Comments on: Word about bed bugs getting around http://bedbugger.com/2008/06/08/word-about-bed-bugs-getting-around/ bed bug news, information, activism, and support Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:03:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ItchyandScratchee http://bedbugger.com/2008/06/08/word-about-bed-bugs-getting-around/#comment-11489 ItchyandScratchee Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:09:06 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/?p=1016#comment-11489 After the second night of our family vacation to Vancouver, I woke up with a few bites on my shoulder. By day number four, I was covered in bites on my neck, shoulders, arms and back. In the middle of the night, I found a bed bug crawling into the corner of the bed. I have very sensitive skin and feel crazed at how itchy I feel. My bites were inflamed and swollen with fiery red welts bigger than quarters. The mysterious part is that my husband did not get any bites, nor did my two young daughters. I usually ended up spending half the night in their bed. We traveled with my extended family (a total of 12, including our family), and I was the only one who got bit. I am experiencing the problem where bites that appear to be almost gone suddenly flare up and get swollen and itchy again. They do seem to get more inflamed, when I am stressed or obsessing about the bites. We are home now. The hotel where we stayed sprayed our suitcases, and I washed all our clothes in hot water twice (once at the hotel, once before I brought it into the house). Today (about 7 days after I experienced first bites, I found a line of 3 small raised dots on my 2 year olds arm and a small line of even tinier dots on her other arm. She has kind of rashy skin, and the blemishes were something I never would normally worry about if I hadn't had the bed bug problem. Is it possible that she could be having a delayed reaction, or have we brought the bugs home? We never even brought our luggage into the house. I bagged the suitcases and put them in our garage. After the second night of our family vacation to Vancouver, I woke up with a few bites on my shoulder. By day number four, I was covered in bites on my neck, shoulders, arms and back. In the middle of the night, I found a bed bug crawling into the corner of the bed. I have very sensitive skin and feel crazed at how itchy I feel. My bites were inflamed and swollen with fiery red welts bigger than quarters. The mysterious part is that my husband did not get any bites, nor did my two young daughters. I usually ended up spending half the night in their bed. We traveled with my extended family (a total of 12, including our family), and I was the only one who got bit.

I am experiencing the problem where bites that appear to be almost gone suddenly flare up and get swollen and itchy again. They do seem to get more inflamed, when I am stressed or obsessing about the bites.

We are home now. The hotel where we stayed sprayed our suitcases, and I washed all our clothes in hot water twice (once at the hotel, once before I brought it into the house). Today (about 7 days after I experienced first bites, I found a line of 3 small raised dots on my 2 year olds arm and a small line of even tinier dots on her other arm. She has kind of rashy skin, and the blemishes were something I never would normally worry about if I hadn’t had the bed bug problem. Is it possible that she could be having a delayed reaction, or have we brought the bugs home? We never even brought our luggage into the house. I bagged the suitcases and put them in our garage.

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