Can bed bugs give you eczema?

Answer 1

I think it really can. My eczema has been so bad for past about 6 weeks. I didn't know why, and then suddenly I have found out that we were sharing our bed with bed bugs. And since they started "eating me alive" my eczema is uncontrollable. I have become permanent patient in my surgery. I am going mad...

2. As above answerer so correctly says Many people do indeed get various itchy skin disorders including eczema from having bedbugs in their bed, and some people just do not realise that the culprits making their life such a misery are bedbugs. The victim suffers these effects because he or she is usually allergic to the coagulant and anaesthetic chemical the bedbug injects into them before starting its blood meal.

That chemical the bedbug has injected into you is also the reason why you do not feel anything while the creature is actually on your body feeding, when you will usually be fast asleep. The itching usually only starts after the anaesthetic effect the chemical injected into you creates has worn off. That happens after the bedbug has left you and is back in its daytime hiding place engorged with your blood digesting its meal. But they do leave clues because as well as your bed being the bedbugs banqueting hall your bed is also their lavatory! Because bedbugs will usually excrete on to your bed linen or on walls or furniture nearby. So if you see little red marks and stuff that looks like mascara on your sheet or duvet or mattress, that can be your advisory, you have a bedbug infestation. Their lavatory habits will also cause a distinctive musty unpleasant smell.

Unfortunately female bedbugs will also lay up to a dozen eggs in or near your bed after digestion of meals of your blood, so many more bedbugs will hatch in due time. So the bedbug infestation in or near your bed will just get worse and worse as the weeks pass, until you take steps to find the nesting areas and both kill all the live bedbugs and destroy all their unhatched bedbug eggs.