Bed Bugs!

[peppapigrocks]

O.M.G!! I have bed bugs! this is gross! i will not sleep tonight! does anyone have any tips on naurally getting rid of the buggers?!

Insomnia is actually the biggest issue with bedbugs health-wise. Natural is difficult with bed bugs. The best 'natural' way to get rid of them is with heat. You can get professionals to seal and heat your house and it will effectively kill them. There are 'natural' chemicals like the one derived from chrysanthemums but they aren't very effective and the more chemicals we use the more they adapt.

For clothes, a hot wash and hot dry will kill them. Solid things you can leave out in a sealed black bag all day in the hot sun and it should kill them. Unfortunately, they can live in electronics, behind sockets, in joints of furniture. You need a professional really...

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That is meant to kill most of the bed bugs.

My brother had them and nothing killed the blighters, they were covered in vile bites. Get the mattress out of your house before they start elsewhere.

Your local council will prob get rid of them for free for you (ours did) but they do use chemicals.

Don't throw out your mattress. Contrary to popular belief that's not where they will be. It's most likely the bed frame, bedside furniture, headboard or soft furnishings near the bed where you'll find them. That's why they are so hard to shift with chemicals. Heat treatment is the best way to get rid.
I used these (servicecare bedbug solutions) and it worked but obviously it depends where you are.

you need a professional although you can start the job yourself; you do need 'chemicals' , i.e. the strongest insect spray you can get, Boots did a good one. Strip your beds and hot wash everything, if your machine is not big enough for the sheets and pillows do them in the bath or launderette.
Put the mattress on its side and spray the bedframe, skirting boards, floorboards etc.
When you have done your best, all it will do is keep them at bay until you call Rentokil or similar.

btw they even live behind wallpaper as they can flatten themselves.

Stupid question of the day - how do you know it's bedbugs not Mosquitos or something else? Fleas?

We found them hiding between the carpet and the skirting as well. We did not have a bad infestation as caught them early, and it still took two sprays from a professional to kill them. We also took the bed apart, steamed all the joins and the joins in the wardrobes, chest of drawers. You need professional treatment they are hardy little sods and if you mess around they will just get worse. If you remove your bed wrap it in plastic before you take it out your room to stop any getting anywhere else. We even had one spring up several months later, I could have cried when I saw the bites but luckily we found and killed it by squishing.

Noodle, the bites tend to run in lines of 3 - 4 bites where they wander along merrily snacking on your blood! I thought it was fleas and called in pest control but once they saw the bites, they knew it was bed bugs.

Fleas tend to bite lower legs, bedbugs bite anywhere, in 3 bites as Harry says - they call them breakfast, lunch & dinner bites

We had it twice and both times the council got rid of them with chemicals. They dont neccesarily start in the beds could be any pièce of furniture especially if its new. They can lay dorment for months at a time . They are bronze in colour and get about as big as a ladybird when full of blood. Their eggs look like grains of rice.

They usually bite the face and neck as they are attracted by the carbon dioxide in the breath