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wordyone | 19:46 Sun 18th Mar 2012 | Home & Garden
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How do you tell if you have bedbugs, where do they hide because I have never seen any insects, and how do you get rid of them? And if I have them how did I get them? Or do I have some other insect bothering me?
I wake up most mornings with one or maybe two tiny red insect bites on my face of recent weeks. They disappear pretty quickly if I put some Savlon cream or concealer on them.
It makes me feel a bit dirty so I would like to know what is happening and what to do.
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
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unlikely to be bed bugs, so why not vacuum your matress both sides, disinfect the frame and buy new pillows and see?
18:42 Mon 19th Mar 2012
Bedbugs are quite big, I think you'd notice if you had them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug

Do you have pets, are you sure it's not fleas?

I must admit that in the midge season, I often manage to get bitten in bed but I have no idea how they get in - I had a mozzie bite on my arm only a couple of weeks ago.
This should help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGYbkjKnoag&feature=related
If you scroll right down this article there is a photo of a man with bites on his face - see if they compare to yours

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_bug
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Ergh mrs O, that's quite a rash!
it's true you can see them, but they live hidden away and only come out at night when you are asleep
...and if you have them and don't want to use pesticides.....cockroaches like to eat them.
I hate cockroaches more than any other insect
Mrs O, wasps for me
I had some contract work in London for a number of months a few years ago, returning home at the weekends. I always stopped in the same hotel and always requested the same room as, because I tended to work away, I found it easier to settle into and sleep for the first couple of nights in familiar surroundings. One morning, several weeks into the contract, I had a number of small, itchy insect bites. I also found something resembling a totally rust red ladybird (dead!) under my pillow in a small squish of blood (my own!). I pointed this out to the hotel and they changed my room whilst a pest controller was called in. The hotel said that a French couple had been in the room over the weekend and that the bug, or bugs, given that I had only squished the one, must have arrived in their luggage. I was told that bed bugs are nothing to do with cleanliness, and I believed this as the hotel was always spotless, but, like ants, just arrive and set up home in environments which suit their survival requirements.
try lifting the mattress and checking the nooks and crannies of the bed frame especially if there are little ledges underneat, also the seam lines of the mattress
If you sprinkle the sheets and pillow with Keatings Powder, and it stops the bites, they were bed bugs. If it doesn't, they weren't.
Keatings Powder is stocked by old-fashioned chemist's shops
unlikely to be bed bugs, so why not vacuum your matress both sides, disinfect the frame and buy new pillows and see?
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Thank you everyone for your answers. I don't seem to be able to rely to anyone individually, either that or I cannot find the way to do so.
BOXTOPS - no pets so it's not that. I did wonder about a mosquito bite. They could get in through a ventilation thingy in my window frame. The bites do not itch and the sites I've now looked at say bedbug bites itch and I know from past experience that mosquito bites itch so maybe it's neither of these.
BUENCHICO - looked at the video clip, useful and I will give it a try.
CATHSFROMARON - your suggestions also sound like good ideas so I will give that a try too.

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