Black insects in the bed. Blood-sucking insects in bed or who bites at night? Bed flea portrait

It is necessary to know the types of bloodsuckers that cause discomfort during a night's rest. This is necessary in order to choose the right and most effective method fight them.

More often than others in the bed start up:

Dust mites live in beds. These are extremely small insects, almost invisible. The size of an adult individual of such a bloodsucker ranges from 0.1 to 0.5 mm in length. These are almost microscopic dimensions for the human eye, not armed with a magnifying glass.

Each tick excretes excrement in the course of its life. The diameter of these secretions is less than 30 micrometers and it is impossible to notice them with the naked eye. But it is precisely the waste products of the tick that cause those signs by which its presence can be determined on bed linen.

Ticks also cause such painful conditions as:

conjunctivitis;
bronchial asthma;
chronic tonsillitis;
atopic dermatitis;
rhinitis of unknown origin.

How to fight?

In modern urban conditions, this method, at first glance, seems impossible, and people begin to look for other solutions to the problem. But first impressions are always deceiving.

You can wash cabinets, sofas, beds, floors and other items with ordinary soapy water. If you wish to use a stronger agent, you can dilute dust or kerosene in water. Or prepare a decoction of wormwood, as they did in the villages. The ratio of plants and water is arbitrary, but, as a rule, they were taken in equal proportions.

How to be treated?

In the same situations when allergic manifestations are highly developed and do not go away for a long time, antiallergic drugs, eye drops or inhalations are used. For these purposes, any therapeutic drug sold in a pharmacy and suitable for a person that does not cause side effects is suitable.

For inhalation in folk medicine used vegetable decoctions with the addition of herbs - dill and garlic, and as a universal anti-allergic agent, a decoction of celery root or parsley was used. Proportions of preparation 1:2 or 1:3. Conjunctivitis was treated by washing the eyes with chamomile tea.

This blood-sucking is a real scourge of all who keep pets. There is not a single owner of dogs or cats, whoever periodically encounters the appearance of fleas in their home and, of course, in their own bed.

Just pupae people often find in their beds, outwardly they resemble small, curled up or dried up moth larvae, or small worms. An adult can be visually noticed only at the moment when it feeds. These are small dark or red elongated, spindle-shaped insects.

signs

Other signs of flea infestation are as follows:

Bite marks, in the form of red spots with swelling and a white dot in the middle.
Itching at the site of the bite.
Increased body temperature and nausea with multiple bites.
Swollen lymph nodes and other allergic reactions.

The bites of fleas that have settled in the bed can be located on any part of the body, and fleas that live in the crevices of the floor or in the pile of carpeting bite on the legs, usually in the knee area.

How to fight?

In especially severe cases, when there are too many fleas, preparations containing permethrin and spinosad are used for treatment. The latter is available in the form of suspensions for external use and is approved for use from 4 years of age.

Folk remedies for the effects of flea bites do not differ from those used to relieve allergic reactions from bites of other insects. To cleanse the blood of toxins and relieve acute manifestations of immune reactions, infusions and decoctions of the roots are used:

ginseng;
celery
parsley.

The bite sites are washed with alcohol, and bandages on the legs soaked in the juice of wormwood or tansy are used to repel fleas. In modern conditions, it is quite possible to put anti-flea collars on your feet, this will prevent the appearance of new bites during the disinfection of housing. You can treat existing wounds with boric alcohol or hydrogen peroxide, it disinfects bites and an alcohol solution of iodine well.

How to fight?

Together with the disinfection of wearable items and bed linen, pediculocidal products in personal hygiene should also be used, since lice may well linger in the underwear hair fluff or in a person’s head.

How to be treated?

Treatment of the consequences of the life of body lice has two directions. This:

Cracks in furniture.
Cracks between skirting boards and walls.
Slots and joints in the floor.
Behind heavy curtains or paintings.
In the seams of paper or other wallpaper.
In cable channels for electrical wiring.

Woodlice or silverfish, often found in bathrooms and bathrooms, is a "companion" of bedbugs and mold. By itself, it does not cause harm to human health, but its appearance signals that not everything is in order in the house.

How to fight?

In the past, bed bugs were treated with simple boiling water. They spat floors, walls, furniture. Now there is no need for such a method, it is enough to call disinfectors. The room is treated with dry heat several times for 6-8 hours. This ensures the death of all individuals and their eggs.

You can cope with bedbugs on your own with the help of special products containing insecticides:

cypermethrin;
deltamethrin;
alphacypermethrin;
cyhalothrin;
organophosphorus compounds;
carbamic acid.

These funds are available in almost every economic department of large stores, and the most famous of them is Dichlorvos.

How to be treated?

Bedbugs are carriers of dangerous diseases:

Tularemia.
Smallpox.
Brucellosis.
Hepatitis B.
Tuberculosis.

In the past, they spread typhoid fever and anthrax. In the event that any of these diseases is diagnosed, it is he who is treated.

In other cases, people have to fight with the following consequences of bites:

allergic rash;
itching;
rise in temperature;
swelling of damaged areas of the skin;
psychoneurological disorders.

To relieve these symptoms, antihistamines, antiseptic ointments and herbal sedatives are used, in some cases, doctors prescribe sleeping pills.

A person thinks about the presence of a hanger-on in the house only after bites on the body, which are on initial stage can be confused with allergies.

fleas;
ticks;
lice;
bedbugs.

domestic fleas

Wash bed linen in washing machine at a temperature of 90 ° C, or better, boil.
Iron the dried laundry with an iron, be sure to use steam.
Pillows, duvets and mattresses should be dry-cleaned.
If the item cannot be washed, treat it with insecticidal preparations.

Bed bug

For the isolation of enzymes from saliva.
For swallowing blood.

A large bug with a red and round body has recently drunk blood. Hungry - smaller, flattened body, grayish-brown color. He is very active, quickly climbs to the ceiling and from there falls on a sleeping person.

Bed bug diet

When deciding who to attack, the bug will first of all choose a host with delicate skin - a child, then a woman, and then a man. Place of nutrition - open areas of the body without clothing and hairline. The bug feeds every 10 days, drinking about 7 ml of blood. In search of skin areas with a blood vessel located in the penetration zone accessible to his proboscis, he can make a chain of bites, which then become inflamed. Bedbugs do not spread diseases, but for people prone to allergies, their attacks can cause Quincke's edema, anaphylactic shock.

The linen bug easily adapts to any adverse conditions. Carrying out etching measures in apartment buildings leads to the migration of individuals in whole colonies to a safe territory, then the bug can return to previously developed places.

from neighbors from other apartments;
with things brought from a business trip;
with the purchase of things and household items in the secondary market.

Where is he hiding?

under the mattresses of the beds
under linoleum;
in frames of upholstered furniture;
under skirting boards;
between old books;
in household appliances;
under the carpet;
in old sockets;
behind the pictures.

Ways to fight

In order for the bug not to settle in the house, it is necessary to create poor conditions for its habitat. If he accidentally gets into the apartment, he will not be able to actively breed and leave the home if:

Regularly wipe the floors, adding vinegar, ammonia, essential oils with persistent odors to the water.
Bring chamomile, wormwood, mint, tansy into the house. Lay out bunches of these plants in places where insects are supposed to live.

Treatment of the room with the use of a steam generator. High temperatures kill bedbug larvae and adults.

Chemical insecticidal treatments of the premises are carried out in 2 stages, with a break of 2 weeks.

bed mite

Insect characteristics

A dust mite enters the house with the help of a person. An adult can bring it on clothes after a trip in public transport, from a hairdresser. The child is from kindergarten. The tick settles on the fur of pets during walks.

Presence symptoms

bronchial asthma;
scabies;
allergic rash;
atopic dermatitis;
sore throat;
dry cough;
frequent headaches.

Prevention

Change bedding every week.
Clean your home with disinfectant chemicals.
Iron linen, towels, pajamas.
Replace old pillows stuffed with feathers with new ones with a different stuffing material.
Do not allow dust to accumulate near the bed, often carry out wet cleaning.
Wash carpets.
Vacuum and clean all upholstered furniture in the house.
Carry out regular ventilation of the premises.
Remove bedding from time to time Fresh air, in winter - in frost, in summer - in places of baking by the sun's rays.
Decorate your home with tansy and wormwood flowers, their smells repel dust mites.

Interesting to know

Some species can already be identified by one specific bite, but still it is better to look at the bloodsucker with your own eyes.

In truth, our waste and crumb lovers, cockroaches, can also get into bed, but this is rare. With a lack of moisture, redheads and mustaches can gnaw at the epithelium in the lip area on a person.

Bed bugs and their lifestyle

These are the largest bloodsuckers in our beds. Below you can see bedbugs. They will present something like this picture if you suddenly turn on the light at night and look into your bed.

Bed bugs also place their nests closer to humans. Below in the photo is a cluster of eggs and adults right in the sofa.

Review

We are a clean family and have never encountered bed bugs. And then in the mornings, like a bolt from the blue, bites began to be discovered. And this is in winter! At night, they woke up on purpose and found a bug right in their bed. Terrible, such a creature! Nasty, greasy and smelly! You may not believe it, but I even moved to my mother for a while, while my husband dealt with this there. Some experts called, processed. Now I still check every day.

Lilia, Yekaterinburg

Any bug, be it a larva or an adult, should drink blood at least once. Small ones need it for development, large ones for population growth. The only thing they can eat is human blood. They pierce the skin with their trunk, and make their way to blood vessel. Sometimes in the morning you can find bloody footprints on the sheets. This is a sign that a person, tossing and turning in a dream, crushed a bug with his body.

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Bed bugs are nocturnal. During the day you will not meet them casually walking around the apartment, they carefully hide behind carpets, under the upholstery of a mattress, in cabinet furniture, behind paintings, skirting boards, etc. Their hunt for man begins late at night about two or three hours.

If you disassemble a bed or sofa completely, you can find their nests, which do not have any structure. They are hideous clusters of eggs, larvae and adults.

What are the consequences of a bedbug bite

Like most bites, bedbugs are the usual reddish spots on the skin with a trace from the inserted proboscis. Most often, the bug leaves a kind of series of such bites (3-7 pieces each). If you distinguish such a path on your body, know that bedbugs bite you!

With a large infection or sensitivity of a person to his bites, an allergy may develop. Children are at risk of developing anemia. Eruptions from bites are too plentiful, and in some cases can fester. This causes a lot of discomfort.

Bed bugs are clear carriers of many infectious diseases through their bites, but there are no reported cases of transmission of hepatitis and HIV infection.

How to defeat bedbugs

There are only two ways to get rid of bed bugs:

Those who want to save money can try to withdraw them on their own, but do not forget that this does not save you time and effort. And if you are contacting companies, it is important not to run into scammers, carefully study the documents and first read the reviews about it.

If you notice bed bugs in your sofa, keep in mind that they can be frozen. But you need a temperature below -20 degrees. You will take out the furniture and freeze it outside. But, unfortunately, the method is not always effective, since bedbugs often hide in other places in the room.

Just like frost, you can kill an insect with heat. This requires a temperature of plus 50 and above. It can be achieved with the help of thermal fans for industrial use, observing safety measures.

How to deal with fleas

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Fleas and their owners - rats in the Middle Ages caused the spread of the plague, as a result of which almost a third of Europe died out.

Their bites are incredibly similar to bedbug bites and can also be in the form of a chain. It is not difficult to notice fleas on light-colored linen, but it is not so easy to catch them. They jump fast and not every person can react.

They should be destroyed in two stages: first at the animal-distributor, then throughout the room.

You need to poison fleas indoors with the same means as for bedbugs, but for your pet, the veterinarian will advise the remedy.

Lice

Lice in your bed is rare. They spend their whole lives in the hairy part of the head. They are rather clumsy and slow, so any fall from their hair can be fatal for them. They constantly need blood, and having fallen down, it is already impossible for them to climb to the source of food.

As we have already said, they spend their whole lives on the head, or on the pubis of a person. There are also underwear species, but they are not so common now. Basically, they are amazed by the homeless and tramps, who do not change or wash their clothes for a long time.

Lice bites are not as painful as those of the same fleas or bedbugs. But they can also cause a lot of discomfort with their itching.
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Elena, Arzamas

Can a cockroach bite at night?

It is unlikely that a cockroach will attack a person. It is much more interesting for him how many crumbs and leftovers of other food are in the kitchen. Only in some cases, when their population has increased enormously or there is not enough water, they can crawl into bed and gnaw on the surface of the skin of the lips or near the nose. By the way, in hostels such cases take place to be more often. For some reason, cockroaches are especially attracted to children. Probably because the skin is more delicate.

As you can see, these insects do not suck our blood and their bites are not at all like flea or bedbug bites.

Be that as it may, the bite of any of the above insects should be treated. To reduce the itching risk of infection with any disease:

Wash the bite site with soap
Treat with alcohol, propolis or calendula tincture
Spread with gel type Fenistil.

But only if after a bite a person has an undesirable reaction (headache, fever, strange rashes), you should not hesitate and consult a doctor. Allergy to bites can be different for everyone. And even if the symptoms are not too severe now, things can become more serious in the future.

No matter how the flea is called, the appearance of its nondescript body in various parts of the apartment is always unpleasant surprise for whoever discovered it. Indeed, in addition to painful, causing severe skin reactions, these small insects able to carry dangerous infectious diseases - hepatitis, tularemia, typhus, plague(we talked about the danger of fleas to human health in more detail).

And so let's figure out who is called bed and linen fleas.

Bed flea portrait

The color in young individuals is black, in adults it varies from yellow to dark brown. Wings are missing. There are three pairs of paws. The rear ones are more powerful - with their help, the flea is repelled, making a jump. The flea individual jumps high ( about half a meter) and far ( meter and a half). This method of movement is very convenient for searching for a victim that a bloodsucker can easily jump on. The bristles that densely cover their small body help fleas to stay on any surface for the duration of the meal.

The insect navigates in space with the help of antennae, capturing all kinds of sounds and smells. The oral apparatus of the flea is of the piercing-sucking type and is a proboscis. There is no pain-relieving enzyme in flea saliva, which is why their bites are very painful compared to mosquitoes or bedbugs.

Why do fleas get in bed?

This phenomenon is temporary. Usually, these harmful insects prefer fluffy carpets, animal bedding, cracks in the floor and behind baseboards. It is in these places that fleas rest after a delicious meal, lay their eggs and just hide. Long-term unwashed linen or a poorly ventilated bed with accumulated dust in all cracks can attract fleas to the bed, since damp heat and dirt are ideally comfortable conditions for small bloodsuckers to live.

Why are bed fleas dangerous? What do their bites look like?

Symptoms of a flea bite are quite specific, they are difficult to confuse with any skin damage:

painful red swelling with a dark puncture point in the middle;
allergic rash reaction for bites, itching (you will learn how to deal with such itching);
multiplicity of injuries. On a sleeping person, a flea can calmly saturate for a long time and leave several bites closely spaced from each other (but not in the form of a path, as, for example, in bedbugs).

The danger of bed fleas

In addition to severe allergic reactions (children with their thin and delicate skin are most often affected), fleas can cause disorders in humans. nervous system. In addition, fleas are carriers of serious infectious diseases (more than 200 species, many are fatal) and worm eggs (constant contact with animals).

We talk more about the danger that fleas pose to humans in, and you will learn about the danger of a flea bite for a child.

Bed flea control methods

Before taking care of the problem of finding the most efficient way getting rid of the brown plague, it is worth doing a few important things:

After you have successfully completed all of the above activities, you can proceed to the main stage of the destruction of the flea army. The fight must be complex. It is advisable to use grandmother's methods and modern chemical insecticides at the same time:

insecticidal preparations: Cucaracha», « Zieper», « Delta Zone», « Tsifox", and others.

These funds are diluted with water in a spray bottle, with their help all surfaces where insects can be sprayed (upholstered furniture, floors, baseboards, toys, animal bedding).

IMPORTANT! Disinfectants are toxic! Therefore, before proceeding with the treatment of the apartment from insects, all tenants and pets should be removed from it.

Work in protective gloves and a mask. After disinfestation, it is undesirable to enter the room for several hours. After a certain time, ventilate all rooms well and carry out wet cleaning.

flea sprays: Combat», « Raid».

Suitable for processing specific items ( bed, sofa). These products are low-toxic, with a pleasant smell and harmless to humans.

« granny» methods.

After insecticidal treatment, it is necessary to spread bouquets of dry grass over the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe apartment ( sagebrush, lavender, tansy). Essential oils, contained in these plants, scare away intruders and discourage them from any hunt for a settlement. Bags filled with pine sawdust will help to permanently repel bloodsuckers (this flavor is also not to the taste of fleas).

There is another most simple way to defeat the flea plague quickly and without any problems. One has only to contact a professional pest control service. After this, insects will definitely not have a chance to survive.

In conclusion, we bring to your attention a video on how to deal with in an apartment:

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My house is my fortress, and the bed in it is the main bastion. That's what real homebodies say and make a terrible mistake. Indeed, besides them, millions of microorganisms live in their “fortress”, many of which can provoke serious illness. So, before you hide from the horrors of the crisis, problems at work and love failures under the covers, make sure that some kind of infection is not waiting for you there.

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1. Bacteria in bedding

Each of us at least once heard about the many bacteria that accumulate in bedding during use. But few people think about what exactly threatens to sleep on stale pillowcases and sheets. American researchers decided to fill this gap in education and took 50 pillows of students from 25 colleges for analysis. And in each of them, 350,000 (!) colonies of bacteria and 91,000 clusters of fungi were found.

Most of all, the pillows contained the causative agents of Shigella dysentery, bacteria from the nasopharynx Moraxella catarrhalis, which cause bronchitis and pneumonia, and spores of Cladosporium molds, fungal microorganisms that provoke allergic reactions. By the way, on average, men's pillows turned out to be dirtier than women's - 480,000 colonies of bacteria against 290,000, respectively. And in the dirtiest sample, 170 million microorganisms were found. It's worse than a Petri dish!

You can fight such colonies by boiling or long-term ironing of bed linen. However, only those who have weakened immunity should sound the alarm, - healthy people Bacteria like this don't make you sick. But children, the sick and the elderly should change their bedding at least once a week, and be sure to heat-treat the linen or take it to dry cleaning.

Better conditions for a tick - humidity over 60 percent and hot air. Therefore, there are always more of them in summer than in winter, and they are more common indoors than outdoors. Even in the most greenhouse conditions, a dust mite is unlikely to last longer than 30 days, but during this time the female will lay 30 eggs, and the male will produce feces 200 times his own weight. By the way, it is precisely because of this that over 10 years of use the weight of the mattress increases by 2 times - dust, dead dust mites and their excrement add kilograms.

You can and should fight dust mites in your bed. To do this, maintain the humidity in the room at 30-50 percent, regularly carry out wet cleaning using a 20 percent salt solution or chlorine-containing detergents. And in winter, you can hang blankets and pillows on the balcony for several hours - in the cold, dust mites die or fall into suspended animation. Store out-of-season clothes in plastic bags and use less bedspreads and upholstered furniture in the bedroom - extra dust collectors are useless there.

Is the bed close to the wall? Do you have black mold under the wallpaper or behind the false ceiling? In many apartments, especially in prefabricated houses, the walls are colonized by Aspergillus niger microorganisms, which cause allergies, asthma and other severe respiratory diseases.

Of course, it is best to think about this even before moving and cover the walls with an antiseptic primer. But if the money overhaul you don’t, but you still don’t want to live with fungi, you can get rid of them with improvised means. For example, spray a moldy section of the wall from a spray bottle with an oil solution. tea tree- a spoon for a glass of water. In addition, vinegar helps to eliminate mold, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide and concentrated solution laundry soap containing alkali. The main thing is to wear not only gloves during cleaning, but also a respirator, and, if possible, cover all carpets and sofas in which spores cleaned from their homes can “hide”.

4. Fungus in slippers

Lowered the legs from the bed and put them in fluffy slippers? Here you are waiting for the fungi Trichophyton mentagrophytes, Trichophyton rubrum, Epidermophyton floccosum. According to the World Health Organization, every fifth inhabitant of the planet suffers from fungal diseases, and the most common of them are mycoses of the feet and hands. It is very easy to get infected with a fungus - a sick person has a lot of spores in the epithelium, particles of which fall into environment. The most dangerous places in terms of the likelihood of infection are swimming pools and public saunas. In addition, you should not wear someone else's shoes (including slippers at a party) or wear socks and tights for someone.

There are fungal spores in almost all your slippers, and the fact that you still haven't got sick is the merit of good immunity. But as soon as he weakens a little, irritation, cracks, blisters and "crusts" on his legs are right there. Fungi are very sensitive to changes in the composition of sweat in the alkaline direction and are immediately activated when the body fails. Also, the cause of an exacerbation of a fungal infection can be vascular disease and a lack of certain vitamins and minerals in the body.

A fungal infection loves a warm, humid environment, but is not afraid of frost either. So taking slippers to the balcony will not help you - only a good wash with high temperatures(boiling is better). The ideal option is to wear socks at home (they are easier to boil) or change home shoes once a month and a half. And for shoes and boots, buy a disinfectant spray at the shoe store.

5. Rug with E. coli

So, you sent the old slippers to the trash, you haven’t bought new ones yet and you think that now the danger has passed? No matter how! British scientists conducted a study of bedside rugs and published the results of laboratory tests this summer. It turned out that your legs, hanging from the bed, get into a real mess of staphylococci, E. coli and other bacteria that can cause, for example, pneumonia and diseases. gastrointestinal tract. True, the British, in whose houses the samples were taken, turned out to be very dirty - about 40 percent of them wear street shoes at home. But changing your shoes in the hallway won't keep your bedside rug free of bacteria.

Ideally, of course, all mats in the house should be made of plastic - for example, such as those used in yoga gyms. If bright and easy-to-clean paths do not fit into the interior, choose carpets with a short artificial pile - they are easier to wash with an antibacterial shampoo.