WHAT IS IT??? Itchy bites from hell after sleeping in DS's bed...??

[onthefly]

Are the bites in lines? Maybe bed bugs?

[LionsandBears]

Sounds like bed bugs. Bed bugs are really tiny.

I don't know if this is true for bed bugs, but I know mozzies prefer to bite O+ women. Maybe there's something about your DH's blood they don't want to feed on.

I'd look at getting a new mattress.

[Elocin]

I'd look at getting a new mattress.

Yep, that's what I was thinking too...

Bed bugs hide in the stitching and piping around the edge of the matteress and they are SO hard to get rid off!!

I've been attacked by them once while travelling through Germany (in one of the nicer hotels we stayed in) and it sounds very familiar - red bumps that are freakin' itchy.

I think they just went away after a few days, although we only stayed in that hotel for 2 nights.

I hope he recovers, poor little thing xo

[~Kim~]

lice? very common out there. I know it's gross but you can be fumigated for them.

[jackrose]

I was thinking fleas?? Do you have pets?

We had a break out here last month, it was dreadful. We moved into this house (fully carpeted) in Jan and I suspect they have been dormant in the carpets. Reading up on the net it seems the flea eggs can lay dormant for ages and begin hatching when the conditions are right ie warm weather. Then it is on for young and old!!

In our house, DH and DD1 were eaten alive whereas DD2 and I were left alone - similar to you and DS vs DH. It certainly matches the description of you feeling something crawling on you as you can sometimes feel them, but the little buggers tend to jump off before you can see them.

If it is fleas, vacuuming, washing and sunning is a good solution - vacuuming daily to get all the new hatching eggs. If that is too much or not working then try a flea bomb.

good luck.

[MrsFabuloso]

Arrgghhh!!!! New mattresses...fumigation!!

Bed bugs...lice...eeeekkkkkk (I'm going to run away screaming, go and rock in a corner and cover my eyes now!)

We don't have pets so I don't think it would be fleas, I haven't seen any around. I have checked out DS's bed, all around the seams and everything, and can't see any thing, not even fluff, so thats why I was wondering if it is bed bugs, plus the bites aren't in the line formations that it's supposed to be like, they are kind of in patches, like there are 2-3 bites in one spot, but not in a line. I have also thought of bird lice, we have alot of little birds around and our washing line is sort of under a tree...I don't think we have any in the roof though, I can't hear anything in the roof....
We so can't afford new mattresses/pillows or fumigation right now, and likely not for a while. I will continue to clean his room (and the house) meticulously and vac every day or two in the hope to at least minimise it I guess (so not what I need being 35wks pg with back and pelvic issues!). Maybe I should bring DS into DH and my bed and I will sleep in the spare bed (yes, we have strange sleeping arrangements at the moment!)
UGH!! This is all soooo gross!!! I'm so not a dirty person and I know having these sorts of infestations isn't about being dirty, but my goodness it makes me feel so dirty and makes my skin crawl!!

[~TT40~]

thinking outside the box

are you sure they are bites??

what about a reaction to the sheets themselves, like the washing powder or something??

you have only recently moved there too right? maybe the difference in location..therefore weather, heat, the fact its been raining heaps, has aggrivated something too?

[Heaven]

You can get those flea bombs?

[Raupe]

Yeah, also thought of bed bugs...