AIBU to be going crazy trying to find what is biting us?

[slugjelly]

Please help me work out what is biting us. I had a few but now it’s relentlessly going for my DD. Victorian house (with cracks for spiders etc but renovation and no one living here for years before that), first winter we’ve lived in it. One cat who is up to date on flea treatments. No recent weird sleepovers or holidays. It only started this past week or so. Could it be spiders? I have been round the house doing everything I can but still it comes. (Tonight new spider traps and sealant everywhere though)

Chiggers (Harvest mites?)... 'tis the season

Yes harvest mites. Esp around the knees. I have loads at the moment.

Oh god chiggers! I forgot about this last year. My partner works on a country estate so that may be the culprit.

I remember us joking last year that Chiggers sounds like your friend’s horrible new man who went to Eton. Wears funny little boat shoes and has a big red face.

We've had loads of mozzie bites since the rain, hadn't had any before now we are all covered in bites and keep getting woken up by them buzzing around!

They look rather like a flea that’s got inside bedclothes/bedding. Do you have pets?

I have a cat who is flea treated every few months. I thought flea were smaller than that? Our house is surrounded by foxes too so maybe it was off one of them that came into the house.

we (the cat and i) got fleas and ticks from foxes in the garden. the cat hadn’t been flea treated so i started on non vet flea treatment (advantage). after a couple of months the problem was gettimg worse so off to the vet for prescription strength nextguard combo.

i hate to tell you but it didn't work. im still being bitten. i have no idea how, but i just keep hoovering everywhere and it does make a difference, but it’s still happening.

look in the bed and inside dd’s pj’s - even lift the mattress up and see if you can see anything suspicious, dead or alive. grains of things that look like white rice, or black dots.

i am reluctant to spray the special spray stuff everywhere as it cannot be good for us but will have to soon if it doesn’t stop.