not mosquitos; we don't live in an area where there are many. Do regular house flies ever bite?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does she play in the grass a lot? I thought I had bed bugs but it was chiggers.

That happened to me too. I was so freaked out because it coincided with us moving into a new house. I thought they were in the carpets. Nope - I was getting bit on my feet and lower legs from chiggers from being outside in just flip flops or barefoot.

Exact same scenario. I bought $200 in bed bug products that are still in the box they came in. Want to buy them, OP?

Store bought bed bug chemicals DO. NOT. WORK. I speak from experience. If you have bed bugs, the heat treatment is the only way to get rid of them.

[Anonymous]

Different bugs have different life cycles. You really need to get a professional out to be sure to treat the ENTIRE life cycle (egg, larva, bug) or you will just be killing things that are alive at time of treatment, then more will hatch.
HEAT treatments kill everything at all stages but it is pricey. But so worth it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had an incident where a place we stayed was flea infested, but apparently I’m the only one allergic to flea bites so everyone thought i was crazy for 24 hours.

Not that that’s the diagnosis necessarily, but odds are there’s just one if you allergic to whatever it is

I once lived in a group house where that was happening to me. I looked like I had chicken pox and no one else was getting bitten. Then a friend of mine came over and same thing happened to him.

[Anonymous]

I would guess fleas also.

[Anonymous]

Could it be these bites occur while playing outside and you just don't notice them until the morning? Sometimes the body's reaction isn't immediate to the bug bite.