Hi everyone, It's been a little while since I posted and was just looking for some support. Long story short, my husband was exposed to bedbugs in December (had large itchy welts on his trunk) while on a trip and I later found a single dead bed bug in my sons crib with 4 fecal stains on the mattress. Despite 2 PCO's not finding other evidence, we still proceeded with a heat treatment and residual chemical/dusting application. Since then we have all mattresses encased making bed searches easy, plus climb ups and passive monitors. Early on I had a few things that made me panic, like a headless ladybug but over all I have been progressively getting better and more relalxe with laundering, cleaning, inspecting. This week I found a bug bite on my abdomen in the evening, sending me into a tailspin of anxiety. VERY thorough inspections of our bedrooms show zero signs of bed bugs (bright white sheets and encasements, my husband has never had a reappearance of any bites despite sleeping in only his underwear (I however still sleep with pajamas tucked in to my pants and pants into my socks) and climb ups and passives are clear. I know that everything points to "it's just a bug bite", I know it's the summer and people get insect bites but the abdomen just freaks me out. I was just wondering from other people who have gone through this, what kind of things help you relax, reason things out and calm down a bit. I am pregnant and I think the hormones make all of this worse and was just looking for anyone else who may have some calming words on "life after the bugs." I was hoping the 60 day period would solve it but apparently it does not.
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