Insect Bite

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Main Symptoms

• Itchy Insect Bites: Bites of mosquitoes, chiggers (harvest mites), fleas, and bedbugs usually cause itchy, red bumps.
• Painful Insect Bites: Bites of horseflies, deer flies, gnats, fire ants, harvester ants, blister beetles, and centipedes usually cause a painful, red bump. Within a few hours, fire ant bites can change to blisters or pimples.
• This topic excludes bees, ticks and spiders.
• A severe life-threatening allergic reaction is called anaphylaxis

See More Appropriate Topic(instead of this one) If

• BEE OR YELLOW JACKET STING
• SPIDER BITE
• TICK BITE