My wife and I live with the inlaws in S.E Asia, the house is normally immaculate. Our bed room is very small with a great deal of books and papers - she has a lot of clothes and little things everywhere. I picked up my book which is right next to the bed at night to see 3 of these little buggers run out from the pages - I squished them on sight! We've pulled the bed from the wall and thouroughly vacuumed it and the walls and crevices, tomorrow we plan to put all of the books and clothes in plastic bags with the hopes that if there are any more bed bugs - they will die in the plastic bags!
We really don't want to alert her mam as she WILL respond badly and look for someone to blame - so we'd prefer to get rid of these things without her knowing (or) if she were to find them herslef and we could just play dumb and be surprised!
They haven't really bit us all that much - we seldom have any bites do you think that this meens that there aren't so many bugs at this stage?
2006-08-08 22:13:06 · 9 answers · asked by randarui 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
I read the other answers, and was surprised. Use a pesticide for goodness sake and clean up the mess. Wash linens in hot water, vacumn the matresses after the pesticide. Good luck. The sooner you address this problem the better. Do you know what all this critters can do to you? Infections leading to staphs gane-green. I hope you don't have kids sleeping in that house. They are most likely in all beds and around the whole house. You CAN SEE THEM WITH THE NAKED EYE.
2006-08-09 01:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by Lori N 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Honestly not sure how myself. I have been battling bedbugs for 3 years and when I think I have gotten rid of them the damn things come back. First time I got them I lived in an apartment. I never had an issue until my numbers downstairs moved out. Then I started seeing the bedbugs crawling out of my electrical socket up my wall. I had them on my bed and even on my couches. I told our landlord and they had it professionally sprayed and what not. My husband and I actually got rid of everything with the bedbugs in. Then a couple weeks later I was noticing them on our couch again. I got very upset. Our landlord said that we had to pay for the second treatment if we got them back. Well I said no and bought some bedbug spray and vacuumed. Yet still was seeing the bugs. Then we moved to another apartment and still had them after cleaning our furniture and throwing out the stuff that was infested real bad. Now we have bought our own house and have a brand new bed and furniture. Well our bed is full of them again. We are on our 3rd bed in 3 years and don't have the money to keep going out and buying new. I keep spraying and trying everything I can think of but still nothing works. In my opinion I believe no matter if your a professional or trying to do it our self the bedbugs will never go away.
2016-03-27 04:56:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seen this on TV. and they said the only way to get rid of bed bugs is to call a professional.
They did a special on Dateline or some show like that.and Bed Bugs are BACK....It told about all the expensive hotels they were in and how you could take them home with you.
May be a site on line what to look for in hotels for signs of bedbugs. YOU can see them with the Naked EYE
I know this dont help much, but thats all I know
Good luck
2006-08-09 09:35:09 · answer #3 · answered by Sandra♥ 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
wash everything at at least 60 degrees which will kill them, vacuum everything including mattress more than once. open windows, they don't like fresh air, anything you can't vacuum shake out or wash with bleach.
question of how many bites, they favour some people more than others, something to do with skin type/smell - number of bites not necessarily an indication of how many there are. also if they are in a book next to the bed then there are loads already. sorry
2006-08-08 22:20:54 · answer #4 · answered by susan p 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would suggest getting mattress bags and sealing your mattress and box spring. Make sure you do not rip the bags so that they are air tight. Wash all of your linens in hot water and dry them at the hottest temperature. Put your pillows in the dryer at the hottest temp. Run the dryer for at least fifteen to twenty minutes. You may want to check them to make sure that the filling is not damaged.
2006-08-09 00:32:12 · answer #5 · answered by shierrabethel 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Mattress cleaning methods
http://www.askaquery.com/question/Mattress-cleaning-methods.html
2006-08-09 01:19:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sprinkle with bicarbonate of soda and salt and leave for as long as possible, then vaccuum it off. The Bicarb will freshen your mattress and the salt should freak the beasties out.
2006-08-09 03:54:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Bed bugs are small you need microscope to see them.Spray first with a repellant the what ever they are use a disnifectant and hot water or steam cleaner and clean the mattress let dry in sun. Then cover with mattress protector, if you havent got insect repellant smother the mattress with talcum powder this smothers them and vaccuum off.
2006-08-09 00:56:53 · answer #8 · answered by a mother 3 · 0⤊ 23⤋
I doubt they are bed bugs as they are so tiny you cant see them unless they are under a microscope.
2006-08-08 22:17:38 · answer #9 · answered by CrayzeeKat 3 · 0⤊ 31⤋