It happens that at night someone begins to bite a person in his own bed. The first thought is: “Bedbugs!” Indeed, these harmful insects cause significant damage to both the physical and mental health of a person. If they multiply greatly, you can forget about normal sleep, and itching, redness of the skin and pain at the site of the bites will become familiar. But there are other insects that can bite in bed at night, besides bedbugs. There are quite a lot of such parasites, and the only good thing is that it’s easier to get rid of them, compared to bedbugs.
Midges
Oddly enough, midges, which look like fruit flies, are quite capable of entering a person’s home in the summer and biting him. After such parasites, quite large swollen spots remain on the skin, and in children and allergy sufferers they can even spread over large areas. Midges not only bite off a microscopic piece of skin - when they bite, they inject caustic saliva, which leads to such severe irritation.
We found out whether midges can bite in bed at night. It is worth taking a closer look at their habits and features. Unlike onion (fruit and other “food”) midges, biting midges are smaller, but their structure also resembles an ordinary fly. Midges do not hesitate to bite both animals and humans. If a mosquito bites a person immediately when it lands on the body, the midge can crawl on the skin for a long time, choosing a “tastier” place. In some regions, pests carry dangerous diseases.
Attention: If midges do not hover around food, do not try to get into the kitchen, but try to hide in the apartment during the day, at night they may well bite a person.
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Why do you dream if a girl bites? A similar plot warns of failure or illness. Moreover, due to unexpected circumstances, you will decide to give up, or even completely destroy the business to which you have made tremendous efforts.
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Fleas
Who else can bite in bed at night except bedbugs? Of course, ordinary fleas. Most often, owners of cats, rats, dogs and some other pets have to worry about the appearance of fleas in the house. Such parasites can jump almost a meter in height, and during the day they bite people mainly on the legs. Flea bites are very sensitive, and people scratch them vigorously due to the unbearable itching. Blisters from bites take up to 21 days to heal.
Ground flea bites are very painful for humans and take almost a month to heal
Help: Sand (earthen) fleas live in attics, basements and cellars, so those who live on the first and last floor or in a private house should check the premises for the presence of these insects.
The main source of flea nutrition is the blood of an animal, and cat fleas prefer to live on cats, canine fleas prefer to live on dogs, etc. Therefore, such insects do not live on humans, but they may well bite at night. In extreme situations, for example, after an animal has been evicted from an apartment, fleas can also parasitize humans.
You should look for fleas in places where garbage accumulates, under rugs and rags, and in animal bedding. Insects come to a person’s bed at night, as well as in the evening, at dusk. Usually at night, bites occur on the back, neck, shoulders, and stomach. Fleas leave behind red spots with a bloody dot in the center. Sand and earth fleas behave the same way - they drink blood at night, and it is almost impossible to catch them with your hands.
Who can bite in bed except house bugs0 min read
What to do if you start waking up at night from sensitive bites, and in the morning you find itchy traces of insect attack on your body? “Bedbugs! “- you will immediately think and rush to examine your body for characteristic swollen tracks. Well, who else can start up in a city apartment? But don’t rush to blame the bugs alone. In addition to these small dirty tricks, there are several more who like to live in a human bed.
The first option, which is especially threatening to owners of pets, in particular dogs and cats, is banal fleas. Yes, yes, they also love to climb into our beds. True, unlike bedbugs, fleas bite people quite rarely - more often during daylight hours. At night they behave more calmly. Flea bites are very similar to bedbug bites, the only difference being that the paths from them are shorter. You may be in danger even if there are no animals in your home. You can easily bring fleas on yourself by petting a yard cat once, or uninvited guests can jump to you from your cat-loving neighbors. Getting rid of fleas should be done in two stages: first, treat them on the animal’s body, and after this operation, throughout the entire apartment. Of course, for these purposes you need to use different drugs: for an apartment, any of those means that are used to fight bedbugs will be suitable, but you should ask a specialist at a veterinary pharmacy for advice on cleansing the skin of an animal.
Option two, even less pleasant - lice. They do not live in bed, they prefer to settle in the hairy part of the body (head or pubic area), and follow their “donor” everywhere. It is vital for lice to feed frequently on blood. Therefore, falling from a person, they almost one hundred percent die of hunger. This little thing can also bite at night, thereby disturbing your sleep. True, lice bites are not as pronounced and much less painful than the bites of the same bugs or fleas, but due to their large number they can cause many unpleasant minutes. To remove lice, you should use special pediculicidal shampoos and sprays, and consolidate your success with a thick comb for combing parasites out of hair, which can also be purchased at any pharmacy kiosk.
The third version of the nocturnal insect, which does not hesitate to bite a sleeping person, may surprise and make you laugh. Cockroaches. The most common ones, the kind that live in hordes in kitchens, eat up crumbs from our tables and rummage through trash cans. Few people know, but with a lack of water and too many relatives, a hungry cockroach can crawl into a person’s bed and gnaw the epidermis around the sleeper’s nose or lips. However, such cases are quite rare, and if they do occur, it is mainly in student dormitories, where no one particularly cares about the cleanliness of the kitchen or about expelling the cockroach population away. So you should suspect cockroaches only if you are absolutely sure that there are no bedbugs, fleas, or lice in your house.
Well, if after reading our article you still realized that it was bedbugs that were bothering you, or even suddenly caught a fat specimen right at the scene of the crime - in your own bed - the algorithm of action is simple. First, get a spray to kill bed bugs (regular insect sprays may not be effective), a dilution concentrate (to wash the floor and thereby kill those individuals that have settled outside the bed), or call a team of specially trained exterminators to your home. It is necessary to carefully treat every corner of the living space, and it is advisable that your neighbors do the same at the same time. Further, even if after all these actions the night bites stop and peace and healthy sleep reign in your bedroom, after a few weeks the disinfestation procedure must be repeated so as not to leave the nasty bedbugs even a tiny chance to return.
Also, do not forget that any bite must be washed with soapy water, and the most painful places must also be wiped with alcohol or alcohol tincture of propolis. This will help reduce itching and serve as an excellent prevention of infections caused by insects.
Mosquitoes
If insects bite at night, it could be mosquitoes that have simply flown into the window. In the warm season, when these pests breed abundantly not only near swamps and other bodies of water, in the forest, but also in the city, they try to fly into a person’s apartment “for dinner.” You may not feel the pain of a mosquito bite during a sound sleep, but you will certainly notice itchy spots on your body in the morning. The skin will itch for several days.
How can you tell if there are mosquitoes flying around your house? An annoying buzzing sound is the first sign of their appearance. Mosquitoes squeak in a special way, and it is unlikely that they can be confused with someone else. Only females drink blood to reproduce. Mosquitoes only live for a couple of days, but the harm from their presence in a person’s home and on the street is noticeable. Mosquitoes bite on any areas of the skin that are not covered by a blanket or clothing.
Attention: In warm countries or regions with a favorable climate, even mosquitoes and malaria mosquitoes can fly into a person’s home. If the former are dangerous due to powerful allergic reactions, then the latter are a source of dangerous infectious disease.
If you have to poison other blood-sucking insects with insecticides, you can protect yourself from mosquitoes using lavender oil, “Star” balm or special products that are sold in any store (they are applied to the body). Repellers based on ultrasound or smoke are also excellent against mosquitoes.
Bed bug
This is a dangerous insect that is quite difficult to remove from bed linen, especially if it is in an advanced stage of reproduction. Human parasitism occurs only at night. During the day, the bug is able to hide, forming nests in the immediate vicinity of the sleeping place.
It is based in the following places:
- furniture;
- mattress;
- bed crevices;
- accessories;
- books;
- toys;
- baseboards;
- wallpaper;
- household appliances - in rare cases.
A person can bring bedbugs into an apartment himself or they can crawl from a neighboring living space. They reproduce very quickly; within a month, one female will produce a whole bunch of bugs.
It is important to know that a female who has been fertilized once will bear offspring for the rest of her life.
A person will not immediately notice the appearance of a parasite in bed linen, since it becomes noticeable only after the birth of the younger generation. They immediately begin to look for food, so the body of the sleeper is covered with marks.
In this case, the child suffers more, since his delicate skin itches a lot, and he unknowingly makes it even worse by scratching the bites until they become ulcerative.
The bite mark has a peculiar shape in the form of a path; the bug bites several times in a row to ensure complete saturation. The lack of sensitivity in humans to bites is explained by the fact that they feed from three o'clock in the morning to seven in the morning, this is the time of deep sleep. If you find areas of skin lesions on your body, you should immediately begin to act and eliminate the parasites.
Traces from the impact of bedbugs on the skin swell a little, they are itchy and disturb the peace of their owner. The symptoms go away very slowly.
Parasites bite once a week, so the appearance of new lesions should be looked for only after seven days. If a living space is heavily infested, a person will suffer from bedbug bites every day.
To prevent the areas from itching, they should be treated with a soda solution, and “Star” balm is also used. If allergic reactions occur, consult a specialist. In rare cases, antibiotics are used to treat the consequences.
Delicate skin is preferable for bedbugs, so women and children are most often attacked. Bites should be seen in the neck area; sometimes the shoulders are affected; the back, arms, and legs are also affected. The bedbug is dangerous for small children, as it parasitizes the baby’s face area.
There are many ways to combat this problem; to do this, you will need to contact specialists and consult on the choice of remedy.
The main thing is timely exposure to insects, careful attention to your health and maintaining cleanliness in the apartment. If an entire apartment building is infested with bedbugs, you should remove them from each apartment, otherwise all methods will not be useful.
Bedbugs are capable of wandering from one place to another. It is important to find the source of the bedbug nest and destroy it. When living with small children, it is important to consult a pediatrician for advice, since a fragile body may unexpectedly react to the problem.
Head and pubic lice
Human lice love to settle on the hairy parts of the body - on the head or pubic area. They need this to attach their offspring - nits - to the hairs using a special adhesive substance. Lice do not live in bed, but constantly live on the person himself and regularly feast on his blood.
If a louse falls from a person, it will almost certainly die without food. A lice bite is not as painful as a bug or other parasites, so at night it is almost impossible to notice skin punctures from lice. But when the number of lice is significant, they can cause a lot of unpleasant moments for the owner. Head and pubic lice do not tolerate dangerous infections, but the itching from them can be severe, and bacteria can easily penetrate into scratched wounds.
To remove lice, there are now a huge number of products in pharmacies - shampoos, creams, sprays. They have a pediculicidal effect - they kill adult insects, weaken the protection of the egg shell, and make it easier to comb out nits and lice corpses. For the treatment of pubic lice, there are separate remedies that will quickly get rid of parasites in the intimate part of the body.
Linen lice
This type of lice is more unpleasant and dangerous than those described above. They bite a person for food, that is, they suck his blood, while they are able to carry infections - relapsing fever, typhus. Also, such lice cause severe allergic reactions with ulcers, redness, swelling, and itching.
Linen lice are gray in color, small in size and live in beds and bedding. Parasites love folds of linen, mattresses, and seams. You can bring lice from a hotel, after spending the night with friends, that is, they come into the house together with the owner. In a month, the apartment will already be infested with lice, and the person will think: “something bites in the bed, but not bedbugs.”
Attention: Linen lice bite where blood vessels are located close to the skin - on the neck, arms, shoulders, stomach. It is useless to look for a pest on the head. A lice can live up to a month without blood, and starving it is almost impossible.
Pests must be controlled by treating bedding and washing them in hot water. All linen should also be ironed with steam. The mattress should be sprayed with a special product, paying attention to folds and seams. The apartment also needs to be thoroughly cleaned, and lavender, wormwood, and tansy should be placed in secluded places in the bedroom.
