More Bites!

Its so disturbing and offensive to wake up with more bites! Now three people in my family are being affected by these horrible bugs!

These bites appear to be raised but some of ours look like skin rashes too. They are super crazy itchy. We have noticed they itch more when our body heat is high or after a shower.

Here is the rash like bites. Some itched so much that the skin broke and I started using antibiotic cream to prevent infection. I have read horrible stories about infected bedbug bites too!

Right here, you can see broken skin from the itchy bites.

Now is the time for our second line of defense......OFF bug spray before bed!

I read Here about the Off spray along with a couple other good ideas!



More Mysterious Bites!

It was an ordinary day, we were all in our daily routine. The evening had  come and dinner was on the stove.

My son came to me really irritated and told me that his back was super itchy. I pulled up his shirt and there was a cluster of 10-15 bumps on his back.  I started panicking! I didn't know what they were or how he got them. He was so irritable because they were super itchy! I put some Cortaid on them and started to call everyone I knew! I took pictures of the bumps & started sending them out for people to look at and give me an idea of what it could be.

My husband happened to be working that night, so I had sent him these pictures.

Here are what the bites started out looking like, more like welts than bites!

Here are the bites a day after,they are more defined now and look less like welts. They itched my son for about 3 weeks!

My sister suggested they may have perhaps been chigger bites. I didn't think so after googling chigger bites.

I did some of my own google image seaching and everything kept coming up as bedbug bites. I saw a few images and the bites sure matched my son's bites!

I called my husband in devastation and told him I thought we had bedbugs! He sighed and said "no, we would know if we had bedbugs."

I called my mother who worked at a motel and had a little experience with bed bugs since motels are a place they also thrive! She told me to strip my beds and do a thorough seach along the seam of the mattresses as well as doing a search on the boxspring.

I was stumped, I found nothing! I didn't see any sign of bed bugs at all!

What were these bites? Where are they coming from?

Later you will see where it all makes sense!

Mysterious Bites?

We all have all heard this saying a little too many times while we were children and never thought anything of it other than it just being a little saying, how wrong we were!

It all started in Mid October 2010,we started getting these mysterious bites on our bodies.

My daughter came to me and showed me these horrible looking bumps she had. One on her arm and the other two on her neck.

I thought they were some sort of spider bites,so I just put some cream on them and kept an eye on them.

Here is the bite on my daughters arm. Size of a q-tip.

The other bite on her neck. She did say they itched,but it was October and seasons were changing so I pawned it off as perhaps spider bites or something from outstide.