invisible biting bugs

[bobby38]

Last summer I seemed to have become sensitive to bites to microscopic critters, apparently.  I used to leave the windows open during the day and night.  At first the bites began sporadically in the evenings during dusk.  They would bite my toes and between my fingers.  As time passed the bites increased even during the day. A couple months later I awoke in the middle of the night with a swarm I couldnt see on my scalp and all over. The itch was excrutiating and when I scratched my head they got under my fingernails.  My fingers looked like sausages from all the bites and I took a look in the mirror and my eyes and lips were horribly swollen with red splotches on my face.  I couldnt see any of these biters, even with that many.  The itch lasts several minutes and the swelling was gone by morning when they departed.  I've had to close up my home to keep them out after spraying bug spray and washing the curtains.  I'd open the curtans and they would bite my fingers.  They love fingeres and toes mostly.  It stopped during late winter but is starting again with warmer weather.  Any help identifying? also worse during cloudy weather and at night


This discussion is related to invisible insect infestation.

[Birdmitebites]

I have the same problem. Once it gets dark, I am being constantly bitten by tiny white bugs, like a grain of salt. They seem to be living in my clothes, anything cotton. My landlord doesn't believe me. The so-called bug expert cant find anything. I am not making it up. These thing are white but turn orangey red after they bite you. Also bedbugs which I see occasionally. There are tiny greeny grey flies on my bed sheets in the morning. I think it is bird mites as there are a lit of starlings around. It's awful when people don't believe you. If they spent an evening here, they would know!

[michellefs622]

I've had them for a year (except in
winter.) I suffered all last summer and it was awful, as you well know. But, I have found a solution (like everyone else here!) I was laying in bed with them crawling all over me. My dog was next to me. I thought to myself, how come they don't bother the dogs (we have 3). This is kind of the gross part, but if not for this, I wouldn't have found my cure. I pet the dog and got the oily stuff on my hand. The I rubbed it on my arm. No bugs. Next, I did my legs, no bugs. So, of course I covered myself. My dogs thought I was nuts. It's gross, but it worked. So, I spend the rest of the summer happy but smelling like a dog!! May comes this year and bugs come. I said to my husband, the research analyst, we have got to do something. I can't take another summer of bugs and I can't smell like a dog. So, he worked his magic and he came up with a solution. Hear me out. The explanation is complicated, but I'll give you the basics. Dogs secrete sebum. So do humans. But dogs secrete more. The closest thing we could find to sebum is Jojoba oil. I have been using it after my shower while my skin is wet. I rub it all over and pat dry with a towel and it works like magic!!! The first time I showered after using the jojoba oil, I could feel the buggies biting my feet and they were PISSED!! But, I have been bug free for 3 weeks! I know they're around because they'll bite me on a spot I've missed!! We think that the reason some people are affected and some aren't may be because the amount of sebum your body produces. Check out Wikipedia for a more detailed explanation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebaceous_gland#Other_animals This might sound crazy to you but you have nothing to lose my trying it. Please write here and let me know if it works for you. I pray it does so you won't have to live in misery anymore.
Michelle S.

[imintearspleasehelp]

Thank you everybody for all your advice I'm a single mom of a 4 year old he doesn't seem to have the same symptoms but this is been going on since August the first scare was I heard about a lice outbreak with kids at the preschool which of course in August with the humidity or is she anyway but then I got worse I was itchy I would see little black dots my hair is falling out and I know the difference between stress have on your own or something is eating my sculpt I finally went to the emergency room to get checked out I should have went to a dermatologist they took me in acted like I was going to quarantine when they really put me in psychiatric and acted like I was crazy psycho psychotic which was humiliating I'm a very bright woman I have all the same symptoms the black. My hair is like static to wherever the bug is or something is because my hairs have been like that before also when I do get this that hurts it sounds like a mosquito bite but it's like a white clear thing. I even brought samples to the hospital and they didn't even want to see them nobody believed to me I had to sit there for 4 days basically the doctor was laughing at me nobody took me seriously and they can get really frustrating because they're microscopic. I am obviously not going to go to the doctor to see a dermatologist if I know I'm going crazy why would I want to get myself stuck in the psych unit for almost a week I let you seen them when I was able to catch one like right when I got it hurry up and slap my arm or something get it out of my nail with a toothpick and look at it with a magnifying glass yeah that might sound crazy to people who don't get it but this is so frustrating I just want to say thank you I tried everything tea tree oil mayonnaise bath constantly doing laundry cleaning the sad part is I talked to the doctor and he told me I was a CD didn't take me seriously laughed at me told me a manic from doing laundry too much yeah I'm home and I try to talk myself out of it I know what to do when you have a nervous breakdown of course anyone who knows psychology you talk to self out of it but I know I'm not going crazy and I know that I can relate with everybody on here and it's so scary Maya just want to know what to do next because I feel like nobody believes me and that hurts a lot I'm not going crazy I know what I see I know what I feel I have pictures I have samples of clothes I don't know what else to do please reach out to my email address or respond to me I mean before this happened I vacuumed my bed every 6 months or less constantly change my sheets on the cleanest person you'll ever meet which drives me even more crazy but the more I keep reading about birds I know my balcony always have the birds nest above the speakers I have on my porch maybe it is the words I don't know I just don't want to have to go to the doctor again and they and let me and think I'm crazy I'm not then I feel like this is the only phone I can speak on and relate to I see the black. Dots I get the rash online and legs and the weirdest thing ever feel like that eating through my clothes everything has went hanging off at which I have a couple in Ziploc bags not this been going on since August like I said but when somebody tries to tell me on losing it and put me in the hospital mind you the whole time I was in hospital. 1 dermatologist came to check me out not even for **** single girls which really upset me I already have congestive heart failure on 30 years old the last thing I need is for dr. To laugh at me and say I'm going crazy or just listen and take me seriously but from the lint coming out of my jeans clothes to hair falling out and not the normal stress hair falling out its like coming out in layers to actually going to the doctor which I hate to get help and I just feel like nobody believes me is the most frustrating thing ever I'm actually in tears right now after reading this because I can ride it in my sisters and I say for some reason when it starts to get dark out it gets really bad and everything I read it says they have been worse at dusk I never seen this my sister told me not to go online it will just make me more nervous she thinks I'm just stressed and sing a feeling things I'm not and I appreciate knowing that fortunately there's others out there that are going through I'm going through I went to the psych ward when I went to the emergency room just to get checked for bed bugs in life and they instantly got me for 4 days but did not ever have a dermatologist check for me I know I'm repeating myself but I'm so frustrated in tears. Is so frustrating yes I'm under a lot of stress with congestive heart failure a single mom but everybody has a lot of **** going on I'm the type of person that only brings up something medically if it's absolutely necessary I'm not one to look for attention and it just blows my mind reading this forum and I can relate to almost everyone then I just need the best advice ever I ride somewhere to get rid of tea tree oil I'm going to check it tomorrow I just want someone to believe me at the end of the day if I just have one person believe me and not think I'm crazy because it's so tiny that would help so much probably I was let go from the doctors because I'm not crazy they just said it was way too much stress basically they didn't know any help suggestions doctor recommendations for Rhode Island and skin doctors or dermatologist I know there's something in this house or maybe Annie I got the Lynn thing going on I got the tiny little fruit fly thing going on once in awhile if I go into a store or something I feel like they follow me I got a little black dots I got the right things when I feel myself getting bit and I do have samples of my clothes thank you for listening n reading I should say I just need to be pointed in the right direction its extremely hard being a single mom dealing with this but also hiding it from my 4 year old because I don't have to worry

[midlyfe]

You are not crazy. The best way to approach the doctors is to play dumb. Don't go into the invisible bugs. They will not take you seriously and will think you're crazy. Just go in and be vauge. Say you are itching all over especially at night. You think it has something to do with these little black, red, or white pinhead flakes you keep finding on your skin, clothes, or hair or where ever and you want to find out what it is so you can remove the irritant. Leave it at that. Let the good doc take a sample to send to the lab. In the meantime try a body salt scrub that has lavender and tea tree oil. Put the scrub all over in the shower and leave it on until all the salt dissolves into your skin. This helped me A LOT! if possible get rid of carpet. I know it's hard but the more stuff you can get rid of that has been exposed, especially furniture the faster you'll be rid of them. They are so small that it is nearly impossible to kill them all by fogging, or spraying. You will forever be bound to this cycle unless you throw out everything and start new. Hang in there. It will get better. Good luck.

[MiteKiller]

I have tried several things to kill invisible biting things. The only thing I found that works and kill them is 91% isopropyl alcohol. Alcohol is absorbed through the skin and can cause illness. Be careful how you use it and consult your doctor. I have finally got good relief using alcohol to kill the invisible things.
I put the alcohol on a round cotton pad and held it on a bite site for 3-5 minutes. At 5 minutes, looking at the clock, was fatal to the biting thing I think is a mite. I never felt a bite again in a place I used alcohol. Good luck, I hope you it works for you. I got my alcohol at Target for $3.11.

[wwhhaatt]

I feel like giving up and

[Pamilina]

Is this mysterious bug related at all to fungus or ringworm if anyone knows?

[74Lisa74]

So I have also had these little tiny white or whitish little bugs biting me and my children for almost 2 months. I can see them in the clothes, on sheets, furniture and basically every surface. The pest control people kept telling me they were lice. I have 3 children and I even had lice as a child. It wasnt lice. I have spent days and nights trying to figure out what these are. Finally thank God I have found Im 99% sure that it is mites bird or rat mites. We have had 2 bird nest one in the dryer vent and another above our front door. The specimens have been sent out to be verified as these mites. So what helps to keep them from biting us in an insect repellent. Spray down your whole body and sheets as well as they are active at night. The biting stop instantly, Wow some relief as I was starting to loose my mind!  I am attaching the link that tells about them and what to do. I am so grateful and wouldnt want anyone else to continue to suffer. Good Luck everyone, hope this helps :)
LR
http://pestkill.org/insect/mites/bird-mite/

[lancer87]

I am looking for some advice on a strange issue. I started noticing that my bed was collecting little black spots, some little long spots, and what seem to be little clear/white bugs. The sides of my bed has little black skinny things hanging off the side and there were little black and reddish dots near the seams. I notice my clothes have little black dots and I can't tell if they are lint or not. A couple weeks ago I had a rash on my left inner arm and thought maybe I had bed bugs.... Exterminator didn't find anything. Now I notice little white specks on my clothes and can not tell if they move or not. Sometimes I swear I see things jumping off me and random nats will fly around me in different locations. I moved into a garage apartment about 2 months ago so I am wondering if this apartment is just infested with some kind of bug or parasite. The back of my neck itches now and I am starting to worry about this.......Any advice or thoughts?