First published: 21 March 2022 @ 6:00 pm
You can easily find bed bug in your bed nowadays. Not only are they annoying and ugly, but they can also be very dangerous.
If you want to protect your home from these pests, you need to know how to treat bed bugs in your home. Here is how to treat bed bugs in your home.
What Are Bed Bugs?
Bed bugs are small insects that feed on the blood of humans and animals. They usually hide in beds, furniture, and other places where people sleep.
Bed bugs can bite humans and animals at night while they sleep, which causes itching and skin irritation (like red bumps). The bites can also cause small rashes that itch as well.
The bites are usually painless but can be very itchy or painful if you scratch them. You should see a doctor if you have a serious reaction to the bites or if you have trouble sleeping after getting bitten by bed bugs.
Bed bug bites usually appear on the skin of the upper body or face (like behind the ears or on the neck).
They often appear as small red bumps that look like pimples or pimple-like bumps on the skin surface of the victim’s body (especially behind the ears). However, some people do not get bed bug bites on their skin at all.
Bed bugs are very small insects (about the size of an apple seed). Adult bed bugs are about 1/4-inch long and flat. The adult bed bug has six legs and looks like a tiny, brown, oval-shaped tick.
The legs have small black markings on them that look like tiny feet. Adult bed bugs also have a light-colored head with three dark-colored spots (like a triangle) on it.
Bed bugs have three dark-colored spots on their bodies that look like an “X” when they are in a sitting position.
They can be found anywhere in your home, including in furniture, mattresses, curtains, carpets, beds, and in other places where people sleep.
Where Do Bed Bugs Come From?
Bed bugs come from somewhere outside of your home. It is likely that you brought them into your home yourself by using clothing or luggage that was previously used by someone else who had been bitten by bed bugs.
It is also possible that you bought used furniture or clothes from someone who had been bitten by bed bugs and brought them into your home with you as well. Bed bugs can be hiding in the small cracks in furniture.
Or it could be possible that you purchased new furniture or clothes from a store and brought them into your home with you.
Bed bugs can also be transported in luggage, purses, backpacks, boxes, or other items that people bring into their homes.
Where Do Bed Bugs Hide?
Bed bugs are small insects that hide in places where people sleep. They can be found anywhere in your home, including:
- Beds
- Sofa beds
- Mattresses
- Box springs
- Curtains
- Carpets
- Pillows
- Clothing (especially bedding)
- Linens (like sheets and pillowcases)
- Bedding (like mattresses and box springs)
- Other places where people sleep (like behind headboards or inside headboards of beds)
How to Prevent Bed Bugs from Attacking Your Home?
Bed bugs are small insects that live inside your home. They can be found anywhere in your home. If you want to prevent bed bugs from attacking your home, you need to take the following bed bug control steps:
- Keep your home clean and organized.
- Vacuum your home often. You should vacuum at least once a week. Vacuuming daily is even better.
- Change your sheets and pillowcases every week. Do not use the same sheets or pillowcases for more than one week.
- Wash all bedding and clothing in hot water (120°F or higher) for 30 minutes or until it is completely dry.
It is possible to kill bedbugs easily by using heat treatment. A solution that uses heat kills bed bugs immediately, but there is no residual problem.
Killing bed bugs using chemical treatment requires a few weeks, but it will leave a residual that provides protection from bed bug re-infestations.
What Are The Most Effective Bed Bug Treatment?
Bed bug treatment options are different for each person depending on what is most effective for them.
Very resistant to chemical treatments, their cryptic lifestyle and rapid reproduction cause bed bugs to become hard to get rid of. You may need to try several different types of treatments to get rid of and control the infestation.
That doesn’t mean it is impossible though.
You may try to get rid of bed bugs in your home, your apartment, or even a hotel or nursing home. With all the treatment options that are available today, it is possible to get rid of bed bugs.
How long it takes to get rid of bed bugs depends on what elimination method you choose, how serious the infestation is, and how thorough the treatment is.
Here are some effective ways to treat bed bugs in your home:
- Cleaning and sanitizing your home with a bed bug pest control treatment.
- Treating furniture and bedding with bed bug encasements.
- Use bed bug mattress encasements on mattresses.
- Treating carpets with bed bug carpet cleaners.
- Treating clothes with bed bug stain removers.
These treatments also include sprays, dusters, foggers, wipes, and aerosols that you can use to clean and sanitize your home for bed bugs.
Bedbugs can linger in carpets, curtains, and even wallpaper seams. For that reason, chemical treatment with insecticides is almost always required to get rid of an infestation.
If you don’t have time to do these on your own, you can ask for help from services that provide a professional treatment. Sometimes a second treatment a few weeks later is necessary to get rid of the nymphs that hatch from eggs after the initial treatment.
What are Bed Bug Encasements?
Bed bug encasements are specially designed covers that fit over your mattress, box spring, and pillows to protect them from being infested by bed bugs (and other pests).
The covers are usually made of plastic, which makes them waterproof and very durable (they can withstand heavy wear). Bed bug encasements can be found at most hardware stores and online retailers.
They are also called “bed bug mattress covers” and “bed bug mattress encasements.”
In conclusion, bed bugs are very dangerous pests that can infest your home and cause a lot of problems. Bed bug treatments are important if you want to protect your home from these pests.
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