By nobugsonme on Feb 26, 2008 in NYCHPD, Richard Cooper, bed bug stories, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, david segal, delusional parasitosis, epidemic, hotel, journalists with bed bugs, panic, pillow, plague, stress, the matchbox sign | 22 Comments
Three articles on bed bugs appeared today in the Washington Post. One gives a first-person account of what was apparently a not-so-serious bed bug case, and the second shrugs away the problem as a bunch of media hype.
“Yes, Tiny, Evil–and in My Bed” is the first, and provides yet another first-person account from […]
By nobugsonme on May 12, 2007 in "bites", DP, bed bug bites, bed bugs, bed bugs biting all the time, bedbugs, delusional parasitosis, formication, itching | 40 Comments
We often hear this from new Bedbuggers–that no matter where they go, they feel they’re being bitten and crawled on. But it’s unlikely.
Although you may feel the bites begin to itch any time during your day, and even days after you are bitten, you probably don’t feel them when they actually occur. So […]
By nobugsonme on Feb 18, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, delusional parasitosis, information and help, misdiagnoses, other causes of itching, signs and symptoms | 2 Comments
I just updated the most general FAQ: “What are bed bugs? How do I know if I have them? What else could be causing similar symptoms?”
You may notice that I am beginning to remove the comment function from the FAQs, since people are overwhelmingly using them to post tales of bed bug […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 22, 2006 in FAQs, bed bugs, bedbugs, delusional parasitosis, information and help, misdiagnoses, other causes of itching, photos, photos of bed bugs | 59 Comments
What bed bugs (or bedbugs) look like depends partly on their life stage and whether they’ve just had a blood meal or not. You need to know that the adults are about the size of an apple seed, and the youngest nymphs can be the size of a speck of dirt. In other […]
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