Anyone up? Think these look like bedbug bites???

[feelingitchy2022]

Agggh talk me down someone please! Name changed for obvious reasons!
Got these bites on my leg, sorry for rubbish pic but best I could manage on my Ipad. Just been googling and getting myself into a massive panic. Apparently the bites go in a zig zag pattern.
I don't travel but DH does, he's currently asleep in the spare room (he snores!)
Help...

Pic would help! Sorry brain not working

I hate to say yes, but yes, they do a bit. Can you go in with a torch and have a look around the crack and crevices of the bed and mattress?

Yes 😟

Shit. I'm not going to sleep a wink tonight. Can't see any evidence but the bites are a giveaway aren't they.
Trying to work out if I should go into work tomorrow or pull a sicky and get someone out.

Anyone dealt with this recently??

Have you been outside today, maybe wearing shorts? I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that they’re from bedbugs. Other insects are available, especially as we approach summer! This is from the NHS website. I don’t think they look the same.

Just as a late-night handhold, we had a scabies infestation a while back - in many ways worse.

If you spend too long on online research you will be driven mad and think that you are in some impossible nightmare. But that's because the vast majority of people who get it sorted fairly easily don't post at all, never mind setting up blogs and posting detailed accounts online. What you end up reading about are a very tiny minority of people who struggle for various reasons, and they become disproportionately important in your mind.

So don't spend all night reading the entire internet. It is frankly a pain in the arse, which you could well do without, but it will get sorted.

Thank you, I've been out in the garden and we do have a lot of midges, but they're on my thigh and I always wear trousers...
They look a lot like mosquito bites to me but apparently they don't bite in clusters. Thanks so much for your reply, my anxiety is through the roof

Thank you @LauraNicolaides that's the kind of rational level headed reply I need right now! Thanks so much

My advice is to go and take a shower, put on clean pyjamas, and sleep on the sofa or in the spare room tonight. Have another look in the morning. It's gross but it's not the end of the world.

Oh no. They do look like bed bug bites to me. It cost me hundreds of pounds on a professional exterminator coming out twice to get rid of them eight years ago. I lost a lot of clothes and bedding that couldn't cope with the necessary high temperatures. I so hope it isn't!

By the time we realised they'd spread to two rooms and clothes in a chest of drawers and wardrobe.

I have never ever put any soft luggage, a hand bag or shoes directly on the hotel floor again and always check the mattress before I sleep etc.

They usually come out at night in the warm. I'd be checking the bedding now!

Yes, they do look like bed bugs. The line of bites is the giveaway.
Your DH must have picked them up in a hotel and brought them home.
Does he have any bites?
Check the mattress and DH's suitcase.

Bedbug bites are very, very itchy the next day and for a few days after that.

You'll have to get an exterminator out. Bed bugs can be hard to get rid of.

They normally come out at night while you're asleep and they are attracted to body heat.
I have also seen them come out in the day, if anyone is lying on the infected bed.

It could also be a flea. Do you have animals? I sometimes get bitten in several similar places by the same flea. Anwyay, hope it isn't bed bugs. You'll need to search your bed and bed clothes. a council pest control man came out to me fairly quickly once but what I had found was a small tick.