Sign of bed bugs…?!

[RachyB86]

Slightly freaking out here, please tell me if I’m being ridiculous! We are staying in a lodge in the countryside, I woke up yesterday morning with this itchy patch on my upper thigh. Then tonight I went into the bedroom and noticed these marks on my bedsheet - we’ve been here 5 days now and I am 100% convinced these marks were not here earlier in the day or before as I spotted them as soon as I came in the room tonight. I have inspected everything in the room, including deep into the mattress edges, and can’t see any bugs at all.

YABU - not signs of bedbugs, calm down

YANBU - bedbugs!!!

Follow up question - what on earth do I do if this is bed bugs?! I have my own pillow here with me as I can’t sleep without it 😭😭

Do you have an iron there? Online ppl have heated the iron and put it onto the mattress, ironing the same spot for a minute or two. The bed bugs, if there, will come to the top due to the heat. Maybe Google it? Good luck.

I think probably not bed bugs. More likely some other biting insect, if there were bed bugs you would have more than one bite.
I have bed bug paranoia so I understand the stress !

Is that not just a midge bite and you've bled on the sheets after scratching it🤔
I seem to be getting a new one every day after I've been in the garden at the moment, they love me and seems to be a particularly bad year for it probably due to the hot weather weve had, latest is on my boob........how they manage to bite me through clothes I don't know!

Ooh I haven’t come across this in my frantic googling - will look into it now, thank you!!

Yes good point thank you for the rational thinking ❤️ I just can’t understand what these marks on the sheet could be from 😖

No the bite hasn’t bled, but that’s a great point as I had random bug bites from being on the field with the dog back at home before even coming here! It definitely seems a bad year for it 😖