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Please help... Do I have bed bugs traveling with me abroad? Again, please help.
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I live in the US and about a week and a half ago, in bed, but not yet asleep I realized that my leg right under my bum was very itcty and looked as if it was bitten in a cluster about a 5in by 5 in area by misquotoes... I assumed that I was hot and sweat caused the irritation because my computer was sitting on my lap. I did immediately think of bed bugs but figured I was being a bit ridiculous since I live in a single family home with my parents and this has never been any sort of an issue before, so i figured that it was nothing.
Then a few days later I was on a plane, going to Europe... While trying to sleep I had very itchy small bumps behind my knee and near the elbow of my arm. Although I was wearing jeans my skin felt as if it was burning and I went to the restroom to but cold water on the areas and to wash my hands.
Now tonight, after a few days in my new apartment I woke up itching with about 10 to 15 very small bumps on my outter elbow.
All three time the rash resembled hives and was so itchy that i felt it was burning. The intense symptoms (burning) went away fairly quickly and the more moderate ones (bumps)gradually went away after a few and there were no signs of visable bites.
After going to sleep at 230 this morning I woke up at 430 and have been up researching since(it is now 730am)
After my first night sleeping in this new bed in europe, I noticed little black/brown specks on my bed(some larger, looking like fuzz and others small, poppy seed or dirt speck looking)I used a sticky tape lint roller to remove them. And tonight (3 nights later) I notice that there are more.
And just an fyi, the only thing that I can think of how they came to me(if they even did) is from my aunts dog. I watched the dog for a week and a few days she left, I got the bits for the first time.
Does it sound right that it has been about a week and a half and I have only experianced bites 3 times?
And would the dogs be affected by these bed bugs as well, if she was the carrier would it be obvious that she had bed bugs bits or itching?Please help I am alone and in another country, I am embaressed and ashamed to tell me apartmentmates and unsure if I even have bed bugs.
Any response would be really apprieciated.
Thank you.
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