Scabies treatment is done with creams and skin products. You may take some antihistamine if the itch is too much but it wont do you much good. In fact once treated the itch and the redness may remain for a few more weeks. People with sensitive skins suffer more especially during the night when the buggers are more active.
There has been a lot of talk about bed bugs lately, in the media and in conversation. There was a recent bedbug epidemic in New York, and many news channels have reported stories of people contracting bed bugs from hotel rooms. If you do an image search for bed bugs, you will find hundreds of bed bug pictures, both of the bites and of the bugs themselves.