Harvest Mites

Every year we suffer harvest mite bites July to first frost. Anthisan cream is the only help. Any ideas anyone for humans and dogs??

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  • I don't know if they were harvest mites, but a few years ago I suffered for several months in the summer with really annoying, awful itchy bites that seemed to happen in bed at night. GP said it wasn't scabies and prescribed antihistamines and the council came and checked for mites/bugs, they put sticky traps down but found nothing. I vaccuumed my room all over and the mattress too, washed all the bedding but I kept being bitten. Nobody else in my family had them. In the end I got some bedcovers from this company:

    http://www.astexonline.com/

    They weren't cheap but the bites stopped almost immediately, if that was due to whatever was biting me going away on it's own or the covers I can't say. But the bites stopped and I never had them again.
    Marsh Samphire
  • Just noticed they do different types now, the ones I got are the "Active" range with permethrin in them.
    Marsh Samphire
  • Edinburghlass_2
    Edinburghlass_2 Posts: 32,680 Forumite
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    Maybe they are later up here but we generally only get them from August, cover any light coloured washing on the line and the window sills are full of the tiny blighters :)
  • djohn2002uk
    djohn2002uk Posts: 2,323 Forumite
    They are after all very small. Takes a long time to fly up to Scotland. :rotfl:
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