Help! I think I have bed bugs!?

Question

Within the past week, I've been getting strange bug bites. I looked up pictures of bug bites online today and some of the bed bug ones are exactly like what I have.
So now what do I do? Wash everything? Call an exterminator? I read on one website that I shouldn't try to sleep somewhere else because they may follow me (I live alone) because I'm their source of food (EW!).
I went out of town last weekend (about 10 days ago) and took my pillow to the hotel. Could I have brought them back with me in my pillow and gotten bit this fast?

Help, I don't know what to do, I don't have a lot of money for an exterminator or new mattress (and I've heard the new mattress may not even help). And I can't sleep cause I feel like bugs are crawling all over me! Does anyone know how to get rid of them?

Answer 1

OMG! I feel for you. It is possible you brought it back from the hotel. You need to check the bags/case you carried it back in.

Then you need to check creases in the bed linens, and seams and tufts of mattresses and box springs, in particular, may harbor bed bugs or their eggs.

Also, they may also be found within pleats of curtains, beneath loose areas of wallpaper near the bed, in corners of bureau and dressers, within spaces of nearby furniture, behind cove molding, and in laundry or other items on the floor or around the room.

Vaccum and throw out the bag(s) or clean the bin if its bagless as well.

Some say to try Boric Acid (which works on roaches too)

Good luck.

EDIT: Read article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11962413/

Answer 2

If it is necessary to live with bedbugs in the short term, it is possible to create makeshift temporary barriers around a bed. Although bedbugs cannot fly or jump, they have been observed climbing a higher surface in order to then fall to a lower one, such as climbing a wall in order to fall onto a bed. That having been said, barrier strategies nevertheless often have beneficial effects: an elevated bed, for example, can be protected by applying double-sided sticky tape (carpet tape) around each leg, or by keeping each leg on a plastic furniture block in a tray of water. Bed frames can be effectively rid of adult bedbugs and eggs by use of steam or, used with caution, by spraying rubbing alcohol on any visible bugs (although this is not a permanent treatment). Small steam cleaners are available and are very effective for this local treatment. A suspect mattress can be protected by wrapping it in a painter's disposable plastic dropcloth, neatly sealing shut all the seams with packing tape, and putting it on a protected bed after a final visual inspection. Bedding can be sanitized by a 120 °F (49 °C) laundry dryer. Once sanitized, bedding should not be allowed to drape to the floor. An effective way to quarantine a protected bed is to store sanitized sleeping clothes in the bed during the day, and bathing before entering the bed.

And finally..
There is one known manufactured insecticide called D-20 that has an increased effectiveness of 10 times.

Answer 3

You can try spraying bleach mixed with water on your matress, and let the sun air it out to dry. Vacuum everything down get rid of the bag right after.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

throw away your matress

burn it

light it with gasoline and burn it