Bed bugs!!!!!
@myworld_and_you (1223)
Philippines
March 23, 2007 8:52am CST
DOes anyone of you here knows how to get rid of bed bugs? I wasn't able to sleep well today because I just found out about two bed bugs in my bed! I didn't even know where they came from when in fact, my sister and I clean our room regularly. I got some bug bites on my left arm and on my right leg. Good that it's not quite big anyway. It's so itchy. WHat I did was I took them off my bed and killed them. Then I replaced my bed sheet with a new one. THen i cleaned our room again. Hope I'm not gonna see them again. Not in my bed, not in my room, not even in our apartment! :)
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@klystron635 (1519)
• Philippines
23 Mar 07
You ain't going to kill your bed bugs that way. The only way I know to get rid of the pests is heat. So basically you have to let the sun touch your bed and let its heat kill the bugs. I had bed bugs when I was a kid. During that morning when I wake up I was so shocked to see rashes on my legs and my arms. Lots of rashes! I have to go to the hospital because of that. The doctor gave me an ointment good for animal bites and she did told me that the best way to kill bed bugs is left the bed under the sun.
@myworld_and_you (1223)
• Philippines
23 Mar 07
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm gonna do it right there and then after my work today. Thanks a lot. :) Hope it would really really help a lot. :)
@Modestah (11177)
• United States
23 Mar 07
Oh dear! I would not be able to sleep either. To see if your things are infested - move your bed away from the wall as well any furniture near the bed like a bed stand. See if you find a trail of their droppings or eggs, little raised bumps. That is a tale tell sign, as are shed skins, and little rust colored spottings on mattress and wall.
A sweet and musty odor accompanies severe infestations.
You could get bed bugs even if you are a clean person. If you bought your mattress used, or even if you bought it new they could have them, as some disreputable companies will recycle old mattress innards, putting a new mattress topping/cover and sell them as new (some even at high prices). A bed bug can live over a year without a host! and are easily transported from one place to the next on such things even as your luggage...have you or your housemates stayed in a hotel recently?
If you live in an apartment complex your little blood sucking visitors may have even come to you from another tenant on another floor!Getting rid of them may prove very difficult if you do not hire a professional pest control service. maybe your landlord should foot the bill?The use of insecticides on your bedding is the general advice on getting rid of them, but again....yikes, do you want to have your face breathing in pesticides for 8 hours a day? I would be very cautious of doing that.
In the meantime, rather than only putting on clean sheets buy yourself a zippered plastic bed bag to put your mattress in - as well you can purchase a plastic zippered cover for your pillow, then put your cleaned (and dryered) bed linens over. These plastic bag coverings are made for people who have alergies, and should be readily available.
Best of luck to you.
@myworld_and_you (1223)
• Philippines
23 Mar 07
This is such a very informative one. Thanks for the concern and for the suggestion. Now, i'm thinking it might did come from my matress or from my wall. I'd like to throw it off and buy a new one. But as what you have said that even new matresses sold can still have them, i think I'm gonna follow what you have advised on put some pest control or spray some insecticides. If it still won't work, then it would now be the time for me to hire for pest control service. I don't want to sleep on my bed anymore. Maybe tonight and for the other nights to come, I'm gonna sleep with my sister on her bed. And once everything is done with these bed bugs, I'm gonna go back sleeping to my bed. Thanks a lot! :)
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@catcai (1056)
• Philippines
23 Mar 07
By bed bugs you mean like "surot"? is your bedframe made out of wood? if it is, may i suggest you try to remove your matress first and spray the entire bedframe with insecticide and dont use it overnight...to make sure that the bed bugs are killed. As i have heard they do multiply fast too- so better you deal with this immediately. Even if you already killed 2 there must be more from where that came from... happy bed bug hunting!





