Cockroach bites on a man

Whether cockroaches bite depends on their living conditions. Initially, experts claimed that insects do not attack people, do not bite, because they are not interested in human blood. At the end of the last century, obvious facts of cockroach bites on the skin appeared, the opinion has changed. Most often, a child and an adult suffer from severe intoxication.

Reasons for attacking people

Ordinary cockroaches eat food waste, slop, the remnants of human food. In the absence of these products, they switch to inedible items: toilet paper, adhesive from postage stamps, wallpaper, leather bindings, books. If this food disappears, cannibalism begins. Adults eat the larvae, the eggsweak relatives. If the situation does not stabilize, stasics or the Prussians stop moving.

Interesting!

Without food, insects live 1 month, without water - only 9 days.

When too many cockroaches are bred in the room, fights for food begin. Pests develop new areas in search of food, crawl into the bedroom. Red cockroaches crawl around people, look for places where the skin is thin, bite. Pests require a small amount of blood and a piece of skin to saturate. The meal is short-lived, but with a large number of pests, bites become numerous, a person can pretty much suffer.

Features and capabilities of the oral apparatus

The insect has small, but well-developed jaws. Quietly grinds coarse food, even copes with wood. Oral apparatus gnawing type with upper, lower lips, jaws, lobes, chins, lower lip.

On a note!

Home cockroaches they can freely bite through human skin, leaving a visible wound after that.

Insects gnaw at a part of the epidermis, get to the blood, eat for several minutes, quickly creep away. A spot with baked blood, a crust remains in place. The whole process of a cockroach bite looks scary, but the traces remain small. Insects have powerful, but too small jaws to do significant harm. The cockroach has a small face with long lips.

Place and time of bites

Red cockroaches are activated at dusk, during the day they hide in crevices, places where sunlight does not fall. At night, a real cockroach begins. Insects are able to climb on a person during sleep.

Pests crawl over the human body, but most of all they are interested in the face, where there are mucous secretions on the lips, eyes, and nose. It is liquid that attracts special attention. Insects bite lips, eyelashes, nostrils, less often fingers, other parts of the body. Often, pest attacks affect children.

What does a bite look like?

Insects bite people during sleep, so the attack goes unnoticed. A single bite does not cause pain, but discomfort is present. If cockroaches bite en masse, in addition to wounds, there is swelling, pain. After a night meal, lips, eyelids, and nose can swell.

Single cockroach bites on a person look like a small wound. The insect gnaws a piece of skin, blood appears, which is subsequently baked, covered with a crust. A photo of a cockroach bite is presented below.

The danger of the attack of the Prussians

One random bite is not dangerous to humans. If the attacks are regular, numerous, lips, eyes, ears, nose, face, genitals can suffer. Insects climb on the person, then look for a favorable place for a meal.

An infection can get into open wounds, inflammation, swelling, suppuration begins. Often, the body reacts to cockroach saliva with an allergy. A rash, itching, burning, redness, and swelling appear on the body. With numerous bites, body temperature rises, overall health worsens.

What to do after a bite

First aid after the attack of the Prussians is to treat the wound and insect killing. A cockroach can bite a person, but this rarely happens. If the attacks occur repeatedly, this confirms the lack of proper reaction from the owner of the apartment.

First aid consists in treating a wound with an antiseptic. Use medical alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, chlorhexidine, brilliant green, iodine, alcohol tincture of valerian, motherwort, hawthorn, calendula. The condition is normal, traces quickly pass.

By itself, the bite does not itch, does not hurt. If this symptomatology appears, this indicates the development of an allergic reaction. Wounds need to be treated with antihistamines, anti-allergic ointments. Common medicines:

• Fenistil Gel;
• Psilo-Balm;
• Advantan.

The presence of ulcers, extensive inflammation indicates the attachment of a secondary infection. Treatment is with local antibiotics. Applicable:

• Tetracycline ointment;
• Levomekol;
• Vishnevsky ointment.

In this case, it is recommended to see a doctor. The course of therapy should be prescribed by a specialist.

Cockroaches in most cases do not bite a person. But if you do nothing, allow the mass resettlement of the Prussians throughout the apartment, the attacks cannot be avoided.