The Old-Fashioned Way Of Treating Bed Bug Bites
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: alternayive medicine, animals, bed bugs, bedroom, health, home improvement, home remedies, illness, insects, medicine, other, self improvement, travel tips, Uncategorized, vacationsBed bugs are not a new social issue by any means. People have been complaining about them for centuries, although they were not active in every country at the same time. There were bed bugs around the Mediterranean Sea thousands of years ago, but they did not get to Britain until the Seventeenth Century and to America until slightly after that.
Bed bugs were practically cleared out in Europe and America after the Second World War, but they flourished elsewhere, Now we have them back again all around the world, but it took them nearly 50 years to come back. People are inclined to become more appalled by bed bugs than by mosquitoes, despite the fact that they do the same sort of thing.
Bed bug bites may or may not itch and are very unlikely to transmit infection, unlike mosquito bites. Yet still we hate them and still we are ashamed of having them in our homes. This is a strange phenomenon, because bed bugs cannot eat filth, because they do not have a proper mouth. However,the rumour was created a hundred years ago that only poor people living in squalour had bed bugs.
It was a falsehood, but it stuck. In fact, people with money tend to travel more than poorer people, so they are more prone to pick up bed bugs and take them home to create their very own infestation. An infestation might cause some aenemia, but the real problems are psychological, because people might not sleep for fear of being bitten and this may lead to paranoia..
Bed bug bites are usually in a line, but not always in a straight line. They may look like red spots a quarter of an inch in diameter. People react in different ways: some people react right away, others have a delayed reaction. Some marks might last four or five days, some might not show at all. Some may itch or swell up, others will not.
Your first treatment should be to shower as normal and wash with mild soap, but the number one rule is not to scratch the bite as that might cause an infection from dirty finger nails. If you have to treat the bite further, you can|could try these herbs and plants:
Plantain: some people claim that they obtained relief from itching by rubbing the leaves of plantain onto the bites.
Wet poultice: time-honoured remedies include covering the bites with wet clay; mashed potato; bread and milk; wet arrow root; pulverized rice and water or ground grain and water. Make a pasty sauce of one of these, slop it onto the bites and tie a bandage around it until it is completely dry. This should draw out any irritants that the bed bug administered to make your blood flow liberally.
Fresh herbs can be used too, but you either have to chew them into a mulch (traditional) or you could crush them in a pestle and mortar with some water or spittle. Customary herbs to use are::wild geranium (Geranium maculatum); comfrey (Symphytum uplandica x); yellow dock (Rumex species); wild mallow (Malva neglecta) or chickweed (Stellaria media).
Owen Jones, the author of this article, writes on many topics, but is currently concerned with Bed Bugs Treatment. If you want to know more, please go over to our website now at Pest Management at Home.
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