Re: Bedbugs and lice

[Guest guest]

Sometimes have to still go on planes or to motels.  You can check the back of

the headboard nd see if there are black marks on it.  Check te edges of the

mattress to see if you see anything or any dark marks or any blood on it as

there could be little spots.  If so, get things out of the room ASAP.  So

putting suitcase on bed is not a good idea.  Put it on the cabinet or the

luggage cart.   At home, you may be able to fnd a good person who sprays for

bugs and tell what kind you have and they get appropriate mixes to get rid of

them.  I have a guy whom I can call here and he can adjust to about whatever it

is and he gets rid of anything.  I'd rather deal with the poison on the edges

of the room than to have any bugs of any kind.  I had a real fight at our

cottage in AR until I was finally able to get rid of whatever it was.  I was

being bitten and didn't see bugs but we had spiders and they say you have bugs

if you have spiders.  We did bug

bombs 2 or 3 times and sprayed, etc.  Then got help from our bug guy at

home.  He was able to get some stuff for us.  I was sure thankful.  Found our

ceiling in the den was a mess (roof had to be replaced) and so wasps could get

in and we'd have dead wasps when we got there.  I am one who would scream or

squeel  if I saw a bug.  Thank heaven we finally got something that worked. 

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 10:02 AM

Subject: Bedbugs and lice

 

These two bugs are so scary! I saw a tv program about them, and they

said they were making a comeback because of " international travelers " .

I may never get on a plane again, or stay in another motel.

A couple here is suing a furniture rental company because they got

bedbugs from furniture they rented from them.

H.

[Guest guest]

Oh yuck! Doesn't it make you wonder what manner of people stay in hotel rooms

when you see or hear about things like that.

Hasn't there been an epidemic of bed bugs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

When I first trained at the hospital I'd got a human flea, this was back in the

early 90's. We'd had a lot of gypsy's/travellers in that day. I could feel

something itching away on my back in bed that night, and when I went to scratch

it, the tickle would move somewhere else. After a couple of hours I'd had enough

of it and driven crazy, I went and knocked on my Grandmothers room door for her

to take a look. She couldn't see anything and I went back to bed relieved as the

itching miraculously stopped. The next morning I found out tbat my visitor had

swapped hosts. Luckily, my grandmother had caught it and nipped it to kill it.

How uttely horrible!!!!! Apparently, real human fleas are usually only in one's

and two's on the host. There used to be a lot in Britain back when we had slums

(shanty areas) and poverty many years ago.

Charlotte

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> Sometimes have to still go on planes or to motels.  You can check the back of

the headboard nd see if there are black marks on it.  Check te edges of the

mattress to see if you see anything or any dark marks or any blood on it as

there could be little spots.  If so, get things out of the room ASAP.  So

putting suitcase on bed is not a good idea. 

[Guest guest]

These are coming in from foreign ports, usually with people who have money. 

They just come in with the ships and on luggage, etc.  They were almost

eradicated in the US and then we stopped using certain chemicals as it was

killing the birds but had other countries still had the pests.  I just saw that

something that came over to CA from Japan had some Japanese fish or animal life

on it and it was on US shores now.  So if it has no preditors here it can be a

problem.  It is like the boa constrictors in he Everglades.    It is just

from traveling all over.  Poor don't usually travel foreign as much. 

 

Just have to be careful.  I think girls get lice more as they have their heads

together and long hair which they flip around.  Thankfully they get out of that

stage.  My sister had a bad habit as a kid as she'd want to brush women's hair

who visited.  Some of our relatives were a little on the trashy side.  I still

remember that and I generally don't give my brush out and even if family use it,

it goes into the washer.  Once it was years before and I think it was from a

movie theatre in Cincinnati.  Only 2 times  had them.  Thankfully.  When my

granddaughter had them we didn't get them an neither did her sister who slept in

the same bed.  We washed everything and sprayed all furniture and washed

anything that would move and bagged some thins up.  It is miserable to deal

with them.  But it is possible t get rid of them.  Have to wash heads a couple

of times though as once to kill and then again when the nits hatch out and kill

those.  I'd

do a 3rd treatment to make sure.  Not a nice thing to talk about and I feel

itchy whenever I even think about it.  That is how you know someone has them as

they dig at their head as it relly itches.  So if kids are digging at their

heads, check them.  Kids were so embarrassed.  I'd probaly have cut their hair

if they were my kids.  I figured the long thick hai was slung around others

heads too much.   But could have been from airplane.  We just didn't know but

they weren't good about not sharing brushes either.   Enough of that.

 

Let's hope none of us ever have either of them.  Not ever again.

Carolyn Wilkerson

 

To: sproutpeople

Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 7:22 AM

Subject: Re: Bedbugs and lice

 

Oh yuck! Doesn't it make you wonder what manner of people stay in hotel rooms

when you see or hear about things like that.

Hasn't there been an epidemic of bed bugs? I'm sure I read that somewhere.

When I first trained at the hospital I'd got a human flea, this was back in the

early 90's. We'd had a lot of gypsy's/travellers in that day. I could feel

something itching away on my back in bed that night, and when I went to scratch

it, the tickle would move somewhere else. After a couple of hours I'd had enough

of it and driven crazy, I went and knocked on my Grandmothers room door for her

to take a look. She couldn't see anything and I went back to bed relieved as the

itching miraculously stopped. The next morning I found out tbat my visitor had

swapped hosts. Luckily, my grandmother had caught it and nipped it to kill it.

How uttely horrible!!!!! Apparently, real human fleas are usually only in one's

and two's on the host. There used to be a lot in Britain back when we had slums

(shanty areas) and poverty many years ago.

Charlotte

>

> Sometimes have to still go on planes or to motels.  You can check the back

of the headboard nd see if there are black marks on it.  Check te edges of

the mattress to see if you see anything or any dark marks or any blood on it as

there could be little spots.  If so, get things out of the room ASAP.  So

putting suitcase on bed is not a good idea.