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- Title
Bedbugs: how to diagnose and manage cases of infestations.
- Authors
Shipman, Kate E; Weaving, Gary; Shipman, Alexa R
- Abstract
Bedbugs are on the rise in urban populations across the world, perhaps reflecting the ban on the use of organophosphates in many countries worldwide. They are flat obligate haematophagous insects, preferring humans, and as a consequence the bedbug bites lack toxins and can often go unnoticed for some time. Bites can, however, cause weals, purpura, petechiae, vesicles, pustules, papular urticaria, localized infection and rarely anaphylaxis. Infestations have to be confirmed by finding the bugs, usually around the bed of the person being bitten. Eradication usually requires a combination of physical (for example high temperature, mattresses protectors, traps, cold) and chemical methods (for example chrysanthemic acid derivatives plus potentiators such as geraniol and piperonyl butoxide or acetylcholine esterase inhibitors).
- Subjects
BEDBUGS; BLOODSUCKING insects; URTICARIA; CITY dwellers; TICK infestations; ACID derivatives; HIGH temperatures
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Dermatology, 2023, Vol 48, Issue 5, p453
- ISSN
0307-6938
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ced/llac140