wasing is hot hot water I think is best, if replacing is out of the question for the time being ... and washing/scrubbing everything - linen, towells, clothes, etc ...
and it's no reflection on your hygiene standards, hun sometimes bugs just come!!
Thanks Kim, I suggested it to DH and he's reluctant to call them....he's such a pita!!
I'm thinking they are bed bugs now. DH came out this morning and said he spent an hour inspecting the bed and DS with a torch through the night last night and he showed me some of the 'things' he's picked off the bed or DS and killed (ick!!!) on a bit of white paper. I still don't get how DH can sleep in the bed and not be eaten, but poor DS is eaten alive every night??!! Last night I put some stop itch all over DS's bites and sprayed some aeroguard all over him before he went to bed. Seems to have prevented too many more bites. I will spray the room with insect spray again and vac and all taht. It's rainy here today, so I won't be able to put the mattress outside which really sucks. I am also going to NAG DH to call about the place being fumigated. We go away for a few weeks in a few weeks (lol!) because I have to go to be near a hospital to give birth! But that would be the perfect time to be fumigated and not have to be here with all of the fumes. It's abd enough that I'm using all of this bloody insect spray and crap which I hate, but I need to minimise the damage for my poor baby. He's sooo itchy
Thankyou everyone for your suggestions and help, I appreciate it!
Last edited by MrsFabuloso; December 17th, 2010 at 07:13 AM.
Sounds like fleas to me! I think scabies infest in the webbing of your hands and feet, don't they (just googled it, and it seems not, but they live on the skin)? Bed bugs would be not only in DS bed but everyone elses as well (fleas are smaller than bed bugs too so you wouldn't see them). I know we get fleas here every now and then and they especially like DD#2's bed... I take her mattress off and leave it in the sun, beat the crap out of it and vacuum it every couple of days....
ETA: Since you have only been in your house 6 months fleas can live in the carpet for a loooong time in their egg form!! I think the adult bed bug lives longest as an adult. Check the creases of your bed... I remember seeing them on ACA and they could see them in the seams of the mattress *ick* If it is bed bugs, you can get special plastic thingies to put on the legs of your furniture to prevent infestation.... cause they will get into every thing!
Last edited by Tanya; December 17th, 2010 at 07:21 AM.
We never figured out what they were, but they seem to have gone now. DS and I are no longer being eaten alive!! And we don't feel the creepy feeling we were anymore when we sleep! Thank goodness!! I was vaccumming every day and changing sheets every day, putting the mattress and pillows outside whenever I could. I also sprayed bug spray every day for a week (a rather expensive week that was!) which was supposed to kill bed bugs and bird lice as well as other biting nasties. So it all obviously worked. We are still going to get the house fumigated though. We are going away in a few days and I am going to get it sone while were away. The realestate can deal with it.
Registered User
sometimes bugs just come!!
Reply With Quote
Bookmarks