I’ve been getting bit for two weeks now, and am looking for a product or method to find the bed bugs and then eradicate them. If you have any answers I’d really appreciate your help because I’ve slept maybe 4 hours in the last 2 days and I want to sleep but I don’t want to get bit.
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Boil wash the bedding and steam clean the mattresses but use insecticide spray on carpets around the bed
there in your mattress get rid of it,
wash bedding in Hot water
Cidercide was developed to kill sand fleas on our fighting men that are fighting in the sand. Hotels are using it for bed bugs. It can be ordered on line. I saw some cedar guard in a feed store. Places like Lowes might have it. http://www.cedarcide.com You will have to wash everything in your room. http://www.worldofbedbugs.com
Bed bugs are creepy, and can create havoc. You have to clean regularly and will likely have to get an exterminator. Get the facts at free sites like Treat Bed Bugs.
If you have pets, rugs, books, boxes, file cabinets, etc. They will hid everywhere, anywhere dark or small, even spine of a book. Newborns, about 100 will fit the head on a pin. Not comforting. Steam bed, move from wall, put mattresses in SEALED plastic (bugs can hibernate up to a year between feeds). You can put each leg of bed in a can of oil to drown them. Other legs use double stick tape around each. Double stick tape around bookcases and furniture legs. Remove any clutter and discard all junk, boxes, and if need to store stuff, use airtight boxes or plastic. Steam clean all floors, corners, any crack the size of a width of a hair. Wash all clothing, blankets, sheets in hot water and use dryer or hang outside in sun. Chemicals don’t always work, they can hid in yesterdays newspaper or a computer console, keyboard or even in lampshades. Steam is the best, next is using frozen CO2 from professional but runs from $200 to $600 a room. Using heat will kill them, professional can charge around $1000 an apartment to take it up to about 140 degrees F, but takes hours and you don’t want a lot of stuff in place to cook that long for those hours, like TV, electronics, phones, pictures, books, and books can still harbor them. Steam walls and use broom on ceiling. They will hid in cracks in wall, floor, closet and even behind bed and in couch. Remove all bathroom and bedroom rugs, curtains and blinds.
People have had to throw out rugs, boxes, and pack up books in plastic for years. Pets had to go to vet to be checked and have chemical bath and then regular one … worse than flees. Very expensive pest and come in with you from shopping, stores, clothes you order on line, shoes (leave shoes at door).
After you fix the bed for yourself–always take a shower before bed, and use fresh airtight pjs for the night, each night. Check oil traps and tapes regularly and change them. They will climb wall.
One kid filled up balloons with his own exhaled air (this attracts them), and set it on a small coffee mug heater surrounded by a circle of double tape and outside double tape, water or oil container. So they are drawn to the warm air, CO2 exhaled and leaves balloon and gets trapped. Keep tape around to grab a few you might see, use LCD light to check around room. Hats, wigs and scarfs, wash them and if you can’t use hot water, keep in airtight containers and check before using.
If you wash or have stuff dry cleaned, they leave little black spots behind (from their blood) that can’t get out any way. So see if you can check each article that is precious and white or light colored for them before washing. EVERYONE can get them, found in hospitals, five star hotels, subways, buses, restaurants, bars, churches, mosques, daycare, barns—any where.
If you live in a cold place, they can’t stand cold. Below 60 or just above freezing (so your pipes don’t), for two or three days will get rid of them too. But around here, its warm and they are spreading. So sorry to hear, easy to spread, even by mail.