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Reader Stories: Bed Bugs and Bites

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How can you recognize bed bugs' bites? Pictures can help you far better than words. Take a look at these signs of bed bugs and their bites, from actual readers.

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Bed Bug Bites from Las Vegas

I woke up, having some itching and pain already. Well, this was nothing than how it turned out a few hours later while I was working at a booth at a convention. It got to a point where I thought I wa…More

Picture of a Bed Bug from Costa Rica

The first day I stayed in that Hotel, I thought all the bite on my body are from mosquito, flees or little flies. Than I checked trip advisor and found a report that there a bed bugs in that hotel. I…More

Bites all over my baby daughter

A few days ago I thought she was allergic to a spaghetti sauce. Slight fever, rash, still trying to figure out what it is. And it goes away and comes back every few hours. I have to give her Benadryl…More

Bed Bug Bites were small bubbles that turned into HUGE welts

The symptoms don't start for anywhere from 2-24 hours after the bites, it started with small bubbles that turned into HUGE welts within 8 hours. I had to be treated with antibiotic, steroids and anti…More

We actually found baby bedbugs hanging off of us, while feeding!

My husband slept barefooted and each morning both of his ankles had a rash all the way around, but it looked like a heat rash; as the temperatures were record breaking 100’s those days. The itc…More

Hotel Manager Couldn't Find Bugs - My Husband and I Both Bitten

We showed the ones with the triangle and on the neck to the hotel manager and he said they were mosquito bites. The hotel manager and assistants did a very thorough search of our mattress after seein…More

150 Bug Bites Showed Up the Next Day

The real magnitude of the bites appeared only the next day (meaning 24 – 36 hours later) when I got all these red spots. I counted about 150 bites in total, all on the left side (arm, neck and …More

Bitten at the Hotel Del Coronado

We notified the front desk in person, hotel security (while showing them the bites on all five of us), and we reported the problem to guest relations in an online "guest satisfaction survey." We expl…More

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