Everyone longs for a good night’s sleep especially when we are tired after a long day at work. But there are just these moments when we are woken up in the morning by itchy, red patches on our skin. Then you start wondering where from what you got bitten. Well, it might be that bed bugs are lurking in your bedroom. And if you want to confirm that you do have a bed bug infestation, you will need to identify if you have bites or other signs. You need to identify the bites and find other signs before you can proceed with the bed bug extermination.
One may mistake the bites for a rash caused by something else since it is hard to differentiate from other bites. A bed bug bite looks like small, raised, or flat bumps on the skin and may be accompanied by redness, itching, and swelling. Bites are most likely to appear as a series of straight rows which is sometimes referred to as the breakfast, lunch, and dinner sign that signifies the sequential feeding of the insects from one site to another. Bed bug bites are commonly spotted on the exposed areas of the skin like the arms, shoulders, neck, and face.
Though bed bug bites are not that of a serious threat to our health, scratching them could make them become infected. There are also some people who experience severe allergic reactions and develop hives and welting that appears typically all over the body. Allergic or adverse reactions could take up to 10 days to develop and a person who becomes severely affected would have to suffer from it for a couple of weeks or sometimes even longer. Anyone can get bed bug bites but for some reason, people who are over 65 years of age are generally not affected by bed bug bites and some are simply not allergic.