Comments on: teaching doctors to diagnose bed bug bites

By: Company reports Bed bug bite photos their most searched-for medical image in 2007

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:04:33 +0000

[…] The popularity of such searches is not surprising, since bed bug bites are increasingly common, and impossible for visually diagnose (because these allergic reactions take such a wide range of forms–our bed bug bite photos page shows just some of them). The difficulties of doctors identifying bed bug bites from visual evidence are discussed in this post. […]

By: Bed bugs also causing havoc in England & Northern Ireland: university residence, hospital staff residence, possibly a school, infested | bedbugger

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 03:50:02 +0000

[…] On Sunday August 17th, the BBC reported that a residence for doctors and nurses in a hospital in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, was infested with bed bugs. The unit was not attached to the hospital, so patients and visitors, the article said, were not at risk. (However, you do have to consider where doctors and nurses might have picked up bed bugs. A hospital, perhaps? They had to catch them somewhere. But we shouldn’t jump to conclusions–perhaps someone moved in and brought them.) Anyway, I’d bet there are currently a number of doctors in Fermanagh who just discovered the hard way that bed bug bites don’t all look the same. […]

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:18:41 +0000

No worries, SD, seriously!
The structure of this site is kind of not what I want it to be, but I can’t change it until I move it off wordpress and host it myself, so this is the patched-together solution. It’s the site that has issues, the readers are not faulty. Remember that!

By: strangedays

strangedays — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:09:58 +0000

Gotcha. I’m not the best at understanding these forums even when I have regular, solid sleep.
Next time, before I hit submit, I will make sure where I am.
Sorry, folks.
S/ds

By: nobugsonme

nobugsonme — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:44:24 +0000

HI SD,
It’s good to post the “general” stuff along with the Q&A, updates, etc. in the “Tales of Woe” discussion, but it’s totally okay that you posted this here. We just try to keep it on topic as much as possible because if we don’t, we end up having several parallel conversations in several threads at once.

By: strangedays

strangedays — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:14:04 +0000

sorry, wrong thread?

By: strangedays

strangedays — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:13:07 +0000

This is a different take on The Beatles song Blackbird

Bedbugs creepin’ in the middle of the nite..
They ain’t got no wings, but they sure bite..
all your life
you were only waiting for these monsters tooo die

bedbugs die
bedbugs die
and in the mornin’ nomore bedbug bites
Strangedays, indeed…

By: Caryn

Caryn — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:15:51 +0000

Maybe that’s a reason for more people to take pictures of their bites? So we can see all the different ways they show up?

By the time one gets to a doctor, the bites may have healed somewhat and harder to recognize.

When I went to a doctor in 2004, she definitely didn’t recognize them as bedbugs bites. She did think they were insect bites of some kind though.

And those bites on my leg in the picture? It was a long time ago, but I’d bet a lot of that was my own doing — in some places, like that, I’d scratch so much that I’d break the skin. This time, I’ve been good with the hydrocortisone, which works like a charm!