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Pic of BB or flea bite?
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Elahrairah
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Posted 3 months ago
Wed Aug 12 2009 16:59:19
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Hi folks, Thanks for your time...
We picked up some BB's in Bishop, CA - and despite spending the day washing all of our things at a laundromat we took them home. We knew nothing of BB's when first exposed and just took what precautions we thought reasonable. Without web access we just did what we thought best.
We bought a vapor cleaner, (TR5 Pro - which broke 2nd day of use) and vapor cleaned our tails off. Threw out all mattresses and bedframe and bagged *everything*. Then we moved.
When we moved in we brought in nothing without painstakingly vapor cleaning it or washing it with scalding hot water. But with little kids, there was some monkey business in the sterile barrier. 1 week in to the new place the little baby started to get bit again.
We took him to the pediatrician, who thought it was flea bites. We took him to another, who said the same. I and my wife also get bit some, but only around the ankles - the bites show up quickly.
We had a BB K-9 come over. She ID'd 3 objects: 1) a mattress that came from a clean residence (our old home unoccupied 1 year and no pests whatsoever in it), which we brought in a week into the move in and was uncovered for 2 days before encasement - 2) a bag of laundry that had been hot-hot washed (water far too hot to touch) but was not sealed and in a pile with 15 other open bags of hot-hot wash laundry (nothing brought into house without being rewashed) - 3) an endtable that also came from the clean house and vapored well but due to the detail perhaps not well enough.
The PCO and dog handler could find no evidence of BB's other than his dogs ID. He advised us not to treat, due to the presence of 2 children under 3, one of them crawling. We removed the offending objects and rewashed everything in the room. We have virtually no furniture in the house and sleep on a blanket on the carpet. Everything else is still in the garage. The dog ID'd none of our other possessions in the garage, but the handler said the dog can be off when in an area with breezes.
We are still being bitten, the bites show up quickly and ITCH like mad IF you touch them. If you never touch them, they never itch. Do these bites look like fleas to you?
It is possible the last tenant had fleas, and that is what we are experiencing.
Thank you for your time!
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i160/Violeter/anklebborflea.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i160/Violeter/footbborflea.jpg
http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i160/Violeter/heelbborflea.jpg
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momto2boys
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Posted 3 months ago
Wed Aug 12 2009 18:29:23
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My understanding is that it's impossible to id from bites alone. Maybe try a trap to catch the offenders? Hope it's not bed bugs!
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Elahrairah
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Posted 3 months ago
Wed Aug 12 2009 18:32:49
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Those traps they sell are awful expensive. We really need to put what money we have left towards a bed & PCO...
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BittenandStressed
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Posted 3 months ago
Thu Aug 13 2009 0:58:22
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In my experience, flea bites bled when scratched (not excessive scratching till you're raw either - even a little scratching caused them to bleed.)
That's the most noticeable difference between flea bites and every other type of itchy insect bite I've had (and while I believe I have bedbug bites, I haven't confirmed bedbugs so I can't directly compare on myself with great confidence.)
If you can scratch and scratch and they don't bleed then I'd be questioning the diagnosis of flea bites and looking at what else it might be.
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spideyjg
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Posted 3 months ago
Thu Aug 13 2009 1:19:49
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A flea trap can be made from a glue board and a lamp. If y'all had BBs you know how your body reacts to their bites.
Nobody can determine the bite source from the bite.
Jim
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