Harvest mites are hardly visible to the human eye and are generally picked up in summer from long grass/crops and beds of weeds.
I visited my doctor some years ago with swellings/blisters, mainly on the trunk of my body, some as large as a ten pence piece. They itched intensely and were very sore. He said they were harvest mite bites (I hadn't heard of them before)and the only way to get rid of them was to wait for autumn, the weather would be cooler and they would die off. Meanwhile he prescribed an ointment for the itching that was next to useless.
For three months I was in despair from the continuous crawling feeling on my skin and ongoing bites. The itching kept me awake at night also. Relief came in October as the weather cooled.
During this time I searched the internet for ways to free myself from the 'enemy'. Nobody on the forums seemed to have an answer at that point.
Two years later they were back. I put it down to the flower bed I had been weeding. Taking matters into my own hands I found a way out of this agony. Working on the theory they die off in cooler weather, I took it to the other extreme. Perhaps heat would work.
Every day for three days I got out of bed, stripped off the linen and put it straight into the washing machine. Not wanting to transfer the mites, I showered straight after and put on clean clothes. This is essential and includes nightwear. I showered morning and evening and washed clothes and towels after each shower. I also changed the bed linen each morning and then tumble dried everything for the heat. Hoping to kill them off completely.
It worked! After three days the crawling feeling had gone and no fresh bites. The bites I had healed, but took a while for the scars to disappear.
The relief was heaven!
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