What do flea bites look like?

What is the best thing to use to stop itching from bites?

What a Flea Is
A flea is a small (no bigger than the head of a pin) brown bug with a hard shell. Fleas have tiny claws at the ends of their legs to help them attach to people or other warm-blooded animals and drink their blood.

If you have a dog or cat, chances are pretty good that you've seen a flea. Fleas are often found on the coats of these animals. Once the animal comes inside, the fleas can then jump onto people or carpeting.

What a Flea Bite Looks and Feels Like
If a person gets bitten by a flea, the bite will feel itchy. Flea bites usually occur in groups of three or four bites on the body, and they look like tiny red bumps. A lot of kids end up with flea bites when they play with their dogs or cats.

What You Should Do
If you think you've been bitten by a flea, wash the bite with soap and water. Put on some calamine lotion to help with the itching, or an adult can find an anti-itch cream at the drugstore for you. Try not to scratch the bites too much, because this can make the bites become infected.

What a Doctor Will Do
If you get an infection from scratching flea bites, a doctor will need to prescribe medication to clear up the infection.

How to Avoid Getting Bitten
The best way to avoid getting bitten by fleas is to keep the fleas off your pets. Cats and dogs can be bathed in special flea-control shampoo. Your pet can wear a flea collar or take medication once a year which will also help keep fleas away. In addition, a professional exterminator can treat your home or yard with flea-control chemicals to keep the flea population down. Wearing an insect repellent also may help. Ask your parents to apply one that contains 10% to 30% DEET.

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Fares ALsagri

they look like red dots. try benadryl spray

These bites are small raised red dots and they do usually occur in groups of 3. The usual sites are around the ankles although they can appear elsewhere like under waistbands. Clean the bites as suggested before and use a Benadryl cream and you can also use hydrocortisone cream. If you have no allergies to diphenhydramine, take oral Benadryl. The oral Benadryl will help calm your histamines down and stop the itching sooner. Soaking in an Aveeno bath will help also. The vet told us that when the fleas start biting people they are pretty desperate and your pet is probably loaded with them. Comb your pet and look for what the vet calls "pepper", little dark granules of dried bloody flea poop. When these get wet they leave tiny blood stains. If you see these, you will know that you need some serious flea treatments for the pet(s) and probably your house. The flea eggs can lay dormant for up to 18 mos according to our vet. When conditions are right they hatch. Ask you vet for flea treatmant that will also kill the eggs. It can be tough to get cntrol over but it can be done. Been there done that! It sucks. Good luck!