AIBU to burn the house down? What’s biting us?

[LightBe]

My boyfriend was travelling by train this summer and was bitten by something on his leg. (It might be relevant to know that a stranger’s dog was sitting on the floor, by my boyfriend’s feet, at the time).

His bite became infected and required multiple rounds of antibiotics.

Since then, we’ve been bitten a further seven times. The bites have always been on our calves apart from one on my lower belly. They leave awful scars.

All of the bites have required antibiotics.

The situation is starting to feel hopeless because we just don’t know what we’re fighting here and, as I have an autoimmune disease, it’s unhelpful to be taking all of these antibiotics.

I’ve attached some pictures of our bites (before the infection really takes hold and becomes gruesome). Can anyone please identify them?

If you live in Cambridge the city council have a fairly comprehensive list of stuff they will look into for free, and they definitely treat bed bugs. They are very very good. Even if it is on the list of chargeables they will come back as many times as they need for one fee. Number for pest control available online.

This is NOT bed bugs or fleas.

Both if those would leave multiple nites and much more often.

It is also highly unlikely that it is one insect, as it has been happening over several months, so unless you have multiple spiders who all 'happen' to get in your bed in the same place, it really isn't very likely.

It IS extrememly likely that it is MRSA, as it fits every single thing the poster said about MRSA.

I would print off that article about MRSA being mistaken for a spider bite, and print off a phots of your boyfriends bite and go bakc to GP and say - can you please swab for MRSA.

Because of the location of the bites I still wonder if the problem lies under the sofa chairs in another room and they are being bitten in the evenings.