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No bites but weird crawling feeling. Mosquito & bedbug venoms related?
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perhaps1271
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Tue Sep 22 2009 20:02:07
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I saw a bug that I later identified as a beetle, but now I have this weird crawling sensation at night, but no bites.
Could be psychosomatic, but I'm squinting at every speck of dust or lint that makes its way into my bedroom region, and some have looked suspect.
I know some people don't have allergic reactions so you can't tell they've been bit, but whenever I've gotten mosquito bites they've always gone itchy and swollen, sometimes becoming nasty welts.
So my question is this, if I react allergically to mosquitos, would I react allergically to bedbugs? -
Deathlyallergic
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Wed Oct 28 2009 0:01:31
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Yes! I am very allergic to mosquitoes, but having moved to southern Cali, they are very rare, I am deathly allergic to bed bugs as I recently found out with out warning.
mainly I think cause they bite in numbers verses just one or two here or there. -
watkinsnewan
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Wed Oct 28 2009 7:20:26
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Another reason to confirm BB are indeed A health hazard to some...... which contradicts a lot of experts....
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Deathlyallergic
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Wed Oct 28 2009 11:48:06
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watkinsnewan - 4 hours ago »
Another reason to confirm BB are indeed A health hazard to some...... which contradicts a lot of experts....yes so true, they focus on that they don't spread disease, which thank goodness at least for that, or I definitely would be doomed. But the allergic reaction is definitely over looked
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bedbuggery
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Wed Oct 28 2009 21:25:35
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Actually bedbug bites behave differently on diff. people, they can be different during stages of an infestation, and even behave differently on different body parts.
In fact, for me, the effect of the psychosomatic "crawlies" even caused my body to manifest stress hives that behaved like bites. So that was part of the mind @#$k.
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watkinsnewan
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Wed Oct 28 2009 21:59:37
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I really don't understand why DR's an psychologist are not taking the BB more serious...I really wish i could find A Dr. who is willing to look at my daughter case and not look me as a joke... just so that way we can know for sure and put it in her medical records and be more prepared if it happens in the future ....I think i am really going to look in to this feather...
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Deathlyallergic
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Thu Oct 29 2009 0:14:59
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watkinsnewan - 2 hours ago »
I really don't understand why DR's an psychologist are not taking the BB more serious...I really wish i could find A Dr. who is willing to look at my daughter case and not look me as a joke... just so that way we can know for sure and put it in her medical records and be more prepared if it happens in the future ....I think i am really going to look in to this feather...You should make your Dr pay attention. God forbid she or anyone of the childhood age have to deal with the allergic reaction to the extent I am! OMG........its mortifingly frightening but Im glad my boys aren't effected as yet,
My Dr takes it very seriously, and Im in Cali where the outbreak is not significant.....yet!
I ordered the climbups from USBEDBUGS.com, Im anxious to try them.
its true the bites react differently from my face to my legs, large welps on my legs with a small raised white bump in the middle and looking more closely first starts out looking like little pin holes in the middle, on my arms, the start out looking like mosquito bites, but especially over the bony area, very very itchy and some what painful, then turn in to pointy raised bumps with white middles that harden as they go away. on my hands just small pointy bumps,
on my face they just spread out like a smooth mosquito bite, silver
sulfadiazine cream is very good for the itch and quickly starts to make them go away, but its by prescription.
Good luck and as I am in the medical field and know how doctors can be, don't be afraid to be bold with this issue!! -
watkinsnewan
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Posted 3 weeks ago
Thu Oct 29 2009 7:30:37
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Bold is my middle name when it comes to the kids..... especially the lil one who is adopted.... I thought it could be BB that she is reacting too...Now that is is on my radar I definitely will talk to the DR. about it... I am going to ask her if it Okay to get the prescription just to be safe... I have steroids in the cabinet an boxes of albutaral... I have not told the DR.. yet cause I wanted to do A little more research... the DR's here tho very good are sometimes behind the times expectational since BB seem to be flying under the radar....and It is not A health hazard(YEA RIGHT)as most would say...
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Deathlyallergic
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Fri Oct 30 2009 0:01:45
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watkinsnewan - 16 hours ago »
Bold is my middle name when it comes to the kids..... especially the lil one who is adopted.... I thought it could be BB that she is reacting too...Now that is is on my radar I definitely will talk to the DR. about it... I am going to ask her if it Okay to get the prescription just to be safe... I have steroids in the cabinet an boxes of albutaral... I have not told the DR.. yet cause I wanted to do A little more research... the DR's here tho very good are sometimes behind the times expectational since BB seem to be flying under the radar....and It is not A health hazard(YEA RIGHT)as most would say...thats good to hear about the doctors, Im learning more and more, but here is something Im going to try and will definitely post my findings, is the climbups from usbedbugs.com, you put the bed legs in the center of this disk that has an out side circle so it makes a trough. if the BB come from away from the bed, they climb in to this first circle and can't get out cause its too slippery, then if they come from the bed, they enter the inside circle where the leg is sitting, and again too slippery for them to get out. I have been told this works, so we shall see, if nothing else it is supposed to help you determine where they are coming from to get to the bed, especially since I have encased my mattress and box springs, and vaselined the bed legs, as they aren't supposed to be able to climb up.
just unreal that there is a need for a support group for this but now I am glad there is! -
watkinsnewan
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Sun Nov 1 2009 21:06:26
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I am so thankful that there is this web site which can bring all us BB suffers together.. you don't know what it is like if you have never experienced it...hope every thing goes well for you... The climb ups are awesome so I have herd... I have not gotten any yet..I have yogurt containers with baby powder, inside bowls of water ... It is working for now She Has had No bites... but none of us have... I hate this waiting game... I am on my second day now I am scared to go to bed even though i have not seen any* yet*...
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This is a good question that hasn't been tackled on this site. Does anyone know if BB and mosquito chemicals are similar? Entos?
At one point someone said he was working on the C. lectularius genome, but she's not been back since her announcement.
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bedbuggery
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Wed Nov 4 2009 1:19:57
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Bedbug secretions are more complex than mosquitos and fleas.
I think it's important to note that the only thing budbugs really do to us is put a hole in the skin and trade out some blood for saliva. It's our bodies immune response that treats mosquitos and BB's similarly and causes the symptoms we are familiar with.http://www.springerlink.com/content/p0u0354451l10461/fulltext.pdf?page=1
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BB_Slayer
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Posted 2 weeks ago
Wed Nov 4 2009 15:58:58
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I can feel mosquito bites but I don't feel bed bug bites. I didn't even know I had bed bugs until I saw one. The bites have absolutely no effect on me. I caught one yesterday on my shirt and when I squished it, it was full of blood but I couldn't even tell where it had bitten me. And still can't tell. So thinking that you're not being bitten doesn't mean you're not being bitten.
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