Bed bugs may bite you when you are sleeping, but they do no harm as such to humans. However, they can affect your health by depriving you of your sleep at night, cause anaemia by sucking your blood. Often, they may also cause itchiness that can be treated with over-the-counter treatment.
Humans have been living with bed bugs since our existence, rather the correct statement will be bed bugs have been living with humans. As bedbugs live on human blood hence our survival is very critical to theirs. That may be one reason bed bugs may not transmit any diseases to humans, unlike mosquitos.
If you notice your home is infested heavily by bedbugs then you may call pest control Manchester for proper remedial treatment. Once your home is infested with bed bugs, it is quite difficult to eradicate them in any other way.
What harms bedbugs can do to us?
As per the study published in 2012, 40 different organisms that can cause disease were detected in bed bugs. However, so far, we have not got any evidence that they can transmit all these diseases to humans.
However, the very fact that all these diseases were detected is enough reason to cause concern.
We will never prefer the presence of these bugs near our homes.
The following are a shortlist of various dangers that are present in bed bugs:
- Over time, many bites may cause a significant amount of blood loss to develop anemia
- For a few susceptible people, allergies can cause by their droppings and other remains that can also cause asthmatic attack
- Allergies to bedbug bite can trigger rashes, itching, hives, and burning
- Also, bites can become infected, and cause additional problems
- Scarring may occur and can persist for months
- A few people may develop severe systemic reactions like breathing trouble, severe infection, and anaphylaxis.
If you ever experience bed bug bites then you can use the following over the counter products to get relief:
- Apply a certain steroidal anti-itch cream, which contains cortisone or hydrocortisone.
- You can use calamine lotion for drying out the rash.
- For controlling the rash and swelling caused by the bites you can take oral tablets for antihistamine allergy
- You can buy a topical anesthetic, which contains pramoxine to provide pain relief, and for itch control use diphenhydramine.
- You may also take pain relievers that may contain naproxen or ibuprofen as needed.
Whenever you return from any overnight trips, then you must leave your suitcase in some area that is much further away from your places where you may be spending most of your time, particularly your bed.
To get an extra amount of protection, you must wash your travel clothes as soon as you get back home. Those items that you cannot wash can be run through your clothes dryer for about 20 – 30 minutes at its highest heat setting. Your clothes dryer alone can get hot enough to kill the bed bugs and also their eggs.
