Lint Bugs
We had a gentleman call for a service quote, and said he had tiny white bugs biting him. He said they were jumping all over his house and he had bites all over his ankles and legs. We sent a technician out to assess the situation and bring back a sample of the bugs in question. The technician went to the man’s home, and looked everywhere for the bugs the man had called about. The technician spoke with the man for a long time about where he was when he would get bitten the most. He said everywhere, not in just a specific area. He said they were jumping all over the carpets. He pointed down to the carpet, and helped the technician put them in a Ziploc baggie, so he could show the manager and find out what they were. The technician looked in the baggie, and noticed… lint. He told the gentleman that those were not bugs, but in fact, just lint. The man disagreed, and said that’s what has been biting him. The technician looked more closely in the carpets to try to find something resembling an actual bug, but could find nothing. The man was positive that the lint was not lint, but bugs. The technician thanked the man for his help in collecting the specimen, and let himself out.
Jamie
St. George
Please I have something like this also it’s everywhere and everyone thinks im crazy what the hell is this please respond
Plus these things are first like a hair or say dust and then into dust or fuzz ball it’s everywhere
Sharyn,
Unfortunately we have no answer for you on this. If you feel that you have lint bugs then you may want to collect some samples and mail them to a local University for research. Unfortunately we are unable to identify a pest that we can not see. Certain small pests, like fleas, lice, and even springtails may seem invisible and can hide very well, but they can still be seen with the naked eye. There are indoor products that you could use to spay your lint, but its not recommend that you do so until you have identified the pest.
@Sharyn
Oh my goodness!! finally someone describes what I have in my house. at first you see what looks like floating fibers, that sting i mite add, and small white lint bugs. they are worse on cotton. the more cotton in the fabric, the more you see. i am throwing away tons of clothes because they are ruining them, shirts and towels mostly, but anything that has cotton. the fibers sting and the white lint bites. i have found many of the balls of lint have black specks on them. i have found one article called the invisible bug, it gives a very accurate account for describing the lint. I took samples to the “bug people” for the county, after him not finding anything, he pretty much shut me out. I could tell he wasn’t listening and then he suggested i see a doctor, it was probably allergies. i am frustrated to the hilt. every piece of clothing or towel I use has to be rolled with a lint roller then shaved with a cloth shaver…i’m hitting dead ends, and this effects my daily life so much…if i find anything out i will certainly let you know…this really sucks, especially when people quit listening to you and more so DO NOT BELIEVE YOU…
@donette hoecherl
Thanks for adding to our discussion here. Please post the article on the invisible bugs to which you are referring. Thanks.
I have been experiencing the same thing for about four years now. some people called them no-see-em bugs while others thought i was crazy. i work in a recycling company and thought it was something i was bringing home. some other things ive noticed…….my house is dusty no matter how often i dust-a layer comes across my furniture.
my clothes, hair towels when shook are dusty.
i get bumps that sometimes itch looks like a bite, or a pimple
i do have a dog
i garden and cut my grass
no smoking is allowed in my home and i dont smoke
i have a magneted filter and clean it often (heat/air)
@donette hoecherl I am going through this as well Shryn, and believe you 100%. Anybody I tell this to thinks I’m crazy. The lint like bugs are in my home, my car and my workplace, they like to get on my face, eyes, ears, nose and mouth. This is HELL. They may be associated with bird mites. In my car, I tried to wipe them with a paper towel that had a window cleaning solution (blue liquid spray bottle) and they started jumping around and out of the way. They can either fly or float where ever they want. This is really driving me crazy.
LINT DOES BITE!!! it does! of course it hid when the dude came to his house, its hard to get samples of them because they are nearly invisable, you can grab them in the air, when they land they bland in with surrounding.you feel it when your being eaten, but you dont see anything, just a blood spot start to bleed.( they dont alway make you bleed)now later, you get a spot, that will turn into what looks like a mole,then red sores.
when you get in my dads truck, it looks like a snow globe got shook up. i cant sit in it, i get eaten bad. in my car, i keep the window up inside the garage even. if i spray bug spray in my car, no more ‘lint’.i cant spray it in my dad truck though because hes 83 ( yes, he still drives) i moved back here a year ago because hes getting up in years, and for the first time ever i broke out and am STILL broke out! i dont do drugs, its not STD, ive had two biopsys that say bug bites.these damn things are real, i think i caught one, ill try to take a picture of it. but they are very real, and they will make you crazy!!!!
I’m not positive this is the same thing, because I haven’t seen the type of infestation the rest of you are describing, but I have seen the biting “lint bugs.” They are real!
It started last year, sitting on the stoop in front of my apartment in Tampa, FL. Occasionally I would feel a sting/pinch and look down, but all I could see near the site would be a little ball of lint, fluff, or what I assumed was some sort of Spanish-moss debris that had fallen on me from the trees above. I would brush it off and wonder what stung me.
Then after this happened several times over the course of several weeks, I started to make the connection and began wondering if I was allergic to this tree debris. The next time I felt the sting, instead of brushing it off, I inspected the little fuzz ball — and was completely surprised to see it start walking about! Underneath the fuzzy Spanish-moss-looking tuft was a tiny insect! I told some people about it, but no one knew what I was talking about.
I had forgotten about them until today when, while sitting on my back deck, I felt a pinch and looked down to see another tiny fluff ball on my arm. I flicked it on the table and it started walking around. I decided to do some internet research and here I am. No one seems to know what these are!
The first reports seem to be appearing in the last year or so, which makes me wonder if this isn’t a new outbreak of some sort of fungal parasite that’s attacking some otherwise ordinary mite. Any entomologists here care to weigh in?
My wife and i have been suffering now for 5 months and now my wife is free and I am almost free of them too. We have gone to extreme efforts to get free. We moved out of our apartment and threw everything away, Lived in hotels and sublets for 4 months moving as often as possible, sometimes daily. Now for a brief answer we found to this problem. Mites or parasites we don’t know nor do our doctors. Our solution was eliminate everything in your environment, wash clothes after every time you wear them put in plastic bag, soak in borax and soap, dry in dryer and bake in oven at 300 degrees, this includes bed sheets daily. Avoid all carpet or other fabric furniture, and cotton clothing. Wash hard surfaces and floor several times a day with vinegar and or bleach and water mixture. And here is the most important part. Spend hours a day cleaning yourself. I took ivermectin 7 times, twice by prescription and 5 times horse medicine from Amazon for $10 since my doctor refused to believe me and prescribe more. I use the horse ivermecting topically on lesions or what appear to be bites. Also very helpful was getting some surgical soap, the kind that doctors use to wash up before surgery. I got Chlorhexidine Glusconate soulution 4.0 % and wow with days of washing with it twice a day (more than doctor recomended) my skin began to clear up rapidly. We had spent thousands on all kinds of oils, and other supposed miracle cures we found on the net and none of them worked!! This soap cleans the skin really well.
The other strange solution we found was this. Use hand sanitizer jell on rub is in a circular motion on the bottoms of your feet and ankles and these white and black graduals (eggs or larva) come out of our skin by the hundreds! This sounds crazy but it is true. When I felt the crawling sensation on my leg or arm using this method often yielded these white eggs and sensation stopped. The trick is to clean these critters out of your skin enough that you reduce the numbers since they seem to start in the feet and then migrate all over the body. We have spend 4- 5 hours a day doing this and we now my wife is free and I am within weeks of being clean too. These eggs or larva of these insects or whatever kind of parasites need to be reduced in numbers to get free and the only way to do it is by taking the time yourself. Take all the miracle cures you like but unless you draw them out of the skin it will not help.
We used mineral spirits, cedar oil, Epsom salts, salt water, tee tree oil, enzyme, bleach, vinegar, MMS, orange oil, permithrim cream repeatedly, pesticides and more and went broke financially and mentally. If you have a crawling, biting, pricking, sensation that does not itch much and leaves what look like pimples or strange cut marks or lesions I would try what we have done. Also, use horse ivermectin as a cream directly on bad lesions and it will help. I have read many horror stories and few if any solutions or anyone who has gotten free of this. I am happy to say whatever it is and I am not convinced it is mites but is some kind of bizarre parasite, made or other our efforts have been successful.
Important!….live with supper clean protocol, avoid physical contact with others, wash daily, use alcohol on everything you touch, never wear anything twice and always put clothes in plastic bags, avoid sugar, take lots of vitamins and fresh live food, clean feet and legs with antiseptic hand sanitizer jell 3, 4 ,5 times a day and get these things to come out of your skin, it is the only way!!!!! Don’t give up and don’t be lazy or put others at risk please. This as you know is a nightmare and needs the kind of attention and effort that most doctors will not give you. I hope our experience helps you and saves you some money on all the crazy products that so nothing except empty your pocket book. Every time you feel an itch or crawling sensation put some sanitizer on it rub in circular motion until white or black granules come out. Good Luck!!
i started noticeing lint balls all over my house and i started to look closer and saw a little black speck inside these lint balls.
so, i showed my husband and he said i was crazy, so the one night i was watching t v in bed, i noticed that they were moveing, ever so slightly.
so, i went downstairs to show my husband and again, he said there was nothing there, then my daughter came downstairs and i showed her and still the samething, theres nothing there. (they wanted to have me comitted, to the hospital)
and again, the next night, i saw them again, so i was grabbing little lint balls and putting them inside the ashtray, nat paying attention, i put my cigarette in the ashtray and when i looked over, i saw these straight black bugs coming out, so i tried showing everyone again.
my husnand started to yell and he said the next time i try talking or looking at these things, he was gonna have me locked up. (the best i here)
upon seeing these little black staight bugs comeing out, i noticed when
touching them, they would turn white, then back to black.
(during the day, they won’t move, only at night)
i showed my son and he beleives me now, but nobody else will.
Could you tell me what state you reside in? Your description matches ours exactly.
Hello,
I work with adult with disability and realized that I have encounterd the same situation. I have the Itching arround the Legs, Ankles and the wrist as well, when I used Vinagar / Rid and the 1 time body usage from the doctor it starting to ease up. Well , I checked my clothes as well and dried them 2wice as normal they will go away. I bath more than ever, and use bleach as well in my water, I am starting to see them less. i have a friend from one of the pest control company gave me some lice spray , and I spray all clothes and bedding and anything and any were I am , I have no been seeing them lately, but when i get that itching feeling any where, I will use some rid, and I will see them come off my skin. I am currently waiting on a skin result, the Dr, did a skin draft because i want to know whats going on here and how to totally kill this crap. I have had all my carpet removed from my home and all clothes . There need to be an ending to this. I have been on top of this and i will beat it. But the main key is to keep some spray werwe ever you go , not everyone cares as we all do. You can come incounter with this problem without knowing it. i feel my encounter was while working and he has no feeling in his lower part of his body, and now i told my employer I cant not go back into that site until he is tested for all parasites.
1 luv understanding
i had this problem i went to a feed store got injectable ivermectin mixed with a gallon of vinegar,mule team borax,blue dawn,baking soda,peroxide,and rock salt .this became my staple for baths i also added my regular soap,cleaning bleach where possible,with my laundry i would allow my laundry to soak and boil water when possible.i have been dealing with this for three months but started these products about 2 weeks ago it has been the most sleep i have had .i pray this help some one
They are very real,they look like lint because they use lint as some type of cacoon,the inner bug is very small,they can fly,looking like a nat,only flying so fast you only get a glimpse,they dont wear their lint,when they fly,the scarey part about them,they can enter your body through your skin porse,and exit,you feel a itchy crawling sensation,yet you cant see them,as the exit you body,they leave a red line with a small scrach at the end,I actually watched one try to work its way out,when I started to pick on it,it went back in,I have watched them come out of mattress fabric as a small dark dot,and end up laying like a lifeless peice of lint you would bet your life on that was just lint if you didn’t see it,I have found ways to combat them,science hasn’t notice them yet,they are beleived to be transported here from south america’s cotton market,a mutant product created by the industry to help the cotton crops against other pest,there little vampire, ghost,body snatchers,that live on your blood,you cant see them when they strike
@Bo Buggs
i have the same problem i now have them all over my house on my furniture my mattress on my floors i noticed if u squezz them betwenn ur finger nails u can feel them an see them in the middle of the white lint its a lil black dot an they also have what i call ther tail which is actualy a sring of lint they also if u get two or more together they will magnatize together an i do belive they are contagious meaning they can be transported to freinds an family homes this is scarey an redicules an nobody seems to no what were talkin about or do they im startin to think they could be keepin secret like they offten do so we dont have every body floodin hospitals an going crazy neway i hope we solve this mystery real soon befor i go crazy god bless
I started getting bit/stung? in August. just had some birds nests removed so exterminater told me i had birdmites. Im finding most in clothing seems and blankets and they look like lint balls but when i put one on my finger to look at with magnifying glass, it seemed to pop up and little hairs started spreading out and went into my skin and there was the bite/stinging feeling. The real scary part is another one of the legs/hairs hooked on to my shirt sleeve and started pulling fibers from my shirt and then disappeared in my skin. And yes the go in the pores and when i feel real itchy/buggy, i swear i see little tiny white things floating away from skin like a piece of cotton with a seed. Have not a clue what it is, been using dawn and borax in wash and dawn and water in a spray bottle..This is awful. I also get red marks and pimple type things and at times it looks like liquid comes up around the areas. How can no one know about this??
I have just finished my treatment for Scabies. I had 2 months of mysterious bites that lasted 2 weeks beforre going away. I never found any dead bugs and the 3 visits from the exterminator showed no bugs either. If you are suffering from these invisible bites don’t rule out Scabies. The most popular treatment is Permethrin 5% cream (prescription only). Wash everything you have worn over the last 4 days including the bed covers and clean your car( I used a fogger spray). Here is what i did to rid myself of Scabies. Picked up a bottle of lice shampoo and a exfoliation pad. Shampoo myself head to toe then after 10 min I took a shower and scrubbed myself. Then I dried off and applied the Permethrin cream head to toe. The first night I had the cream on I could not sleep the scabies were running away from the treated areas. When 11:00pm came around the scabbies began moving and they move pretty fast on top of the skin. If you survive the night take another shower and exfoliate. Good Luck as I never thought I could be so bad!
@donette hoecherl
i was on the invisible bug site also i cant believe this has become a catastropy doesnt anyone on the planet have a clue how to rid these mites they are about one tenth of an inch i wrote 5 news stations and no body wants to help ..what kind of people are you anyway
since I wrote on this site back in october 2010,I have done hours of research,and my advice to everyone is to go to radio shack,they have a mini microscope that is hand held,about 4 inchs x 2inches it zooms from 60x to 100x has a focus adjustment,a built in lite that takes 2 aaa batteries,don’t know the brand has c e ingraved real small on it,its only about 12 bucks,the reason I suggest this over the larger more powerfull microscopes is simple,you can walk up to a small black speck on your sheets,pillow,floor,wall where ever simply place it over the subject adjust the focus or zoom and bame,you have just entered a new world you never knew exsisted,I have collected 100′s of samples by tearing a 2 inch strip of scotch tape sticking it on the subject,then sticking it on the back of a business card,with a written description of what it is,everything from large peices of gray fuzzy lint to small black specs have the same type of fibers,the dominate ones are red with a smooth bell shape head,they seam to be the brains of the lint.seams they wrap thereself in all types of fiber and take on different shapes you would never know without a microscope,what I have learned is there is a world out there that knows a lot about these so called bugs,this site is for us beginners,google these words and dig deep in your search engines and hold on to your hats,this stuff is scary and it is dismissed by big brother the same way they dismiss UFO’s, google (morgellons) (nano technolegy) (chem trails) it’s as wild as it sounds,you will learn more everytime you dig,I know this sounds crazy,40 years ago if someone told you there would be cell phones,black berries,internet you would say yea right, remember that when you learn about nano tubes,thats why doctors dismiss it,even scientist are not familar with them,and everytime the media gets a hold of a story,they are put to rest by the powers to be so ask yourself why see photos of morgellon’s then get a microscope
yes they come in all shapes.. Colored wise all black or white here then the added fibers..but doesnt matter. What matters is preventing them from going in the skin or finding a way to get them out.. They are making a home in our bodies….
It is truely like a horror movie to see what is invading us. I really wish i didnt look so close. I just cant get rid of them.. Scabies is always the thing they treat you for because they dont know.. Peroxide gets some out, but not the deep ones. Just wish this was done and over with. I wonder what someone is waiting for to help or are they(govern.) afraid to say they screwed something up? The things ive seen i also found on a morgellens site.
Hi I’m back. A part of me wants to ignore and pretend this isn’t happenning. But after reading the other similar stories about these “Lint Bugs” I can’t ignore it. Please if anyone can help or refer me to someone, I am going through this alone. I know this sounds strange, but is there a support group, where you can meet and talk to people who are going through similar situations. After finding this blog and reading the stories, I feel like there has to be alot more people going through the same thing. Could anyone please leave a comment.
@me again
I have had exactly the same problem described here now for nine months. I can tell you a couple of things that definitely help. Last December I travelled back to my home for Christmas. I am an Australian living in London UK, the flight from London to Melbourne, Australia is one of the longest flights you can take – 22 hours in duration. About 6 or so hours into the flight the bugs were gone, dead, finito. Completely. I spent 2 weeks in Australia – not once did I have any problems. Upon my return to my home in the UK, the problem slowly started coming back again. It seems that the cabin pressure in a plane over a significant duration stops them dead in their tracks. And their eggs. So if I think I need to move home to finally rid myself of this scourge, I will take a long holiday (that includes a long plane flight) in between. Also I noticed that antibacterial sprays and washes seem to kill them instantly – I’ve seen them drop out of the air, tiny though they are when using these. I am now starting to understand that they are an internal parasite, whereas for quite a long time I thought there were a skin parasite – so my next effort to rid myself of them will include internal parasite medicines. I’ll post back any results. Good luck to all!
I think this might be related to Morgellons disease. I went through hell with this stuff. There are many theories about the fibers.
I would recommend joining this newsgroup. It’s about birdmites, but they have now covered everything related to Morgellons, the fibers, the lint bugs, etc.
http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=birdmites&submit=Search
And here’s a CNN report on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNb2XhqW-7c
I had this stuff to a point where it ruled my life. I fought with these things daily, lived my life cleaning them away while they would continue reproducing to come back and replace the ones I killed. It was a nightmare just trying to sleep. I used special vinyl bed protectors, and they would dig and dig till they made holes in them to get to me. Gosh, I cannot even begin to describe the nightmare.
About a year later and having moved away I still have some residual discomfort, but nothing like before. The CDC is researching this, google “unexplained dermopathy” for info on the matter.
By the way, some great options for controlling this lint monsters are borax and epsom salts. Wash your clothes with borax and Arm & Hammer powdered detergent. This can help control them, but erradicating them completely is still a mystery and we don’t know yet if it’s possible. Been battling this for over a year and after ridding myself of 90% of my belongings (especially cotton and wooden furniture) I still have a residual infestation. It doesn’t seem to be contagious thank God, but if you got it, I cannot ensure you will get rid of it.
I took some pictures with a digital scope i just bought, Still to wierd to me but its whats biting. I dont think i can post , but i can send if someone wants.
@Jex
yes have been doing the borax and dawn works also. cdc isnt doing anything… they have no money to. Contagious wise im still looking towards the fact it prob is contagious. can take a few yrs from research ive done to come down with more symptoms. Morgellons…The out of control cotton/ mite bug genetically enginered im sure.
I would really appreciate it if you would send me a picture. I think this is what’s infesting my house.
I can definitely relate to what everybody has been saying. I was first affected in 2001 when I moved into a room formerly inhabited by a roomate of my brother. The carpeting was old and dirty and when I walked on it barefoot, I felt a sharp stinging and biting all over my feet. Little did I know that it was too late and they had already infested my body. They resemble little black and white specks with filamentous fibers that look like lint. Some of it even resembles grains of salt or sand. Then the itching began. I noticed that the itching was worse when I was under halogen lighting that is in most modern buildings. They particularly fed off my scalp and the bottoms of my feet. Ive used everything from Neem, cedar, and tea tree oil to Kwell and scabies medications. Ive been to numerous doctors who told me I was delusional to those who gave me ineffective treatments. I am at my wits end as how to deal with this illness. Stress, and wet humid weather also seems to make it worsen. I heard it was morgellons disease and I did own research on it as well. It does seem to be the worst on both the East and West coasts and Florida. It is probably from some foreign country or bio-engineered in some lab and got out. No one is talking. The CDC has only recently added it in 2007. Ive had it since 2001-2002. Its been nine years of pure hell.
i also have had biting, stinging, and sometimes burning. pimple like bump that itch like crazy, my house was treated over and over for bugs, they never found anything, i continue to find cotton ball everywhere all over my clothes carpet and car, also floating lint everywhere, at first i thought mites dust mites maybe, but after months of itching i went to the doctors and he prescribe rid to treat for scabies, after applying the lotion the same night i could feel these bugs crawling all over my body..THSES ARE SCABIES POSTIVE TRY THIS AND LEARN AS MUCH AS YOU CAN ABOUT SCABIES
T@Jana t
This is so gross, we r infested w these lint bugs, my kids r attacked nightly, now I am too. They hurt and sting, how do u get rid of them?
IM GOING THROUGH THE HELL EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT!!!IT STARTED ABOUT THREE MONTH AGO AND IT IS PURE HELL. MY DOCTOR THINKS IM NUTS AND NO ONE HAS A ANSWER FOR THIS!!I FEEL THEM MOVING ON MY SKIN AND FLYING AROUND EVERYWERE!THEY GET INTO YOUR WALLET,CLOTHE,CAR ETC!!!IF ANYONE HAS HELP OR KNOWS WERE TO GET IT PLEASE POST!!!
LLa tengo seis meses de tener este problema llo me quejo mis hijos dicen no es nada hadecer alguna medicina le da alerjia pero no es cierto pus toda mi ropa esta llena de estos bichos y me pican la ropa de cama cuando la cambio sale como polvo y tienen puntitos negros parecen estar muertos pero cuando los quito seme pegan en la piel semeten devabajo de las unas me da miedo porque tengo ninos y hay veces se rascan lo pero es que asta en la ropa interior estan llo e comprado ropa interior cuatro veces solo la uso dos o tres veces y la tiro pues es terrible las picaduras llo limpio mi cuarto con blechs con pinesol amonia vinagre blanco la verdad es que lla me tienen alvorde dela locura mis hijos no me cren pues ellos solo miran la bolita de hilo me dicen solo a udted la pican las cosas estan lla en toda la casa le digo ami esposo que fumige tampoco hace caso el mueble donde esta mi ropa el dia que lo limpie con cloro saque un monton de aserrin se los comente y me dijeron eso es de cuando se sacan las gabetas por fabor diganme que puedo hacer lla vino una persona pest control y le encene loque habia colectado y me dijo llo no miro nada es alerjia lo tu tienes.
@tammy
@Elizabeth
Here’s a tip that has helped me: Leave your car sitting out in the hot sunlight as many days a week as you can instead of parking it in shade or in your garage – I don’t have a garage but when I stopped covering my car with a car cover and letting it really heat up in direct sun it has eliminated bites I was getting in my car. I do put a sunshade inside the windshield to protect the dash from drying out over time but in my opinion the hot florida sun is heating my car so hot each day now in the summer that it is helping to keep my car free from this invisible plague for now.
I have had the same things that everyone here is describeing I went to the doc they gave me scabies medication as they did most of you but now it has been almost two weeks and it is back to itch time it gets really bad when I am in the heat. I have also seen the cotten like fibers on me and have inspected them and if I hold one and hold my finger over it move my finger close to it the fiber will move curl down it is alive one hundred percent. Someone knows what is going on but none is talking that is for sure. This started happening after I got home from a short stay in the pokie country club jailhouse and I am thinking maybe I contracted it from the cotten stuffed matts they give you to sleep on although I did not itch there I did a week after I got home we also got a new puppy from New Jersey I am in Florida the duplex I live in moved in 5 months ago bedrooms have old carpet the landlord said he shampooed them but when I vacumed them the first time my entier vacume was filled with dirt from one room so I am not sure exactly where I contracted it from but I am scared my child will get it I hope it is not contagouse my husband dose not seem to have it either and he works outside all day in reclaimed water. At first I was sure he gave it to me but he is not going through anything I am or he just thinks itching all the time is normal. Someone owes us atleast a answer to all of our questions is it Morgellons? I Pray to GOD that it is not and if it is I pray I do not pass it to anyone.
@Sharyn
damn… finally these things have been annoying the hell out of me and literally eating me its soo annoying and everyone thinks im just crazy…
@Sharyn
About 2 weeks ago I was in a older couples home, they were telling me they haven’t vacuum in a year because they are not able. So I was being nice and I vacuum the whole house and mattress. The next day when I got dark me and a friend start getting bit by something we couldn’t see we were driving in the car and little white bugs start flying off of me. I went to 2 doctors and they treating me like I was crazy. I was scared to go home because I was scared it was to spread. Finally I called a pest control and the man took me serious. I got my house sprayed and my cars. Washed everything and dried 2x and vacuum everything really well. I was still getting bit I start looking at my skin and I have little white bumps on my legs. I start pulling them out and they were eggs. Its awful! I got the bug tested and its a lint bug. Its a mite, a super mite! They said to boil all clothes and Pyretherin 1% its a soap every 3 days til its gone completely. I use rubbing alcohol and kerosene NOT together to open my pores so I can pull them. I also use STOP BUGGING ME! I got it from CVS. It says it kills and prevent bed bugs and mites on contact and It does. I spray inside my clothes before I put them on. I spray my sheets, pillows and blankets before going in to bed. I spray it in my hair. I will spray myself down and less then a min later I have a brown spots on me. Its the lint bug dead. They go from white to brown. I woke up yesterday and when I was sleeping they laid eggs on the roof of my mouth. Doctor gave a antibiotic. I can feel them moving in my legs. I feel like I’m going crazy at times. I haven’t been back to work yet. I was scared I was going to spread the the bugs because they fly. But since yesterday when I start using stop bugging me spray I feel like I’m getting a little more control. Nothing is flying off of me. I just need to get all the eggs out so I can get rid of them completely. I didn’t itch. When I get bit it feels like a little shock. I can’t wait till they are gone for good. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy
I am so glad I found this website. I’ve been getting bit for two months now. I called a pest control co. last week and they told me to catch as many as I can and they will analyze the bug so they can identify the bug that is driving me crazy. I sprayed the bed with something I bought off the internet because I thought I had lice. I waited about an hour and found about four or five dead. I used a lint picker upper and met the pest control guy at one of his stops the next day. He called me and told me what I thought was a bug, was just lint. I tried to convince him that he was wrong so he emailed me the pictures that he magnified, and sure enough , lint. I don’t know why, but I decided to go on the internet and see if there is a bug that looks like lint. I was so happy to find out that I’m not going crazy. The bugs that I have are red and they bite me all over , including my head. I bought nix, applied it to my head, and took a shower per the instructions. After I was done rinsing my head, I look down in the tub and there were little red bugs all over the place. I jumped out of the tub and couldn’t believe what I was looking at. I looked down on the floor and there were little red bugs all over the floor. I ran out of the bathroom still wet and closed the door. I didn’t go in that bathroom until the next day. I had never seened lice before , so I was surprised to see that they looked like little fuss balls. I continued to get bit, so that’s when I decided to call a pest control company. I am going to call the pest control company tomorrow and give them this website, and I am praying that they can come up with a solution. I’ve been taking baths with epsom salt and baking soda and seems to help the itching. I spray my bed often and continue to use the lint picker upper. It’s ironic that I used a link picker upper to show the pest control guy, and the bugs end up looking like lint.
@jenerationy Where are you? Got your shirt at the #SMXbing
@kimberly dawslin I have the same problem have spent 4000.00 dollars for about 12 different men to tell me I am crazy nothing wrong with the houe. My husband said I am scaring him with all this bug stuff. I am not crazy, have bites on arms and legs.
ALysa
@Helpman
My boyfriend is experiencing these lint bugs and yes i did think he was crazy until i saw them for myself. Any idea where there things come from? What state do u live in? We are in delaware. Any suggestions other than what you already wrote?
thank you, Dorian
I have them too…white….look like lint….fuzzy…fly and crawl! Been living in South Carolina for 5 years and this is the first I have ever seen them! I’ve been asking EVERYONE what the heck they are! Seem to be mainly in my back yard and on back deck. I have dogs that stay indoors but I usually keep a water dish outside as well for when they are out playing…afraid to do that anymore…not knowing if these things carry disease or are poisonous!!! Most people think I’m nuts…my husband sees them…hard to miss they are EVERYWHERE…but he is not concerned. My next step is to call the city or health department to see if they will test!
I have good and bad news. The good news is I finally found a way to kill these things. For the first time in months I have found relief. EPSOM SALT. There’s two things you have to do. You have to fill any container with water and epsom salt and shake well. I have a 16 oz. bottle and I put 1/4 epsom salt and the rest water. You have to fill the bath tub and put a good handful of epsom salt in the bath. After taking a bath in epsom salt (covering your whole body) pour the mixture of water and epsom salt you have in your bottle over your head and rub in good. The next step is very important. DON’T towel off. You can use a hair dryer or if possible, let your body try itself. If you do this before going to bed, you will not get bitten while your sleeping. It’s an extra bonus if you can do this during the day also. The problem I have is, they hide in my clothes, but they won’t bite if you have epsom salt on your body. For the first time, I can sit in my house and not feel these bugs crawling on me and biting me. Now, the bad news. I’m still trying to find a way of getting them out of my house.
@tucker
Wow….my husband and I began our adventure with these little ba$tard$ at the end Of May 2011…we are still battling them and It's nearing the end of August. I won't waste time explaining what i've seen or encountered because it's basically most of what you have already posted on this site. The only reason i'm writing is because i have come to an ephiphany of sort with these little shits. I have literally been avoiding my car unless i had to go someplace because they fly up my nose and into my eyes and they drive me nuts worse in my car primarily due to the fact that in SE Louisiana it's at least 98 degrees and the ac is usually blowing directly at my face and i think they get caught up in it. Anyway, on one of my many numerous scouts to Home Depot to purchase more chemicals to spray, i got a hanging bar that repels and kills moths and carpet beetles to put in my husbands closet. Thinking back, i don't even know why i got it…..but as i was cleaning out his closet, i noticed tons of white lint balls on everything in his closet. I lint rolled a lot of it, but i got tired after a while and just gave up. My mom came over a few days ago, and asked what i was talking about on the clothing..i went to show her my husbands closet as an example and do you know they are all but gone. I would say maybe they are moths but we have been bitten, and we have them all over the house and i don't see any moths. This evening after i realized his closet looked better after a week, i went to home depot again and got 6 more to hang around and i put one in my car on the way home. Can i tell you it's the most comfortable ride i've had in months. I don't know if it kills them, stuns them, or makes them move on to the next poor victim, but frankly i don't really care. I feel i've more than served my penance with them, not that i wish this on anyone else, but i just want my life to be normal again. My poor 1 yr old seems to be affected the worst and it just breaks my heart. The name of this stuff i purchased is O' Cedars moth bar..it's a little white hanging thingy with two white crystalized air freshener like things that are unwrapped. Be forewarned that it smells like your grandmothers house but i could care less…i would wear it as deoderant at this point if i thought i could. Read the label because i know its toxic..but honestly tonight has been a much better night than i remember having for quite some time. I even noticed some of them coming out of my skin..i think they hate it! Which is wonderful!! Oh…has anyone else had a pet affected?? My poor Lab is miserable, and it look like the same thing is on her. The vet has no clue. I did find some larval samples (the black specks) clustered together on my back patio chair. I went to pick up the chair and it appeared to be dirt on my hand..then they began moving. I brought them to the vet, who recommended we send them to the LSU Parisitology dept…still waiting to hear back. When we looked at it under the vets scope it look almost like a grub worm with suction cups as feet with hooks on the end. She said it's definitely the larval stage of something..just not sure what. She said to her it appeared to be a fly species because of the large bulging eyes that appeared under the scope. mind you that this was no larger than a speck of dirt or sand….freaking weird! One thing is for sure…i have prayed more in the past few months than i have in quite some time. I almost feel as though this is something that's bigger than all of us, and it's lead me to reflect on revelations in the bible. It's very scary to think that this could be some sort of plague…
@Bo Buggs
Hello Bo Buggs and all,
Thank you for the info especially the part about them staying on the body and leave your skin with a red mark . I have been suffering the same problem for years. I have been trying to observe them but still couldn’t understand how they survive and what they are fed on. I can see the lints fly upward when the light is on. Do they move to the ceiling to hide or that is the sign that they die ?
I have tried so many chemicals and numerous other methods. Most of the times, it seems to work at the beginning and they just come back no matter what I do. I found that vacuuming and cleaning the house frequently helps. I suggest getting a strong vacuum cleaner for carpet and furnitures. I also use the made-in-China insect catcher racket. I can detect the bugs with this racket.
Good luck
Glad to know I’m not crazy.I noticed this about a year ago. Don’t know what to do ,so you just have to live with it.I trust the Lord to take care of me and my family.I have saw this outside also,it is not just inside our homes.It is everywhere. There is no excaping it.I believe it is an end time pestilence.Jesus is coming back soon.Please get ready to meet him.
I have these parasites in my house and on my body. We have searched and searched the web for a name, a cure anything… but we found nothing but posts.
Then I look all over for a picture of these things… I found one: http://lymephotos.com/
The author of the site talks about Lyme disease which we do not have but the Juvenile Nematomorphs look exactly like what we have all over us. I’ve even found the red ones on me. We are trying a few things:
1) a treatment of mebendazole, permethrim cream
2) hot washing hands all the time
3) hot dry clothes…extreme heat…seems to dry them out and they crinkle and become stiff.
4) two showers each day (morning and evening) using neem soap.
5) salt scrub and salt bath.
6) daily checks under a black light (head, arms, legs)
7) Vitamin C
So far one of these is working and I’m not as itchy or feel like they are creepin down my face. The funny thing is my wife and four kids do not have any symptoms. The only difference is they take a daily vitamin and I did not…. but now I’m trying the daily C vitamin.
Here is an experiment to try. Catch one of them and stick it on your window screen on a window that gets lots of sun. Come back later in the day where you stuck it and you’ll see a very long stretch of web running out in a straight line. If you place several together they all seem to stretch out like a web. Give it a try – I’d like to know if others find the same result. It almost appears like they are stretching out to find a source of food. I have several growing on my back window
I’m hoping to see they simply dry up and blow away. I got this idea because I pulled apart two shirts that were hanging in my closet and saw this tiny web twinkling in the light…. I thought “you little buggers are thirsty…how would you like to got outside and play…? LOL So I pulled the little white strings off my shirts, stuck them on the window screen and a few hours later…same web like behavior.
I’m sure we’ve had these things for sometime just never noticed until I got some eggs on me, they hatched and now I’m infested. I was at a cabin this past weekend and I pulled back the couch to plug in the lamp. When I stuck my head down to pick up the cord it felt like cob webs on me. I tried to pull it off but I found nothing. The rest of the day and since I’ve been itching like crazy and felt things creeping down my face. I went to my Dr. with a few samples. Pulled them out of the tube (kids science kit) and we watch them wiggle. He had no idea and is treating me for pinworms. Although I’m not convinced they are part of the pinworm family (e.g. Threadworms).
We’ve tried the following with some success:
1) bleach and water spray on the matresses, bathroom, kitchen and white clothes.
2) vacuum twice daily and empty contents into a bag OUTSIDE the house.
3) permethrin spray (basically off) on all clothes in the closet.
If anyone can find the official name of these little guys or an instant kill ping everyone…. I know I will.
@kimberly dawslin
did you ever get rid of them?
I have bug bites all over my body which are small red marks. I can’t see the bug when it bites me. But the bite leaves a small red mark that looks like a small bug bite. The bite resembles a Black Widow Spider bite. I have noticed small white fuzz balls on my chest at night when I put my pjamams on. Never saw such a thing before in my life. Thank you for this website. I didn’t care to go to the doctor to show him fuzz balls. Will definetly try the Epsom Salts bath and hair soak. I bought some Sarna Lotion for bug bites to try get some relief to make the bites go away. Will remember to use hand sanitizer on my feet 4 times a day. Thank you again everyone for sharing about the small white fuzz balls that bite.
I don’t believe that cotton lint produces bugs. I think ancedotal material is useless, let’s see the science behind these claims.
Oh my word, this is the scariest thing I have ever read, Marsha I agree with you. I have taken photos of the balls of lint around my house, where can I post them so people can see and comment if thats what they have? I am not itching or have any sores but just moved into a new apartment in June this year and noticed that balls of fluff kept of accumulating, it was so strange, I have lint all over my bed! I know it cant be coming from outside, which at first I thought… please help with where I can post these pictures so we can all see them and compare. I dont see any pics when I google it, only this one website we are all on. thanks
I have these bugs that looklike white lint they get on my body, in my hair and clothes ,car, when i feel them i go in the bath room and get in the tub to wipe them off, they turn black, how toget rid of them, they are in my home pleas some one or anybody have a solution to get rid of them, i realy need help
I am soooo glad I found this site! I thought I was going nuts, I have been feeling the crawling & itching for months. Then I started getting the little bites. I would sit at my desk at work and feel them jumping on to my feet and legs. But I could never find anything. I finally found one fully fluffed like a lint ball today in my car. I have a dark interior so it really stood out. I used a brown paper towel to scoop it up, it had all of these spiky fibers, kind of like when you scare a cat. It also as antennae and a long tail. They have started to affect my children now. I cannot believe there is no way to get rid of them. Do you think they are coming through the air conditioning filters? I noticed alot of white grains on the floor of my car and also across the dashboard. I have been wiping, cleaning everything. The house stays dusty no matter what. They get on cotton a lot. I notice when I wear denim or a heavy fabric I don’t feel them as much. Epsom salts is good too. I didn’t make the correlation until reading the other comments. I sometimes sprinkle scented epsom salts in my bath, those are the nights that I sleep well. This is unreal. I plan on fogging tomorrow, and spraying myself with OFF tonight before I try to sleep.
LISTEN TO ME PLEASE…THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KILL THESE!!!!! NEMATODES… I’M TALKING ABOUT THE “BENEFICIAL NEMATODES” OR AS THEY ARE ALSO CALLED THE”PREDITOR NEMATODES.” THEY ARE FROM THE ROUND WORM FAMILY AND ARE ALSO CONSIDERED A “HELMITH.” THESE INVISABLE AND NONSEGMENTED PARASITES ARE THE GOOD GUYS AND ARE 100% ORGANIC. THEY ARE FREE LIVING IN THE SOIL AND ATTACK PESTS OF ALL KINDS INCLUDING ANY PARASITE THAT IS FREE LIVING IN THE SOIL OR AT LEAST ONE OF ITS CYCLES IN THE SOIL.) THE GOOD GUYS GO THROUGH MANY STAGES OF REPRODUCTION, FEED OFF OF THEIR INSIDES( WITH ACIDS THEY PRODUCE) AND USE THEM AS A WAY OF GETTING AROUND. YOU GUYS SUGGESTING BORAX/SALT ARE CORRECT BUT THESE NEMATOES ARE THE WAY TO GO WITH AN “INFESTATION” OF THIS MAGNATUDE. NOW LISTEN, I KNOW THESE ARE IN YOU AND ON EVERYTHING YOU OWN,BUT THESE LINT BUGS COME FROM THE SOIL. YOU NEED TO KILL THEM IN THE SOIL. ALL YOU DO IS TREAT YOUR LAWN WITH THE BENEFICIAL NEMATODES MIXED WITH WATER IN A SPRAYER EVERY COUPLE OF WEEKS UNTIL LINTS BUGS START TO DISAPATE. THIS WILL ALSO RID YOUR PROPERTY OF ANY OTHER PEST YOU MIGHT HAVE ie: ROACHES, CRICKETS, ETC. AND WILL NOT HURT ANY BENEFICIAL BUGS THAT NATURE NEEDS! I BUY MINE FROM THE COMPANY; A.R.B.I.C.O. OUT OF TUCSON, AZ. 1-800-827-2847. (ARBICO.COM) TRUST ME AND READ UP ON THEM, THEY ARE THE ANSWER TO YOUR PRAYERS…JUST TRY THEM AND YOU WONT NEED TO USE ANY OTHER REMEDIES ON YOURSELVES OR ANY THING ELSE YOU OWN. GOOD LUCK!
PLEASE EXCUSE THIS INFO I WAS NOT CLEAR ON: WHEN REFERRING TO TO BENEFICIAL NEMATODES LIFE CYCLES, MOVEMENT, AND FEEDING HABITS, I FORGOT TO SAY THIS IS ALL ACOMPLISHED FROM “INSIDE” THE UNWANTED PEST. ENTERING FROM ANY ORFICE ON THE PEST, THE NEMATODES REPRODUCE INSIDE AND MULTIPLY LIKE CRAZY. THX.
My wife and I have had this problem in our house for about a month and a half. It all seems too weird. I can see tons of lint floating in the air, just hovering there. They especially like the interiors of cars, carpets, and clothes. If I shake a piece of clothing around, they come floating out by the hundreds. I have had some success using Hepa type filter air purifiers, Epsom salt baths, and an enzyme cleaner available on Amazon. I can’t get rid of the things, just keep them at bay. For the first couple weeks we worked tirelessly every evening to clean the house, our clothes, and our bodies, the critters seemed to abate for a while but the we got lazy and now they are back with a vengeance. The main trick is to never let your guard down. Btw is anyone else here located in NJ?
I am a 53 yr old woman that has gone thru this once before and I moved into a vacant home of two yrs.I am now loosing the last thing of my deceased husband and watching my animals and myself the feeling of dying. I have chased away all my family as becus i am going so crazy with these things that is ruining my life. I have no one left. These things dont bother everyone so they cant see what I go thru everyday and night. They are in my nose and ears biting me I guess im allergic also. I spent so much money buying new clothes and socks shoes sprays cages and the list goes on. My family believe I am on drugs. I told my mom I was gonna kill myself and it would be her fault becus I couldnt unload boxes becus I was getting bit so much.I hurt all over my sores open back up when I get around a group of them. Ihave them in my doors in cracks crevises and my yd. I cry all the time and if im not crying I am yelling at the people I love most. These things have now made me lose my family. I have no friends.I am crazy in there eyes. if this is life what is hell?
Anyway I will pray for everyone suffering like I am. I will also pray one day this will be a topic everyone is aware of and we are not deserted by fanily and considered crazy. i will send this website to my family with a apology to everyone I have hurt.Also with the serenity prayer. There are so many websites and chats on this matter i wish everyone will read it.
Hello Susan,
Don’t give up! People don’t understand what we are suffering because they don’t have this experience. Just try to help yourself. My house was just like hell before. It is now less than 1% of how it was before. This is my way of fighting the bugs:
- Vacuum your carpet and furnitures often (at first, everyday, then every few days)
(make sure you have a strong vacuum cleaning for carpet and furniture. This is the best investment)
- Mop the tile, or laminated floor and counters with DISINFECTANT, VIRUCIDE & CLEANER or
Lysol (you can buy the solution at Home Depot) . Make sure you dilute it with water for cleaning as recommended because using concentrated solution all the time can be toxic.
- Make sure your house is well-lit. Install neon lights in every room and open the windows so the
the house is always well-lit. At night, the bugs love to attach you but if their population is small, it can be less bothersome.
- Put your blankets, pillows, sheets in dryer to heat them for about 10 minutes everyday.
- I use the fly zapper to detect them. The fly zapper actually kills them. We can’t see those bugs but it seems like it catches the bugs. I can’t copy the picture of the fly zapper. You can buy them online or at certain stores (I don’t know if Home Depot would have it or not)
Good luck,
Brenda
I have been declared crazy also! Three weeks ago I started getting bites on my back, legs,and arms. I thought It was masquito bites. For a week I just took benadrill. Well I kept getting more and more bites. I said THAT’S IT somethings wrong I can’t afford to get bit again because I have diabetes. I went to the ER. Guess what I have scabbies. I know what pattern scabbies look like. And my bites looks like masquito bites. So permethrin 5% was prescribed. So I go home bathe and apply the medicine. Immeditly these little white bugs start popping out of my skin. Holy crap! I showed my husband he said well at least they are coming out. Then that’s when I really noticed these little white lint thing’s. They are every freakin where now. My husband is not getting bites. Second visit: My doctor, I tell him what I discover and says ok. Can I have more permethrin? You don’t need it anymore:/? Third visit: back to the ER, you are reinvested . What? I never got over the first time. Now it is bed bugs. I have researched and there is nothing that even looks like this that’s a bed bug.during the visit a bug bites my hand. I scratch I and the skin breaks and there it is a little white bug. She says I don’t know what that is you need to call pest controll :/ I have cleaned and sanaizied every inch of my house and yet there still here. It’s not in there books so she doesn’t even want to attempt to figure it out. She wrote another script of permethrin 5% and I left. So I have bathing I Sun%Tide laundry powder then rinsing off in the shower there all white does it mean there dead? I’ve also picked up a few tips web. Wish me luck
I’M AM LIKE IN TEARS RIGHT NOW FROM READING ALL THESE POST I HAVE BEEN SUFFERING W/ SO CALLED ALLGERY BREAK OUTS SINCE I WAS 10 TODAY I WAS ON MY FRONT PORCH AND THOUGHT I WAS GOING CRAZY WHEN I SEEN A BALL OF LINT ON A LEAF CRAWLING I PUT IT IN A MASON JAR AND SURE ENOUGH ITS ALIVE PLEASE PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT TO DO MY BODY IS RED AS HELL NOW FROM ME SCRATCHING THE HECK OUT OF IT JUST THINKING ABOUT THESE THINGS FREAK ME OUT …………………………………….IM GOING TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW TO BUY SOME OF THESE THINGS LISTED
Have any of you been to a beach before then noticing the lint bugs ? I’m trying to find out where I might have gotten them from.
I am also in Delaware…interesting to know as the previous Delaware resident posted, and now a resident in New Jersey.
Desre, my kid went to the beach in July or August this year…either Rehoboth or Ocean City.
I havent noticed the lint but I definitely have the mites and see flying things…whats up with that?
Joanne, until you become affected, you neednt chime in. I wouldnt think that cotton produces bugs, and science as all broadly intelligent people know, is limited exclusively by the AMA. Docs are taught…if a condition is not in curriculum, it doesnt apply. I too want the science, but shit is being done about it. In the interim, hundreds if not thousands of people are being imfested/affected including undeserving little children. This is an extremely serious condition: people have taken their own lives as a means to end the suffering and persecution, while the rest of us flirt with the idea. This is sad. Horrifying. Scary. Lonely. Perplexing. …hell.
@Dorian Swanson
To Dorian Swanson: what part of Delaware are u located in? Im in Newark…this is crazy and I think a LOT of ppl here have it and are clueless.
Same exact thing happned to me with 3 – three- different exterminating companys. I not only have those lint like “things” but I also have crumb like “things” in the kitchen, splinter like things in other areas of the house. I’m being eaten alive and my doctors think I’m exaggerating dry skin (that bleeds profusely when scratched ? that takes up the entire lint filter every load ? ) . One doctor asked me if i was using “speed” drugs, implying I was a Tweeker…. I’m a conservative looking, healthy middle aged woman who runs a business. I am not a Tweeker just because the medical community is clueless. Remember these are the same folks who said in the 1970′s that ciggaretts are not a health hazard, in the 1980′s that the “gay disease” is just pheumonia, in teh 1990′s that Fibromyalga and Chronic Fatigue Syndrom is neurotic women’s psychosematic problem. Oh and they denied that alcoholism and drug addiction was a disease and believed it was a moral choice of no will power. They have come to contradict themselves in every case.
So, WTF are these lint things ? Put them in the toilet (I brushed a bunch of “lint” off the bed and dropped it into the toilet bc it was easier, the things are alive and they can’t swim.
Also the crumb like little square orangish things…..I realized one day “hey, I don’t own a toaster so I don’t eat toast, what the hell is this stuff on my counter tops and in the grout on my kitchen floor”?????. I swept them off counter into my hand and into the toilet . the things are alive, they don’t like water and they move until they “drown”. this is horrible, I look like a lepar and the medical community refuses to look into it. I’m a pro pet sitter and the stuff I see in people’s homes is nauseating – I used to lie on the floor with their pets until the past 3 years when I realized something terribly wrong is going on in my house. I’m also being eaten alive, head to toe.
Reading all the posts: I can’t tell where you all start and I leave off (or vice versa). Susan, Baby B, Deserie’, Yes, yes yes. Me too. and I’ve lost everyone, including most of my customers and all of my friends, due to what’s become an obsession and IS driving me crazy. I have thought of suicide many times, no one believes me, not my shrink (ADHD) my pcp, derm. I too went to ER summer of 2010: I WANTED IT TO BE FLEAS, SCABIES, BEDBUGS, anything that they know how to fix. And of course, I heard “mosquito bites, fleas, scabies, bedbugs, nothing, it’s lint, it’s skin, it’s in your imagination, are you on speed”. etc etc. Me too. My heart goes out to you all, because I truly feel your pain. And itching itching . I call myself “Itchy & Scratchy” (joke).
OMG – the link to bird mites and that drawing – that’s one of the things I can barely see- when I dump those almost invisible things into the toilet I can see them swimming and it is exactly what it looks like (I’m going blind from straining my eyes) in water you can see those legs moving them around – so small that unless you saw a pattern which I have bee, you’d never in 1000000 years notice it. @Jex
@laurie
Hi Laurie,
How long have you tried to use this beneficial nematodes? Are they safe to use in plant pots in-house? Are they safe if we accidentally swallow or inhale them? Thank you for the info.
A sufferer
I have had the exact same issue. It is now so bad that the hair around the crown of my head is so short. For a 30 something female it is very embarrassing. My self esteem has dropped to an all time low as well. My husband and children say I spend too much time in front of the mirror…But, I CAN’T help it. This is driving me nuts. Ive noticed it is worse around noon, again in the early evening, then at night right before bed. I live in Oklahoma..
HOLD UP WAIT A MINUTE. These people are telling the TRUTH!!!!! The bug’s more exact description by human eye is that they look like little tiny dust particles. You may think its just dust on when spotted on furniture and like lint when they are your clothing. They are reproduce enormously and onece in your house or car they are EVERYWHERE on EVERYTHING!!!!!! They float with the air current and get in your hair and may look like little dandruff white flakes. The also go right through your clothes right downd through the threading to your skin. AND YES, YES, YES THEY DO BITE!!!!! I have tried fogs, washing everything I could, and shampooing carpets. I have repeatedly thought about shaving my head because they stay afloat in the air you keep getting them in your hair and I so embarrassed from having to scratch in my head due to the constant biting at work. Now I do understand the simple and even average pest control agent will not even relate. One way you can really see them is on a piece of glass (like a table top) under the light when they cling against the mirror; they look like tiny lint strings at this time but I have seen movement when I tried to remove one with the tipe of a pen. A way to collect them is by laying a piece two way dark colored tape so that they can get stuck to the tape and then viewing them under a microscope. I am sure you will the see this is no joke.
I have been going through the horror of these pests for over a year. I have been having regular bites at nite. Regardless of what i do they dont go away. My husband has never had a bite. I saw a new skin doctor on Monday. My second visit to her. She started me on a new medicine, an antipsychotic, in other words it all in my head and I abuse my body by scratching to make sores on myself. I had neuropathy in both of my feet and legs and can barely walk at all. I finely got an electric wheelchair. I still dont go anywhere and my husband does all grocery shopping. I am 60 years old. I have one son, 36, who I adopted at 8 weeks old. No other kids. If it were not for him I would be dead. I live in this constant neuropathic nerve pain, which in past month is in both hands and arms. My husband is wonderful but he still doesnt get it. If this doesnt end soon I know there will come a day when I cant stand it all any longer. I am fed up with trying to prove it to any doctor. I cant do any spraying outside myself. I give to you all my best wishes and good luck…Cathy
@ceecee
are you sure this works??? I have a 4 month old baby and do not want her to get these lint mites or be subjected to chemicals. Its a no win situation…………..
@laurie
Hello everyone,
I found some informative youtube videos about Morgellons cure. There are a few recommendations I applied recently and it seems to help. I would like to share with you:
– Sprinkle borax and diatomacious earth on carpet and your mattress and leave the powder there.
– Avoid anything cotton.
sorry i took so long to reply! YES…”PREDATOR NEMATODES” ARE 100% SAFE. i USED THEM SUCCESFULLY FOR LAST 4 YRS. You can put pred. nematodes in all your house plants!!! Don’t worry, they are safe for you. They will not enter you at all, they will attack any pest that has at least one life cycle in the soil. You can not see these guys unless you have a microscope. You can spray them in any soil that is around your house on in your house plants. DO NOT WORRY…THEY WILL HELP YOU. Just get some ordered and spray them on your soil. laurie@A sufferer
DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR LITTLE BABY OR YOUR SELF SWEETY!!!!!! These little guys won’t hurt, bite,sting or do anything to humans. These “BENEFICIAL/PREDATOR NEMATODES” WILL ONLY ATTACK PEST THAT COME FROM SOIL. Bugs (ones we can see as well as microbes) of many kinds come from the soil around us due to some kind of contamination whether we can see them or not. Just order some and spray them on your lawn/house plants and see if they don’t help ok??? DON’T WORRY. THEY ARE THE GOOD GUYS IN THE SOIL AND THEY (CAN’T) HURT YOU!!!!! Laurie@marcie
LINT BUGS…. OK EVERY ONE JUST STOP AND THINK OF THE WORD LINT. IF THESE LITTLE GUYS ARE SPINNING SOME KIND OF “FIBERS” CHANCES ARE THEY ARE MICROBIAL,FUNGAL OR A BACTERIAL ISSUE THAT CAME FROM SOIL. SO WHERE DOES LINT COME FROM? IT FROM OUR TEXTILES (EX; COTTEN)AND COTTEN IS GROWN IN THE DIRT. I KNOW WE HAVE MAN MADE BLENDS OF ALL TYPES OF TEXTILES TODAY BUT MOST STILL HAVE A BLEND WITH SOME AMOUNT OF COTTEN. IT JUST MAKES SENCE TO ME THAT THIS IS AN INFESTATION THAT COMES FROM INFECTED SOIL. JUST TRY THE PREDATOR NEMATODES AND SEE IF THAY DON’T HELP OK???? I HAD AN INFESTATION OF A HOOKWORM THAT NORMALLY DOE’NT TOUCH HUMANS. I WAS ATTACHED HEAVILY DUE TO THE CONTAMINATION OF SOIL THAT CAME FROM UNCLEAN NEIGHBORES WHO WERE DEFECATING IN A LARGE HOLE IN THEIR BATHROOM FLOOR (OLD HOMES ARE RAISED OFF THE GROUND) FOR MONTHS. WE THE WERE EVICTED A BLUMBER WAS BROUGHT IN TO FIX BROKEN SEWER LINES AND TOILET. UNFORTUNITLY I HAD THE SAME PLUMBER( WHO HAD TO CRAWL AROUND IN ALL THAT HUMAN POOP) COME OVER TO MY PROPERTY TO LOOK AT DOING SOME WORK FOR ME. HE WAS OVER MULTIPLE TIMES AT MY HOUSE (AS HE WAS ALSO A HANDY MAN) AND DID EVERYTHING FROM REPLACING TOILETS TO DRYWALL TO WORKING ON MY SWAMP COOLER TO TREE REMOVAL. THE INFESTATION WAS SO BAD ALL MY FAMILY HAME INFECTED BY THE SAME PARASITE. GUYS…JUST TRY THE NEMATODES, THEY WILL WORK. laurie
THAT’S PLUMBER NOT BLUMBER. i am terrible at typing. laurie
you are so right on the borox/diatomacious for helping the infestation. But if these are some sort of parasite that come from soil (which is very possible) you need to start your remedy where it has come from. START WITH CLEANING UP YOUR SOIL! Getting microbes whether parasitic,bacterial etc. from our soil is more common than we think. Get some “PREDATOR/BENIFICIAL NEMATODES AND PUT THEM ON YOUR LAWN!!!!. tHESE GUYS ARE MOTHER NATURES REMEDY TO RID YOUR PROPERTY OF ALL KINDS OF PESTS FROM COCHROACHES TO INVISABLE FREE LIVING PARASITES THAT CAN AND DO INFECT US. They are expensive for larger size properties like mine but an average size lawn won’t be to bad. Hang in there and look into the “beneficial nematodes.” laurie @A sufferer
forgot to say that the borox/diatomacious can be used outside on soil too for small pest infestations but it is very expensive for a large yard with severe problems. laurie
Hi Laurie,
Thank you for your suggestion. I have thought of nematodes because everything else only works for a period of time. the bugs always find ways to survive and grow back. I have read an article about the cotton bugs. Because the cotton bugs damage cotton harvest so dramatically, they use bioengineering to modify the gene of cotton fibers so that the fibers become unattractive to the bugs. I am not sure if this is the cause of these new lint bugs. If anyone knows about this, please let us know.
Good luck
@Kelly C
@Kelly C
did you ever hear back from LSU parasitology? And what did they have to say?
@Cathy
Get tested for Lyme disease.
The white bugs outside aren’t related. They’re called wooly aphids. They just look like lint.
It seems a lot,if not all people suffering, are positive for Lyme disease. The tests your dr will order aren’t sufficient. Pay for your test and file through insurance. Use Igenex or fry labs.
This is why you suffer and your spouse doesn’t.
I am so glad I found this site. I have these “lint like bugs” all over my bed and in my carpet. I pulled them up with tape and took them to my vet because I thought they were mites. The vet told me that I needed a new vacuum, because these were just pieces of lint and dirt. I have vacuumed my bed and carpets and they re-appear the next morning. Some of them won’t come off with tape, it’s almost like they are clinging on to my sheets. They are also in my blankets, towels and socks. Then sometimes I can feel myself getting bitten but I don’t see anything, then all of a sudden a red mark appears. They are friggin out of control. Did anybody find anything that kills these little s.o.b.’s????????
Suggestions: Trader – Joes laundry soup, Dr. Bronners magic soups (peppermint), vinegar, lavender, tea tree shampoo & conditioner, garlic pills, Diatomaceous earth (food grade). Then, go to doc and, have them test any of the spots for fungus, and do a complete test on your blood. You have to ask, these days docs won’t automatically do anything for there patients except try to prescribe you drugs without knowing what is really going on with you.
Other suggestions: open windows during the day a little, clean bedding, and vacuum couches once a week.
Please, don’t inhale the Diatomaceous earth (food grade), use a mask and, don’t powder your whole house, just spoon it out and, put it behind couches and, large furniture ect..
its so nice 2 kno that im not alone in this constant battle wit lint! My story starts back in june 2011 it was a week after i had my beautiful baby girl when my head n body started itchin like crazy n right away i knew it was head lice. I had head lice 4 a year when i was in the 2nd grade n i was the only 1 in my family of 5 that got it(missed most of 2nd grade, had 2 burn all my clothes n my bed, i had hair past my butt that my dad finally cute 2 my ears after a year of treatments evry other day n hundreds spent on tryin 2 get it gone). Right away i bagd my clothes n got treatment n what not. Im unemployed wit 2 children my son who was 2 1/2 @ the time got treatments constantly (he now has a phobia of bugs in his hair) n my new born lil girl had gotten lice as well. I noticed that when id vacuum things were jumpin @ me n flyin around the room. When id get out of the shower (while still bleedin after givin birth) things would jump in my personal area n it started 2 consurn me that whatever i was battlein was not lice. None of my friends blivd me cuz they nvr got it evn the 1s who had stayd 4 days. Theyd tell me it was all in my head. They locked me out of my bedroom 1 day (bout week 6) n i ovr heard them talkin n callin me crazy sayin that i should b lockd up. It even went as far as my boyfriend not blivin me we live 2gether n they dnt bother him @ all. My mom told me that i was obsessed wit lice (she didnt bliv me when i told her that fuzz balls were bittin me so i told her it was lice still). For 8 weeks i fought fuzz balls tryin 2 kill them. Those 8 weeks of hell should of bn 8 weeks of happiness wit my lil girl but i bairly could spend a day wit her 4 if i stopd cleanin 4 longer than 6 hours they would explod again. I lived in a 1 bedroom apartment n it got so bad that they were in the hall way of the apartment buildin. I moved 2 my moms n evrythin was put in storage. After a week i noticed that they were goin away. My boyfriend kids n i movd in wit a friend n life was itch free. After 2 months i started bring bags of clothes (that were outside in bags @ my moms) slowly up 2 the house n startd bringin stuff from storage (no human contact in 2 months) as well. After nearly 2 months of gettin all our clothes (that had been outside in the rain n cold 4 almost 3 months) up 2 the house i started 2 notice the itchin. Witin a month i realized that i was yet again bin attackd by fuzz balls. I havnt really said nethin 2 ne1 bout the fuzz balls not even really said nething 2 my boyfriend (i try not 2 let him c me pickin fuzz balls off my clothes) i cnt handle bin told that its all in my head that they dnt exisit. I can feel them crawlin in my hair iv picked them out of my head 2 the point my head starts 2 bleed (not so bad now) i can feel them in my eye lashes n up my nose. I hav chronic dry lips (ocd of lickin my lips) my lips crack n peel (ocd of pickin the dry skin off my lips) my lips bleed if i dnt lick them b4 i bite in2 something. When my lips bleed its like a feedin frenzy 4 the lil invisible bastards. They get in my mouth n my gums. I dig them out from under my finger/toe nails wit a knife. Heres what iv learned that works n dnt work: using dryer sheets helps keep lint off clothes in the dryer. Color safe bleech n the hottest temp 4 the washer. Doin small loads instead of a packd washer helps. Bleach every surface possible. Using a vacuum wit a bag instead of a bagless keeps them from jumpin out n emediatly puttin the bag in a plastic sack n throwin it outside (burnin its better). B4 u shower clean bathroom n Remove clothin outside the bathroom n emediatly puttin in plastic bag n keep clean clothes n towles in plastic bag while in shower. The less traffic in n outta ur home the better. Keep heat off as much as possible they like heat (they dnt do well @ room temp or cooler). Im 24 years old, a mother of 2, n i live on the oregon coast n im battlin an invisible monster that lives in lint. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 2 REMEMBER IS DNT ISOLATE URSELF IN UR HOME IT MAKES IT WORSE! People who rnt goin threw this wont bliv u so theres no point in tryin to convince them.
also i 4got 2 mention another thing that works is using an anti-dandruff shampoo a minamum of twice a week will also help keep them out of ur hair n ladys keepin ur hair pulld up as tight as possible n in a bun (not a pony tail) or multiple french braids (the tighter the better).
@me again
Hi, “me again” yes can you send me your pic’s I have some too if we can compare them it would be great!!
Laurie is right. I tried watering my house plants with beneficial nematodes in water. It has been 2 weeks and I feel much better. However, I still see and feel the bugs, though, they seem to be weaker. I will have to do this until it clears. Thanks again Laurie.