Question by lovesmehendi:
can i get bed bugs from someone at work?
i work as a counselor at a medical clinic. some of our patients have bed bug infested apartments. can i get bed bugs from someone who has been in my office work space?
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Answer by Star B
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It is possible but unlikely.
Bedbugs can be carried on clothes, and then deposited in your workspace. They like to burrow away into a mattress, furniture or carpet during the day and don’t like human movement, so if someone had a bedbug on their clothes, it would most likely drop off before they left home.
They are nocturnal and don’t like being out in the open in the light, though, like on a cold linoleum floor, but if someone had them in their clothes and sat on your chair, it’s possible to have deposited the little bloodsuckers in your chair, carpeted workspace or even fabric covered cubicle.
Bedbug infestations have unfortunately been on the rise since the turn of the new century. The link below contains a trick for trapping bedbugs to prove an infestations:
“Glue traps placed in strategic areas, used in conjunction with heating pads or balloons filled with exhaled breath offering a carbon dioxide source, may be used to trap and thus detect bedbugs. There are also commercial traps like ‘flea’ traps whose effectiveness is questionable except perhaps as a means of detection.”
If you catch a few, insist on getting the workplace fumigated; you don’t want to bring the persistent little creeps home with you.
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