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Key facts
- Other names
- Cimicosis, bedbugs
- Specialty
- Family medicine , dermatology
- Symptoms
- None to prominent blisters , itchiness
- Usual onset
- Minutes to days after the bite
- Causes
- Cimex (primarily Cimex lectularius and Cimex hemipterus )
- Risk factors
- Travel, second-hand furnishings
- Diagnostic method
- Based on finding bed bugs and symptoms
- Differential diagnosis
- Allergic reaction , scabies , dermatitis herpetiformis
- Treatment
- Symptomatic , bed bug eradication
- Medication
- Antihistamines , corticosteroids
- Frequency
- Relatively common
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