Why does it always make you itch when ...
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Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
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slugonabike
New Member
- Location
- Bournemouth
I saw a girl with scabies yesterday, didn't stop scratching for hours afterwards!
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Try teaching in a school when there's an outbreak of headlice amongst the kids.
guitarpete247
Just about surviving
- Location
- Leicestershire
+1. The memory of seeing little things moving about through a childs hair is making me itch now.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Watching them drop onto exam papers and exercise books then crawling away .......
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Yuk ...
I remember one time sitting with my toddler on my lap and suddenly noticing something in his fine blonde hair... I wanted to pick it out except I was surrounded by a whole group of mums all sitting in a circle - thought it would be too obvious and have them all running for the exit. We made our excuses and escaped as quick as we could.
And yes I have just itched my head.
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
My daughter has had the damn things about 6 or 7 times now, so I'm used to feeling like my head is constantly itchy (and checking my own hair so often that it felt like I was developing OCD!)
Luckily I've not caught them from her so far.
(Now, constantly feeling itchy after having bed bugs is another matter..... you feel itchy all over as you constantly imagine the things are on you. Yuck).
Luckily I've not caught them from her so far.
(Now, constantly feeling itchy after having bed bugs is another matter..... you feel itchy all over as you constantly imagine the things are on you. Yuck).
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
How are the bugs now... is the time period up and are they all gone?
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
After 4 weeks, they came in and said the treatment had been successful (despite me finding 1 or 2 of the buggers every few days). The diagnosis was based solely on my bed - the bed was clear, and since they will always be close to where the host is, that meant they'd been dealt with. By 6 weeks, I was still finding them everywhere but my bedroom - though it was perhaps 3 or 4 a week. Then it became a couple a week - and always in the bathroom, just above the laundry bin. Turned out that the last batch were living in a bag of unwashed clothes in there, and were getting out on the days where the cat was knocking the lid off slightly. Emptied the bag into the washing machine, and a bug dropped onto the kitchen floor as I did so. Squashed it, washed & dried the load at high heat and since then (almost two weeks ago) I've never seen another one (touch wood).
Bed is still clear.
Interestingly, my neighbour had recently found a single dead bed-bug in his bed and he saw the council pest control van in the street last week. He stopped one of the guys loading stuff back in the van to ask if they'd been at another flat in our stair. Turns out they were dealing with multiple flats in the block adjoining ours - apparently there was a massive infestation in there in all the flats. Now, my bedroom is on the adjoining wall, as is my downstairs neighbour's bedroom.....
Might explain where mine came from. Wonder if I could sue the housing association responsible for the properties to get my £350 treatment costs back?
Bed is still clear.
Interestingly, my neighbour had recently found a single dead bed-bug in his bed and he saw the council pest control van in the street last week. He stopped one of the guys loading stuff back in the van to ask if they'd been at another flat in our stair. Turns out they were dealing with multiple flats in the block adjoining ours - apparently there was a massive infestation in there in all the flats. Now, my bedroom is on the adjoining wall, as is my downstairs neighbour's bedroom.....
Might explain where mine came from. Wonder if I could sue the housing association responsible for the properties to get my £350 treatment costs back?
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Glad to hear it sounds as though it is just about over....
