AIBU to think you should be able to travel in and around our capital city without getting flea bites!

[MimiGC]

My daughter and I spent two days at the end of the last week travelling in, around and across London - on a total of 8 trains. We also went to Greenwich Theatre. Over the weekend, we both have found numerous flea bites on our legs. ( I assume they are flea bites, as they are in clusters and itch like crazy.)
I have traveled in and around London all my life and been to many theatres and never experienced this before. Has anyone else ever experienced this?

But your accommodation can look clean but little flea bastards can still be in your carpet.
Ask me how I know: just got back from the vets🤯

We both wore trousers, not skirts.

I don’t think it’s anyone’s particular responsibility. I grew up in London and have visited regularly throughout my life. Something happened on this occasion that hasn’t happened to me before. Hence I’m curious (and a bit cross).

There are others living here who don’t have bites. Only the two of us who just spent a lot of time on trains and in the theatre.

Yeah, being bitten is annoying! Not sure what else there is to say though 🤷‍♀️

Put tea tree oil on them. It will stop the itching!
No idea if London is full of fleas. I live.in the North and its usually too cold and wet here for them to take residence.My garden is full of slugs though.

Londoner born and bred. Lived in London for nearly 40 years and this has never happened to me.

I can believe it, I got a couple of flea bites on my arm when I was a kid, got them on the public service bus. Never had any since nor before, so not all that common as I've travelled a lot on trains and buses all my life.

I suppose technically you just need the timing to be "right" with someone carrying fleas sitting where you were just before you. It's how fleas manage to move to and from from host animals really, isn't it? You were just unlucky. Next time it's unlikely to happen hopefully...

Scabies! There’s a massive increase at the moment.

I agree you shouldn’t be getting bitten by fleas in the circumstances you describe.

Have you tried an antihistamine to help with the itching?

And the bedbugs a few years back! Yuck, yuck, yuck!

More likely from a cafe or anywhere you visited that permits dogs indoors, I would think.

I regularly travel on train and underground in London and have never experienced this.

I think you may been unlucky, I've lived in London for 40+ years and commute, I haven't experienced bites except if in the usual places (gardens/woods/near water)

Use over and underground to commute and have done for years … never had this 🤷🏻‍♀️
Never had issues at theatres either … very strange.

Could be “fibre bites”

I used to get them in the 90’s at work and some pubs.

dry air plus static from shoes plus synthetic carpet means tiny sharp fibres puncture the skin and cause “bites”.

Theatres carpets probably top candidate.

Yes, and not sure why? There were no dogs, before anyone suggests that. And weirdly enough, when I travel in less urban areas, where there's more dogs, I never get bitten.

Thats certainly worth checking.

I thought scabies was spread by close skin to skin contact.