More bed bug is scattering here

[Jtb]

look around your neighbours and watch the FT coming with infested luggages.

Once open, it crawls without knowing and multiplys as it moves on.

Just seen one family threw away all mattresses with a bold written note not to be recycled.

Those renting their flats or rooms out, make sure this will not happen. Once the bugs are

hiding inside the PVC trunking, you have to vacate the house for pest control. Bugs dont

live on high temperature. Beware even you are traveling, staying in hotel and back home,

watch those bags lying around on the carpet/floor. Always air your bags under sun before storage.

[RadX]

yes, FTs are also known as bed bugs....u din know ah

[Dinosaka]

That's the reason y the pest busters bizs are booming....Huat ah!!

[Yeobh]

Look around, most of the pigeon holes are almost sealed up with glass windows even the balcony is not spare, many just don't understand the importance of direct sunlight, flowing fresh air and clean surroundings/environments.

Sealing the whole house for air conditioning without regularly introduce fresh air into the enclosure is just asking for troubles. besides bed bugs , you have forumers complaining of fungus growing in their children beds , cupboards etc

[Kingkong]

Not just bed bugs, other bugs as well!

 

When we had a month-old celebration for our first born, my relative was carrying our baby, and passes to her new maid to carry for a while.

That's when the nightmare starts...

 

Within a week, she had mild rashes on her body. After 2 rounds of GP (given steroid to apply on the skin), it got worse.

Panicked, we went to NUH to consult a specialist. This spec seems to have a double spec of both children and skin (just nice for us).

After checking, she didn't have the confidence to confirm my baby's condition, though she did mention to us what she suspected (and she was right).

Immediately she recommended and make appt for us to see her professor who is in private practice.

 

Just less than 5 mins talk, the professor scrapped a little skin off my baby, went under the microscope, and voila!

He showed us the bug... Scabbies mite! They like soft flesh...

 

Treatment was immediately administered to our whole family! Yes, everyone in the house.

All bedsheets and bed are to be washed and disinfected immediately!

The lotion that we have to apply to our baby, and ourselves, according to the professor, is an equivalent of insecticide!

We had to do this for about 2+ weeks, as the mite had a life span of about a week, and we need to make sure the 2nd generation (the eggs) don't get to survive as well...

 

A track through the events showed that it is due to the maid, who was also treated for scabbies, before coming over to Singapore.

Scabbies had been around with humans for a long while, but it is especially bad in 3rd world countries.

 

Knn, 1+ month old and had to go through this!

 

 

[Jtb]

It's good to prevent all this bugs around.

Just like visiting seaside for little kids, watch around those season sand flies that can be carried home.

If that happen, go straight to the bathroom and shower with all clothing wash. Once this fly move around

at home, it just stick to the wall and mutiply, you really have to paint the whole house just to get rid of them.SandFly

[Chucky2007]

Wow freaking scary creature

[Dankoo]

 

Scabbies is transmitted readily, often throughout an entire family, by skin-to-skin touch with an infected person (e.g. bed mates, classmates, daycare), and thus is occasionally, although inaccurately, classed as a sexually transmitted disease. Spread by clothing, bedding, or towels is a less considerable risk, though attainable.

 

Direct touch - like holding hands - is the most common mean to transmit scabbies, but because the mites that cause scabbies can live as long as 2 to 3 days in clothing, bedding, or dust, it's possible for your child to catch scabbies from other individual who shares the same infected bed, linens, or towels.

 

Anyone can get scabbies - little infants, adults, kids like you. They don't care if you're clean, dirty, wealthy, or misfortunate. They live on or in skin of humans. You can catch them too!

 

taken from : Scabbies

Edited May 2, 2013 by Dankoo

[Kangadrool]

yes, FTs are also known as bed bugs....u din know ah

 

Thought cockroaches. Now, bed bugs also.

 

I ever spotted one bed bug in my company's conference room. Probably brought in my foreign visitor.

Edited May 2, 2013 by Kangadrool

[Kangadrool]

Look around, most of the pigeon holes are almost sealed up with glass windows even the balcony is not spare, many just don't understand the importance of direct sunlight, flowing fresh air and clean surroundings/environments.

Sealing the whole house for air conditioning without regularly introduce fresh air into the enclosure is just asking for troubles. besides bed bugs , you have forumers complaining of fungus growing in their children beds , cupboards etc

 

New flats, those built from late 90's onwards have little or no sunlight.

[1fast1]

Scabbies is transmitted readily, often throughout an entire family, by skin-to-skin touch with an infected person (e.g. bed mates, classmates, daycare), and thus is occasionally, although inaccurately, classed as a sexually transmitted disease. Spread by clothing, bedding, or towels is a less considerable risk, though attainable.

 

Direct touch - like holding hands - is the most common mean to transmit scabbies, but because the mites that cause scabbies can live as long as 2 to 3 days in clothing, bedding, or dust, it's possible for your child to catch scabbies from other individual who shares the same infected bed, linens, or towels.

 

Anyone can get scabbies - little infants, adults, kids like you. They don't care if you're clean, dirty, wealthy, or misfortunate. They live on or in skin of humans. You can catch them too!

 

taken from : Scabbies

 

It's spelt scabies.

[Kris9999]

actually tell if you know something even worst... new flats are too smalll so within 5 years usually pack with a lot of suay energy.

if you enter a lot of neighbour unit, unless that neighbour has some kind of cleansing... otherwise you feel a heavy presence... welcome to singapore... pigeon holes create stagnant suay luck...

 

at the very least... try cleansing... if can get white sage best... if cannot then at least the cheap on loh....

but white sage is alike a reset button.... clean the bad luck out... but very difficult to find.... found also some are fake...

 

authentic ones must be direct imported from US... either vpost or sacredsagesg.blogpost.com... usually they run out fast.

[Bystander50]

Not just bed bugs, other bugs as well!

 

When we had a month-old celebration for our first born, my relative was carrying our baby, and passes to her new maid to carry for a while.

That's when the nightmare starts...

 

Within a week, she had mild rashes on her body. After 2 rounds of GP (given steroid to apply on the skin), it got worse.

Panicked, we went to NUH to consult a specialist. This spec seems to have a double spec of both children and skin (just nice for us).

After checking, she didn't have the confidence to confirm my baby's condition, though she did mention to us what she suspected (and she was right).

Immediately she recommended and make appt for us to see her professor who is in private practice.

 

Just less than 5 mins talk, the professor scrapped a little skin off my baby, went under the microscope, and voila!

He showed us the bug... Scabbies mite! They like soft flesh...

 

Treatment was immediately administered to our whole family! Yes, everyone in the house.

All bedsheets and bed are to be washed and disinfected immediately!

The lotion that we have to apply to our baby, and ourselves, according to the professor, is an equivalent of insecticide!

We had to do this for about 2+ weeks, as the mite had a life span of about a week, and we need to make sure the 2nd generation (the eggs) don't get to survive as well...

 

A track through the events showed that it is due to the maid, who was also treated for scabbies, before coming over to Singapore.

Scabbies had been around with humans for a long while, but it is especially bad in 3rd world countries.

 

Knn, 1+ month old and had to go through this!

 

Not forgetting these bugs are transferred from clothings to the seats of public transport and gradually migrated to every home and office.

 

 

 

[Maseratigood]

Not forgetting these bugs are transferred from clothings to the seats of public transport and gradually migrated to every home and office.

Our efforts in the past few decades to keep spore clean and infection-free can be destroyed with such free entries of bugs when people just walk thru the immigration check points with bugs and whatnots in the luggage and clothing.... huat ahh!!

 

How clean are seats on our trains/buses?

[Karoon]

 

kidney bean leaves, fellas.

 

This Research in Action article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

 

Taking up the fight against bed bugs, research scientists have looked to old European folk practice