| jeff |
| | 09/25/09 at 03:10 AM | Reply with quote | #46 |
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i have, i believe bird mites. they do bite and do not leave any marks or bumps or scabies. i was using holistic, natural remedies, but those dont help. i am going to give you my limited advice. see your doctor and get a prescription of this oinment and you will rub it all over except your eyes and mouth. wash it off in 8 to 14 hours. and get a scalp treatment for the mites also from the doctor. you wait a week and reapply it. this coats your skin from these mites and i guess the theory is that they cannot use you as a host so they die. get mothballs and put them in plastic bags and put your old clothing in there till you are ready to wash them. put what ever fits in the freezer and freeze them for 3 hours. i put my blanket, pillow etc wallet, clothes. the mites will die in freezing temp.take some cider vinegar and cedarcide in a spay bottle and spray all your bedding, couch, furniture, etc or rent or buy a fogger and put cedar cide in it.and fog the place. Put plactic covers over bed parts to keep mites from getting on you and they will die. get a heat gun- temp. 800 to 1200 degrees and go to hard to get to places or any where in the house and hold it about a few inches from the object and move the gun around to fry them. Use epsom salt or sea salt and scrub your body 4 or 5 times a day when you get the itch and then place clothes in mothball bag or freeze them..
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| lc |
| | 10/20/09 at 07:48 PM | Reply with quote | #47 |
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I've been aflicted with bird mites infestation since last June. I'm using, every day, Sulfur soap for my hair and body. Neem oil at night and Petroleun Jelly all over my body during the day. it sufocates them. You can get the sulfur soap, if you are in NJ, at the PathMart or Shop Rite supermarkets, in the hispanic section, is only 1.59 the bar. The Neem oil (pure) in 5 oz bottles at any indian incense stores, I get mine at Jersey City, it cost only 5.00 the bottle, it stinks, but it works by repelling the mites and interfering with their reproduction cycle, which happens every 7 days, the smell of the oil will go away once you shower in the morning. You also can use the Arm & Hammer detergent powder (perfum and Dye free), half a cup in a 32 oz water in a sprinkle bottle, spray every thing, let it dry and the residual of the powder will keep killing them. Also you can use the A&H to shampoo your hair and to shower, it will itch, especially where you have cuts and rash, but it works. Wrap your box spring and matress in a plastic matress protector, zipper it up and cover the zipper with a tape, same with the pillow ( you can find this cover in WalMart). Separate your bed from the wall, make it an island, change your sheets every day, for a while. Spread "20 mule Borax" ( a laundry booster) all over the floor, in your bedroom, under your bed, along the walls, all over the floor! this will keep them from crawling on you, vacuum every 5 days, and spread new one again. Make your bedroom OFF LIMIT to any pet that you may have. Treat your pet too, don't just get rid of it, is not its fault. I use Neem leaf powder on my cat, is non toxic, it does on my cat what the oil does on my skin. DO NOT Apply Neem oil on your pet, is toxic, it will be ingested everytime your pet groomes. Tha's is why I use Neem leaf powder on my cat, it will be ingested once it start grroming himself so I wont have to force a Neem capsule down his troat. Consume garlic ( at least 3 cloves a day) and take Neem leaf capsules (at leat 6 a day), this is to make your blood distasteful to them, the more you taste and smell like a salad the faster they will leave your body and run away from you. Also Lysol desinfectant, Dawn detergen, Windex with AmmoniaD are good for spraying. Spray your shower with clorox/water after every use. NEVER mix Ammonia with clorox or bleach, gases are highly toxic and could be fatal. Also Mites hate mint, I burn every day menthol crystals in my oil burner in my bedroom while I'm cleaning and changing my sheets. Try using non-cotton clothing as much as possible, they breed in cotton or any natural fiber. Also Bounce laundry sheets (the fresh air) are good to keep them away from your stored clothing and to place inside your shoes and in the groin area. Finally once a week cover yourself all over in Aquaphor, is messy, but it works, it suffocates them. Cut your hair if you have it long, there is no place for vanity when you're fighting bird or rodent mites, long hair is not practical if you need to shampoo your hair twice a day, besides your hair will grow back. Shampooing and showering with scrubbing EVERY DAY are very important in winning the fight against the mites. And please if you are going to try Ivermectin follow a doctor prescription, because is dangerous, DO NOT precribe it yourself, even if you can get it online, IS DANGEROUS, you could go to sleep feeling well and not wake up again. Good luck! |
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| earthangel |
| | 11/05/09 at 10:06 PM | Reply with quote | #48 |
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I have been having all the symptoms described here: pins-and-needles stinging, stronger "bites," terrible itching. Much more active at night, and active in a particular place in my apartment. The bites do not leave a mark, but they are painful.
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People who say bird mites will not bother people are dead wrong. People with bird mite problems really don't need other people telling them they are imagining it. It is a nightmare.
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By way of validating the bird mite proposition: after months of bewilderment about what was tormenting me, and based on my own research, I asked my building staff if there were any "bird problems" with the building (a high-rise). It turns out that a street woman has been feeding birds in front of the vacant building next door, and the facade and the space between buildings is seriously bird-infested, causing all kinds of building maintenance issues. AND the location in my apartment of the "biting mites" is exactly and only around the window in my apartment that faces this space.
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I now know why I have not been able to make a dent in this problem and will get to work making somebody get rid of the birds and their feeder.
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In the meantime these stopgap measures have been helpful to me after a huge amount of trial and error: wash hair and body in Selsun Blue shampoo, the extra-medicated kind with the red bottle cap - other kinds don't work very well. After a shower spray your body with Listerine, then rinse it off (important), then spray shower stall with Windex (also important).
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Dry all laundry on Hot, and put ammonia and Borax in all laundry.
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If clothing can't be dried Hot, dry it appropriately, and then put it, dry, into the dryer on Hot for at least 1/2 hour.
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| mitesexperience |
| | 03/03/10 at 08:52 PM | Reply with quote | #49 |
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I though I was infested with Mites, but I wasn't...
After returning from a holiday where I snorkelled the Barrier Reef, I became convinced that I was infested over my entire body with tiny black surface mites. This wasn't helped by finding a few nits(lice eggs) in my hair.
I was stung on the neck while swimming but didn't relate this a few days later to the sensation of my entire body being bitten (like needle pricks) and crawling (tickling sensation) with mites (I could remove these tiny black specks with duct tape tape, even though I was continually washing, scrubbing and covering myself with every insect exterminating concoction I could dream up).
I was terrified of giving them to the rest of the family and so isolated myself and spent my day washing all clothes and bedding and scrubbing and disinfecting myself. When I searched the internet I found others with what appeared to be the same dillema.
What I did wrong:
I assumed I had mites, after all I could feel them and see them, or what I thought was them and then tried to erradicate them myself by using some dangerous chemicals (could have given myself chemical dermitology).Also a naturopath sent me off in the wrong direction by saying he new of these 'mites' and recommended my taking lemon myrtle tea baths daily for 6 weeks.
What I should have done:
The first thing you do is to see a medical doctor and have 'them' analysed/identified under a microscope.
I eventually did send specimens off to a Mite Specialist for identification only to be told they were neither mites nor organic.
On then seeing a specialist doctor he believed the sting I received while snorkelling had set of a severe nerve reaction causing the symptoms I experienced. I still am puzzled by the black specks that existed then, but not afterwards. I feel they were coming out of my skin.
Human mites generally live under the skin (scabies) if present for extended periods, or feed of a night time (bed bugs) and live away from the body during the day.
My Advice after this whole crazy scenario:
See a qualified medical practition firstly if you think you have mites and have them properly identified before embarking on any treament. |
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| birdlady1 |
| | 03/04/10 at 04:36 PM | Reply with quote | #50 |
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...probably bed bugs....not bird mites, which are species-specific. |
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| crystal |
| | 04/03/10 at 09:34 AM | Reply with quote | #51 |
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help i descovered that the bedbugs have infected my headphones and noticed this cause it craweled inside my ear. I'M NOT SURE how many cause when i opened it up there was a few dozen hideing out there. im scared that they mite nest in my ear pleases help. |
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| judie |
| | 04/03/10 at 02:37 PM | Reply with quote | #52 |
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Gosh, Elsa. That was kind of rude. She doesnt even have birds, and she's just looking for help. |
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| Karen |
| | 04/04/10 at 06:35 AM | Reply with quote | #53 |
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Quote: Originally Posted by crystal help i descovered that the bedbugs have infected my headphones and noticed this cause it craweled inside my ear. I'M NOT SURE how many cause when i opened it up there was a few dozen hideing out there. im scared that they mite nest in my ear pleases help. |
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| IC |
| | 04/04/10 at 08:08 AM | Reply with quote | #54 |
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Hi crystal--you must be frantic.
First, this forum is 4 pages long and co-mingled with bird mites. Judy above #52 responded to elsa who contributed years ago--judy, you have to look at the dates of the postings--you're a bit late with your thoughts.
In keeping with you CRYSTAL--you specifically say bed bugs, not bird mites. I assume you have reason to believe you have them. Very difficult to get rid of them. They feed on blood, and can crawl into the corners of a picture frame and hybernate for as long as a year on one feeding. So extermination has to be on going. You must get to a specialist about your ear--but you must also resolve your living situation. If you are in a multiple dwelling, all units must comply--as these bed bugs can crawl from apartment to apartment through electrical outlets. If you have a landlord--he must provide a vermin free environment as part of waranty of habitability--and if he offers to exerminate for you and not the others--no good. They will return. Usually they get into a building when people pick up garbage "treasures" from the street. They also can come in through your clothes or handbag if you have been either at a hotel or on a subway or bus, or another infected apartment and a critter hopped a ride. They are attracted to carbondioxide (what you exhale) so they come out at night while you sleep. you need to discard half your life. There are some steamers which are effective--the ones with a shot of hot steam--be careful to buy the proper one. Only the strongest chemicals help. And it is very expensive because it is on-going.
Recently I saw on tv a researcher who came up with a simple solution which some big company should pursue and develop. It was demonstrated on tv. He took a plastic cat/dog feeding station--the kind which is molded and two side-by-side bowls and placed bowlside down on a counter. Then he took a tall jar and placed on top in center so the underside formed kind of a mote surrounding the jar. He rubbed and spread baby powder inside the mote so whatever falls in there will slip back down and not get out--I would suggest maybe some thin strips of fly paper or some sticky stuff . The in the jar he place DRY ICE--which emits carbondioxide--attracting them. They crawl up the outside part of the petbowls trying to get to the carbon-emiting jar on the raised center island, and fall down into the mote and get stuck there. No toxic chemicals. Again, just one weapon and once invaded, you have a long war ahead. All apartments must comply. You need to seal up cracks. They do have stuff they pump into walls--expensive. Bed bugs are tiny and flat and hide in the smallest seam or crack. you will see them in the seams of your matress and they leave droppings. As you have them in your headphones--they go into machinery as well.
You must get medical attention. If you feel they have entered your body and are living there, you need to get them out. they feast on blood and lay eggs. And your ears are CANALS--very close to the brain.
They are pretty much disease free.
Please keep us informed.
Now for bird mites--go to birdmites.org
and you will see they are different. There was a case in 2008 in Levittown, NY where a woman was removed from her home in a haz mat suite--bird mites -- so bad they were in her orafices. I refer you to the article in Newsday--June 6, 2008--they entered the home through a bird nest outside her bathroom vent. It was also televised. If you want to research--the authors of the article give e-mail contacts:
joseph.mallia@newsday.com
matthew.chayes@newsday.com
the woman's name is Brandica, 100 Saddle Lane, Levittown, N.Y. This is all public knowledge. I read elsewhere, this was not the first time people were called there about bird mite infestation. Bird mites are also no joke--see the site I gave--birdmites.org go into all areas on the site, including the stories of those who have experienced the infestation. Unbelievable!!! You will never want to put your bird cages out on the deck again. I think everyone here should check out the site.
Hope this helps
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