is there any simple way to get rid of bed bugs?

Question

is there any simple way to get rid of bed bugs?

Answer 1

- First of all, get rid of the bed. Dont buy a new one for some time.

- Call pest control guys. They have very good sprays and thats the only option to get rid of the damned things. High Street sprays wont work, call exterminators

- Dont enter that room - sleep in some other room

- Wash all your bedsheets and quilts in 60 C hot water

- If you see even a single bed bug in your wardrobe, wash all (YES, ALL) the clothes in 60 C hot water

- They can reproduce from one to 500 in one months, so make sure none is alive

- Take extra care with kids

- They feed on human blood, so (as I have already said) keep away from the infested room

- Call good pest controls guys (It will cost a lot), thats the only way out (I can recommend Rentokil)



I am having a medium infestation and after three sprays, almost all are gone. After the fourth spray, hopefully, they will all disappear

Answer 2

Unfortunately there is no easy way. Having been through the misery of having bed bugs, I can confidently say that you need to do three things: - 1. Vacuum the whole room very thoroughly, taking special care to vacuum inside the bed, if it's a divan, any and all crevices, inside any furniture, in the crack between the wall and the floor, any gaps or tears in wallpaper, the mattress and especially in the piping round the edge of the mattress. (Fold back the mattress piping!) Take drawers out of furniture, vacuum any and all crevices. (Anywhere and everywhere where the baby eggs could have been laid or the adults live. The eggs are white and look like a white fleck of dust. i.e. they are too small to see) The adults are very fond of wooden and paper things, in places where they can hide so pay special attention to those places. (Inside wooden furniture, bindings of books, the fabric of the house) This vacuuming session should take several hours. Dispose of the contents of the vacuum cleaner in a tied plastic bag in the outside bin straight away. 2. Have the room sprayed with insecticide almost immediately after doing (1). You will have to contact your local environmental health and have them do it as the stuff is not available to the general public. At the same time wash all of your bed sheets, covers and used night wear at 60'C. (When you strip the bed you could transport the things to be washed to the washing machine in a large sealed plastic bag if you really want to avoid spreading the eggs around your house.) 3. Regularly, as in once a week, thoroughly vacuum the affected area, including the folds in the mattress, any and all crevices in the room, especially where the floor meets the wall and wash all of your bed sheets & used night wear on a hot setting. (60'C) Dispose of the contents of the vacuum cleaner in a tied plastic bag in the outside bin straight away. The vacuuming session should be a "through normal" session - it does not need to be excessive. 1. Will make your life bearable, as you will be able to sleep and speed up the whole getting rid of them process. 2. Will kill the adults left over from (1). 3. Will get rid of any adults missed by (1) and (2) and will get rid of any eggs and adolescent bed bugs before they become adults and are able to reproduce. Adult bedbugs can survive for up to 18 months without feeding on your blood or that of your pets, so be prepared for a possible long drawn out process. The more that you get rid of faster by doing (1) very thoroughly the quicker you will get rid of them and the quicker you will notice an vast improvement. Once you have "blitzed" the room doing (1) and (2) and the first few times that you have done (3) the vacuuming can become less frequent, as you see fit. Just changing the mattress without doing the above will NOT get rid of them, as they don't just live on the bed - they live on it and around it in the room, in crevices in the furniture. They will come back and you will have wasted your money buying a new mattress for nothing. Just doing the insecticide spraying will not get rid of them. Just doing the vacuuming will not get rid of them. You will need to have the room sprayed and do quite a lot of vacuuming to get rid of them.

Answer 3

Though you may not ever get rid of them totally, there are things you can do to help. Unfortunately, I don't of any easy thing like a spray .

But, you can buy some mattress and box-spring covers. Also, pillow covers. You can buy them at any mass market store like Walmart. They just slip over your mattress and box-springs. Wash all your bedding in very hot water at least a couple of times a week.

Answer 4

There is always bed bugs... even if u just washed your sheets... (just not as many) they feed off of ur dead skin cells that fall of at night when u sleep... they are in your carpet and cloths too... u cant get rid of them but you should change ur bed sheets weekly to keep them from getting too bad, that could cause allergy problems.

Answer 5

Sleep on a cot, no bedding. Call an exterminator.

Bedbugs hide in clocks, telephones, clock radios, pillows, cracks, crevices, walls.



Sleep away from the sleep area, like a bathtub. Wash the sheets, bedding in very hot water or dry clean.

Answer 6

Oh, they are NASTY, ain't they?



Nope! No easy way, unless you call dialing up a professional exterminator easy---they have access to the super-duper killer chemicals--that's the only sh!t that will kill them damn bugs!

And they will multiply and move to other areas of the house and I do know someone who got a blood infection from being bitten during a biz trip to, well, it wasn't the Big Orange, it was the Big....you know.

Answer 7

that's very difficult, actually. you can wash your sheets in hot water and they would still be alive. Check with the pesticides aisle, or just change your sheets and mattress. a vacuum may help.

Answer 8

The best suggestion is to buy a new mattress.

Answer 9

Never turn off the light.

Answer 10

Buy a new bed.

Answer 11

No, you need to call an exterminator. They will just keep reproducing!

Answer 12

Use an insecticide.

Answer 13

EWWWW GET A NEW MATTRESS AND BOX SPRING.

Answer 14

Yes.....................did you want me to tell you?