How To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs
How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs – 3 Tips to Eradicating Bed Bugs At Home
Author: Eddie Saunders
If you want to know how to get rid of bed bugs, then fortunately for you the process is not very complicated but can be tedious at times. If you have been a victim of bug bites, then it is a good idea to treat those first using ointments to soothe the irritation and itching. With that said, here are 3 tips to helping you eradicate infestation problems for good.
1. Use insecticides in the affected area
One of the best methods to get rid of bed bugs is using insecticides that are specifically designed for this purpose as they quickly eliminate any infestation problems. Be sure that you first identify where they are and to start by spraying a light mist on your mattress, furniture and carpet for several days. Depending on how severe the problem is, you may even need to do this for up to a week so be patient.
2. Check all cracks and use a steam cleaner
The next thing you need to do is check all possible places in your room where these pests may be hiding such as in your mattress, behind wallpaper, inside cracks and even in electrical outlets. Then proceed to use a steam cleaner on all the visible places you see as they are extremely vulnerable to heat. It may be helpful to first vacuum your room and moving relocating your furniture to a different room.
3. Hire pest control
If all else fails, then you probably have a more severe infestation problem than you realize. If after following these above steps for up to week and if you are still noticing bites all over your body, then it is time to call in professional help. Be sure to deal with a reputable company that knows what they are doing.
Learning how to get rid of bed bugs is not a difficult process but it does take time and patience. Be sure to follow these above steps by using insecticides along with a steam cleaner around the affected area and to call in professional exterminators if needed.
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November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-1
From my past experiences, what I would do is remove all your sheets and wash them or least soak them in hot water. This helps to kill the bed bugs lurking inside your sheets.
Next you have to tackle those that are hiding in your bed. You need not throw the whole bed away but you do have to take the measures to getting rid of bed bugs before you sleep on them again.
What I suggest is this: Take a sharp pointed object or a needle and run the sharp tip through the inner seams along the corners of the mattress. Once you see the bed bugs crawling out from their hiding places crush them to kill them.
Continue this process until you have covered all 4 corners and the flip side of the mattress too. Then take the whole mattress out into the sun for a couple of hours making sure it gets to bask in the hot sunshine.
Vacuum the bed frame and floor board under the bed frame to eliminate any remaining bed bugs while waiting for the mattress to finish its sun baking session.
This should help eliminate the bed bugs that have infested in you bed. Spraying a little of the bed bugs eliminator will now help to prevent them from returning to haunt you in your sleep again.
As for your bed bugs bites, try to keep cool in the next couple of days until the itch subsides else it will only aggravate the itchiness you experience.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-2
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.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-3
No offense to the others who have answered, but I’m the editor of the Bed Bugs Handbook. First, getting rid of bed bugs is hard to do. You are better off contacting a reputable exterminator for an on site inspection. You can start by calling a well known company such as Terminix for a free onsite inspection/estimate (toll free # – 877.291.4849). Other firms that have experience are fine too (make sure the exterminator they send has bed bugs experience.
Getting rid of bed bugs is hard work and requires a full days work. The steps are outlined in the resource provided. That said, here are the basics.
1. Assume they are everywhere, mattress, box spring etc.
2. Bag and wash all washables – blankets, sheets etc. Preferably place all washables in a Ziploc big bag or other container that seals, so you don’t drop bed bugs everywhere. Wash on hot followed by 20 minutes in dryer.
3. Vacuum entire room with vacuum and then all corners, mattress edges, etc with a brushless crevice tool.
4. Treat mattress with a mattress safe bed bug spray such as Sterifab.. If you have a hand steamer, steam all seams and around labels. Move mattress out of the room.
5. Treat the box spring, both inside and out with same spray (I like Sterifa (links in source link below)
6. Remove contents of night tables and drawers. Throw out what you can. Please rest in sealed container or treat.
7. Remove electronics and dispose or seal in container for at least a year (to starve bed bugs).
8. Spray cracks, crevices, bottoms of furniture drawers etc (make sure spray doesn’t stain).
9. Inspect around wall switches etc.
9. Steam carpets and add some disinfectant to the carpet cleaner.
10. Get zippered covers for mattress and box spring after spray dries to trap any bed bugs you miss.
11. Apply a light coating of bed bug dust. Also called diatomaceous earth. It kills bed bugs eventually when it sticks to their outer skin.
12. Put back mattress and box spring. Consider placing Climbup interceptors under each bed leg to see if bed bugs are gone. You can build your own interceptors or bed bug trap (see resource).
Sorry for the long and detailed instructions, but you need to inspect and treat every inch of that room to make sure that the bed bugs are gone. Even with all this work, the room may require 2 or 3 treatments.
If you have any questions, you can use the form in the resource below.
Hope this helps. Again, call in a pro if you can afford it.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-4
I read the other answers, and was surprised. Use a pesticide for goodness sake and clean up the mess. Wash linens in hot water, vacumn the matresses after the pesticide. Good luck. The sooner you address this problem the better. Do you know what all this critters can do to you? Infections leading to staphs gane-green. I hope you don’t have kids sleeping in that house. They are most likely in all beds and around the whole house. You CAN SEE THEM WITH THE NAKED EYE.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-5
Throw it out. The only type of chemical that controls them is pyrethrin, but it may not penetrate the fouton deeply enough to kill the bedbugs. Meanwhile, the bugs may get into your sofa or chairs. A few years ago my next door neighbor bought an infested mattress and the little critters got into my apartment. I had an exterminator come several times to spray my apartment and my mattress, but these bugs are very tough and the pyrethrin did not kill them. I had to throw out the mattress. I also didn’t want to sleep on a mattress that was covered with insecticide. My neighbor threw out her mattress too. She was bitten so badly that she had to go to the doctor several times. The whole incident was so disgusting that I can barely write about it without feeling sick! Throw it out.
August 9, 2006
2:13 am #comment-6
How to discreetly get rid of bed bugs?
My wife and I live with the inlaws in S.E Asia, the house is normally immaculate. Our bed room is very small with a great deal of books and papers – she has a lot of clothes and little things everywhere. I picked up my book which is right next to the bed at night to see 3 of these little buggers run out from the pages – I squished them on sight! We’ve pulled the bed from the wall and thouroughly vacuumed it and the walls and crevices, tomorrow we plan to put all of the books and clothes in plastic bags with the hopes that if there are any more bed bugs – they will die in the plastic bags!
We really don’t want to alert her mam as she WILL respond badly and look for someone to blame – so we’d prefer to get rid of these things without her knowing (or) if she were to find them herslef and we could just play dumb and be surprised!
They haven’t really bit us all that much – we seldom have any bites do you think that this meens that there aren’t so many bugs at this stage?
February 18, 2008
5:41 pm #comment-7
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.
April 3, 2008
8:33 am #comment-8
How do I get rid of bed bugs out of a futon mattress?
My fiance’s old roommate gave him a futon and the mattress has bed bugs. How can we get rid of them without just having to throw the mattress away?
September 12, 2009
6:04 am #comment-9
How to get rid of bed bugs?
Hey all,
Recently when I go to bed, I get these sharp painful bites over my body from bed bugs. They have become a major annoyance and I’ve tried changing my bed and blanket sheets to no avail.
What can I do to get rid of these bugs in my bed? Your responses will be of a great help to me.
Do they also live inside blankets? Because one time I covered the top of my mattress with cling wrap and still got bites (though much less).
July 27, 2010
2:15 pm #comment-10
how to get rid of bed bugs?