Gothamist: Bedbugs at Helmsley Hotel

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Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:39:56 -0500

Do scabies turn into bedbugs?

ew.

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 20:20:36 -0500

Here's a fun lesson about the power of the internet: Never, NEVER try to self-diagnose using internet sites. I had ridiculously itchy legs all winter, and went on the internet trying to figure out what it was. An hour later, I was *convinced* I had scabies, freaked out and went running to my MD. Of course, it was just basic dry legs and a little topical steroid from my derm fixed everything up. But my roomie got kinda freaked out when he came home to me running around blathering on about microscopic bugs. I think he had me pegged as OCD. (perhaps justly so).

a

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:51:05 -0500

that's absolutely sick. how the hell do these things get there? i mean, why don't we hear of more infestations all over apartments and cheaper hotels? ick!

Max

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 18:24:49 -0500

Paramount is not an expensive hotel, quite cheap when compared to other NYC hotels. Also, the owner is going bankrupt- standards decline when ya cant pay the cleaners.

astrid

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 13:48:46 -0500

A colleague of mine got super badly bitten by bed bugs at the Paramount a few months ago. Then another friend was put up there by a law firm and said the whole place smelled like BO. What's up with dirty expensive hotels?

Jen

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:55:55 -0500

The Post seems to think louses/lice, but scarier. There's also a creepy thing called scabies, where you basically need to boil your sheets to disinfect the bugs.

maureen

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:08:45 -0500

what exactly are these "bedbugs" anyway? mites? lice?