physhstick

Hi all,

This is only sort of skin related, but I am having trouble finding info and figured this would be a good place to start.

About a month or so ago two things started happening: 1. my legs (below the knee) started getting really itchy due to what looked like insect bites and 2. my sweet little guinea pig started losing fur!

I didn't put together that the two might be related until I did more research on my balding guinea pig and found out that it could be due to some sort of insect pest. I examined her skin more closely and saw what looked like TINY little feces. I bought some puppy flea/tick/bug spray to use on her and within days she started to look better! (Her skin never looked bad....just the hair was falling out)

But I'm still chewed up.

I think that whatever she had is getting at me and I don't know what to do about it. I feel like I should spray, but I don't know what kind of spray to use! I know its not fleas - possibly some sort of mite?

FWIW, I did ecological field work this summer on a prairie and am thinking I might have dragged some little pest in with me from the field...I don't know where else the bugs could have come from!

Any ideas on how to insect-rid my apartment?? Or what I can do about these bites on my leg? I'm trying not to itch them but its SO hard...I've used cortizone cream but it doesn't seem to help much.

Thanks all!