Bed Bugs are a huge, growing problem that are expensive financially but even more so emotionally to deal with. The trauma of being attacked and bitten at night can take a huge toll on you with lack of sleep, ugly bites all over your body and an emotional trauma of helplessness. Sleeping on the couch is no alternative as they will track you there with your release of Carbon Dioxide and expand their area of operation and your problem. Now you may have to discard your couch too.
You are your own first line defence against Bed Bugs. You must educate yourself and minimize your exposure to bed bugs by reading reviews of hotels you are going to stay at or apartments you are going to move to, in order to see if there are incidences of Bed Bugs.
You must learn the telltale bed bug signs and inspect your hotel room for them. If there are bed bugs in the room in large numbers a 100 bites in one night is not out of the question.
When you return from a trip -DO NOT BRING YOUR LUGGAGE INTO THE BEDROOM – if anything leave them in the garage or basement, but if you don’t have time to wash your clothes put them in the dryer for 20 minutes.
Your dryer is vital. 20 minutes of high heat in dryers will kill bed bugs, bed bug larvae, and bed bug eggs.
Certified Bed Bug Proof Zippered Bedding Encasements:
If you have bed bugs they will be trapped in your mattress and box springs and eventually die. And in the meantime will be unable to get at you to bite you.
Coupled with bed bug interceptors that can help prevent bed bugs that reside off your bed from getting on the bed to bite you, will help you sleep at night.
Contact a local pest control company to determine if you have bed bugs and eliminate the threat now.
