Whenever my g/f sleeps over she wakes with welts, welts I tells 'ya. They aren’t bedbugs or spiders because I don’t have this problem and we’ve never seen any. Also, my baby daughter doesn’t show any signs of bites. She doesn’t have this problem at home, she thinks.
Are they mutant dust mites? Allergy to me? WTF?
Allergy to your laundry detergent or fabric softener, perhaps?
Odds are that Broomstick is right and she’s allergic to something you use in the laundry. Either that or you’re clawing her in your sleep.
Seriously, wash your sheets a couple of times in a seriously non-allergenic detergent, no fabric softener, no dryer sheets. Arm&Hammer used to make a product that was free of all dyes and perfumes.
And if you’re not sure what’s a good nonallergenic detergent, just use whatever she uses.
We’re currently battling a mite infestation. Do you have any small pets in the house like hamsters or birds? They can harbor them.
Proud (or sad) to say, she does my laundry, so it isn’t that. I have a snake, but she’s free of pests. I was thinking an allergy to dust mites, but wouldn’t they be in her bed too? Along with all other furniture?
She does your laundry with HER detergent/dryer sheets, or she does it with your detergent/dryer sheets?
Detergent/fabric softener was the first thing that came to my mind.
My ex battled welts like that for years without realizing that his habit of buying super-scented detergents and fabric softeners was the cause. He switched (after I prodded him to do so) and bam, decent skin.
All makes a “free” detergent – it works well. Arm and Hammer’s Free version is good too. Skip fabric softener, it’s a scam anyways, and Bounce makes a scent-free dryer sheet.
It could be bedbugs. You might just not be allergic to the bites. When we had bedbugs, my wife never had a single welt. A doctor can easily tell whether it is insect bites or allergic rash. However, if it is bites, they cannot tell what is biting.
Girl cooties. They can turn on their hosts without warning.
Could it be fleas? Those suckers can be hard to spot. When we brought Dumbshit the Cat home from the pound it was several weeks before I made the connection between the little welts on my ankles and the cat’s incessant scratching. Maybe they could sense that I was about to see them, so they were jumping out of the way.
Fleas can do that, yanno. See right into your soul.
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LOL! That’s great…Dumbshit the Cat. But it’s the cat peering into your soul. The fleas are just Dumbshit’s evil minions sent to cause you untold anguish. Kill the fleas and free yourself of Dumbshit’s dominion. At least until Dumbshit realizes he/she can dominate you some other way, like licking your eyelids at 4 a.m…
When I was in college, I had a cat that brought fleas into the house. I was aware of them, but they never bit my roommate, so he didn’t even know we had them. Then he got a girlfriend who stayed over, and they ate her alive. He couldn’t figure out what was going on.
We had a bedbug scare recently; I kept waking up with mysterious bites (never any for my husband though, guess I’m just tastier). turned out to be fleas from a couple of raccoons who had moved in under the house. We evicted them, scattered a little kennel dust in the baseboards, and all is well.
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She uses the same detergent on all the clothes, so it itsn’t that. The welts are anywhere in size from a dime to a quarter. Think of a mosquito or hornet sting. I’ve never seen a bedbug, and believe me I’ve looked. A guy upstairs had bedbugs last fall, but the whole building was professionally done at the time and we were given the all clear.
The only other thing I can think of is spider bites.
Oh, and it isn’t fleas, no pets other than my snake are allowed.
Does she get the welts under her clothes? If she normally sleeps nekkid, do an experiment. Have her put on a pair of pajama pants and a short sleeve shirt when she goes to bed. If she gets welts on her chest or thighs, it’s probably bugs (which can crawl under the clothing. If only on the exposed skin, it’s something with your sheets or mattress.
It could be bedbugs. I ran into the little bloodsuckers on a long weekend in the Virgin Islands. They did not bother my husband at all but feasted on me. I didn’t know what was happening until after we came home though, and by that time the welts were the size of quarters. I did some research and learned that the incidence of bedbugs is on the rise.
Have you gotten up in the middle of the night, after the lights were off for a couple of hours and when your gf is there (as she appears to be the main attraction) and shown a flashlight on your sheets or turned on a bright light? I’ve heard that’s the way you find them because they can hide in tiny little nooks and crannies during the daytime. I’ve also heard that if you look at the sheets in the morning and see tiny little dots of blood, that’s also an indication of bedbugs.
Good luck.
I had them for months before actually finding one.
We had them exterminated. Then the b-bugs spread to the apartment upstairs. Then they had them exterminated. Then the b-bugs came back down to ours.
But, you know, they are probably fleas. “To the guy with a hammer, …”
Hotels use UV light in a darkened room to spot bedbugs, but the tiny bloodspots on the sheets are a good indicator.
If you have fleas, check out this no-poison flea trap.
ETA: The furry snake food you buy may be bringing in little bitey passengers.