Comments on: Stars: They’re Just Like Us!

By: jennifer

jennifer — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:04:26 +0000

That may be MRSA if the bites don’t go away or keep growing go to the emergency room. It starts like a bite keeps getting bigger and red. Most MRSA infections look like bug bites when they start out.

By: mambaX

mambaX — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:09:14 +0000

<3 lollylicious <3

By: Kratsina

Kratsina — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:42:57 +0000

ACK! Seriously, listen to the posters telling you to wash everything you had with you before going back into your own home. Including having your pets groomed before taking them inside. Bed bugs will hop a ride on anything you have, including your pets if they were in the motel room. And bug bomb the car too if it’s yours, if not, be nice and tell the rental place you ran into bed bugs at a hotel you stayed in.

And if you have to stay in another hotel, changing the sheets doesn’t matter. They don’t live in the sheets. They live in the matress and bed frame. Pull the sheets off and check the seams of the mattress for a reddish residue or brown like flaking. Look behind the headboard or on any seam of the bed that has light enough wood that you can see any black trails. These are marks left by bed bugs. Have you ever given a bath to a dog that has alot of fleas and hasn’t been bathed in awhile? The water turns a reddish brown and that’s the same sorta color bed bugs will leave behind in the seams of a mattress or headboard. Search the web for photos if you want to make sure what your seeing is bed bugs or not.

Good luck!

By: Tako

Tako — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:17:21 +0000

I agree that they look like bedbug bites Beet, and also i agree that you should see a Dr asap..

I hope you get better soon!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:13:37 +0000

I had bug bites like that- You might be having a super bad allergic reaction. I paid 200 to have a doctor tell me they were hives, which I had figured out. But they looked just like that.

By: Paris' Herpes

Paris' Herpes — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:59:37 +0000

Gross! I see why people are freaking out after looking at this model of a bed bug burrowed in skin:

http://www.dkimages.com/discover/previews/744/167420.JPG

By: anon

anon — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:51:43 +0000

DAMMIT!! Now I’m itching!

By: Paris' Herpes

Paris' Herpes — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:45:51 +0000

That’s disgusting. Didn’t know bed bugs were this visible and this nasty:
http://bedbugger.files.wordpress.com/2006/10/common_bed_bug_lifecycle.jpg

By: lollylicious

lollylicious — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:08:05 +0000

mamba you are my favorite poster <3

By: mambaX

mambaX — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:41:49 +0000

and btw
5 star is usually safer
I’d rather skip breakfast and pay for WiFi
than getting bugs around me
although honestly I guess bugs usually run away from me

By: mambaX

mambaX — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:39:52 +0000

ointments, antihistaminics of course
and probably semisynthetic penicillin orally if there is no allergy to this antibiotic
they look really upsetting

By: Norman

Norman — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:12:30 +0000

Beet- as many posters above have stated, you are the victim of bedbugs. These little critters are parasites like mosquitos- they used you to chow down. You are having a reaction to all of the goodies they injected into you that work as anti-coagulants. Go to the store/pharmacy and buy some Benedryl or another antihistamine. You can also put some cortisone cream over the bites to help with the itching.

You don’t need to go to the docotor unless the swelling doesn’t go away, or unless you have signs of an obvious infection (really, really red or pus is a sure sign…) DO NOT scratch them open- people who do this can easily get impetigo. You don’t want that.

Look on the bright side- you’ll match Paris for the next few days…