How To Get Rid Of

As you all know, bed bugs are small, parasitic insects that live by feeding on the blood of humans and other warm animals. They mostly operate at night and aren’t noticeable by the victim. These nasty creatures are extremely persistent and can live up to a year without food – e.g. your blood. A bed bug female lays around 300 eggs and they hatch in about 10 days.

There are various methods you can use to get rid of bed bugs:

1. You can call a professional team in order to get rid of bed bugs and follow their instructions. You may want to clean everything up and find out where bed bugs come from before the professionals come in as well as remove any clutter. To do that, you may also want to use an integrated pest management approach that involves several measures starting from preventing them bed bugs from appearing in the first place. Adjacent rooms/apartments also need to be get an inspection from said professionals. Since getting rid of bed bugs is a tough problems, the pros will need active assistance from you in any way possible.

2. You can change your bed sheets twice a week and wash everything in hot water (min 120 F), including your pajamas so you could get rid of bed bugs. If you can’t launder some items, then you can put them in a bag and expose them for several days to temperatures exceeding 120 F. Better yet, if you can afford it, get rid of them entirely and call the pros. These nasty bed bugs also die from freezing temperatures but it takes almost two weeks for them to do so.

3. Apply rubbing alcohol over the eggs of bed bugs by spraying in order to destroy them.

4. Pesticides. Pesticides were widely used in the 1940s to exterminate bed bugs in the United States but this tactic is no longer allowed due to side effects. Maybe that’s why they’ve been making a comeback lately.

5. Bed bugs can also hide inside paper, so getting rid of any old sheets of paper or paper products might mean getting rid of bed bugs.

6. Use Pronto’s special product for bed bugs. It is generally available in stores. Or other similar insecticides.

7. Vacuum the entire house, including mattresses, carpets and other surfaces, then dispose of the vacuum cleaner’s trash bag.

8. Steam clean carpets in order to get rid of eggs and bed bugs that escaped the vacuum cleaner.

9. Cover all cracks inside your house. This helps prevent bed bugs from reappearing in case you just got rid of them.

10. Set the house on fire and start clean. Just kidding.

Here are some tips that’ll help you prevent getting bed bugs while traveling:

1. Examing your room for any bed bugs hiding places.

2. Check the mattress of your bed for eggs, bed bugs or any other strange stains.

3. Use a flashlight to check any activity while you sleep. A bit paranoid this one, but it’s better then getting the bugs and transporting them to your home.

4. Don’t leave clothes on the bed. Enough said.

5. Close the luggage when you’re not using it.

6. Keep the luggage off the floor.

This concludes our article on how to get rid of bed bugs. I hope it has been of help to you. Don’t hesitate to post comments below in case you have used other bed bugs removal options successfully or if you can add to our article in any way.