Weird bug bites???
I've been getting these weird bug bites every night... I suspect bed bugs, but I can't seem to find any evidence of them being in the couch where I sleep. I've got about 20+ bites on my forearms, and a few around my ankles/feet, and a few on my hands/above my elbows. Every morning I wake up with more... but, while they do appear in a line, there are never more than two in a row, and sometimes only one. The bite itself is a small, hard red lump that's about a quarter of the size of a pencil eraser. They're EXTREMELY itchy like a mosquito bite, but they don't whelp up and get bigger when scratched. They don't look infected or anything, they're just annoying and very itchy. There's no definite pattern... it's all random and seems to be isolated to my extremities. Any thoughts on what it might be? I don't think its PUPPPS... I'm going to ask dr on the 4th at my next appointment, but I just want ideas on what to research in the mean time?
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Your rash sounds exactly like bed bugs, and you may not see the bugs or their poop until the infestation is really bad. We got them from our neighbors at our last apartment and I had the bites from Dec to April before we found evidence of the bugs and realized what it was. We had the Orkin guy come and spray for 6 weeks and then we moved, because in apartments, they just travel from apartment to apartment and I did not want to deal with them more than once.
My suggestion would be to get the couch out of your house immediately, shower really well and sleep somewhere else tonight to see if the rash goes away or stays the same. Then if it is, you need to call a pest control company, because that's the only real way to get them gone. Good luck!
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef636.asp
We lived in an apartment temporarily and got them. It was awful. We had to spray everything, clean all of our bedding and then we put bed bug proof covers on all of the matteresses. UGH!!! X(