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I joined this group a week or two ago and have been so busy reading

through the messages I haven't yet said hello. Thank you to all of you

who have put so much information and encouragement here to read. I'm

, from London, England. My family and I have had the plague

(birdmites or rodent mites, we fhink) for four months now. We have

spread the infestation to three homes: my elderly mother's, my

brother's. and mine, before we realised there was a problem. We still

don't know where they came from - no bird nests or rodent infestation

that we have found/know of. We assume it started at my mother's as that

is our central point - I look after her and am there nearly every day

and my brother is a frequent visitor.

At first we thought it was fleas - my brother and mother have cats, so

we could even have started with them and then the mites joined in. We

treated all properties with permethrin/precor and got rid of the fleas.

Only we still seemed to have very small fleas that liked our heads/hair

and faces, eyebrows and noses. Eventually we realised they were mites

and have visited birdmites.org for information frequently. It was a

relief to find that other people know what we are going through and have

some ways to help deal with it.

My brother spoke to an entomologist who said bird mites can cause havoc

but will die off in a few weeks(!) I e-mailed a parasitologist to ask if

he knew of anyone who could advise us, but he never replied. Pest

Control man said there are no insects! Arghhhh.....

A few questions:

I read in an early post on this site that there are a lot of hits on the

main site from people in the UK which would suggest a lot of people are

experiencing this (surely if we spread it between 3 homes so easily

there must be thousands of people suffering the same thing) but we have

heard nothing about this in the media here. Is there a cover up or do

people just keep quiet about it?

One problem is a lot of the products recommended in USA are not

available here. Can anyone tell me:

Roach Prufe is 98 per cent boric acid - what is the other 2 per cent and

is it important? (I can get boric acid powder but not RP).

What are ingedients in Dawn Dish Soap, what is the ingredient that is

effective (if anyone knows), and doesn't it make everything sticky if

you spray walls carpets etc?

Loads more - but this is long enough. Hope to hear from you all.