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Is bedbugs contagess

Updated: 10/9/2023
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14y ago

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I think you mean "contagious" and you need to understand a bedbugs are insects that lives in or near where humans sleep. They come out at night to feed, by sipping the blood of a person who is asleep. It is not the kind of "bug" hospital staff refer to as being an infection, like "asuperbug" which is not an insect. But if any bed in your home becomes infested with bedbugs, perhaps as a result of bedbugs breeding in increasing numbers in or near that bed, some bedbugs may soon detect the breath of somebody else asleep at a greater distance elsewhere in the home and so move to that other bed in same home, set up their base there and feed off the occupant of that bed. So in time in any home after one bed gets bedbugs they are likely in time to infest all beds in the same home, and may even spread to beds in a nearby home.

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13y ago

Unlike other insects which feed on human blood (such as mosquitoes or fleas), bedbugs are not known to transmit any infectious disease when they bite the person. But their bites can cause itching, and in addition some people who are allergic to the coagulant and anesthetic the bedbug injects into them before commencing its meal can get itchy rashes breaking out all over their skin after one or more bedbugs have had meals off them in their bed during the night. Also if somebody's bed is heavily infested resulting in large numbers of bedbugs consuming that person's blood during a night, some people contract anemia as a result of the loss of haemoglobin taken out of them by the bedbugs when extracting large amounts of their blood. This can have the effect of making the victim suffer breathing difficulties during the day when exerting themself due reduced oxygen reaching their brain and heart muscles as well as feelings of dizziness and fatigue.

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12y ago

Yes! Very!!

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