Bedbug Treatment

It is very difficult and unpleasant for a person to be in the same room with bedbugs, since they multiply very quickly. And if you take into account that the treatment of bedbugs is a long and painful task, then you completely give up and you get a feeling of real horror. But whatever one may say, there is a problem and it must be solved, and the sooner the better.

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Bedbugs - who is it?

In general, at least 50,000 species of bugs live on Earth. But we have only one species of bug that can bother us - the home (bed) bug. One bed bug is enough just to pump your blood once a week. But the problem is that the number of their individuals increases at a tremendous speed.

Important! These insects cause allergies or diseases, the causative agents of which can be transmitted through the blood. Therefore, if you find them in the room where you live, then you urgently need disinfection of bugs.

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How to determine that you got bugs in the house?

Bed bugs will not immediately make themselves felt, which is the whole difficulty of combating these insects. You will notice their presence in your house, or rather, in a bed, on a sofa or in any other sleeping place when the population is already quite significant. That is why often the global processing of an apartment from bedbugs is often required immediately, and not ineffective measures.

You can determine their presence in the house by the traces that they leave after themselves. Here are the main signs that bed bugs live in your house:

• Paths of red bite marks on the body, in about the same place.
• Small white grains in sleeping places are the larvae of bugs.
• Trash on the floor or on the bed in the form of a dead skin of bugs or their corpses.
• A specific smell similar to the aroma of cognac.

Important! The stronger the smell, the closer their habitat, as bedbugs emit such a smell to protect against other insects.

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Where can bed bugs come from in your home?

People in whose house bugs are waking up are increasingly wondering: where did they come from and why? The most common causes of bugs in the house are:

1. From neighbors who make repairs or have left the apartment for a long time. In this case, the bugs from hopelessness move to your room.
2. You can bring from the street on their feet or walking animals - on their wool.
3. Bring from rest, from the hotel, because in far from all hotels often disinfect bugs.
4. When buying furniture, there is a big risk to settle bedbug houses, primarily because of unsanitary conditions in warehouses where interior items are stored.

Important! Based on this, try not to buy furniture from obscure manufacturers or "from hand" if the user is not credible. When choosing a place to stay, do not be afraid to check the rooms carefully or ask questions to the maintenance staff about when the last time the treatment for bugs was carried out and whether they had any problems with these bloodsuckers.

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Ways to deal with bedbugs

Folk remedies have always been an alternative to chemistry, which insects poison, because of its simplicity, cheapness, speed. Therefore, today there are a large number of methods of disinfection from bedbugs for independent use, without high costs.

The most effective are such methods of processing from bugs:

• The mechanical method is the use of a vacuum cleaner.
• Wormwood branches laid out in an apartment or house - scare bugs with their smell.
• The effect of high temperatures - you need to make the furniture in which they live in high frost, or treat the same furniture with boiling water, steam.

Important! If there is little help from the above methods or they are currently not available, then you can try sharply smelling substances. For example, vinegar, turpentine, methylated spirits, solutions of naphthalene or kerosene. With a large scale of infection - it is better to call the apartment processing service from bugs.

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How will the bedbug processing service help you?

Special pest control services use proven substances and provide a guarantee of destruction. But their services are far from cheap, in addition, caustic chemicals must then be carefully removed.

Important! Some companies use drugs that are not very toxic to humans. Nevertheless, aggressive chemistry - poisons, there is chemistry. Any remedy for such treatment from bedbugs must be treated with caution and all rules of use must be strictly observed.

Based on how serious the problem is in your apartment, the conclusion can be made as follows:

• if you need to get rid of a large number of insects, then it is better to call a service;
• if just prevention or treatment from bed bugs with a small number of them, then folk remedies will suit you.

Important! Disinfection services spray chemicals that have a faint aroma, but most often have no smell at all. These substances do not leave marks on the treated surfaces, although sometimes you can notice a gray coating on the varnished surfaces, which is easy to wash off with a damp cloth.

Specialists process all upholstered furniture, carpets, cracks in the walls. For the full effect, you need to process the entire room.

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Traditional methods of treatment from bedbugs

For many reasons, some do not want to use chemicals and processing services in the fight against bugs. For such people there are grandfather methods and various folk remedies.

The most common of these are the following.

Sagebrush

The secret of its action is a sharp bitter smell, which a person tolerates quite normally. In any case, the bugs do not like the smell of wormwood, but they are not going to die or run away from it, you should only hope for a temporary lull.

Tansy

This folk remedy for treating an apartment from bed bugs is slightly stronger than the previous one. Tansy is a poisonous plant with yellow flowers. In the summer, when these flowers appear, they need to be collected and dried, then decomposed in the places of greatest activity of insects.

Important! Both of these tools will help temporarily get rid of bed bugs, but they do not kill them, but are driven out of the territory. That is, there is a considerable chance that the pests will simply run into another room. But you can put these plants overnight in the bed and around it (do not forget to open the windows), and then bedbugs will definitely not bother you this night.

You can not use these herbs for cribs or in rooms where children are located, all the more so leave flowers and leaves in the public domain for them.

Vinegar solution

A vinegar solution has also proven itself as a means for treating an apartment from bedbugs. But like herbs, he can only scare insects away; he does not pose mortal danger to them.

As for humans, and for bedbugs, vinegar is fatal only in large quantities, so the greater the percentage of vinegar in the solution, the more effective the remedy will be. Also, in order to achieve maximum results, it is worth processing every millimeter of the surface and every gap.

Important! The minus of this solution is that vinegar erodes very quickly, that is, treatment from bedbugs should be repeated several times a day.

There are several other solutions in which vinegar acts very effectively:

• Naphthalene, vinegar and 90% alcohol. This solution will be effective only in direct contact with an insect. Such a tool can be an alternative to sprays and aerosols.
• A decoction of wormwood and vinegar. Excellent remedy with a pungent odor. Most often it is used for prophylactic purposes and is treated with possible passages and crevices in which bugs live.

Bedbug Poisons

You can also get rid of bugs with the help of home-made chemical solutions:

1. Denatured alcohol. It is not worth treating the surfaces with this tool, since there will be little benefit. In pure form they simply pour water on the bugs themselves and their eggs - they die immediately.

Important! Do not forget that this tool is combustible, so take care of fire safety.

1. Ammonia. It should be poured in its pure form in a saucer and placed in the places of the greatest activity of bugs. But also do not forget that ammonia provides a mortal threat not only to bedbugs, but also to pets.
2. A variant of a mixture of the two previous agents. Having mixed all of the substances listed in the first 2 methods, it is worth pouring the resulting substance onto saucers. She will be the most effective home disinfectant for bedbugs.
3. Aviation fluid. It is used similarly to denatured alcohol, also in pure form.
4. Cresol + naphthalene + kerosene. It is prepared in such proportions: 100 ml of cresol, 10 ml of naphthalene and 200 ml of kerosene. You will also need a brush, which you need to apply the finished mixture to the places of the greatest activity of bugs.

Important! Most of the chemicals listed above are very toxic and can corrode not only rubber gloves, but also the skin of a person. Therefore, when preparing and using these mixtures, you need to be as careful as possible.

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If professional treatment for bedbugs is now beyond your strength due to how much it costs, or if you fundamentally do not want to use aggressive pesticides, choose only proven folk remedies. Only in this case you can count on a certain level of effectiveness.