If you think they’ve gotten into your carpets you can vaccum your carpets well, then sprinkle common household iodine free salt all over the carpeting. Leave on the carpet for a couple of hours, then come back in and vaccum up all the salt. You can sprinkle tops of box springs and mattresses with the iodine free salt too, the finer the salt the better, so Kosher is probably not the best for this. The salt burns the bed bugs, flees, ticks, ants little bodies and they either die off or high tail it out of the place.
Oh, as far as stuffed animals if you think they have them. Vaccum them, then put them in a zip lock bag that can hold them. Stick them in the freezer for about 72 hours and the bugs will be dead. Just revaccum them after freezing to get off any little dead bodies that you might not see.
That’s pretty surprising that bed bugs are reaching that far and expanding. I’ve always made sure to take a shower before I go to bed that way I am my cleanliest, I treat the bed as a sacred place so to speak, and yup I always make sure to change my bedsheets every week!
Jean that seems a bit excessive. I would only take such precautions if I were directly exposed to bugs or other filth. Changing bedsheets every week would add up to a lot of unnecessary laundry.
Do you ever know, how bed bugs come to know that some one is out there on the bed and they come out for the feast. They smell our body. If we keep clean ourselves then we can reduce body irritation.
Great tips from both PTLG and Lauralee, thanks. I’ve been paranoid about bedbugs from a young age when while waiting at a train station wearing shorts, my thighs were bitten by them. It itched and hurt so much I still remember it. From then on, I’ve been very watchful and wary of them everywhere I go.
I admire those writers who share the best of their knowledge in writing such articles. Keep up the good work and continue inspiring readers.Thank you so much.
If you think they’ve gotten into your carpets you can vaccum your carpets well, then sprinkle common household iodine free salt all over the carpeting. Leave on the carpet for a couple of hours, then come back in and vaccum up all the salt. You can sprinkle tops of box springs and mattresses with the iodine free salt too, the finer the salt the better, so Kosher is probably not the best for this. The salt burns the bed bugs, flees, ticks, ants little bodies and they either die off or high tail it out of the place.
Oh, as far as stuffed animals if you think they have them. Vaccum them, then put them in a zip lock bag that can hold them. Stick them in the freezer for about 72 hours and the bugs will be dead. Just revaccum them after freezing to get off any little dead bodies that you might not see.
Thanks for the great suggestions Lauralee. I hadn’t seen anything about the salt, but makes complete since.
That’s pretty surprising that bed bugs are reaching that far and expanding. I’ve always made sure to take a shower before I go to bed that way I am my cleanliest, I treat the bed as a sacred place so to speak, and yup I always make sure to change my bedsheets every week!
Till then,
Jean
Jean that seems a bit excessive. I would only take such precautions if I were directly exposed to bugs or other filth. Changing bedsheets every week would add up to a lot of unnecessary laundry.
@Aluminum, better to be safe than sorry though right?
-Jean
Do you ever know, how bed bugs come to know that some one is out there on the bed and they come out for the feast. They smell our body. If we keep clean ourselves then we can reduce body irritation.
Great tips from both PTLG and Lauralee, thanks. I’ve been paranoid about bedbugs from a young age when while waiting at a train station wearing shorts, my thighs were bitten by them. It itched and hurt so much I still remember it. From then on, I’ve been very watchful and wary of them everywhere I go.
I admire those writers who share the best of their knowledge in writing such articles. Keep up the good work and continue inspiring readers.Thank you so much.
Those are some excellent tips. After spiders, bed bugs creep me out the most.