Unwanted Guests: Bed bugs
There was a very interesting story on bed bugs in last weeks' WebMD Newsletter. Although I had done a bit of research on bedbugs in the past I was reminded that they actually feed off of human blood, not unlike a tick, and we never wake during the process. But when we do get up we have a small bite. This can be confusing with fleas, if you have pets in the bed. Again this is all just one more reason to change your sheets every week and keep the bedroom clean.
The article recommends the following steps for identifying the culprit:
I am actually starting to itch right now.
But here is the worst part of it. If you happen to be a traveler you can actually bring these hitch-hikers home with you from a nasty hotel. And in some cases a not-so-nasty hotel.
If you are now totally freaked out by the subject here are some steps you can take to try not to get anything else taken out of you on your next road trip:
If you find something, ask for another room. Or another hotel. Yeish!
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The article recommends the following steps for identifying the culprit:
- Search the bedroom. Look in folds and creases in mattresses and box springs, pleats of curtains, behind loose wallpaper, in spaces of wicker furniture, behind cove molding, and in corners of drawers. You may notice dark-brown or reddish fecal spots on bed linens, mattresses, or walls near the bed.- OK this is just nasty.
- When you find an insect, compare it with a good reference image, such as the one on the Harvard School of Public Health web site, or place it in a plastic bag or pill bottle, and take it to an entomologist at an extension agency for identification.
- Make a positive identification before going to the expense of hiring a licensed pest control operator. "In many markets, it costs several hundred dollars to treat a one-room apartment, and don't be shocked at spending a grand or more to treat a single-family house,"
I am actually starting to itch right now.
But here is the worst part of it. If you happen to be a traveler you can actually bring these hitch-hikers home with you from a nasty hotel. And in some cases a not-so-nasty hotel.
If you are now totally freaked out by the subject here are some steps you can take to try not to get anything else taken out of you on your next road trip:
- Set your suitcase off the floor on the luggage holder
- Leave it zipped unless taking something out or putting it in
- Inspect the bed. Pull back the covers, the sheets, and mattress pad and look for telltale signs -- the dark spots left by bed bug feces.
If you find something, ask for another room. Or another hotel. Yeish!
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64 Comments:
can you change your diet to make you less yummy to the bed bugs? I am the only person in a family home of 5 that is being biten and I wonder what makes me so tasty to them and what I can eat that would stop that.
Anonymous--this situation is not uncommon. Some people aren't bitten. Many more, I'd guess, are bitten but do not have an allergic reaction to the bites. This is probably the case in your family. I doubt there's anything you can eat to make your blood less appealing. (One theory is they are more likely to bite people with slightly lower body temperatures--I'm not sure if that's true.)
what if you just lie down and start itching but you inspect the bed but there's nothing and it still itches
Geez Louise! I just saw these critters in my oldest son's sheets. He came in first complaining about breaking out in a rash again. I asked him when was the last time he changed his sheets and he said about 2 or may 3 weeks. TEENAGERS! Anyhow, he went to change them and started yelling MOM! There they were huddled in the creases of his fitted sheet! We freaked and itched all over with no bugs in site. It was psyc right? Well, since he is the oldest of 5 kids, shares the room with a brother, his room is frequented by the other siblings for gaming, laying on the floor, just chillin, etc. Should I assume we are infested in all bed in the house? Do we need to bomb our 2400 sq. ft home? If so, don't think we can afford it right now. Any recommendations? Do we need to throw out the beds and mattresses today? If it's confined just to his room, bombing may be more affordable there! Any over the counter stuff out there that works well. Anybody out there?
#1: Try eating fresh garlic (uncooked) daily. This works incredibly well with fleas, so I'd imagine that it would work with bedbugs too.
Can you get rid of them yourself and without a proffesional?
This is good to know, but sickening!!! i hate bugs and the site of them, especially big cockroaches and many others. I get red weps on my arms, but they don't itch and sometimes they appear at school...am i a Bed Bug Motel or what!?! I wonder what the red weps and bumps on my arms come from. Hmmm...
where can i find out more information about bed bugs that includes descriptions of the bite and any other details?
What does a bed bug bite look like? For about the past week I have been getting random bites that are red with a white head, like a fire ant bite. I know they aren't fire ants because there are none where I live. I usually notice them first thing in the morning. Please HELP
they don't bother me much, is it allright if I just live with bed bugs? None of my family is allergic,
Well i first noticed snall red bumps after a day at my boyfriend's apartment (the typical college student). After I stormed in with my cleaning materials (and unclogged the vacuum) i did the most thorough cleaning job of that apartment the boys have ever seen. After that both my boyfriend and I noticed that they were gone. To prevent itching i just take an anti-histime and go on my day. I also went and cleaned my room as to stop any cross-contamination that may have happened. and by a good cleaning job i mean moving furnature, vacuuming under and on it. washing sheets/clothes in hot water and so forth. Good luck!
my daughter and I are both covered on our leggs and arms with red bites that look like sores, that are not very big. Is there a method to treating bed bug bites. or will they go away once the infestaion is gone?
My boyfriend may have bed bugs but he claims that he's never been bit but low and behold, every time I stay at his house I end up with at least ten new bites!!! Could it be something else?
I am covered from my chest down to my legs with red bites that look like sores, that are not very big. can this be anything but bed bugs? Is there a method to treating bed bug bites, or will they go away once the infestaion is gone?
gateley said... i have bites that are itchy on my leg and red. is that bed bugs???
I have red bites on my legs that are small and in thin lines. Does anyone know why they would bite in straight lines?
Those of you who need more information should check out http://bedbugger.com/faqs
about a year ago this time I started getting itchy spots all over my body. I live in a college dorm so I wasn't sure what it could be. It started out small, and quickly spread and festered. After about three trips to the doctor on campus, telling me it was just a rash, I then went to my normal doctor. First he diagnosed it as a rash and gave me a shot and some cream. When that didnt work he said, "Well it must be scabbes." Well great, so he gave me another cream that was the worst torture i've ever been through. I stayed up all night from the itching and had bumps from head to toe. I tried everything, sealing my clothes in trashbags, washing my sheets, even in Adams flea and tick shampoo but to no avail. I went back one more time because now I seemed to only have itchy bumps on my legs, and this time he gave me a cream for a fungus. Now, this actually seemed to help until I think I was "re-exposed." Because they just got worse again. So after all that I just gave up seeing the doctor, I still have itchy spots pop up from time to time and usually have redbumps, but they aren't as bad as they were last year. Anyways, my point is there could be several other causes aside from bed bugs. I dont think that's what mine was because I never found any traces of them. So, just a word of advice there could be something else going on.
I've started to itch for moret than 2 weeks now, but I don't seem to see any critters on my balkets. I already looked and washed my covers, but I'm still itching all over. What can it be?
Dear anonymous,
Here's a link to our symptom checker, which could offer you some information about your itching.
my 17mon old son has red bumps from head to toe. he has seen a dermatoligest more then once they cant figure itout are there any photos any one can post of eaither the bumps thay have or a bed bug.
I DONT KNOW IF IT WAS BED BUGS OR A SPIDER that bit me in 5 parts of my legs 4 of them are red and itchy but the other one..is super swollen ,red, and itchy! but i dont have no symptoms of dizziness or any muscle pain...its only the bites that are swollen and itch alot! what should i do ..put some calamine lotion ,go to the doctor, or just let it heel by itself?
I have read so much info, and do not see any type of bugs in my bed. I recently bombed my apartment, my animals are no longer scratching, and I am the only one being bitten. They say you cannot tell what kind of bug it is by the bite, but I do not beleive that because of the way the bites are showing up. every morning, I wake up to find around ten new bites, usually around the ankles, but just finished a 3 hour nap and woke up with five on one hip cheek and four on the other, this time thru clothing, which has usually deflected them. they are way smaller than a mosquito bite,and show up either next to each other in a line or within a 1 inch area. Please help? I don't know what to do, and I am now getting scars from hundreds of times of being bitten no matter if I clean my bedroom every day?
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i have these red spots that are about the size of a nickle or quarter and thet itch really bad what are they?!?!?!
Anonymous,
The only way to know what your red spots are is to have them examined in person by a health professional. In the meantime you can use this article on skin rashes for some ideas on how to relieve the itching.
Yikes, I woke up in time to see the bed bugs (like just now). I sat up, turned around and saw plenty of them. I was freaking out! I told my mom about this rash thing, and we though it was allergies, so I took allergy medication. Now I have a rash for a week and a half now, like red bumps around my legs. Is there another way to get rid of them that is not so expensive?
I don't know what's going on either! Last week I woke up with some pain in my upper thigh and I noticed little red bumps. Since then, I get sharp pains, and it is very tender. The red bumps have turned into dark, red spots, and looks like a bug just munched a path down my leg. I can even see what looks like "pincer punctures". It really hurts and sometimes sends a jolt of pain through my leg. What can I do?
i suspect my children and i were bitten recently during a vacation home rental - one son's bite turned into a staph infection and he spend a week in the hospital my other son got a rash and appeared to be fine and i have 2 or 3 marks that have faded in color but are still noticeable .but now we all feel very tired and have chills and fever and sometimes sore throat so I'm not sure if it was bed bug bites any advice ? our pediatrician thinks I'm crazy
So I recently found an apartment that I like and want to move into, but apparently there was a bed bug infestation when the previous tenant lived there. That person has moved out and all of his furniture is out as well. The apartment was then professionally treated. However, I'm still worried that the bed bugs could come back. Any advice? I really want to move into the apartment but don't want to deal with bed bugs at all.
i have special "bed bugs" that only live in the nose,throat,and ears.i heard this was a very rare occurance.one other person who had them went to U.T.M.B hospital in Galveston,Texas.he was given medicines to rid him of them.i sleep in a clean environment;but,still get them.the only thing that gets rid of them is green tea.after drinking hot green tea for an hour,i spit out bugs and eggs.they appear similar to ants;except they have long stingers[1/3 their total body length in size]and oval shaped bodies similar to a wasp.
I've been living with bed bugs for about 5 weeks now. I was preparing to move when i noticed i had them, and with soo many boxes cluttering my room and still a couple weeks till i can get out of this place ive taken to sleeping on the couch to avoid the infestation, which may or may not be working.. i still notice bites but not nearly as many as i got on my bed. I have been activly hunting the ones in my room using a can of raid the natural selection bottle said to kill using natural pesticides used in nature. seems to kill them on contact, but then u have a bed coverd in raid your sleeping on. somehow im not convinced there are no alternatives to calling in an expensive extermination squad, but i have had little luck in finding alternative remedies. As far as the bites, they look exactly like mosquito bites... infact i thought i was getting eaten by those flying pests at first. but when u scratch the bits they tend to swell into bigger bumps. also ive heard they like to bite in streight lines.
Any names of PRODUCTS THAT ACTUALLY WORK????
One word: VACUUM! It's cheap (everyone has one) and it works! I used to have a problem with bed bugs biting me at night---I was itching so much I could hardly sleep. Then I saw on Oprah that the cheapest, most effective way to rid yourself of those night time feeders is to vacuum EVERYTHING! Not just your carpets, rugs, and drapes. But most importantly, vacuum your mattress, sofas, and any pillows that are not washable using the attachments of your vacuum cleaner thoroughly every couple of weeks. Combined with washing your linens in hot water (with bleach) you should be able to manually remove those bed bugs just as good as (if not better than) a professional.
The absolute best treatment, and most affordable would be to call Terminix. Why??
1) They give unlimited re-treatments for an entire year! Bed bugs do not go away in one treatment.
2) Other companies like Orkin will want to tent your house, and fumigate. This is very expensive, and overkill!! It also costs THOUSANDS of dollars. Terminix uses a much lower cost treatment that does the same job, but costs a LOT less. They can even give you a payment plan!
3) The pesticides you can buy at walmart or home depot aren't anywhere close to the professional strength stuff. Bedbugs laugh at these chemicals. You need a special license and training to use the stuff professional companies like Terminix uses.
4) Fumigation only kills the larva and adult bugs. It will not kill the eggs. Bedbugs can live up to 6 months without feeding, and eggs can take 3 to 4 months to hatch. Again, there is no "magic wand", one time treatment out there.
5) Some professional companies will want to come to your home to inspect before giving you a price. Terminix can give you a quote right over the phone. Be prepared to pay about $500-750. Again, this for an entire 365 days of unlimited treatments!
I thought my husband and I had bed bugs since we share a bed and both have red mosquito bite like bumps.
It turns out that we have hot tub folliculitis. We bought a new hot tub and was too excited to wait to get in it until we bought chlorine so we went for it! Three days later bumps bumps bumps! There is a bacteria that grew from the lack of chlorine. It infected our hair folicules. This is great news compared to the possibility of having bed bugs. The bumps should go away on their own or with an antibiotic. So maybe you have misdiagnosed your self if you too have been in a hot tub lately!!
Definetly some people are allergic to the bites & some are not. That's why some people can go on forever & not even know they have bed bugs. The critters get around a lot easier than you think. I am a school teacher and we had an "unexpected visiter" join us by hitching a ride in a student's textbook. They are very, very, very hard to get rid of. I had a very minor problem about 2 years ago (I found & killed 3 bugs). I am certain they were coming in thru the walls from my neighbors who were dealing with a total infestation. CAULK! that is the key word. Plug up all wholes, cracks & crevices in floors & walls. Even so I still found another 3 in random locations thru-out my apt, i.e the bathroom, over the last 3 years. Granted they were 1/2 dead but as a species they appear to be very resilient to most efforts to irraticate them.
Thanks so much for your hot tub folliculitis comment. I had been searching for hours for the cause of my chicken pox-like rash. It began 72 hours after swimming in an indoor hotel hot tub that looked slightly greenish compared to the regular indoor pool water. I won't do that again.
Bed bugs are a very troublesome and psychologically burdening problem. I was getting bitten in my bed, so I moved to the couch in the living room in the middle of the night. I woke up at about 4 in the morning and had bugs on me and on my blanket. I was absolutely frantic, went into the bathroom and had bites all over my arms. I thought I was going to go crazy or something! Later, we found infestations of bed bugs in the matress, in the cracks of the flooring, in the bathroom, in the couch, behind picture frames on the wall, and more! You really have to call an exterminator for this problem because you will not be able to get all bed bugs by just spraying and vacuuming. We tried using bed bug spray, bug bombs, and more. One person cannot do a thorough job by themselves, without professional materials...get on the phone with an exterminator asap before bed bugs really start to affect your life.
I agree with using Terminex. An inspector came to evaluate my infestation. I would not commit that day. I immediately threw out my mattress and boxspring and my brother sprayed my entire room with something from Home Depot. I didn't feel that was enough and was about to call Terminex to come but the inspector followed up with me. They came that day to spray. He also suggested I throw out my carpet as I was going to replace it anyway. I also had all cracks and crevices sealed with silicone as he suggested. Two weeks later I had Terminex come back and spray. I had all non-washable clothes dry cleaned and washed everything else in hot water. I bagged everything I don't wear in XXX-large zip lock bags. I put my bedroom furniture in the garage. It's cold here on Long Island, NY. I also vacum,vacum,vacum the whole house regularly. I've also ordered a dry-steamer as a back-up to the extermination. The high heat will kill the bugs instantly and more importantly the eggs. It can be costly, however, I want to get rid of these bugs for good.
I want to thank you for your hot tub folliculitis comment, too. I could not for the life of me figure out what these tiny bumps are that are all around my ankles. They started itching yesterday and I was in a hot tub at the local rec center two days before that. I am so relieved that I don't have any bugs in my bed, especially since I couldn't find any! Thanks so much!
Hartz 2 in 1 flea and tick spray works on contact.
You'll still need to check regularly for the little buggers and re-treat your mattress if necessary. You really cannot see the ery young ones with the naked eye so it's hard to get them all with the 1st treatment.
i had bed bugs a few years back and none of the other members of my family were bitten only me. the exterminator told me that they prefer woman who have gone through puberty and menstruate. something about the scent we give off
My boyfriend lived in an apartment that was infested with bedbugs. His landlord called an exterminator who did his apt 3 times. He moved out and we put everything but his bucket of shoes in a shed and now he is infested again. These bugs are very tough to get rid of. We are now trying a powder bought over the internet that you vacuum up. Cover your mattress in plastic covers that helps.
I hate those nasty little pieces of crap!!! They feasted on me for several months until one day I was wearing light pink PJ's and I spotted one of them. Soon I realized that there were about 5 of them coming down to get me. It was the most disgusting thing ever!!! I bought gas bombs and toxic liquid for bugs but there are still some of them alive and feasting on my family. This situation is really frustrating because it's really hard to get rid of them once and for all.
Yeah I'm dealing with these things now. They were in my apartment and I had to call an exterminator and throw away my bed and a couch next to my bed. The first 2 nights I was fine then last night I got a couple bites again. We think its from these recliners we got off of craigslist, lots of small cracks and whatnot for them to hide in so we're tossing them too. Be very careful when picking up furniture from Craigslist I guess is the moral of this story.
We had them a year ago and haven't seen any since that time. We think we caught the infestation early. We started noticing them on the couch first. VACUUM! and get rid of any furniture affected. We got lucky. My Dad, who lived through bed bug hey day says nothing kills them. Hire an exterminator, today!!!!!
We had a rash for about three months before we knew it was from bed bugs. The doctor told us we were alergic to something - maybe soap. Anyway, I have been at my mother in-laws for the past 6 months while we have been at war with the bed bugs. We think we may have gotten rid of them. We exterminated but thats only good for 60 days. Bed bugs can live for up to 2 years without feeding. We have taken all our carpet out. They were under the padding. 2300 sq ft. We are laying tile now. Threw out the beds, bed frames, and one dresser so far. Not sure if we are going to throw out the couches yet. We also painted the whole house because they can leave eggs on the walls. We sealed the electical plates on the walls. They get into everything!!! Even alarm clocks by the bed. Books by the bed. I had to take a second on my house. Isurance doesn't cover bugs of any kind. I am claimming a casulty on my taxes. Good luck to all of you in this bed bug war. It's been 6 months now and I think we might win.
You think Bed Bugs are bad?! Another type of Bed Bug/Mexican Bed Bug alias The "KISSING BUG" is seriously deadly... My husband ended up in the ER. at 4:30 am after being bitten due to a very serious-life threatening anaphylactis shock reaction. It happened a week later and he had to give himself an Epinephrine injection before he became unconcious. Two weeks later I had a very severe reaction at 4am and had welts down my groin and axilla, tingling in my face and severe itching of my palms,scalp and bites.
Turns out, NOT to be food allergies but we found 2 Kissing Bugs under our pillows. They are nocturnal and feed on the blood of mammals. Usually,on un-exposed skin they stick their probiscus in without lighting on you. They inject their saliva which has an anestetic -so you do not feel them biting BUT if you are allergic to their saliva you will wake up itching and see bites. In my case it took three times to be bitten more than 8-10 times and the last time I developed anaphylactic symtoms. SCARY!!!!! Thank God for liquid benedryl...They are like dark brown beetles- 1/4 to 1/2 inch long and have wings criss-crossed on their back. Night time around lights outside and can enter in all openings. Will like to bite around your mouth as well due to breath emissions at night. GROSS... We are investigating an exterminater.
Really, it's not that big a deal: you need to go to Target and get plastic mattress bags that zip up, spray everything with any nooks or crannies with a Raid bug-bomb that contains Pyrethium and/or Permethium, wash all the bedclothes in hot water and a good detergent, and stay out of cheap motels. Believe me, this works real well. Can't hurt to re-spray every once in a while, either.
Still thinking about the "little pink pjs." comment...but anyway, Definitely get plastic covers for the bed. Both bed and boxsprings. Good idea for the pillow too because it can reduce mites (allergies). They make them now so they are plastic/rubber on the inside and cloth like on the outside so they don't "crinkle" when you use it on a pillow.
My apartment had bedbugs a year and a half ago. Since it started in the summer, I thought that they were misquito bites. That was until I saw that I was getting bit in places that I would have normally been covered up with clothing. I was the only one in the apartment getting bit. We threw out our bed, sofa, etc. Our apartment management charged every apartment that had them $300 when I feel they should have paid for it considering many of the other buildings were infested too. It took 6 treatments toget rid of them. They reproduce faster than roaches do. To top it all off, my neighbor across the hall has them. If they come over here again, I'm gonna be so mad.
My family has tried bombing the house twice, and using bedbug killing spray.I'v'e been vacuuming to try and suck the little bastards up, but thats not working either! and yet we are still getting bit! I never can see them unless I've just been bitten. I don't want to spend thousands on exterminating, but what else can I do? I've already washed and dried my blankets, sheets pillow, and my entire wardrobe twice, but is there no other option??? God I am so freaked out! I HATE BUGS!!!
I'm 56 years old, and I can still smell that bedbug, that walked acrow my head. Bedbugs have a smell to them. My mother would take all the matteress out side and hit the matteress let the sun kill the bedbugs. I was 11 years old and I hate them. Buy a new matteres and linen and don't look back.
ok folks i have had first hand experenice with these disgusting bugs. we moved into a rented mobile home and we needed furniture so the living room couch looked ok so the landlord offered to clean it we said fine, first mistake. there were bed bugs already living in the couch well they made their way to our bed and our infant sons bed as well. so before long we were waking up with these vile bugs sucking our blood as well as our baby so we had to throw away our beds they bombed our place twice still couldnt get rid of them just becareful in hotels look for brown residue on couchs and beds theirs your first clue the bugs are there these bugs are gross and much harder to get rid of than roaches or ants. i would not wish them on my worst enemy
I have been dealing with bed bugs aka scabbies for almost a year. i read almost all of these comments and thought to myself i have been there.This all started with a rash on my 2 yr old. ER gave him steroids. His finger and toe nails all fell off in a few weeks and had to regrow. Then he had bumps on his feet like blisters all over. Took him to the doctor and all they could say was it was hands foot and mouth. They couldn't give me anything for him they had to take there course. Then he starts getting them on him hands and is itching alot. He is itching all over. I took him to the ER and doctor and all they could tell me is that it was eczema. OMG i have but every itch cream on him and antifungal too. Then me and my husband and my baby and son are all itching like we have chicken pox. These were bites on the inner thighs and arms..and belly. I have treated me and my family 5 or more times and still have read little bumps and blisters on our hands. Oh yeah for some reason I noticed last summer i was at my in laws and when a mosito cant think how to spell that..bit me and left a pimple ...im not sure how all this has started my i know it has turn into scabbies. I have bleached everything several times..and this shit is worst than lice..I have used tubes and tubes of cream from the doctor and sprayed my bed with lice bedding spray.Oh yeah have not found any of those bugs that are in the pic..but I have itched some much in the last year I'm about to go crazy.Oh yeah HOT TUB PEOPLE look up blisters they are from bacterial and virus infection. Good luck all of u..oh yeah see a doctor because its an infection that will not go away. im in oklahoma and i think it is not just here but everywhere. crusted scabbies
I got rid of a minor bed bug infestation at our house. We brought bed bugs home from a $300 per night hotel in NYC. I suspect they were in the roll-away bed the staff brought in for my daughter and the bugs hitched a ride either on her clothes or stuffed animal. For a week or two after we got home, my kids were waking up every day with a fresh row of small, itchy bites on their faces and arms (they looked like flea bites). I found a bed bug by leaving out those special yellow sticky cards plant nurseries use to trap insects for identification purposes. For the next two weeks, I washed all their bedding and pajamas every single day. I read that the bugs often live in cracks of the floors or walls and travel to the bed at night so I moved the beds away from the walls, put the feet of the bed into plastic cups and smeared vaseline on the legs of the beds up three inches from the floor. I vacuumed the floors and mattresses and bed frames every night, making sure to go over every crack and crevice. I threw out one box spring that was old anyway. I steam cleaned the mattresses and rugs once. My kids slept with the light on for those two weeks. I bagged up any stuffed toys and pillows that couldn't be washed and stored them in the basement for an entire year (I read that the bugs can live for a year without eating!) After two weeks, I stopped vacuuming and leaving the light on at night and no more bites appeared. It was a ton of work but it was successful and I didn't have to spray any nasty chemicals. If you are dealing with bed bugs, I truly sympathize. Good luck!
We have had 2 treatments of liquid for the bed bugs, however only one was ever found by the guy doing the treatment. I left on vacation and still got bitten in Mexico, do you think my bites are really bedbugs or some other form of disease or post-stress, does someone know as I still am getting small bites and sometimes bigger ones...
bed bugs are totally gross. i actually had them. to get rid of them, i wrapped my mattresses and box springs in plastic bags and got rid of them. next i treated my room with Mule Team Borax, you can find it in your local grocery store laundry isle. all you have to do is sprinkle it in the corners and into the carpet, do not vaccum for a few days. it dries out blood-suckers killing them. it also works great for getting rid of fleas. by the time pest control came, the bedbugs were gone!
i dont no whats on my hands i think there bed bug bites but they dont iche, there lil red dots, i got like 4 on right hand and like 2 on other hand, and some on other body parts, not a lot though, if some one can help me with this i would really appreciate it thanks
I reacted to bedbugs with a severe case of hives and had to go the the emergency room 5 times in 36 hours, because they wouldn't hospitalize me for hives. Only IV antihistimines helped. it had been a couple months of my trying to figure out what soap i was allergic to. I woke up crying and in pain from the hives and my husband spotted one on the bed. our used box spring was probably the culprit. we wiped down and cleaned everything on that floor and immediately had our exterminator in to spray. he laid down a bug killer that sticks to them as they walk over it. the key was to have everything clean and no clutter when he came cause he had to spray everywhere. spray the laundry area too. bombs won't work. no problems since.
My sister, due to economic necessity has become a home grown expert on dealing with this recently recurring plague. She isn't sure whether she brought home the bedbugs from the Casino Hotel where she works, or if they infiltrated from an empty condo next to hers (she saw many around electrical wall sockets). She has sealed off the wall sockets with duct tape incase that was the source. Her method for dealing with them has been to first, completly dismantle the bed, second, to spray any live creatures with straight Ipsopropal Alcohol, which she keeps in a spray bottle, she uses Insect Bombs which can be bought in any hardware store, discount department store, most of them require 2-4 hours to work. Immediately after bombing, Vacuum everything, mattress, boxspring, headboard - back and front, bedrails, carpeting, floormolding etc. Then steam clean carpeting - with as hot of water as possible. She then put both the boxspring and mattress in plastic bags being careful to completely seal them so that any bugs which may have survived the bombing will not be able to escape the plastic and will eventually die due to lack of available food sources. She has said that vigilance is very important, and it may take more than one bombing to be sure that you've killed all of the live bugs and you must be aware that bombing will not necessarily kill unhatched eggs. You may want to do a second bombing 7 - 10 days after the first bombing. In any case best of luck.
Okay so My family and I went on a tropical vacation to the dominican republic.We stayed at a very beatiful resort and had royal service,which was not cheap..We were bitten by bugs the whole time we were down there..I saw mosquitos all over the room so I assumed the continuous bites were from them.The night before we left to come home, my 8 year old son woke up with 22 bites on the back of his legs.My daughter also had bites but I wasent sure if they were new bites or the bites from before.Both of my kids were sleeping in the pull out couch that was in this hotel..When we got home,I noticed red bites,on myself ,and both my kids..Once again,I asssumed they were old but some of them were really red and had a red cirle surrounding the bites..I washed all my kids clothes when I took them out of the suitcase but I havent washed ours it still on the floor in my bedroom..Im freaking out because Im not sure what it is and I dont know what to do ,if it is in fact bed bugs..as I read all these comments that people have posted,it sounds exactly like this is my problem especially since we were away and just got back and are covered in bites..If anyone knows what to do,please help me..I am really bugging out,literally !!!
i just had some one come to my house for bed bugs... DON"T boom... it makes thme hide and mate... so you will have ten times more...clean and bag what you dont use... bed bags are great to have.. make sure its air tight and on for awhile before you even think of taking it off if ever... sofas must go, so hard to treat..and get bug spray that comes in gallons...open widows when spraying... and wash wash wash ... respray...every two weeks.. spray every where... powders do not work...
SUITCASES NEED TO GO BYE BYE ASAP.. WASH ALL CLOTHS.. CHECK YOUR BEDS..THEY WILL GO 100 PLUS FEET TO FIND THEIR FOOD... THEY LIKE TO HIDE IN WALL BASES AND FLOORING, ANY WHERE DARK AND WARM.. COLD AIR DOES NEED KILL THEM..BUT YOU USUALLY WILL FIND THEM IN PLACES YOU SIT OR SLEEP ALOT.. THEY CAN SMELL US..AND FIND US.. SO ROOMS YOU ARE IN THE MOST IS WHERE THEY ARE..BEST TIME TO LOOK FOR THEM IS AT NIGHT BEFORE DAWN.. IF YOU FIND ONE BE SURE THERE IS ALOT MORE.. IT'S ALOT OF WORK TO DO YOUR SELF...EASIER TO CALL TO GET HELP.. I FOUGHT IT FOR TWO YEARS DOING EVERYTHING I COULD... I SEEMED TO ALWAYS MISS SOMETHING AND BAM THEY ARE RIGHT BACK... NOW I CALLED FOR HELP AND SAID BYE BYE TO MY SOFA... AND BED BAGS AND I HAVE NOT BEEN BITE.. GOING ON TWO WEEKS.. NOW THAY ARE COMING TO SPRAY AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THEY STAY GONE...
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