Make yourself aware of Bed Bugs Symptoms
Most people are familiar with the phrase “sleep tight; don’t let the bed bugs bite.” It’s a fairly old expression which has existed for more or less, according to some historians, as long as beds have existed, and not just the beds that most people are familiar with nowadays. There was a time in the history of the bed, when it was simply made out of ropes crisscrossing one another, tied tightly and hung above the ground. Where to “sleep tight” actually meant that the bed should not have been made loosely, as for the bug part, well who in their right mind would want to be bitten by a bug in their sleep? But the bugs back then did not refer to the bed bugs , like the dust mite, that we are familiar with today, the bugs back then ranged from cockroaches to anything that crawled around on more than four legs.
Bed bugs as we know them today are flightless creatures that have small oval flat bodies, they are sometimes mistaken for tiny roaches and they grow to no more than half an inch in length. These little blood suckers haven’t seen as much action in recent years, compared to back before World War II began, due to the more stringent hygiene standards which have since been in place. But in the past ten years things have started to change and records are showing – the bugs are back!
When a bed bug bites you, the action of being bitten is actually unnoticeable; this is because they inject a numbing agent along with an anticoagulant to keep the blood of their victim flowing. When they bite, the victim feels nothing; it is only after they have finished feasting that the symptoms begin to present themselves.
Thankfully you don’t need a degree to recognize the symptoms of a bed bug bite. In general cases the outer most layer of your skin will evidentially show itchy red bumps, which are usually found to be in line with one another or clustered together. In more serious cases, the symptoms show large bumps that can reach up to eight inches across, blister-like inflammations, clusters of small sacs of pus, and rashes that resemble hives. Thankfully bed bugs are not carriers of actual disease, but their bites may indirectly cause discomfort and there is a very small risk of anaphylactic shock in certain victims, who suffer an allergic reaction to the numbing fluid which is injected into the victim just as they are bitten.
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