What is this? Flee? Bed bug? What are these skin rashes called? (infection, doctor)

[uchicago]

Got this after staying at a Chicago hotel. What is this bug? Flee? Bed bug? What is the name of these skin rash conditions? I want to at least google the condition.

[Vlajos]

Looks like Noseeums. Harmless but annoying.

You were bit while in the hotel? They are usually outside

[jmgg]

You've got scabies buddy. Getting more common from staying in motels because you can't always depend on the housekeeping help to change the sheets after each stay. Even in fancy upscale hotels, if someone sleeps in that bed with these and the sheets aren't changed and laundered, you can get them.

You need to go see a doctor and they will prescribe a cream to spread over your ENTIRE body. 14 days later, you repeat the process and the little bastards will be gone.

[ChiGuy2.5]

As someone who had bed bugs, I consider myself an expert on them. Those are definitely not bed bug bites nor is that the bed bug insect in your picture.

I agree with the other poster, looks like scabies.

[uchicago]

Originally Posted by jmgg

You've got scabies buddy. Getting more common from staying in motels because you can't always depend on the housekeeping help to change the sheets after each stay. Even in fancy upscale hotels, if someone sleeps in that bed with these and the sheets aren't changed and laundered, you can get them.

You need to go see a doctor and they will prescribe a cream to spread over your ENTIRE body. 14 days later, you repeat the process and the little bastards will be gone.

Thanks! You mean it's a human-to-human infection or is it just because the person with scabies usually have the insects on their skin?

[MarianRavenwood]

I'm no expert but I think those are chigger bites not scabies. Scabies are transferred by skin-to-skin contact, and chiggers are picked up from tall grass and water sources. So neither have anything to do with the hotel room. They can't live in sheets or bed frames or inside suitcases. Also neither are visible to the naked eye, so whatever that bug is, it's probably not related to the bites.

If you've never had scabies before, it takes 2-6 weeks before the rash appears (if you have past exposure, the rash develops within a few days). Chiggers take about an hour for the initial welt to appear and itching begins around 12-24 hours. They tend to bite along hem lines and the edges of shoes.

And since scabies burrow and live under your skin until treated, you will continue to get more welts. Chiggers don't live on your skin, they just feed and move on. Once you moved out of their environment they found another food source. So unless the number of welts are continuing to increase, it's not scabies. Chigger welts wouldn't continue to increase, unless the source is actually at your home.

[jmgg]

Originally Posted by MarianRavenwood

I'm no expert but I think those are chigger bites not scabies. Scabies are transferred by skin-to-skin contact, and chiggers are picked up from tall grass and water sources. So neither have anything to do with the hotel room. They can't live in sheets or bed frames or inside suitcases. Also neither are visible to the naked eye, so whatever that bug is, it's probably not related to the bites.

If you've never had scabies before, it takes 2-6 weeks before the rash appears (if you have past exposure, the rash develops within a few days). Chiggers take about an hour for the initial welt to appear and itching begins around 12-24 hours. They tend to bite along hem lines and the edges of shoes.

And since scabies burrow and live under your skin until treated, you will continue to get more welts. Chiggers don't live on your skin, they just feed and move on. Once you moved out of their environment they found another food source. So unless the number of welts are continuing to increase, it's not scabies. Chigger welts wouldn't continue to increase, unless the source is actually at your home.

It's scabies. I hate to say it, but I'm an "expert". Involuntarily so and not that long ago. The ONLY possibility was at the hotel.

A lot of what you stated about scabies is true in that you won't generally notice it right away. Scabies from a hotel bed is common to get around the bottom of your body. You don't need skin to skin contact. Mine started on my feet just like the OP's and progressed up my legs. Everything I had looked EXACTLY like those pictures. I was nowhere near laying in grass to get chiggers. One thing about chiggers, those nasty little creatures usually love to exist, like you said, around hem lines and specifically around your waist and areas where your clothes fit tighter. My wife and a daughter got them from sitting in grass at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City once. They were itching and being driven crazy within hours.

OP, you need to go see a doctor. If it's scabies like I suspect, not only do you need to get a prescription for Triamcinolone Acetonide Cream, but you'll also have to wash all your bedding and any clothes that you were in contact with.

[mlulu23]

Here is some more awful, but important info on scabies. They are mites.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabies

[jmgg]

Originally Posted by jmgg

It's scabies. I hate to say it, but I'm an "expert". Involuntarily so and not that long ago. The ONLY possibility was at the hotel.

A lot of what you stated about scabies is true in that you won't generally notice it right away. Scabies from a hotel bed is common to get around the bottom of your body. You don't need skin to skin contact. Mine started on my feet just like the OP's and progressed up my legs. Everything I had looked EXACTLY like those pictures. I was nowhere near laying in grass to get chiggers. One thing about chiggers, those nasty little creatures usually love to exist, like you said, around hem lines and specifically around your waist and areas where your clothes fit tighter. My wife and a daughter got them from sitting in grass at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City once. They were itching and being driven crazy within hours.

OP, you need to go see a doctor. If it's scabies like I suspect, not only do you need to get a prescription for Triamcinolone Acetonide Cream, but you'll also have to wash all your bedding and any clothes that you were in contact with.

Made a mistake on the type of cream used to fight Scabies. It's actually called Permethrin Cream.

[Gerania]

I've had scabies and the rash didn't look anything like your bites. It looked like this:

https://nltimes.nl/2018/06/06/scabie...dutch-students