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My mom found this on a blog on a bird mite website:

The first thing I did was to clean my apartment top to bottom using a

strong tea solution made from boiling stick cinnamon, mixed with a

little eucalyptus oil. I wiped down the floor, countertops, shelves

and every other hard surface with the mixture, then spayed it

liberally on my mattress and every other upholstered surface. Next I

spread liberal amounts of Roach Prufe beneath my bed and other

furniture and beneath my rugs. Roach Prufe is an amazing, non-toxic

product. The active ingredient is boric acid, but I've been told the

inactive ingredients contain a sulfite that will eat through the

exoskeleton of any bug that crawls through it. In any case I've never

known a normal boric acid powder work like Roach Prufe. Several times

I sealed my apartment and left for a few hours while I fumigated it

with smoke from Copal resin. Whether this really had any effect on

the mites beyond the Roach Prufe, I can't say, but it made me feel

that my apartment had been ritually cleansed.

I also had to stop the irritation they were causing, as they

continued to feed on me. I started to ingest very large amounts of

capsaicin by swallowing chopped Serrano peppers (as much as my

stomach would stand). This led to much sweating and diarrhea, but I

felt that these symptoms were beneficial for fighting off the

infection. The capsaicin coming through my pores caused a pleasant

burning sensation that countered the irritation caused by the bird

mites. I painted each wound with a solution of benzalkonium chloride

to keep the mites from feeding off them, and used spirits of camphor

to relieve the itching, especially around my groin area. I eradicated

the bird mites in about a week and have not encountered any since. M.