Question by stix:
bedbugs – how do you get rid of them for good…?
the east coast is being sucked nightly – forgive the wordage…
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Answer by abbyyy
sorry there is NO way of getting rid of them for good unless you BURN the matress! you are better off getting rid of it and buying a new one. a short-term remedy would be to try sleeping with the lights on, since they are nocturnal. you can call an exterminater
look at wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug#Self-treatment
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Plastic covers, a professional bedbug guy, and peroxide.
I don’t imagine you ever could since all bed bugs are, are microscope dry/dead skin eaters that live in various places on or near your body on a daily basis anyway. You can burn as many mattresses as you want to, they’re always going to come back. I guess it’s a good thing they’re harmless isn’t it?
sounds like a party…JK Seriously, If you take your mattress outside on a hot sunny day and let it sit out in the grass for a few hours and flip it over and do the other side, it will not only get rid of bedbugs it will fluff you mattress up and make it smell more fresh. In the South it is a pretty common practice. Sunning your mattress will cut down on sickness that you would get as well.
I have never had bed bugs but this is what a book says to do that I have. Reader’s Digest -How to do just about anything. Ridding your house of these biting pests. Red-brown creatures up to 1/4 in. long, bedbugs may enter a house in clothing, used furniture, or luggage. They hide in the seams of mattresses and bedding, in the crevices of bed frames, behind baseboards and window and door frames, and in cracks in the wall. Bedbugs emerge at night to feed on the blood of their sleeping victims. In addition to itching, signs of an infestation include a strage odor in the room or tiny streaks of blood in the bedding. Use a household formulation of the insecticide malathion. Spray it on the bed frame, on baseboards, on window and door frames, and on walls several feet above the floor. Let it dry for four hours before using the room. Air bedding daily, in the sun if possible, until bugs are gone, Mattresses and bedding used only by adults can be sprayed lightly with a solution of 0.1 to 0.2 percent pyrethrum. Good luck.