subject: How To Preventing From Bed Bugs [print this page] Bed Bugs are small red coloured blood sucking insect that are related with human infestation. Bed bugs like to hide in the dark places during day time. You can find them under the mattresses, sides of the sofas, hiding behind the soft furnishings and chairs, photo frames, under wallpapers, wall corners and other tiny warm places where they are close to human contact and are not noticeable. Bed bugs can live without feeding for about a year. So they can even live in vacant houses. Bed Bugs spread very easily, it is important to control them. Here are few tips to prevent beg bugs.
Check all spaces in your house that are warm especially near your bed.
When you return home from your trip, before unpacking luggage check for bed bugs. Make sure when you are bringing second hand equipments and clothes inside your home.Be aware of the places in the apartments which are familiar to get infested by bed bugs like split or gaps, furniture, warm and wet area, pipe cracks, and empty spaces between the walls that makes easier for bed bugs to pass from one apartment to another apartment.
Bed Bugs Infestation can very well hide into the mess and it is not easy for the chemicals to eradicate bed bugs and their eggs.Strong odour usually like raspberries or buggy in the house can be the sign of bed bug infestation. Bed bugs or its eggs and egg shells or peeled skin are also the sign of bed bug existence. Another sign of bed bugs is the bites that usually occur when the person is asleep during night. Bed bug can give rise to many health problems like skin rashes, severe itching and allergies. Bed bugs pierce the skin with their pointed beak and inject salivary liquid that contains anticoagulant with the help of which they get blood. This can cause the skin inflamed with itching that may lasts for few hours to days. Scratching may result in wound with mark that develops an infection. But bed bugs do not spread any disease.These are few of the methods to control bed bugs;Thorough cleaning by brushing the infested area with a hard brush to remove eggs, filling gaps and cracks in floors and walls.Pesticides are applied to gaps and cracks where bed bugs usually hide.Rub or spray the alcohol in the area where you find the bed bugs. Silica gel has the power to kill the bed bug when it comes in contact.
Dry steamers can also be used to kill bed bugs which are on the clothes or carpets.Integrated licensed pest management is the best way which involves multiple strategies like preventive methods, use of chemicals and cleanliness.
Getting rid of bed bugs is not a simple task as in almost all examples of bed bug infestation will need treatment by a professional pest control. Pest control services provide bed bug treatments that are safe and effective.
