If you think there are bed bugs in your living environment, don’t move from the bed to the couch to sleep, they will just follow you there.

You need to fortify your bed from bed bugs.

Do a quick visual inspection looking for bed bug fecal matter, looks like black pepper, blood smears and bed bug casings.

Look first at your top of the bed in between the mattresses. Bed Bugs like to be near their food source. If you have a headboard, inspect it and consider detaching it and removing it from your bed.

For the legs of the bed get climb up interceptors to prevent bed bugs from getting on to your bed. They are simple but ingenious in that the two collection areas help you determine if the bed bugs are already on the bed or coming from a location not on the bed directly. Regardless, they will keep bed bugs from climbing up the legs of the bed and with the bed away from the wall and the head board off, bed bugs not on the bed can’t get to you.

Now you need to fortify the bed itself. It is wise to steam clean the bed and the box spring, pillow and bed frame first, look closely at the frame, bed bugs are very clever at hiding in small areas where screws are etc.

With that complete get bed bug proof mattress, pillow and box spring covers. They come with special material that bed bugs cannot slip through and zippers that lock so the bed bugs cannot slip through. Beds cannot be sprayed with pesticides and box springs in particular are perfect hiding places for bed bugs. Your only course of action is to trap them, their larvae and eggs in the box spring, mattress and pillow with these bed bug covers.

Bed Bugs are so prevalent and spreading, that basically everyone should get these covers for their mattresses, box springs and pillows and climb up interceptors whether they suspect they have bed bugs or not. The odds you will be exposed to bed bugs at some point in your life is almost 100%.

The psychological trauma of bed bugs and the stress and lack of sleep that ensures cannot really be described. People do crazy things to try and stop the bites like spread diesel oil over their beds which can and do results in tragic fires.

Do not move to the couch; fortify your bed and get some experts in to help you.

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