Bites of bugs and fleas on the body of a child, an adult: symptoms and treatment. How do bites look like, how to distinguish them from mosquito bites?

Any mother wants to fence her child from insect bites, and for an adult they do not represent any comfort. How to distinguish the bites of a flea, a bug and a mosquito, and how to help with a bite, we will tell below.

Insects such as fleas, bugs and mosquitoes are found everywhere. But unlike mosquitoes, which disturb us in the summer, bedbugs and fleas can live in an apartment at any season. Many of them are carriers of diseases, and their bites, in general, cause discomfort, allergic reaction and danger.

First of all, let's talk about these insects in general terms:

• Blok is a low-vulnerability jumping bloodsucker with a durable chitinous cover. The body is black or dark brown in color. Vulnerability is associated with the small size of the insect and its flattening from the sides. It is more common to see it on the body of animals or birds, but there are species that bite and human - the human flea. Depending on the habitat, they are allocated - land, sand and bedding

Human flea

• Bug is a blood-sucking insect of brown or dark brown color. In the neighborhood with the man there is a bed-like bedbug, devoid of wings. The body is rounded and flattened, up to 6 mm in length, after eating blood, increases 2 times. It attacks mainly at night from 3 am to 8 am and bites tender skin areas. It feeds rarely, once a week, but it multiplies rapidly. They distinguish a characteristic smell, like almonds or fermented raspberries, on which it is possible to determine the presence of parasites in the house.

Bedbender

• Mosquito is a flying insect with a thin body, long legs and a pointed proboscis. Only females bite. In tropical countries are carriers of a dangerous disease - malaria

Mosquito

How to distinguish between bug bites, fleas and mosquitoes among themselves?

The bites of these insects are similar, they all have redness, swelling and itching. But all the same, they can be distinguished by the following features:

1. Bites of bugs are located in the form of "long paths", accompanied by burning and possible strong allergies and anaphylactic shock
2. . The bites of fleas are painful, because they are painful.they have no analgesic substance in the saliva. They bite mainly areas of the body with a thin skin, on the upper side of the foot and in the area of ​​the heel. Bites are next to each other, no more than 2 cm
3. Mosquito bite painless. The individual bites only once, so the bites are scattered throughout the body.

. What do bug and bug bites look like?

Bug bite

Flea bite

Than to treat the traces from bites of fleas and bedbugs?

For the treatment of bite marks, it is necessary to initially take preventive measures:

• First, disinfect the bite site with any antiseptic drug
• Second, remove the itch by using a cold object, ice, vinegar or baking soda
• . Third, applyfrom itching and edema

Folk remedies for bites of : lemon juice, aloe, dandelion, celandine, parsley or plantain, gruel from onions.

Pharmacy funds : antihistamines( Fenistil gel, Suprastin), antiseptic( Boro-plus, Tsindol) and homeopathic( Ledum, Apis).Specialty creams marked "from insect bites"

IMPORTANT: do not comb the bite site to prevent the risk of developing inflammation and infections

Than to smear bites of bedbugs from an itch?

Than to smear bites?

Itching can be removed with improvised means:

• ice cubes
• baking soda solution( 1 tsp 200 ml boiled water)

Or use the following preparations:

• Fenistil gel
• Psilo balm
• cream Elidel( used for severe allergies)
• Bepanthen with dexpanthenol
• ointment Cicaderma
• Propomisole
• Erythromycin ointment
• Sovenenthol
• Nezulin
• plaster, with analgesic effect against insect bites

Means against bug bites and fleas

Insecticide disinfection

In order to prevent the attack of bedbugs, you can use folk remedies:

• decompose the wormwood under the mattress, carpets, into the ventilation divisions
• fumigate the room with herbs of a rosemary, chamomile or tansy
• to use the essential oils of rosemary, tea tree, eucalyptus and lavender

IMPORTANT: folk remedies do not have a lasting effect, the smell lasts 3-4 days

In the fight against bedbugs, disinfection with insecticides will help, such as: Tetriks, Tsifoks, Fufanon Super, Combat and Forceait.

IMPORTANT: disinfection is carried out by toxic means - you have to be careful!

IMPORTANT: for the complete disappearance of bedbugs, and thus their bites, a complete insecticidal treatment of the special service

is required. To remove fleas from the apartment and to get rid of their bites will help:

• insecticidal aerosols: Raptor, Red, Combat
• insecticidal powders: Dust, Pyrethrumfrom flea larvae)
• treatment of an apartment of a special parasite destruction service

How long are bites, mosquitoes, bugs and fleas?

• Mosquito bites stay on the skin from 3 hours to several days
• Bites of bedbugs and fleas go through 2-3 days

IMPORTANT: the duration and consequences of the bite for each person are individual, it all depends on the body's reaction.

Help with allergy to bites

In order to help with allergy to insect bites, you need to know the signs of its manifestation.

• Allergic reaction to mosquito bites: fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, urticaria and the most important symptom is redness of the bite site 5-10 cm in diameter and edema
• Allergic reaction to flea bites: anxiety, fever, complicationrespiratory depression, fever and diarrhea.

IMPORTANT: If allergic symptoms appear, consult a doctor

immediately. What could be the consequences of bug bites and fleas?

The most frequent consequence of bites is the body's reaction to the enzymes contained in the saliva of these insects. There are inflammatory diseases on the skin that lead to pustules and eczema. A strong allergic reaction develops.

• Pulicosis is a dermatological disease that is caused only by a flea bite. Symptoms include swelling of the lymph nodes, fever, biting bites, mouth and throat ulcers, headache and insomnia

Flea and bug infestations:

• Anthrax( spore vectors
• Typhus
• Erisipeloid
• Brucellosis
• Tularemia
• Pseudotuberculosis
• Smallpox

IMPORTANT: the spread of such infections is inherent in developing countries, where there is mostly unsanitary

In order to protect themselves from attackfleas and bedbugs should not prevent their occurrence( maintain cleanliness at home, watch out for pets and care for them carefully vacuum the carpets and furniture).

To escape from mosquitoes at home mosquito net and special means for their destruction will help. Any insect bite must be processed to avoid consequences, especially for children. Take care of your health!

Video. Insect bites of