Bedbugs vectors of any diseases
Despite their slowness and inability to overcome long distances, bedbugs pose a serious threat to humans. To assess the danger, you should know what diseases carry bugs. These small voracious insects can ruin the life of the inhabitants of a whole apartment building.
Species diversity, habitat
In nature, there are many species of bedbugs. Not all representatives of this order feed on the blood of animals, many parasites on plants. But all insects from this family have a unifying property - they are parasites that feed on liquid food, such as plant sap or the blood of other creatures. For a person, a particular danger is bed bugs, as it is the most frequent inhabitants of city apartments, hotels, sanatoriums and pioneer camps.
Important!
Bedbugs - carriers of diseases. They carry diseases of the blood and respiratory organs, cause allergies and cause great concern to young children.
Domestic bugs are sedentary, they do not have wings and are not able to fly to other areas for settlement. This sedentary lifestyle contributes to the fact that the parasites are very densely settled within the same house, rapidly multiply and parasitize its inhabitants.
The inability to run fast in representatives of this family is compensated by their small dimensions, inconspicuous lifestyle and flat bodies, which are almost impossible to flatten. Bed bugs invade the beds, sofas, armchairs and patiently wait for their prey to silently attack and take a bite. Parasites have an extremely strong sense of smell and touch, so they find a person in absolute darkness by smell and by the radiated heat.
Most often, bugs attack a person at night and bite when he is in a dream. It is during this period that the victim is most often immobile and unable to offer resistance. How bites the bug, causes emotion in entomologists. Before taking a bite, the parasite chooses a suitable place on the skin and makes a puncture. The buccal apparatus of all the bugs is piercing-sucking, so they are not adapted to feed in another way.
Danger to humans
Almost all bloodsucking insects are danger to humans, because in addition to direct parasitism, they also carry the infection. The bedbug mainly chooses a person as a victim, while the bite the parasite makes several punctures on the skin at a distance of 5-9 mm to find a blood vessel and get enough of it. As a result, tracks of 3-5 bites appear on the human body.
Bitten, especially children, begin to itch, thus aggravating the situation.After a few days, the entire body of the person becomes covered with red spots, which cause severe itching and anxiety. This is the main harm from bedbugs - they interfere with normal sleep and rest of a person, cause psychological discomfort and irritability.
Scientists can not come to a common opinion, whether the bugs bites are contagious and whether they can become infected and get sick. Many bugs are carriers of diseases, but due to a sedentary lifestyle they do not become the cause of epidemics, so most of these blood-sucking parasites, although they suffer diseases, but within a narrow habitat.
Here are the diseases that bugs suffer:
- hepatitis;
- brucellosis;
- typhoid fever;
- tularemia;
- Q-fever.
There is still no clear medical evidence that bugs are sick or that they cause diseases that cause widespread epidemics. But it is known for certain that the excreta secreted by bugs contain viruses of many deadly ailments. Therefore, the danger of infection with an incurable disease exists and its probability directly depends on the population density of bugs in a human dwelling.
Insect, making a bite, introduces anesthetic saliva into the body of the victim. For a long time, a person does not feel pain, so the parasite feeds quietly, making new and new punctures. On the body of the insect a lot of pathogenic bacteria that remain on the human skin after bites. Fortunately, not all microorganisms are able to live long outside the body and perish in the open air for a long time.
On a note!
When combing bedbugs bites the person himself enters the organism of pathogenic microorganisms left by insects and located on his skin. Therefore, it is not entirely correct to assume that bites directly infect humans with viruses.
It is also impossible to get infected by bugs with a disease such as immunodeficiency, they are not able to tolerate HIV, although the infected blood may be in the insect's digestive system, and they carry a potential threat inside for a long time. But some diseases transmitted by airborne droplets enter the human respiratory system from the excreta left by parasites.
There is also evidence of possible transmission of hepatitis from contact with the parasite excrement.No matter what they carry bed bugs, they are dangerous for another reason - the appearance bite allergies and itchy skin.
On a note!
If the insect population is greatly increased, then young children can show up a lot of blood loss from constant bites, which provoke anemia.
Therefore, when detecting the first signs of bedbugs in the apartment need to start immediately fight parasites.
Ways to deal with bedbugs
Bedbugs are slow, but very secretive. Females are very fertile and able to quickly increase the population size. The fact that the parasites are settled and try not to move away from the place of feeding, a person successfully uses to bed bugs destruction.
In ancient times, beds and sofas were treated with steam. The linen was carefully ironed and washed in very hot water. This was done to destroy clutches. eggs, since embryos and larvae are very sensitive to overheating and die at a temperature 50 degrees C.
Modern means of combating parasites are insecticides from the peritroid group:
- Executioner - destroys insects and their larvaeEffective against eggs;
- Geth - representative microencapsulated funds, destroys all bloodsucking parasites and their larvae;
- Malathion - a drug that has proven its effectiveness for decades, is used to combat bed bugs at all stages of their development;
- Raptor - a modern effective product against parasitic insects. Odorless. High-speed substances in the composition of the tool instantly block the activity of adult insects and young larvae, not allowing you to make a single bite.
There are other ways what and how to treat an apartment from bedbugs, but the greatest efficiency can be achieved with complex measures and preventive measures.
It is unlikely to be infected by bedbugs with a dangerous disease, bedbugs do not tolerate AIDS or the plague, as they are inactive and try not to leave the apartment. But the bites of bedbugs cause severe allergies and itching that interfere with a person’s normal life and rest, and sometimes bring him to severe irritability.