Posted on 05/31/2010 10:21:14 AM PDT by JoeProBono
At first May thought that her husband had heat rash. We were staying at a smart hotel in Cape Cod. Then I developed these hive-like welts on my back and legs. May (not her real name; she is terrified of giving me that) is middle class, in her late fifties and lives on the Upper West Side, New York, in a well-maintained four-room apartment. When she and her husband returned to the city, one doctor prescribed antihistamines, surmising the couple had reacted to shellfish. She called a dermatologist. He took one look and said, You both have bedbug bites. My husband turned our mattress over and we saw them. Thats when no joke, no exaggeration, however ridiculous it may sound our nightmare began. The infestation would last five months and cost May and her husband $15,000 (£10,200) to treat.
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Bring back DEET.
Good idea if that would work.
“...first war for oil”
Sounds like a leftist code phrase.
Did you just out yourself or did I just miss the sarcasm?
Progressive cooties?
Never stay at a hotel without pulling the covers off the beds and checking, especially along the mattress and box spring welting. Also look behind the headboard. Don’t bring in any luggage until you do. Remove pillowcases and check the pillows. This is no guarantee but it’s better than not doing it.
My buddy has a friend who got bitten by a Brown Recluse spider - it happened in a hunting cabin in Tionesta, PA.
sarcin out...your disorder is MY disorder. First time laughing at a tagline ! From one SA to another :)
Dust off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I won’t stay in hotels anymore because I can’t sleep thinking about them. I also heard they have been found in moving vans....ain’t diversity grand?
Follice mites - everyone has them.
Mites are small creatures visually similar to insects but with four pairs of legs instead of three. Many mites are parasites of animals and plants: Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis are parasites of humans. These two microscopic mite species live on the face, tucked into the hair follicles. They are referred to as demodex mites, follicle mites, or face mites.
A hair follicle is a long narrow tube leading down from the skin surface to the root of the hair. Branching off the side of the hair follicle quite near the surface is a sebaceous gland that continually produces sebum, a fatty secretion to moisturize and protect the skin. While hair follicles and sebaceous glands occur virtually all over the body, follicle mites seem to have a predilection for the follicles and glands of the face. Early research indicted that they are most numerous around the nose and eyes, but some recent studies have found the highest numbers on the cheeks and forehead.
Follicle mites are long and thinthe better to fit inside a long thin hair folliclewith their four pairs of legs right up at the head end and the rest of their tubular body dragging behind. Demodex brevis mites live in the sebaceous glands while D. folliculorum mites occupy the hair folliclesboth species feed on sebaceous secretions and dead skin cells, both reproduce in the follicle or gland, and both occasionally leave the follicle and travel across the skin to a new follicle.
Demodex mites are very common in humans. The older you are, the more likely you are to have a few mites living in your follicles, with some sources stating that virtually all senior citizens have them. Follicle mites are passed directly person to person through skin contact or on shared towels and other fabrics.
I think you mean DDT!?!?
I got some bites in a very nice Courtyard Marriot in Kansas City - thank heaven I didn’t bring any home with me!!
Face Mite
My second grade son has a book entitled “Microscopic Monsters”. The face mite is where I first saw them. Utterly annoying as I am sure I have them because my eyelash follicles itch all the time.
Sumwon smelz funnee...
War for oil?
Care to explain?
And when was this little fantasy supposed to have occured?
The Peacock Mite. These live on citrus fruits
A Moose bit my Sister. No, really!
Sure that's not a pinata?
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