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If you are experiencing a bed bug infestation and you have done a bit of research, then you already know that encasement is one of your options. This basically refers to the use of a specially designed and manufactured mattress cover that will seal all the bed bugs in so that they will starve and die. Encasements have the additional benefit of providing you with immediate relief from the nightly bites of these blood-feeding insects, assuming that the source of your infestation is lodged in your mattress alone.

Buyer beware: more than one kind of mattress cover

It is important to understand that there are a great many different products on the market. Some bed bug mattress covers are impregnated with insecticides and work on the principle of being able to kill the bugs that come into contact with it; some of these covers even advertise that the chemicals will repel the bugs, keeping them away from your mattress and immediate sleeping area.

These claims in most cases are overstated. Research has indicated that these chemical laden mattress covers are not likely to truly repel insects. Indeed, it is even doubtful that they can kill on contact since bed bugs usually need to be exposed to insecticides for a considerable length of time measured in hours or even days before such exposure will kill them. The likelihood that bugs will stay in contact with the cover for that length of time is quite low.

In addition, these kinds of mattress covers do nothing to prevent infestation of close-by areas such as the bed frame and the box spring. For this reason, they are not likely to be completely effective.

Chemical toxins not the only choice

Even if chemically-laden mattress covers worked perfectly, consumers might be quite wise to avoid them since few of us really want to come into close skin contact with chemicals throughout the night. Even fewer people probably want to breath in the residue from chemicals which are intended to be toxic to some forms of life, even if those forms of life are insect in nature.

Physical encasement mattress covers offer another solution

Fortunately, there is another type of mattress cover that provides a much more satisfactory solution. The encasement mattress cover, often frequently referred to as simply an encasement, has been proven to be successful at controlling bed bug infestation. Indeed, experts around the globe recognize encasement as one of the primary methods by which bed bug infestations can be contained and controlled in the long term.

Advantages of the mattress encasement method

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