No one is safe from meeting with parasites.
Bed bugs are reddish -brown insects that feed on the blood of sleeping people and animals. Small (like apple seed, about 5 mm long) flat parasites can squeeze into the gaps with a plastic card thick.
They are easy to bring with you from places where there are many people at night: for example, from a hotel, hospital, train or bus.
Blopes need blood and many shelters. So insects can be found in impeccably clean houses and hotels.
Bed bugs can also get to you in used furniture (especially in beds and sofas), clothes and other items, as well as from a neighboring apartment.
How to understand that the bugs started at home
Clopes bites are easy to confuse with mosquito or flea or rash. So, in order to make sure, you have to look for insects themselves and traces of their habitat.
Learn the bites
Bite bugs. Photo: Hiro Yamagata / Flickr
Bugs are night parasites, so bites appear in the morning. Moreover, more often on the face, neck and hands – those places that are usually not covered with a blanket or pajamas. Reddish itching points form uneven chains or clusters.
Bed bugs do not tolerate diseases. And bites usually pass by themselves in a week or 2.
If the bites are itchy or hurt, consult a doctor. He will prescribe an antihistamine for you or other drugs.
Check your bed
If you have bugs, on the sheets and pillowcases you will find rusty or reddish spots.
Search the house
Eggs, skins and excrement of bugs. Photo: Pinkjellybeans / Shutterstock
You will have to search not only insects, but also small pale yellow eggs (about 1 mm long), their shells, as well as yellowish skins that dump the young individuals (they are fed five times for life). Also pay attention to dark small points – bug excrement.
Parasites must be sought where you sleep. Carefully inspect:
- the seams of the mattress, sofa, armchairs and other upholstered furniture, joints of sofa pillows;
- spring block of the mattress or sofa;
- any cracks in furniture;
- folds of bedding;
- folds of curtains;
- skirting board;
- space under the carpet, especially next to skirting boards;
- places under paintings, mirrors and other hanging objects;
- sockets and switches, especially the cracks around them;
- rarely used bedding and clothing;
- books;
- peeling paint, peeling wallpaper, cracks in plaster;
- Joints of wallpaper and ceiling.
Go through these and other secluded places with a flashlight and a magnifying glass. You may have to look for parasites at night – at a time when they are active.
How to get rid of bugs
You need to fight parasites as soon as you notice them. Otherwise, bugs will multiply and spread throughout the house.
Poppy
Go through a vacuum cleaner in all places where parasites can live.the seams of upholstered furniture with a hard brush – it will be easier to collect insects and their eggs.
Then carefully clean the vacuum cleaner. Seal the garbage in a plastic bag and throw it away.
Pack everything you can
Lay out all infected objects according to plastic bags. On the mattress, try to put a cover on a zipper through which bums cannot get through.
It is important that the packaging turns out to be sealed. So you will not let the insects crawl out and leave them without food. Without it, they can do up to a year. Then the insects will die. You can wait or speed up the process.
Change the temperature
At 50 ° C, bugs, their eggs and larvae die instantly. In addition, insects do not take a temperature below 0 ° C. Use this:
- Curtains, bedding and clothing are painted in hot water (from 50 ° C). Ideally, after dried things in a dryer at a maximum temperature.
- If things can not be washed, send them to the dryer for at least 30 minutes.
- Treat the mattresses, sofas and other places where bugs are hidden with a steamer.
- Put bags with things in the freezer or on a cold balcony for several days.
Furniture, things and other items that cannot be cleaned, it is better to throw it out.
Get rid of shelters
Lay the cracks in furniture, around sockets and skirting boards, glue the wallpaper. Try that there are no secluded places and extra objects on the floor next to the bed.
Also push the bed or sofa at least 15 cm from the wall so that the bugs could not jump to you.
Use chemicals
Even if it seems that you got rid of bugs during cleaning, treating the house with insecticides anyway.
For this, products based on pyrethrin, cypermetrin, chlorphenapir, chlorpyricon, neononicotinoids, their propetrine or phention are usually used.
Bed bugs are sold in the form of sprays, powders and liquids. Read the instructions for use carefully and follow it. When processing, use a respirator, glasses and gloves.
Bugs may not disappear the first time. Just in case, inspect the house every seven days.
If you can’t get rid of bugs yourself, call specialists.
How to prevent the appearance of bugs
Here are some tips:
- Before entering used furniture or other things into the house, carefully check if there are bugs.
- Do not scatter clothes and other things on the floor.
- Often wash bed linen, curtains and carpets and clean furniture.
- In the hotels, be sure to check the seams on the mattress and other places favorite bugs. Put the luggage not on the floor, but on the table, cabinet or chest.
Bed bugs are reddish -brown insects that feed on the blood of sleeping people and animals. Small (like apple seed, about 5 mm long) flat parasites can squeeze into the gaps with a plastic card thick.
They are easy to bring with you from places where there are many people at night: for example, from a hotel, hospital, train or bus.
Blopes need blood and many shelters. So insects can be found in impeccably clean houses and hotels.
Bed bugs can also get to you in used furniture (especially in beds and sofas), clothes and other items, as well as from a neighboring apartment.
How to understand that the bugs started at home
Clopes bites are easy to confuse with mosquito or flea or rash. So, in order to make sure, you have to look for insects themselves and traces of their habitat.
Learn the bites
Bite bugs. Photo: Hiro Yamagata / Flickr
Bugs are night parasites, so bites appear in the morning. Moreover, more often on the face, neck and hands – those places that are usually not covered with a blanket or pajamas. Reddish itching points form uneven chains or clusters.
Bed bugs do not tolerate diseases. And bites usually pass by themselves in a week or 2.
If the bites are itchy or hurt, consult a doctor. He will prescribe an antihistamine for you or other drugs.
Check your bed
If you have bugs, on the sheets and pillowcases you will find rusty or reddish spots.
Search the house
Eggs, skins and excrement of bugs. Photo: Pinkjellybeans / Shutterstock
You will have to search not only insects, but also small pale yellow eggs (about 1 mm long), their shells, as well as yellowish skins that dump the young individuals (they are fed five times for life). Also pay attention to dark small points – bug excrement.
Parasites must be sought where you sleep. Carefully inspect:
- the seams of the mattress, sofa, armchairs and other upholstered furniture, joints of sofa pillows;
- spring block of the mattress or sofa;
- any cracks in furniture;
- folds of bedding;
- folds of curtains;
- skirting board;
- space under the carpet, especially next to skirting boards;
- places under paintings, mirrors and other hanging objects;
- sockets and switches, especially the cracks around them;
- rarely used bedding and clothing;
- books;
- peeling paint, peeling wallpaper, cracks in plaster;
- Joints of wallpaper and ceiling.
Go through these and other secluded places with a flashlight and a magnifying glass. You may have to look for parasites at night – at a time when they are active.
How to get rid of bugs
You need to fight parasites as soon as you notice them. Otherwise, bugs will multiply and spread throughout the house.
Poppy
Go through a vacuum cleaner in all places where parasites can live.the seams of upholstered furniture with a hard brush – it will be easier to collect insects and their eggs.
Then carefully clean the vacuum cleaner. Seal the garbage in a plastic bag and throw it away.
Pack everything you can
Lay out all infected objects according to plastic bags. On the mattress, try to put a cover on a zipper through which bums cannot get through.
It is important that the packaging turns out to be sealed. So you will not let the insects crawl out and leave them without food. Without it, they can do up to a year. Then the insects will die. You can wait or speed up the process.
Change the temperature
At 50 ° C, bugs, their eggs and larvae die instantly. In addition, insects do not take a temperature below 0 ° C. Use this:
- Curtains, bedding and clothing are painted in hot water (from 50 ° C). Ideally, after dried things in a dryer at a maximum temperature.
- If things can not be washed, send them to the dryer for at least 30 minutes.
- Treat the mattresses, sofas and other places where bugs are hidden with a steamer.
- Put bags with things in the freezer or on a cold balcony for several days.
Furniture, things and other items that cannot be cleaned, it is better to throw it out.
Get rid of shelters
Lay the cracks in furniture, around sockets and skirting boards, glue the wallpaper. Try that there are no secluded places and extra objects on the floor next to the bed.
Also push the bed or sofa at least 15 cm from the wall so that the bugs could not jump to you.
Use chemicals
Even if it seems that you got rid of bugs during cleaning, treating the house with insecticides anyway.
For this, products based on pyrethrin, cypermetrin, chlorphenapir, chlorpyricon, neononicotinoids, their propetrine or phention are usually used.
Bed bugs are sold in the form of sprays, powders and liquids. Read the instructions for use carefully and follow it. When processing, use a respirator, glasses and gloves.
Bugs may not disappear the first time. Just in case, inspect the house every seven days.
If you can’t get rid of bugs yourself, call specialists.
How to prevent the appearance of bugs
Here are some tips:
- Before entering used furniture or other things into the house, carefully check if there are bugs.
- Do not scatter clothes and other things on the floor.
- Often wash bed linen, curtains and carpets and clean furniture.
- In the hotels, be sure to check the seams on the mattress and other places favorite bugs. Put the luggage not on the floor, but on the table, cabinet or chest.