Question by brokenmotion1:
Get bitten in bed but I see no sign of bugs anywhere. Help!?
I lay in bed and a few minutes later I have little raised mosquito type bites on my arms and legs that itch like crazy. I don’t see anything at all. No bed bugs. No fleas. I even bombed the room with Raid that is supposed to kill pretty much everything but that didn’t work. I’m going crazy. help!
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Answer by Donnie
welcome to the bed bugs,,,they don’t just die with bug spray…
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u have bed bugs u cant see them because they r so small u have to wash all linen and treat the bed with a bed bug spray
Take all the sheets, blankets, and pillows off the bed and put them in a big garbage bag to hold them. Spray the mattress, box springs, frame, headboard, and the floor with cat flea killer with pyrethrins so you get it into any crack that the bugs are hiding in. Pyrethrins don’t hurt mammals but they kill bugs and fish. Then cover the mattress and box springs with a hypoallergenic cover (probably called a mattress cover…) used to hold in things that people are allergic to. Don’t get a plastic one, they are very uncomfortable to lie on. It might be one big zippered bag that you put both into or it might be two different bags for holding each one. Take the garbage bag of things from your bed to a laundromat and wash everything in hot strong detergent, that is detergent many time stronger than its supposed to be, and add a handful of Potassium chloride pellets (used for water softeners, about 2 or 3 times more expensive than normal salt but worth it for this) because Potassium makes the detergent more toxic to bugs. Then wash the same things in normal hot detergent and add chlorine bleach if the colors can stand it. Then dry at the laundromat on the highest temperature setting with softener sheets until the sheets and everything are pretty much baked. Then put the hot things into fresh garbage bags and seal them and take them home and put somewhere that they can be insulated for a while so they cool down slowly for hours at a time. Put a fitted mattress pad on the bed over the bed sack thing (also probably called a mattress pad…). Put a high thread count fitted sheet over the mattress pad. Put a high thread count normal sheet over the fitted sheet and tuck that in. Put your normal bed things on the bed as long as you think the bugs are killed, bleached, and baked out of existence. Cover the pillow with a hypoallegenic cover to hold in any bugs. With all that any live bugs in the mattress, box springs and pillow will be trapped inside the hypoallergenic bags. There is a thick layer of tightly woven cloth between the bed and you so nothing can sit and poke its snout up thru the sheets into you. Any other bugs would be coming from off of the bed over onto you to bite you and you can get rid of those on the sheets by washing them and using bug killer to kill the others.