Comments on: FAQ: Are bedbugs a health issue?

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:35:40 +0000

sososad,

I have had the delightful Elimite experience described above. You are right it is not pleasant.

However, I still personally think bed bugs are worse than scabies.

I hope you are ruling out folliculitis, fleas and other conditions. If you need support or tips from others, please do come to the forums:

http://bedbugger.com/forum/

By: sososad

sososad — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:41:36 +0000

SO, having suffered unbelievably TWICE with scabies I got from friends who were staying in hostels in Europe, (I didn’t even get the fun of that) I am INCREDIBLY glad that I don’t have that again, I think I would rather have it be bed bugs. Elimite as a treatment if you only might have scabies is a HORRIBLE idea, that stuff is really unpleasant, and you still have to wash everything and bag everything and so on to get rid of scabies.

At the moment I’m still hoping that it’s something else, folliculitis or my cat has fleas (OMG what am I going to do with my cat if it’s bedbugs!?!?!) or anything other than scabies or bed bugs. BUT, I am pretty sure it’s bedbugs, it started right after I got back from vacation on 1/26 and a few new ones show up every morning. What a nightmare.

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:42:30 +0000

promoted to "FAQ: Are bed bugs a health issue?" under Bed bugs, health, skin and bites

By: World exclusive: Bedbuggers experiment with being bitten, on purpose! | bedbugger

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:14:50 +0000

[...] some background on bed bug bites, here’s an article from last October about doctors (not) diagnosing them, which links to a number of photos of bed bug bites that do, [...]

By: wantmyskinback

wantmyskinback — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:00:43 +0000

There are some excellent photos in this past article—that are relevant to today’s World Exclusive Story by S.

By: more from Pennsylvania « Bedbugger

more from Pennsylvania « Bedbugger — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 05:13:01 +0000

[...] Yes, and no. They’re big enough to be seen, sure, but it’s important for people to know that they may hide in locations other than your mattress (where they’re easier to spot), and they also have five life stages. The smallest is speck-like (one journalist compared the size of the smallest ones to the size of a period in the New York Times). I’m a bit sensitive on this point; my own doctor has been taking this kind of “you’ll see them” advice to heart, and refused to believe I even had them. That’s not to say my experience is typical; most people with infestations do see some bedbugs at some point. But it is not a done deal, and it certainly is not guaranteed they’ll be in any way infesting your actual bed. We were overjoyed to find our bed looked brand new, assuming at first this meant no bedbugs. [...]

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:12:42 +0000

Yes– I was folding my laundry into XL ziplocs at the laundromat when that commercial came on! Good for webmd.

By: Caryn

Caryn — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:12:26 +0000

Have you seen that new WebMD commercial with people talking about different ailments they’ve had (and presumably looked up on WebMD)? One of the women says, “My roommate has bedbugs.” So I guess WebMD considers it a health issue. (And so do I, of course. A mental health issue. Seriously. Traumatizing. People have no idea.)