Bed Bug Bite Pictures

Just the thought of bed bugs may make your skin feel like it's crawling. These tiny bugs live off the blood of people and animals and they can usually be found in beds and couches, which is where they gets their name from. They are reddish brown in appearance and are flat, oval and cannot fly. Many people think that bed bugs are microscoptic, but the fact is that they are visible to the naked eye. They are about the size and shape of appleseeds.

Bed bugs bite typically at night or right before dawn. Although they are not nocturnal, this is when they are the most active. They have an aversion to sunlight and will be in hiding during the day. A bed bug bites because it is drawn to the warmth of the skin and to carbon dioxide emitted when we breathe out. They can actuallly feel the heat from a person's body from across the room and will crawl to them in order to feed. They can survive up to 18 months without eating, but they will usually eat every five to ten days if they can.

 

As the bed bug bites, it will inject the skin with its saliva which contains anesthetics to numb and anticoagulants to keep the blood from clogging as they are feeding. They will usually feed for about five minutes and then crawl back to their normal hiding spot in the furniture. You normally will not feel the bed bug bites, but you will start to itch later from the injected saliva. This can take a few minutes to a few hours later to realize there has a been bed bug bites.

Bed bug bites usually occur in clusters. There are a couple of theories on the reasoning behind this. One is that they may have been disturbed while they were biting you. If you were asleep, maybe you rolled over and they had to rebite you. Other peole say that it is because the bed bug bites where your veins are so they can puncture it and drink directly from your vein. This is why they bite multiple times, because they are looking for a vein to bite into.

Because bed bug bites are usually in multiples, they sometimes can look like a rash that has come up. Everyone's bed bug bites look different from one another. Some people's bites look like scabs while other people's bites will look like mosquito bites. Some will appear to be a welp with a red dot in the middle like flea bites and others will resemble a pimple. Sometime the pattern will be in a line and other times it will be circular. This is why it is sometimes hard to identify whether it is actually a bed bug bite or another skin issue.

 

Most bed bug bites become a raised welp and itch very badly. It is a natural allergic reaction to the saliva that was injected as the bed bug bites the skin. It depends on how sensitive your skin is to how bad the reaction will become. As many as 50 percent of people have no reaction to bed bug bites, while the rest of people scratch the itch so badly they can receive permanent scarring. To treat this, doctors will often prescribe corticosteroids or antihistamines to relieve the itching and burning. They do not, however, speed up the healing process.

 

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