Question by natibbkf:
How can I get rid of bed bugs?
I’ve had bed bugs for a while in my room (just realized what they are), so I got rid of my mattress & bed frame and sprayed my room, carpet & everything with the proper spray. But they’re still there. Is there any way to fumigate my room? Any product I can use?
An exterminator will come 2morrow, but it’s costly. I just wanna know what I can do to get rid of them if I find them in other rooms my apartment.
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Answer by Carina R
just clean you room every 2 weeks so it stays clean. that way, it’s easier and faster to clean than if you wait too long to clean it (this includes wash your bed clothes and pillow case every 2-4 days, it sounds like a lot of work but it’s not plus, u won’t have bed bugs!)
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They can travel thru the walls to other rooms as they are thin until they get blood in them. They can live in the walls and for awhile so you need to do all the attached rooms and yes getting rid of the other stuff was not a bad idea.
No need for sprays , just remove the matress and pillows , if it is a sunny day , bring them out of the house and place them under the sunlight . The heat of the sun can kill and remove bed bugs and other bad odors the matress has( also do this with the pillows, remove first the pillow casings and let them be heated ). No more BUGS and no NO more BAD SMELLS.
People on the two upper floors of my high rise began to get them because some fool was terribly infested when he moved in. He was thrown out days later, but they began to spread. The exterminator came within days to spray. A good friend of mine saw one in her mattress and promptly killed it. The exterminator must come in 3 wks. again to get any larvae or nits that hatched between sprayings. While we waited, I looked online and found the best article that Harvard University has compiled and written to help you out. It shows (a little disgusting but necessary) all the stages of the bed bugs life and how it lives. It suggests the best chemicals to use and how to wash and prevent further infestation. They are tenacious little buggers so they also give suggestions as to how to look for detect further problems. The link below hopefully will work to get you there. If it doesn’t, type “bed bugs” in your web browzer and look for Harvard University’s address. Wash all your clothes too. They don’t die on them. They can go for many months without feeding.
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/ehs/pes_bedbug.shtml
I hope things go well.
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Not to be a nag, but you really need to read this article. Heat does not get rid of them cold will. They live in begging. If you have a heavy infestation,, getting rid of mattress & pillow is not the answer. They live in wall, on furniture, frame, everywhere, because they do not feed every night on you. Heavy infestation will show eggs and all stages under seams of mattress, rugs. The article tells you what to do to keep them away from your BR and other parts of house. If they are in BR, they are in furniture. Only come out at night unless they are heavy. You need to encase mattress & pillow. Article tells you what to put on floor & legs of bed. They reproduce EVERY time they feed on your blood. They can spread everywhere. You do need to spray.
Vacuum, vacuum, vacuum….Even after they are killed, their nasty little bodies will remain on your mattress and pillows. Use your hose on our vacuum and suck those nasty things up.
Best wishes.
I’d get the exterminator to do the whole house. I would not want to mess with this again. Replacing a bed is expensive too.
oh i remember i had them once they are bitch to get rid of. nope, they can be hiding deep down inside the walls, and by spraying everything you just scare them away deeper into the wall, they will come back again. exterminator is the only solution, and it’s effective, mine said if they’ll come back he will do another session for free
oh and usually they charge you for ALL the rooms because you never know where the big relocate to, so he has to do all of them …
I use Bayer Advance home pest control, you can buy a gallon(with sprayer) of it in Lowes for about 8 bucks. My best friend had them in his kids room ans he said this stuff wipes em out pretty good but you have to keep up with vacuuming and spraying every 14 days or so. I did that and bombed. The Bayer stuff kills them on contact and if they crawl around it they die slow…I tested it on a few to make sure it works.