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Thug Bugs
I've recently contracted an infestation of bugs that look like flakes of salt or pepper. they are barely visable at first but bite right away. They behave like fleas in the sense that they jump and pop between my finger nails when I kill them. In their adult stage they look like a cross between friut flies and mosquitos. I went to see several docors and dermatologists about this problem. One doctor told me it was scabies, another told me it might be fleas, although they refused to actually look at the bugs to be sure of what they were. One doctor told me to go home, take a bath, and hire someone to clean my house. She reccomended a phsyciatrist and proceeded to ask me if I was on drugs. None of the above are true in my case. I have found that cold baths seem to either kill or paralyze them. I clean the floors with a rag and cold water regularly. I also clean the counter tops the same way. air conditioning (the colder the better) seems to kill or paralyze them as well. I wash my clothes and bedding in cold water every day. The mattresses and furniture are wrapped in plastic and completely sealed in packing tape and I wipe them completely down with cold water everyday. This has been a nightmare for me. Its cost me a small fortune to buy natural and chemical remedies that don't work. I hardly sleep. I hardly eat and I spend the entirtey of my day hunting the bugs down. I've read on the net that applecider vinager may help. You mix 3/4 applecider vinigar with 1/4 water and spray everything down with it. I take about three cold baths a day. They only seem to like me. They multiply rapidly. On me they seem to prefer living under my fingernails, bottoms of my feet, in between my toes, in my genitals. They don't bite me in those places though. They like to bite me mostly on my arms and legs, cheeks and back. Prior to the cold baths, I used to feel them crawling in my ears, on my head and on my eyelashes, feet and genitals. Don't listen those negative responders. I've seen them and I know they are real.
good luck
This discussion is related to I definitely have some sort of bug/mite/flea infestation..
good luck
This discussion is related to I definitely have some sort of bug/mite/flea infestation..
This is real. I searched forums like this for hours upon hours for the answer and never found one. I found the answer myself through trial and error... I know how debilitating it is and how many people think you're just crazy or on drugs. I felt crazy. Having bugs crawl all over you and every surface in your home and nothing kills them? It's enough to send you insane. It was enough that I seriously considered burning my house down...I almost did when I saw that fire killed them.
So, because I am here and my house didn't get burnt down, I can now give you the remedy. And I confirmed that I wasn't crazy because I pointed them out to my brother one day and he saw them. You had to look long and hard to see them because they're so small...like specs of dust but they move. Knowing they exist and I wasn't imagining it didn't help. Finding something that kills them did.
If you have an Aldi where you are, they sell a bug spray that works. It's black and has on the side that it kills bed bugs. These are NOT bed bugs but it worked. Probably the most toxic spray I've ever encountered but it worked. And then it was prevention - tea tree oil and eucalyptus mixed with boiling water in a spray bottle. Spray every surface and wipe down. I continued this for a year and I haven't seen them for over 4 years now.
I still look for them but they haven't come back. Worst experience of my life. Good luck.
So, because I am here and my house didn't get burnt down, I can now give you the remedy. And I confirmed that I wasn't crazy because I pointed them out to my brother one day and he saw them. You had to look long and hard to see them because they're so small...like specs of dust but they move. Knowing they exist and I wasn't imagining it didn't help. Finding something that kills them did.
If you have an Aldi where you are, they sell a bug spray that works. It's black and has on the side that it kills bed bugs. These are NOT bed bugs but it worked. Probably the most toxic spray I've ever encountered but it worked. And then it was prevention - tea tree oil and eucalyptus mixed with boiling water in a spray bottle. Spray every surface and wipe down. I continued this for a year and I haven't seen them for over 4 years now.
I still look for them but they haven't come back. Worst experience of my life. Good luck.
I have the exact same thing going on. I am insistently cleaning and investigating about these little beasts. I don't sleep. I don't eat. I have even lost my job. My best guess is that they are dust mites. IDK. They feel like something stinging the fire out of me. Mainly on my feet and legs. The fact that they mutate into these flying fruit fly looking things is weird. Okay. I did something really off the chain. I took a dust ball and lit it on fire, and BAM one of those flying things came out of it.... A cocoon maybe? HELP. I have gone to 2 derms, primary care provider, urgent care, hospital, they all tell me to go to the psychiatrist. Did that. She said that something was biting me. OKAY. I mean....HELP, please! I have even lost my job .
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I have had this exact same thing. It turned out to be a fungus, plus multiple parasitic infections. The little cocoons are fungal and hyphae balls and the tiniest bugs come to feed on fungus-- so yes that would be bugs inside of a fungal ball! Crazy! and no doctor believed me at first but I finally found one doctor that listened and ran the right test. I could tell you which test to get to confirm if you have a fungus or not it took me 1 and 1/2 years of pure misery and losing everything --my marriage my home etcetera... but I finally beat it!! This is no joke -- the struggle is real!! Email me and I'll try to answer any questions you may have --good luck!! (** Those little things zooming by are the tiny fungus gnats/ flies that feed on fungus. They even laid eggs in my skin and tiny worms hatched out- I thought that I was losing my mind...) I'm having trouble navigating this site, so feel free to email me.
** I forgot to add that the spores of the fungus ride around on lint and then they Hyphaes grow on the lint into Fungal strands and it forms a lint ball-- yeah that's very strange but true story. I honest to God thought I was losing my mind and lint ball starts to follow me around LOL!
I can finally say that i am no longer a prisoner to thee thug bug. I have finally been set free. For the past couple weeks ive been looking back on the last 7 months of my life it feels as if it were just a nightmare.
I experienced lint bugs and it is NO JOKE! I went to the hospital over 5 times and they thought i was just on drugs. I was using but it was NOT fake. Here are some things i learned.
1. White specs that look like salt are them alive.
2. Black specs that look like pepper are them dead.
3. Red specs that look like red sand are them feeding.
4 The "little hairs, dust, and lint like things" is what they live on or in.
5.There so small there almost invisible.
6. They live under your nails and in your hair.
7. The hospital cannot treat you for lint bugs or even try just assume your on drugs.
Okay so my experience started in the legs. I felt a pinch and saw a huge bump followed by another and another. So i popped them pr tried and somthing was rockhard was i nside the bump but was too huge to get out unless i tore up a big deap hole. So i couldnt on my legs but eventully it spead all over my body and face. Each bump i tried to cut open. One on my back finally came out with sizzors i used. And a rock white hard pebble came out and there were more behind it i couldnt get those out. After that the pain got worst they grew in my face when i tried to pop it open it was so sharp and hard i couldnt. When i popped them little white sand like gains. Or black. They were stuck attached to the inside of my nails. And when i cleaned my nails they never came out. White skin like things were stuck inside my nails not your normal nail jam. In my eyes sand like grains. They would get stuck behind my hair so it would look like ingrown hairs. They were in my scalp. So much of my hair fell out, i even have a little bold spot. It got in my ears blocked my hearing. The doctors told me i just have dead skin in my ears. The worst was what i felt. The bugs crawling all over me 247 and my clothes every single thing i wore invested in seconds. I would be slapping myself in public feeling them crawl trying to squash them. People would look at me like crazy because they wouldnt see anything. Even my boyfriend got sooo annoyed of me and told me maybe it was drugs. So i stopped using and the bugs got worst it was not that. It was real. What i finally did was throw out everything i own change soaps shower frequently hot water and befpre you get out completely cold
They hate cold
I moved states and bought a whole new wordrobe i have not felt them. I asked the hospital for a steroid and bendryl told them i had a alirgic reaction and now im better. Hope you defeat the thug bug..
I experienced lint bugs and it is NO JOKE! I went to the hospital over 5 times and they thought i was just on drugs. I was using but it was NOT fake. Here are some things i learned.
1. White specs that look like salt are them alive.
2. Black specs that look like pepper are them dead.
3. Red specs that look like red sand are them feeding.
4 The "little hairs, dust, and lint like things" is what they live on or in.
5.There so small there almost invisible.
6. They live under your nails and in your hair.
7. The hospital cannot treat you for lint bugs or even try just assume your on drugs.
Okay so my experience started in the legs. I felt a pinch and saw a huge bump followed by another and another. So i popped them pr tried and somthing was rockhard was i nside the bump but was too huge to get out unless i tore up a big deap hole. So i couldnt on my legs but eventully it spead all over my body and face. Each bump i tried to cut open. One on my back finally came out with sizzors i used. And a rock white hard pebble came out and there were more behind it i couldnt get those out. After that the pain got worst they grew in my face when i tried to pop it open it was so sharp and hard i couldnt. When i popped them little white sand like gains. Or black. They were stuck attached to the inside of my nails. And when i cleaned my nails they never came out. White skin like things were stuck inside my nails not your normal nail jam. In my eyes sand like grains. They would get stuck behind my hair so it would look like ingrown hairs. They were in my scalp. So much of my hair fell out, i even have a little bold spot. It got in my ears blocked my hearing. The doctors told me i just have dead skin in my ears. The worst was what i felt. The bugs crawling all over me 247 and my clothes every single thing i wore invested in seconds. I would be slapping myself in public feeling them crawl trying to squash them. People would look at me like crazy because they wouldnt see anything. Even my boyfriend got sooo annoyed of me and told me maybe it was drugs. So i stopped using and the bugs got worst it was not that. It was real. What i finally did was throw out everything i own change soaps shower frequently hot water and befpre you get out completely cold
They hate cold
I moved states and bought a whole new wordrobe i have not felt them. I asked the hospital for a steroid and bendryl told them i had a alirgic reaction and now im better. Hope you defeat the thug bug..
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Think that is the road I'm going down. Your experience is EXACTLY like mine. You described it to a T....Thanks!
can i sue these apartments?
They are called a lint bug I have the same problem u are right I have caught some of these I am taking them to my health department today I got them in all stages from larva but cold does kill them are government wants to control the food chain they was dropped more in the warmer climate they attack the fruit groves and vegetables gardens there seems nothing to get rid of them they feed upon sugars so they get in ears eyes bites stings and bores thetas hurt and itch
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