subject: Step By Step Guide To Keep New York Bed Bugs Out Of Your Home [print this page] Step By Step Guide To Keep New York Bed Bugs Out Of Your Home
New York bed bugs take Manhattan, but can you stop them at your front door?It's true these nasty little blood-suckers have been spotted all over New York City. There have been reports of them showing up in many unlikely spots. Victoria's Secret, Niketown, Abercrombie & Fitch, and even one report of a Google employee taking about them at Google's New York headquarters from her Twitter account.Many retailers have even begun patrolling their stores with bug sniffing dogs at night and even closing down for a few days to treat this issue.It boggles the mind to think how these little vampires can be in common everyday places you shop and/or work at. An even more disturbing thought is that you might pick one up while out shopping or at work and bring one home.There are steps you can take to avoid bringing them home. This article will explain step by step what you can do to avoid giving them a ride to your place.Steps To Take When Out Of The House1. Be Aware of Your Surroundings - bed bugs like to hide in cracks crevices, seams of clothing, mattresses and other cracks so just pay attention to what your touching, what you're near and keep your eyes open. 2. Look Before Buying - since they have been spotted in retail stores, thoroughly examine anything you take to the dressing room or decide to buy.3. Heat It Up Before You Take It Home - if you're overly concerned about missing something in your inspection of an item, you can do one more thing just to be sure. This only works if its clothing and can handle high heat in a dryer. Just stop by a Laundromat on the way home and put it in the dryer for high heat for 20 min. If you have a dryer at home, of course you can do it there.Steps To Take After You Get Home1. Change Of Clothing - when you get home immediately remove your clothing and wash in hot water if you have a washing machine in your home/apartment. If not seal them in a plastic bag and wash in hot water as soon as possible. Tip - if possible change as far away from the bedroom as possible and ideally right when you walk in the door. This might take a little planning, i.e. bag ready to seal up clothing, change of clothes ready etc.If you walk through the door and you husbands watching the game with his buddies or your wife's having a Tupperware party or the kids are watching TV, changing at the front door just isn't going to work, so be flexible.2. Heat It Up Again - If you are wearing a jacket/coat just toss it in the dryer on high heat for 20 min.Tip - When you can't use high heat on your clothing treat them with a non-toxic bed bug spray. There are many online, just make sure they are indeed non-toxic and labeled for use on clothing.After reading this article you now have a couple tools to keep your home safe. Now just put them to work. Don't worry if you can't do all of the all of them time, just do your best and use the ones you can.
