Bed bugs which diseases

Despite its slowness and inability to travel long distances, bedbugs pose a serious threat to humans. To assess the danger, you should know what diseases the bugs carry. These small gluttonous insects can spoil the life of the inhabitants of the whole apartment building.

Species diversity, habitat

In nature, there are many types of bugs. Not all representatives of this detachment feed on animal blood; many parasitize on plants. But all insects from this family have a unifying property - they are parasites that feed on liquid foods, such as plant sap or the blood of other creatures. Of particular danger to humans bed bugs, since these are the most frequent inhabitants of city apartments, hotels, resorts and pioneer camps.

Important!

Bed bugs are carriers of diseases. They carry diseases of the blood and respiratory organs, cause allergies and cause great concern to young children.

Domestic bugs lead a sedentary lifestyle, they do not have wings and are not able to fly to other areas for settlement. This sedentary lifestyle contributes to the fact that parasites are very densely settled within the same house, rapidly breed and parasitize on its inhabitants.

The inability to run fast among representatives of this family is compensated by their small dimensions, an inconspicuous way of life and flat bodies that are almost impossible to flatten. Bed bugs infiltrate the beds, sofas, armchairs and patiently wait for their victim to silently attack and commit a bite. Parasites have an extremely strong sense of smell and touch, so they find a person in absolute darkness by smell and radiated heat.

Most often, bedbugs attack a person at night and bite when he is in a dream. It was during this period that the victim was most often motionless and unable to resist. How to bite a bugcauses emotion among entomologists. Before making a bite, the parasite selects a suitable place on the skin and makes a puncture. The mouth apparatus of all bugs is piercing-sucking, so they are not adapted to eat in any other way.

Danger to humans

Almost all blood-sucking insects represent danger to humans, since in addition to direct parasitism, they also transmit the infection. Bedbug mainly selects a person as a victim, during bites the parasite makes several punctures on the skin at a distance of 5-9 mm to find a blood vessel and get enough. As a result, tracks of 3-5 bites appear on the human body.

Bitten, especially children, begin to itch strongly, thereby exacerbating the situation. After a few days, the entire body of the person becomes covered with red spots, which cause severe itching and anxiety. This is the main harm from bedbugs - they interfere with a person’s normal sleep and rest, cause psychological discomfort and irritability.

Scientists cannot agree on whether bug bites are contagious and whether it is possible to become infected and get sick.Many bedbugs are carriers of diseases, but because of a sedentary lifestyle they do not cause epidemics, so most of these blood-sucking parasites, although they carry diseases, but within a narrow habitat.

Here are the diseases that bedbugs carry:

• hepatitis;
• brucellosis;
• typhoid fever;
• tularemia;
• Q fever.

Until now, there is no clear medical evidence that bugs carry diseases or that they are causative agents of diseases that cause mass epidemics. But it is known for certain that the excrement secreted by bedbugs contains viruses of many deadly ailments. Therefore, the danger of contracting an incurable disease exists and its likelihood directly depends on the population density of bedbugs in a human home.

The insect, making a bite, introduces anesthetic saliva into the body of the victim. For a long time, a person does not feel pain, so the parasite eats quietly, making new and new punctures. On the body of the insect there are many pathogenic bacteria that remain on the skin of a person after bites. Fortunately, not all microorganisms are able to live long outside the body and die for a long time in the open air.

On a note!

When combing bedbugs the person himself brings into the body pathogens left by insects and located on his skin. Therefore, it is not entirely correct to assume that bites directly infect a person with viruses.

It is also impossible to get infected from bedbugs with a disease such as immunodeficiency, they are not capable of transmitting HIV, although infected blood can be found in the digestive system of the insect, and they have a potential threat inside for a long time. But some diseases transmitted by airborne droplets enter the human respiratory system from excrement left by parasites.

There is also evidence of possible transmission of hepatitis from contact with parasite excrement. It doesn't matter what bed bugs carry, they are dangerous for another reason - the appearance allergies to bites and itchy skin.

On a note!

If the population of insects increases significantly, then in young children, severe blood loss from constant bites can be detected, provoking anemia.

Therefore, when the first signs of bed bugs in the apartment need to start immediately fight parasites.

Ways to deal with bedbugs

Bed bugs are slow, but very secretive. Females are very prolific and can rapidly increase population. The fact that parasites are sedentary and try not to move away from the feeding place, a person successfully uses for killing bugs.

In ancient times, beds and sofas were steamed. The laundry was carefully ironed and washed in very hot water. This was done to destroy the masonry eggs, as embryos and larvae are very sensitive to overheating and die at temperature 50 degrees C.

Modern means of combating parasites are insecticides from the group of peritroids:

• Executioner - destroys insects and their larvaeeffective against eggs;
• Get - representative microencapsulated funds, destroys all blood-sucking parasites and their larvae;
  

  

• Karbofos - a drug that has proven its effectiveness over decades, is used to combat bugs at all stages of their development;
• Raptor - A modern effective product against parasitic insects. It is odorless. High-speed substances in the composition of the product instantly block the activity of adult insects and young larvae, not allowing to commit a single bite.

There are other ways how and how to process an apartment from bedbugs, but the greatest effectiveness can be achieved with comprehensive measures and preventive measures.

It is unlikely to become infected with bedbugs from a dangerous disease, bedbugs do not tolerate AIDS or plague, as they are inactive and try not to leave the apartment.But bedbug bites cause severe allergies and itching, which interfere with a person’s normal life and relaxation, and sometimes lead him to severe irritability.