There are many steps involved when its comes to removing bed bugs from your home. The trauma can last Months and even longer if not handled properly.

This article is dedicated to protecting your bed and stopping bed bug bites. I myself went through the horrifying experience of bed bugs feasting on my flesh all night. It was the worst situation I have ever dealt with. I have decided to share the best way to stop bed bug bites quickly.

4 Easy Steps to Stop Bed Bug Bites

(1) Move your bed at least 6-12 inches from the wall. Bed bugs can’t fly and they can’t jump. One way bed bugs reach your bed is being transferred by clothes or objects. Another way is they climb up the wall and fall onto your bed. They also climb up the legs of your bed and eventually end up on your bed.

(2) Next remove your sheets, wash them with hot water. Now you want to steam clean your mattress and box spring. Heat kills bed bugs really well. You should invest in some type of bed bug steam cleaner to complete this task.

(3) Now the mattress is clean and your bed is away from the wall we want to protect your mattress from new bed bugs. We start by applying climbup interceptors to all 4 legs on your bed. This will stop new bed bugs from accessing your bed.

(4) Now the final step. We want to make sure all bed bugs that survived the steam cleaning are not going to get us. You want to invest in bed bug mattress covers, box spring covers, and pillow covers. These covers trap and kill bed bugs that are hidden. It will not allow any bed bugs to escape.

Make sure you do all of these steps in one day to get the best results. Also be aware of what you set on your bed, you don’t want to transfer new bed bugs onto your sheets. It is okay if you do just make sure you wash and change your sheets daily. The mattress and bed bug box spring covers will not allow any new bed bugs to penetrate.

I hope this helps you get some much needed sleep. Please leave a comment and share your feedback with me!

Don’t Let this Happen to You

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Bedbug signs can be anything from red dots to white little spots, these are eggs. Itchy raised lumps on your skin after a night of sleep, especially in threes can mean bed bugs have dined on you. Bed bugs are small wingless insects that are parasitic similar to mosquitoes and they feed on the blood of warm blooded creatures. To date there are nearly 100 sub species of bed bugs around the world, 92 to be more precise. Cimex lectularius is the most common specie known to feast on human blood as they adapt to human environment easily.

A flat, oval reddish brown, wingless bug covered in microscopic hair is what the average adult bed bug looks like. They grow from 4 to 5 mm in length. While the bug itself is visible their eggs are whitish and merely specs that are not always visible to the human eye without the aid of a magnifying device. Newly hatched or nymphs are more translucent in appearance and grow darker once they age. You can trap these nymphs from ever growing or feeding by using a Bed Bug Mattress Cover. They are not strictly nocturnal though they are much more active at night with a peak attack period an hour or two before dawn. Their bites catch you off guard as the marks, bumps or welts are are not necessarily apparent immediately. Different people have different reactions to bites, indeed, some people have a negligible reaction while others flare up. These are just some bed bug signs.

Allergic reactions to bites have been apparent in most people as the repeated bites have caused the skin to be sensitized to their saliva. The bite signs are misleading and can resemble the appearance of other blood seeking insects like fleas and mosquitoes. People bitten the first time sometimes even mistake the bites as poison ivy or spider bites. The distinguishing characteristic is the small red dot in the center of each bed bug bite.

Adult females lay as much as 5 eggs a day or 500 in their entire lifetime. As aforementioned these eggs are whitish in color sometimes they are visible enough to see without the use of magnifying devices. To prevent these eggs from ever spreading and to trap them inside your infested mattress you need to use an effective and proven bedbug mattress cover. These eggs can be found in crevices or cracks in the wall, floor, behind wallpaper, in furniture, baseboards and the like. Their flat characteristic makes it easy for them to find dwelling in tiny crevices. From its namesake bed bugs are often found living in beds, tufts, seams, mattress crevices, box springs the headboard or the bed frame can be itself their sprawling Beverly Hills neighborhood. While it is common for the bed to be their domicile, nightstands, sofas, upholstered chairs, clocks, telephones, wall fixtures, and even ceiling fixtures like your smoke detector is more than enough space to set up camp.

Initially they will usually be close to their meal, you, so the nest may start out in the crevices of the the mattress, box spring or behind the head board. Don’t let this happen and protect the spreading of bedbugs by using a mattress cover to lock in these nests. Look for little black spots. The black spots are their fecal matter. As the colony grows in size they will branch out to multiple nests. The best method to determine if you have them or not for certain is specially trained bed bug sniffer dogs.

Do not delay you have to learn how to deal with bed bugs before the problem explodes totally out of control. For example people often retreat to their couches to escape the bed bugs, but they will follow their food by your heat and carbon dioxide so you will soon have bites on your couch too.

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