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

[MrsFabuloso]

(Ok this might be long, lol!) so for about 3ish weeks or so, DS has been getting itchy bites everywhere. So have I, thoughnot like DS does. DD and DH don't have any. I just put it down to being outside, living in the bush and nature! But in the last week, DS has just got them everywhere. They are red angry looking bumps and he is scratching like crazy. He has some in his hair and is telling me that they are really sore and he has scratched the skin off them and his head
So on Monday I sprayed the inside of the house with insect spray before we went out for the day, thinking we might have mozzies inside as I'd seen a few around (though not so many that I would have though would cause so many bites and just on DS??...) But he's gotten moer everywhere. He just looks terrible! And he's scratching like a mad man! My poor little man I feel sooo sorry for him because I don't know what to do!
I slept in his bed with him the other night and now I have bites everywhere too. Arms, legs, under my boobs, tummy, back....you name it there's a bite. So I'm thinking it's something in his room. But the thing that has me confused is that DH has been sleeping with him the other nights and he has no bites at all. When I was in the room I felt like there were little things creeping on me (((shudder))) and hardly slept all night listening to DS scratch and wriggle and me scratching and wriggling (but it might have been paranoia!).
Yesterday I sprayed DS's room, bed, floor, everywhere with surface spray, vaccummed to within an inch of my life (bed, carpet, moved furniture...), changed his sheets, and put his pillows in the sun. I will do it all again in a day or so too, and have asked DH to help me put the mattress in the sun too. I looked in his mattress, in the crevices and everywhere and couldn't see anything at all.
Does anyone have any ideas of what this could be? There obviously must be something in DS's room somewhere. I just don't get why DH isn't being eaten alive too?? He is hairy, but only sleeps in boxers so I would think he'd get bitten on his tummy or back where he isn't hairy, lol! I just don't know what else to do for my little man he's not sleeping well at night I assume because of this, but is sleeping 2-3hrs in the day, when he usually only sleeps 1-1 1/2hrs...

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!

[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.

[Raupe]

Yeah, also thought of bed bugs...

[peanutter]

sounds like scabies, hun ...

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!!

[MrsFabuloso]

OMG...SCABIES!!!!

That really has my skin crawling........but I guess it could be. I will take DS and myself to the doc asap. Ugh! This is soooo disgusting!

[~Kim~]

Nope, definately not. The owner is responsible for pest control. I'd still be contacting them.

[MrsFabuloso]

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!

[Tanya]

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!