Bedbugs. The word alone is enough to make the skin crawl. From Hollister to Victoria's Secret, it seems there is no refuge from these persistent little creatures. Here are some tips to to ensure the bedbugs don't bite.
Michael Colongione is a spokesperson for Pronto Plus, manufactured by Insight Pharmaceuticals. The advice and opinions he expresses in this article are his own.
By Michael Colongione, President and Owner of GotchA! Bedbugs Inspectors, on behalf of Insight Pharmaceuticals.
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if you have have wood baseboards wipe them with Murphy's Soap Oil (kills them on contact)
Spray your fabric furniture with Lysol (Kills them on contact)
then call in an Exterminator
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When traveling, put your clothes into zip-lock bags and after wearing, return them to the bags and seal it. When you get home, discard your luggage or bake it over 140-degrees for 4 hours (in the summer, leaving it in a hot car works) -- it has been in cargo holds.
If you find signs of an infestation, leave the room immediately, take your luggage and ask for another room--NOT next door, but preferably in another wing. If you find more signs there, you really must check out and let them know if they want to make that difficult, you will be contacting the local health department, the Better Business Bureau, filing a report on the hotel at www.bedbugregistry.com, and writing a full review on TripAdvisor.com--then contacting your lawyer. This should be sufficient to gain the cooperation you deserve.
They're elusive. This is what they look like > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11165108
You wake up in the morning with itchy welts and don't know where they came from. I went to the doctor because I thought I might have hives since I couldn't find any bugs. The bites are like large mosquito welts, red and very itchy. Because bed bugs crawl instead of fly like mosquitos, the bites tend to be in a straight pattern going in one direction. It was from the crawling pattern of the bites that the doctor concluded the welts were bug bites, although he thought they might be from chiggers. It was the exterminator who determined it was bed bugs.
The exterminator literally tiptoed in to my apartment, told me in a whisper to keep the lights off and to be very quiet as he crept into the bedroom. With one hand grabbing the edge of the mattress firmly and the other hand holding a flashlight pointing to the top of the bed, he simultaneously yanked the mattress off the box spring as he flicked the flashlight on. There they were, plump, red from a recent meal of my blood and scurrying to escape the light.
He fumigated the apartment and I had to wash every piece of clothing and fabric then and there. Expensive lesson. Don't buy secondhand beds.