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| mel_and_sharon@yahoo.com 2005-09-13, 2:38 pm |
| I am one of those people who are extremely sensitive to Cheyletiella
mite bites. Recently I have been experiencing bites that are similar
in size and extreme itchiness, but I haven't had pets for years, and
never in the house that I'm living in now, so they can't be walking
dandruff mites.
The bites are concentrated on my abdomen, never on legs/ankles/skin
folds. There are no marks on my mattress, so they can't be bed bugs.
I don't spend much time hiking or walking outdoors, so I can't imagine
that they are chiggers. But I need to figure out what they are because
the itchiness is driving me crazy! The bites last several days and
leave a distinct mark (again similar to the cheyletiella bites).
Any thoughts? I recently moved to the Boston area.
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| In article <1126445546.489254.216830@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
mel_and_sharon@yahoo.com says...
 I am one of those people who are extremely sensitive to Cheyletiella
mite bites. Recently I have been experiencing bites that are similar
in size and extreme itchiness, but I haven't had pets for years, and
never in the house that I'm living in now, so they can't be walking
dandruff mites.
The bites are concentrated on my abdomen, never on legs/ankles/skin
folds. There are no marks on my mattress, so they can't be bed bugs.
I don't spend much time hiking or walking outdoors, so I can't imagine
that they are chiggers. But I need to figure out what they are because
the itchiness is driving me crazy! The bites last several days and
leave a distinct mark (again similar to the cheyletiella bites).
Any thoughts? I recently moved to the Boston area.
Any change in laundry soap causing an irritation? Cloth and paper fibers
can cause itchy welts that look like insect bites and we exterminators
will get tons of those call in the especially in the Fall/Winter. If
you think it is a critter in the house place out "sticky" traps for
mice/insects around your furniture and bed. Even the tiniest pest
should be seen on those and you may find what you are dealing with.
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Lar
to email....get rid of the BUGS
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| mel_and_sharon@yahoo.com 2005-09-13, 2:38 pm |
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Lar wrote:
> Any change in laundry soap causing an irritation? Cloth and paper fibers
> can cause itchy welts that look like insect bites and we exterminators
> will get tons of those call in the especially in the Fall/Winter. If
> you think it is a critter in the house place out "sticky" traps for
> mice/insects around your furniture and bed. Even the tiniest pest
> should be seen on those and you may find what you are dealing with.
> --
> Lar
>
> to email....get rid of the BUGS
What about wool? I've recently taken up knitting and right now I'm
knitting with a 100% wool yarn from Uruguay. It's not touching my skin
though, but as it grows it is covering my lap. This isn't like a rash
though, it's mostly individual marks, like mosquito bites only they
last longer and are excruciatingly itchy - I have to use calomine
lotion on them or I go out of my mind.
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| PCOpug 2005-09-13, 2:38 pm |
| See if anything moves on a white peice of paper after the afgan is shaken
overtop .
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| TheTerminator 2005-09-13, 2:38 pm |
| Try a "Google" on "scabies" - the human itch mite. See if that sounds like
your condition. Good luck.
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| TheTerminator 2005-09-13, 2:38 pm |
| After you do a regular Google web search for general info, you may wish to
do an "images" Google search for "scabies" for some pictures of the
condition.
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| In article <1126457456.054187.76630@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
mel_and_sharon@yahoo.com says...
What about wool? I've recently taken up knitting and right now I'm
knitting with a 100% wool yarn from Uruguay. It's not touching my skin
though, but as it grows it is covering my lap. This isn't like a rash
though, it's mostly individual marks, like mosquito bites only they
last longer and are excruciatingly itchy - I have to use calomine
lotion on them or I go out of my mind.
It's hard to really say.
--
Lar
to email....get rid of the BUGS
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