Comments on: Bed Bugs: Stealth Vampires http://www.endsofearth.com/2010/02/bed-bugs-stealth-vampires/ Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal ---Ralph Waldo Emerson Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:29:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Olu http://www.endsofearth.com/2010/02/bed-bugs-stealth-vampires/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Olu Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:03:09 +0000 http://www.endsofearth.com/?p=993#comment-834 Bedbugs!!! Went on holiday in Newyork and stayed in a 3 * hotel. Coming from Nigeria, bedbugs was d least thing i epected from the USA, i associated them with dirt and filth and have never come across them in Lagos. Anyways spent only 4 days and itched on the plane all the way back home. I was fine at hiome until 2 weeks later bedbugs seemed to surface everywhere, i kept getting bites and there was a night i got bitten on my eye. It was terrible, checked d symptoms on google and it was def bed bugs. I had to get some strong Rentokill combination treatment off the internet (including somne incense like thing, i had to light to generate smoke) and did intensive treatment, doubling the dose the rentokill thingy said. Now a thing of the past now gonna be careful on my next trip to the western world! Bedbugs!!!
Went on holiday in Newyork and stayed in a 3 * hotel.

Coming from Nigeria, bedbugs was d least thing i epected from the USA, i associated them with dirt and filth and have never come across them in Lagos.

Anyways spent only 4 days and itched on the plane all the way back home. I was fine at hiome until 2 weeks later bedbugs seemed to surface everywhere, i kept getting bites and there was a night i got bitten on my eye. It was terrible, checked d symptoms on google and it was def bed bugs. I had to get some strong Rentokill combination treatment off the internet (including somne incense like thing, i had to light to generate smoke) and did intensive treatment, doubling the dose the rentokill thingy said.

Now a thing of the past now gonna be careful on my next trip to the western world!

]]> By: Brook http://www.endsofearth.com/2010/02/bed-bugs-stealth-vampires/comment-page-1/#comment-758 Brook Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:09:56 +0000 http://www.endsofearth.com/?p=993#comment-758 Tania, how miserable! Luckily, I haven't been atatcked much on the face. I did have one cluster on my scalp last month. It feels good to know that I'm not the only one who suffers from bug bites! haha I read somewhere that repellant doesn't even really work on bed bugs. They are so stealthy and nearly impossible to kill. In Bangkok last week, I woke up after just an hour or so and was scratching my back. I looked in the mirror and had a massive welt about as long as an avocado! I kept the light on after that and covered myself with a sheet, thinking that maybe the light would keep bed bugs away and the sheet keep the mosquitoes away. It didn't work. I could barely sleep because of my fear of more big bites. I ended up with more bed bug bites on my arms, legs, and even one on my face. Thanks for the warning of New Zealand. Tania, how miserable! Luckily, I haven’t been atatcked much on the face. I did have one cluster on my scalp last month. It feels good to know that I’m not the only one who suffers from bug bites! haha
I read somewhere that repellant doesn’t even really work on bed bugs. They are so stealthy and nearly impossible to kill.
In Bangkok last week, I woke up after just an hour or so and was scratching my back. I looked in the mirror and had a massive welt about as long as an avocado! I kept the light on after that and covered myself with a sheet, thinking that maybe the light would keep bed bugs away and the sheet keep the mosquitoes away. It didn’t work. I could barely sleep because of my fear of more big bites. I ended up with more bed bug bites on my arms, legs, and even one on my face.
Thanks for the warning of New Zealand.

]]> By: Tania http://www.endsofearth.com/2010/02/bed-bugs-stealth-vampires/comment-page-1/#comment-757 Tania Sun, 21 Feb 2010 04:15:12 +0000 http://www.endsofearth.com/?p=993#comment-757 I've gotten bed bugs twice. Once in Argentina and another time in New Zealand. Argentina was so bad that the only remedy I knew to do was drink a few beers, pop a few benadryls, spray the repellent, and hopefully pass out until the morning. I don't know how many bites total I had, but I had 21 on my face alone. The bugs love me too. I am always the one in the group who gets bitten. Sand flies are also evil and beware of them on the west coast of NZ. I’ve gotten bed bugs twice. Once in Argentina and another time in New Zealand. Argentina was so bad that the only remedy I knew to do was drink a few beers, pop a few benadryls, spray the repellent, and hopefully pass out until the morning. I don’t know how many bites total I had, but I had 21 on my face alone. The bugs love me too. I am always the one in the group who gets bitten. Sand flies are also evil and beware of them on the west coast of NZ.

]]> By: Brook http://www.endsofearth.com/2010/02/bed-bugs-stealth-vampires/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Brook Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:05:11 +0000 http://www.endsofearth.com/?p=993#comment-756 Glenn, that's very smart. I should have asked you for advice on bed bugs last year! I'm going to add a bed bug check to the long checklist (to include whether the sheets are clean, the shower works, hot water if promised, working air conditioner, etc.) I use when apporving of a room in SE Asia. Glenn, that’s very smart. I should have asked you for advice on bed bugs last year! I’m going to add a bed bug check to the long checklist (to include whether the sheets are clean, the shower works, hot water if promised, working air conditioner, etc.) I use when apporving of a room in SE Asia.

]]> By: Glenn http://www.endsofearth.com/2010/02/bed-bugs-stealth-vampires/comment-page-1/#comment-754 Glenn Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:20:40 +0000 http://www.endsofearth.com/?p=993#comment-754 When I go to hotels I check along the edge seam of the bed for evidence of bed bugs. When I go to hotels I check along the edge seam of the bed for evidence of bed bugs.

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