So, tell me about how to get rid of bed-bug bites, bed bugs, and all you know about them.
Travel is, of course, the main way that people end up with bed bug problems. You get one in an airplane or your luggage gets one from someone else's luggage, you bring one to a hotel room, it multiplies and infests some subsequent travelers who use the same room, etc.. Also, I hear that gymnasiums are one type of place where people accidentally accumulate bed-bugs. I have looked up a lot of stuff about them on the internet, and from that information, it seems to me that strip-clubs would also be a place where it's reasonable to guess that you could catch bed bugs.
Not that you actually "catch" them, it's not like a cold or a flu virus. You just become "host" to them, for their little travel trip from where you met to where you drop them off. They then establish their own little new home where they can eat human blood off of you or off of some other unwitting visitor later.
I recently got some pretty bad bed-bug bites at one hotel, and I'm pretty miffed. I hate the bites, they itch like fuck, they are embarrassing red welts all over my shoulders and neck and arms, looks like I got caught without my orange hat during duck season and was peppered with bird-shot from chin down to navel. I put cortisone or anti-histamine cream on the individual bites (Cortaid, other brands) and that makes the itch go away for a while, but not really, I have to be careful not to scratch like hell in the middle of the night while I'm sleeping. Good news is, I haven't gotten any more bites. Bad news is, they haven't really subsided at all, it's been more than a week now.
Anybody got any cures or other suggestions? I want to go strip-clubbing tonight but I don't think I can stand being itchy, and I don't want to show the girls just how unhygienic and disgusting my skin looks. If I were to wear a long-sleeved turtle-neck maybe they wouldn't be able to see most of the sores, but it's too hot for that in fucking Florida in fucking July. And, how the fuck much should that goddamned hotel pay me off to not report them to the fucking health authorities?
A pal of mine who is afraid of planes but smokes like a stripper took Amtrak coast to coast with me. They spent every possible second outside the train allowed smoking at all the smoke stops. I dont smoke. After 2 days, they had so many welts from mosquitos my pal got paranoid that our middle range name brand hotel had bed bugs. Top to bottom welts like hit with bb shotgun. I slept in the bed next to them same and had zero welts and thought it was BS paranoia and they were off their psych meds again. My pal takes 6 doc pills a day. Actually does need them. My friend tried to sterilize and de-bed-bug their roller bag at the laundromat. On the return trip my bed bugs I made them put on DEET and long sleeve pants and shirt no matter how hot it is outside during a smoke stop. Zero welts. I was right. Mosquitos.
I always have a mini maglite in my rollar bag. If it is a motel in my home town, I use phone flashlight. First thing I do in a room is, everytime I lift the mattress off the box spring or frame and look for trash and bed bugs. I have to see the orig fabric of the mattress and its corner stitching. The edge stitching fabric seam is where bedbugs hide supposedly. Worst I've ever found is hair, candy wrappers, and a dying poisoned roach.
Get a script for fluocinonide cream. Works great against poison ivy so strippers dont think I got leprosy.
Since ya say ya in Florida, you really sure thats bed bugs or just being eaten alive by mosquitos in the swamp land? As for the hotel, find the corner of bed frame/bed matress with bed bugs. Photograph it and trip advisor it. The bed bugs leave poop and it looks like black mold dust supposedly in the seem where they live on your bed. Get some clear plastic tape and try to catch some for management to confront them. I doubt the hotel will comp you anything. If they got bedbugs, they probably aren't a chain hotel but indy hourly place that doesnt care. If it is a chain hotel you might get some gift certs and thats it.