The bug is a small insect with a characteristic unpleasant odor. They live both in the wild and in residential areas, where they often wander in search of food.
These blood-sucking insects can cause a lot of harm to all residents (adults and children), as their bites are quite painful, and getting rid of uninvited guests is a big problem.
Harm caused
Previously it was believed that these insects attack only dysfunctional apartments with unsanitary conditions. But it is not. Penetrate these nosy bugs can absolutely in any house.
In living quarters, bedbugs or homebugs are mostly found. These insects feed on blood, the mouth apparatus of these individuals is piercing-sucking.
Small proboscis they pierce human skin, suck bloodwhile simultaneously injecting saliva into the damaged area, which causes unbearable itching in the puncture area. These malicious bugs are chosen as their victims by the owners of thin and delicate skin - women and children.
What are the bug bites in children? A photo
Bed bug bites have their own characteristics, they are easy to distinguish from mosquitoes.
On the skin of the child and those and other injuries may appear reddish swollen spotsbut there are some differences:
- footprints usually appear in the morning, since these bugs are nocturnal and become active in the period from one to three o'clock in the morning;
- long tracks of bites. The parasite chooses a place on the skin where the blood vessels are located especially closely and makes several punctures, usually in one line, in order to be saturated;
- skin bugs can be seen under the nightgown or pajamas of a childwhile mosquitoes only bite on open areas of the body.
The bug bite looks like this: red swelling with blood crust in the middle.
IMPORTANT! Bedbug bites usually cause not pain, but unbearable itching of a damaged skin area!
When inspecting bed linen you can also see signs of the presence of bloodsuckers in the house. These insects do not emit a substance that causes blood to clot, so the sheet and pillow will be stained with blood stains.
Detecting pests can be quite easy: just turn on the lights in the children's room at 4 in the morning and you can immediately see bedbugs, which hastily begin to hide from your eyes.
A photo
What do baby bug bites look like? Photo below:
What are dangerous?
Theyconsidered safe enough for children, like mosquitoes. In addition to severe itching and redness, they can cause only a slight allergic reaction.
Although they do not carry much harm, bedbugs should not be tolerated and immediately get rid of them by well-known and effective means. The main thing is to do it safely for people and animals.
Still, you should consult a doctor if:
- after being bitten by a child the temperature has risen;
- The bitten place became dense, wound appeared, it can says about the infection and the beginning of the inflammatory process;
- anemia. Bedbugs suck up a sufficiently large amount of blood in one night out, repeated attacks on a child can result in a serious loss of blood;
- if the child has shortness of breath. This can be caused by a serious allergic reaction to the klopovaya saliva.
In any case, the neighborhood with bedbugs does not bode well for your children. Therefore, at the slightest signs of the appearance of this scourge in an apartment, it is urgent to get rid of them. You can do this on your own or with the help of special services for the destruction of these insects in homes.
Here we give links to all sorts of remedies for bedbugs: Karbofos, “Clean House” - spray or dust, “Masha” crayon, Spray Raid, Raptor or Combat, products that need to be diluted in water and sprayed — Xifox, Forsythe, Fufanon, Palach , Cucaracha, Geth, Tetrix.
