bed bugs, head lice, fleas while trekking

Hi,
im asking this question who have done treks in the past to india....
did u get bed bugs, catch head lice or fleas while on your trek?
thanks

depends upon the places you trek... the closer you are to nature the purer it gets....the places you want to trek wont have this problem(u planing himalayan region ).....i belong to place close to lower himalayas...

I got bed bugs in a cheap hotel in Humpi and another time in Ooty and head lice in the orphanage where I was a volunteer, plus a dog bite in Mumbai.

Fleas have spared me. Why are you asking this? If you don't come into too close contact with street kids,and stay away from dogs and really cheap hotels you'll be fine.
I am a teacher and in Europe there are also many kids who've got lice,and cats who bring fleas in the house. No need to panic about these things in India!
Be well , Namaste

Aren't you in your own sleeping bag while trekking?

leavenofootprints-yeh i will be trekking in the himalayas.. hopefully i wont catch any

paratmoshe-thanks for replying. no reason to asking... but i will be staying at cheap accomodation haha.. how did u get rid of these nasties?

rahuldracula- nice nickname :P yeh i will be in my sleeping bag, but there still is a chance fleas will be jumping around or bed bugs for that matter!

One thing is that no fleas will enter you tent and then enter your sleeping bag. The other thing is that I am not sure if the bedbugs and fleas survive in the Himalyas. You would probably expect them in a unhygienic place not in the Himalyas. Personally, never had any such problems.

oh thats great news!! i will be staying in teahouses.. so i hope theyre clean enough with none of those nasties. thanks for your reply! i cant wait!!!!

i take my tent(can get on rent)...best option...nothing enters....and for cities and towns a decent hotel is enough....you can always check a room in advance...replied for your har ki dun thread, that is why i know you would be entering himalays...best wishes...

This is in reference to the deeper(trekking, beaten trail) areas of the himalayas.

Tea house treks and apparent Hygienic places dont matter, Bed bugs are really minute and can crawl where you think its clean, they are usually in the wooden beds. Hiding somewhere.
Himalayas (hygienic and unhygienic)has nothing to do with their survival.
Places in the deeper mountains are not to for one to feel bug free, its about surviving and getting a place to sleep.

Always use your sleeping bag and just clean the bed sheet before you sleep on it. (if u have one) if not. make sure the tents etc are clean. and if you get a bite in the night for no apparent reasons. DEAL WITH IT.

Its nature not your comfort space. (if u need that(comfort) then commercial places with big hotels are the things to vouch for)

You will find them (or they will find you!!)in very cheap accommo in the hills,try covering yourself in talcum powder,they don't like it.......chokes the little blighters!!KK

DEAR SUSSAN

make sure that unknowingly you do not bring any australian bed bugs to india along with your luggage

cheers

Nope! Never encountered them. And I've stayed in some pretty cheap places. Maybe they don't like me.

Have had little leeches in my shower in Jaipur though. Moved out of there fast.

Lice is easy to cure. Flees are opportunist hop-on/hop-off creatures. Bedbugs...nasty. I've heard that they are on the increase in London!

Good assumption but actually not true - plenty of cases of bed-bugs. And fleas - Heck they come riding in on my dogs everytime the dogs visit a cowshed!!
Lucky you

Wow that is a nasty one!! I never heard of leeches anywhere on the plains - where did these critters come from?

I didn't stick around to ask them, so don't know.