Comments on: Some people share vacation photos… http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:19:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: JD http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11798 JD Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:02:03 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11798 Well, I followed some of your tips after I left the hotel. The hot water tip was probably the best thing I got from your site. It works. For the rest of my belongings that couldn't be washed, I left them in a cargo van with an entire box of Raid fumigators. I had to leave the windows open for a few days to get rid of the smell, but it was worth the effort. Nothing could have survived that. I'm still bug-free anyway. Thanks. Well, I followed some of your tips after I left the hotel. The hot water tip was probably the best thing I got from your site. It works. For the rest of my belongings that couldn’t be washed, I left them in a cargo van with an entire box of Raid fumigators. I had to leave the windows open for a few days to get rid of the smell, but it was worth the effort. Nothing could have survived that. I’m still bug-free anyway. Thanks.

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11403 nobugsonme Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:02:50 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11403 JD, please read <a href="http://bedbugger.com/travel" rel="nofollow">the FAQs in our travel section</a> about how not to take bed bugs home after being exposed in a hotel. JD, please read the FAQs in our travel section about how not to take bed bugs home after being exposed in a hotel.

]]> By: JD http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11400 JD Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:11:53 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11400 I'm staying at a motel in Edgewood, MD. I woke up around 5 this morning because a bedbug was crawling on me. I turned on the lights and found another *very* small bedbug crawling on the bottom sheet. I killed the first one in a piece of tissue paper. It was very tough, taking three attempts to completely squash the life out of it. It excreted a sort of brownish liquid when it died. The smaller one looked sort of like a little red dot moving across the sheet. I reacted instinctively to that one and squished it with my finger. The resulting stain looks EXACTLY like those in the pictures above. The interesting thing is that the little bastard completely disintegrated when I squished him. I can't find any remains other than the red stain. I’m staying at a motel in Edgewood, MD. I woke up around 5 this morning because a bedbug was crawling on me. I turned on the lights and found another *very* small bedbug crawling on the bottom sheet. I killed the first one in a piece of tissue paper. It was very tough, taking three attempts to completely squash the life out of it. It excreted a sort of brownish liquid when it died. The smaller one looked sort of like a little red dot moving across the sheet. I reacted instinctively to that one and squished it with my finger. The resulting stain looks EXACTLY like those in the pictures above. The interesting thing is that the little bastard completely disintegrated when I squished him. I can’t find any remains other than the red stain.

]]> By: nobugsonme http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11385 nobugsonme Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:26:16 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11385 cammie, Thanks for your comments. I can tell you that a Bedbugger editor verified these were from the home of a person with bed bugs. However, you are correct that bed bugs do seem to expel some blood from time to time. Blood marks on sheets may not come from bleeding bite marks (though it is not the norm, some people do have bites that bleed). cammie,

Thanks for your comments. I can tell you that a Bedbugger editor verified these were from the home of a person with bed bugs.

However, you are correct that bed bugs do seem to expel some blood from time to time. Blood marks on sheets may not come from bleeding bite marks (though it is not the norm, some people do have bites that bleed).

]]> By: cammie http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11378 cammie Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:40:18 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-11378 the bloodstains are from full/over-fed bugs. they are seldom from the actual bite. i know because 4 days ago we realized my daughter had bedbugs. we couldn't figure out why her sheets had red spots. we thought it was red marker. she wasn't bleeding and there was no dried blood on her. compaired to the ones we found on my daughter's sheets, these photos look over exaggerated. the bloodstains are from full/over-fed bugs. they are seldom from the actual bite. i know because 4 days ago we realized my daughter had bedbugs. we couldn’t figure out why her sheets had red spots. we thought it was red marker. she wasn’t bleeding and there was no dried blood on her. compaired to the ones we found on my daughter’s sheets, these photos look over exaggerated.

]]> By: Dawn http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-6855 Dawn Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:30:03 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-6855 did your blood spots look like these pictured above? and blood spots CAN be caused by many other things, like shaving knicks, cuts, pimples, hangnails, etc. of course, they don't look like the pictures above if they are caused by these things. i think the pictures above are the result of bed bug feces, but that's just my opinion. did your blood spots look like these pictured above? and blood spots CAN be caused by many other things, like shaving knicks, cuts, pimples, hangnails, etc. of course, they don’t look like the pictures above if they are caused by these things. i think the pictures above are the result of bed bug feces, but that’s just my opinion.

]]> By: nyjammin http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-6853 nyjammin Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:43:45 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-6853 I had only two blood spots. That is actually how I found out that I had bbs. Googled bloodspot which came to the conclusion - bedbugs. The google stated bedbugs, but said something to the effect of "it's most UNlikely that you do NOT have bbs. Check other reasons". OK!! Never even heard of a bedbug before. A lotta people STILL have not heard of bedbugs. The education out there su.ks!! I thought that the bloodspots were from the window. My bed is close to an open window. One of the googles said to look at the mattress. Well, there they were.....gross! I believe that my bloodspots were from crushed bugs 'cause that's what the google said and when I covered my mattress/boxspring w/mattress encasements is when those dark bloodspots stopped. Think people think. Is there anything that causes spots like these? I never encountered bloodspots before bbs, never!! 99.9% of bloodspots are from bbs, unless there's a medicial condition like ecezma (spelling?). Even so, like my son got bloody noses sometimes. Still the bbs bloodspots do look different to me. I had only two blood spots. That is actually how I found out that I had bbs. Googled bloodspot which came to the conclusion - bedbugs. The google stated bedbugs, but said something to the effect of “it’s most UNlikely that you do NOT have bbs. Check other reasons”. OK!! Never even heard of a bedbug before. A lotta people STILL have not heard of bedbugs. The education out there su.ks!! I thought that the bloodspots were from the window. My bed is close to an open window. One of the googles said to look at the mattress. Well, there they were…..gross! I believe that my bloodspots were from crushed bugs ’cause that’s what the google said and when I covered my mattress/boxspring w/mattress encasements is when those dark bloodspots stopped.

Think people think. Is there anything that causes spots like these? I never encountered bloodspots before bbs, never!! 99.9% of bloodspots are from bbs, unless there’s a medicial condition like ecezma (spelling?). Even so, like my son got bloody noses sometimes. Still the bbs bloodspots do look different to me.

]]> By: Dawn http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-6836 Dawn Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:37:30 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-6836 funny thing is, when i sent this to sean at bedbugresource he said these were NOT from bed bugs. i just don't get it. funny thing is, when i sent this to sean at bedbugresource he said these were NOT from bed bugs. i just don’t get it.

]]> By: dawn http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-5522 dawn Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:34:24 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-5522 Hi S, Can you please post the photo of the 'smear' you are referring to? The one with the chunk at the end. I'd love to see what that looks like. Thanks Dawn Hi S,

Can you please post the photo of the ’smear’ you are referring to? The one with the chunk at the end. I’d love to see what that looks like.

Thanks
Dawn

]]> By: Bugalina http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-2662 Bugalina Wed, 09 May 2007 03:30:36 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/2007/05/08/bloodonsheets/#comment-2662 Thank you for posting these Jess....you are right...this is the kind of valuable visible info we need...these pics beg the question ..how and why do they leave blood stains....do they "drip" blood if disturbed while pulling out their probosis??? Does the probosis leak some blood when it's retracted??? Does the bite bleed immediately after the probosis is removed?? .. Why do you think it is Poop S.??? I was under the assumption that they pooped hard little poppy seeded balls...not liquid blood...I heard that the blood spots came from the excess blood in the probosis..I don't know if this blood staining happens in a lab setting.... Thank you for posting these Jess….you are right…this is the kind of valuable visible info we need…these pics beg the question ..how and why do they leave blood stains….do they “drip” blood if disturbed while pulling out their probosis??? Does the probosis leak some blood when it’s retracted??? Does the bite bleed immediately after the probosis is removed?? .. Why do you think it is Poop S.??? I was under the assumption that they pooped hard little poppy seeded balls…not liquid blood…I heard that the blood spots came from the excess blood in the probosis..I don’t know if this blood staining happens in a lab setting….

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