What can you spray on bed bugs to get rid of them?

Question

What can you spray or whatever to get rid of bed bugs? What can you put on a mattress?

Answer 1

To address the previous answers:
1). Never steam clean a mattress as the residual moisture will prompt growth of mold, mildew, fungi and spores.
2). Avoid spraying the common types of cleaners as most are chemical-based and flammable.
3). Across the board, people who live in the south are no more intelligent than the people (sic, yankees) who live in the north...how absurd and totally ignorant! Bed bugs do not nourish themselves on a persons' body oils...they suck your blood, period. Dust mites nourish themselves by surviving off the 1.5 million skin cells that humans shed daily. They do not bite people.

With that said, the task of toting mattresses outdoors to beat the dust (and crap, literally) out of them, then exposing the mattresses to the natural cleansing abilities of the sun (UVA and UVB light waves) has become a mostly forgotten, spring-cleaning chore. This truly is an absolute necessity for improved health and even more so today than in decades past due to improved (air tight) energy-efficient construction methods.

Now for your question. First, confirm that you really mean bed bugs. Oftentimes and quite erroneously, dust mites have been referred to as "bed bugs." These are two very different animals. Dust mites are microscopic and next to impossible to spot with the naked eye. Bed bugs are quite visible and so are the tale-tell signs of infestation such as, bite marks, fecal droppings (small reddish-brown spots), and even small blood stains on the sheets.

If you truly mean "bed bugs"...create barriers from where the bed bugs hideout and your bed.
1). Pull your bed away from the wall
2). Place a light coating of vaseline on the legs of the bed, or
3). Place the legs of the bed into empty tin cans then add mineral oil or vegetable into each can
4). If there is a sham on the box-spring, take it off to prevent access to bed from the floor, likewise, do not allow the bedspread/sheets to reach the floor.

Again, if you really mean bed bugs...you will more than likely want instant gratification by wanting them dead NOW! So you have 2 choices, call an exterminator (best choice) or do it yourself with available pesticides. Bed bugs are nocturnal and typically hideout behind furniture, wall hangings, bed frames, and in cracks and crevices created by molding and trim. IF, you have holes in your mattress they could be inside the mattress.

Once you have your instant gratification (dead bed bugs) begin a preventative measure to thwart future incidences.
All natural, non-toxic, non-flammable (very important for mattresses), chemical-free and odorless, Enzyme Cleaners are becoming very popular due the multitude of uses that these products provide.

Ideal for every home environment, "green" (eco-friendly) enzyme cleaners reduce the prolific chemical usage presently found in name brand cleaning products. They are especially ideal for persons who are susceptible to chemicals and the volatile organic compounds (VOC's) emitted by typical chemical-based cleaning products through casual use. Kid-friendly, pet-friendly, totally safe...this product can even be used on humans and pets as a body wash or shampoo!

The enzyme cleaner I use is also non-magnetic, or non-static, meaning that once a surface is wiped cleaned there is no chemical residue left behind (of course) AND the freshly cleaned surface (furniture, counters, picture frames, Knick-knacks, etc.) will not attract dust, unlike conventional, chemical-based cleaning products!

What do you want to clean, sanitize and sterilize?
Any and all household surfaces can be cleaned with an Enzyme Cleaner and at extremely economical costs without any chemical residue or VOC's.

Need an all-natural pesticide?
Enzyme Cleaners attack pests (fleas, bed bugs, dust mites, scabies, lice, roaches, silverfish, etc.) by causing the insect to pre-molt and die, unlike pesticides which attack the central nervous systems. Pesticide residues also attack YOUR central nervous system, to varying degrees.

Call around to various merchants in your area and ask what they have to offer in the way of enzyme cleaners. Health food stores will probably stock such items. Try it out and if you like the product and for even more economical savings, look at purchasing it by the gallon over the Internet. The product I use for my business and home use, cost me $75.00 per gallon, BUT, it's super-concentrated and requires a mix ratio of only 1 ounce per gallon of water. This equates to $0.72 per gallon (when shipping costs are included). What other cleaning product can you buy for just $0.72 per gallon plus the cost of a gallon of distilled water? I think a gallon of bleach even costs more than that...but I don't really know for sure because I haven't had the need to purchase any bleach for a very long time.

If you would like to know which product I use...feel free to send me an email.

If by chance you meant dust mites and not bed bugs...visit the link below. It's cost-free info "76 Tips to Reduce Dust Mites and Indoor Allergens"

http://www.sterilmattress.com/ebook_dust_mite_removal_tips.html

Answer 2

The people from up North who are the full-fledged Yankees are not going to know what I am talking about but I have a solution. Back years ago, tuberculosis was alot more rampant than it is now, especially up north. Part of the reason for this is what you sleep on. In the South, it is a common practice to sun your mattress. People may laugh at you, but you will be able to tell the difference. Even if you are the cleanest person in the world, after a while, your bed needs to be freshened up besides washing the sheets. If you will take your mattress outside and let it set in the sun for a couple hours on each side, it will freshen up your mattress considerably. Make sure that it is really sunny and hot. It will make your mattress fluff up, it will kill the bed bugs that live off of the oils on your body, and wipe out the odors from your mattress.

Answer 3

you can buy cans of bed bug spray.

Answer 4

Anything that can't breathe can't live, wraptthe mattress completely in plastic mattress covers, and if you can stand it, spray some type of strong cleaner onto the mattress b4 wrapping. You may want to put some type of odorless bug trap in the bottom of the mattress.

Answer 5

ha ha too funny! BED BUGS really aren't real.
pyrethrins won't hurt u. try vacuuming and a steam clean of mattress