by R. Renee Bembry

Created on: June 26, 2009   Last Updated: September 22, 2010

Identifying bedbug bites may not be easy at first because when bedbugs bite people they are usually asleep. Hours and sometimes days may pass before itching or other signs of bedbug bites occur. In furtherance, some people have little to no reaction to bedbug bites and may never know they have been bitten.

Flea and mosquito bites are noticeable almost immediately because their bites can be felt penetrating the skin and causing immediate itches. Both these pests may be felt crawling or landing on the skin. Mosquitoes even give themselves away with their buzzing sound. These two bloodsuckers bite their victims whether they are asleep or awake.

As stated in para one, however, bedbugs bite when victims are asleep. Hours and even days may pass before bite wounds are noticed. These factors make identifying bedbugs bites a little difficult because when victims do not notice signs of biting until they are awake and moving about, they are likely to think some other type insect must have bitten them. People simply do not associate bites they feel while participating in activities during the day with wounds they must have incurred while sleeping.

With that said, bedbugs do not affect all their victims in the same way. Reactions to their bites differ in varying degrees. So much so that while some people may not ever know they have been, and bites may take hours or days to appear on other victims, some people will show signs of bedbug bites as soon as they wake up.

Knowing how to identify bedbug bites can help you know how to treat them. Identifying bedbug bites should also alert you that either you have a bedbug problem or some place you slept is infested.

Bedbug bites, when noticeable, can appear as tiny bumps that look similar to puss-less pimples. Wounds of this sort are extremely mild compared to those appearing as raised red welts. Wounds to this latter degree can have puss filled bumps in their centers. They can look like donuts or rings on the body. The welts may spread as much as an inch and a half to two inches.

Bedbug bites may also appear oval shaped and they can be hard beneath the skin. The worse thing about bedbug bites, however, is the fact that they can drive you crazy with their itching!

Bedbug bites can last anywhere from a few days to a month or more. Persons who have the aforementioned allergic reactions to bedbug bites are usually reacting to agents found in bedbug saliva. Bedbugs secrete these agents while sucking blood in order to prevent victims

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