Just disocovere - my upstairs is infceted with bird mites!!!!!!!!!!!

[lisalisa]

OMG - I can't possibly sleep tonght. I have honestly never noticed anythig aprt from the pigeon nest near the roof. Ds2 woke up from his sleep today covered in a rash head to toe and itching . As he had no fever and seemed otherwise well something made me look at his sheet. I saw sevreal small black dot like things running very fast all over. Immediately assumed it was his mattress and bed bugs and threwe ou t his mattress ( sorry - missed a bit - I saw tons on him mattress).

Then inspectrfed bunk in his room ( occupied by older siblings ) and saw tons there too. Then started noticing htem bloody everywhere - on my body too!!Just don't ask how I never noticed them before. I really didn't. Probably because they are so small ( literally smaller than a pin head) and odn't generally move around in teh day only at night.

I can't sleep as they're in my bed too..

Dh made call to rentokill 10 mins ago ( yes - at gone midnight)during which I dutifully sobbed so the man down the phone could hera how distressed we were - got the prmise of a call tomorrow but wouldn't commit as to when they could at the earlierst ( anyone have experience ?) or likely cost.

Has anyone sever epxerienced this kind of infestation before an dknow what to do?

god that's awful! Don't know sorry.

Just in c ase anyone else ever has to deal wiht this horrible infestation , here is what we did:

1 rentokill came the next morning and destroyed the nes t. I must admit that, aside from the distress that this has cuaesdd us, I felt so terribly sorry for the pigeons. The chiks wer not small - they were fully formed and like mini adult birds ( and not realy that mini either) but htey were clearly not ready to abandon mum and dad yet either as the whole family decamepd to a nearby roof to watch the process and there they stay ed for the day.

2 next rentokill sprayed the whole room . Everything had to be sprayed - walls, mattresses carptets etc

3 the curtains had to come out in room most badly affected as 1000s of them at top part .

4 All other upstairs room s infested so had to be sprayed.

5 All duvets and pillows had to be washed - we have nearly completed the process but its half killing us!!! The double duvets dh is taking to dry cleaners today.

6 All dd's cltothes in most affected room have had to be washed.

The mites look like small moving black dots although they often don't move very much - thsu they are very hard to detect and unless you see a lot of them or notice something amiss you wouldn't really twig that something was going on.

Phew - glad its over!!!

But - this morning ds reported that pigeo family were back although minus nest - and - guess what - more mites this morning!!!! Will now have to put pifgeon deterrent there too.

lisa, what a horrible experience for your family1 But it reiterates my firmly held view that pigeons are vermin! Hope you never have to go through that again!

Oh what a nightmare! How horrible - and exhausting.

When we moved into our house a couple of years ago it took a month or so before we realised it was severely infested with fleas. It was only when I started walking around barefoot, and developed the same 'rash' around my ankles that the dcs had everywhere that the penny dropped. The worst-infested room was the dc's bedroom. And I was less than 3m pregnant as well.

We consulted a vet (and MN), bought some aerosol treatments from him, and fumigated the house several times while we went to stay the weekend with my parents. But we didn't manage to clear the infestation completely until we had ripped up all the carpets. Fleas crawl, not jump high, but just to be certain we replaced all curtains, too. We also had to keep moving everything and vacuum far more frequently and fussily then we would normally, and retreat a year later.

Yuck yuck yuck. Yours sounds even worse. You have my complete sympathies!

Thanks!!! The worst thing ( and of course I can only confess everything on here anyonymously although prettycandles does of course "know" me!!!) is that we ourselves were crawling wiht them!!! Would suddently feel a crawling sensation and see 5 or 6 of them crawling around my chest or arm. it was truly truly awaful. and it hasn't completely gone yet. Dh just called to say more live ones crawling on window still and I'm sure its cos pigeons are back - there is no nest though so how they will manage wihtout one is beyond me?

our builder is coming tomorrow to spray the affectged nest site with poison again.

Ds1 is such a star - aged 9 yrs and wit the room so badly infected he now confesses his books were crawling with horrible black dots for "weeks mummy" - he says that the pigeons are " a family of four mummy with no place to go now. Can't they just stay another few weeks until they're old enough to leave their mummy and daddy?" . After we had shooed them away a few times yesterday in teh early evening i caught ds watching plaintively out o fhte window as the abandoned family stood on a nearby rooftop watching us.

What a sweetie. But what choice have you?

Perhaps consult a vet, they may have more ideas.

I know this is an old thread but I'm wondering if the OP is still around and could tell us how this resolved.
We have a bird or rodent mite infection in our house and the pest control people we have spoken to are keen to just spray the entire house. I suppose I'm after reassurance that this works. We have no idea where the original infestation comes from.
There is a lot of conflicting information on the internet and we are trying to talk to people who have actual experience of this situation.

Another one hoping to hear a positive update. I spotted a few of them 2 days ago. Rentokil have arranged to come out to spray the house in 3 days. I've read so many horror stories on the Internet (I know I know) and I am sick with worry. DH is destroying the nest as we speak and I've been spraying my bathroom with bleach every few hours. A few have now appeared in the hall and one in my DS's bedroom. I have a newborn and I'm terrified it will infest our house. We only bought it 3 months ago

Don't panic. Have messaged you. The horror stories on the internet are mad and there is no reason that some flea/mite spray won't sort things out once the source is removed.
Do any of you have any bites? My youngest DD was covered :( and a month later all is well.

Hello,

I know this is an old post...How are you all? Unfortunately I think we have bird mites in my house. Birds were nesting in my bathroom fan vent (cover had come off from outside). That was removed, and then we begun to get these mites - they re biting me and my daughter. I’ve seen a few black ones in the en-suite (where the fan is) On the fan itself and some of the window. I sprayed Rentokil spray through the fan and the whole bathroom and now o haven’t seen any. I’ve heard they can be invisible though? I am terrified after reading all the horror stories. I’ve called Rentokil and they’re coming In the next few days. Will these ever go? Thank you

Oh my god I’ve been plagued by near invisible, tiny tiny tiny little beige mites for THREE YEARS. Me and my children come up in small red bumps and they’re INCREDIBLY itchy, when you have a look there’s a tiny bug. I don’t know if they bite, I squish them and there’s no blood. I’ve spent many sleepless nights googling everything! I’ve thrown away loads of clothes, bought enzyme cleaners, boiled everything, sealed windows (the council won’t despite some damp, dust that flares our asthma and this), I’ve bought a carpet cleaner, taken the curtains down, everything. It’s awful we’re smothered and I don’t know what to do, pest control won’t get back to us due to covid. I’m at the end of a terrace, my next door neighbour has an awful mice infestation and the next one has birds roosting in his loft! So I think the birds carry mites and the mice (which are in my loft not in my house, unlike theirs) and because there are lots of cracks in my windows and the air vents, the mites get in. We’re utterly miserable and I feel like a total failure as a mum. We all get fresh clothes and sprayed with natural big repellent and fresh bedding every day. Just now AGAIN me and my toddler have had to change clothes at midnight because they seem to be in the elastics/hems of clothing. I never ever see them on anything, only when I look at the itch, and they are RAPID when caught. There aren’t loads like you mention though, I find the odd bite (it’s not even like a bite, like an irritation bump? No head) and see one or two a day, but it adds up. Definitely not bed bugs, fleas, scabies or anything else I’ve found online.
Does this sound like your mites anyone? I’m supposed to be exchanging houses this year and I cant let someone else live like this. Mouse traps etc only work so long but my house isn’t the source, although all the lofts are joined.
Sorry it’s a long one I feel so relieved (though wish you didn’t have it too of course!)

Any of original posters checking this thread? I've discovered several mite looking bugs in my bed that I share with my 5 month old. Attached is a photo of the mite close up. They're reddish brown, move fast for their size. Definitely bite because some I've squashed with blood in them. I'd not seen them before but now seeing 7 or 8 in the bed. Are these bird mites? Any posters who successfully removed them able to share their experience?

I think the photo you posted is of a bed bug, sorry.
The mites we had were the size of a full stop and had to be viewed under a microscope.