Bedbugs or fleas. Either way they itch!
This is not a windup, or anything, but while on a flight from RIX-LGW-FAO recently, I started itching. It got worse and worse.
In the hotel in Faro, Portugal, I looked at myself and found these red spots all over my legs and belly. It was like measles I had when I was a kid.
I had an idea of what it was and very embarrassed. I went to a physician in Faro who put on elbow-length rubber gloves to examine me. It didn't take him long to discover that I had some Latin name disease, which translates to "bedbugs or fleas."
He prescribed something called "Quellada Lotion" which I was supposed to put on my body with a cotton swab twice daily for three days. I'm still here, because the little buggers died.
After a long story, my question is whether this happens often on aircraft, or could I have gotten these mites sitting in the departure lounge at Gatwick?
Oh, by the way, I flew on a very obscure airline. I think they go by the name of "Speedflea." Then again I may be wrong.
[ 13 August 2001: Message edited by: LatviaCalling ]