Bed bug symptoms: How to know you definitely have an infestation – best ways to rid them – Express

Bed bugs are blood-sucking pests with shocking reproductive abilities and mutated features that will make anyones skin crawl. Bed bugs feed on cats, dogs, other pets and humans and are immune to pesticides. This immunity to pesticides has caused their numbers to rise and outbreaks of the pests to become more frequent in cities around the world.

Environmental Protection Agency said: The common bed bug has long been a pest - feeding on blood, causing itchy bites and generally irritating their human hosts.

They are small, oval, brownish insects and have flat bodies about the size of an apple seed.

Bedbugs may enter the home undetected through luggage, clothing, used beds and couches and other items. Due to their shape, they can fit into tiny spaces making it impossible to find them.

What are the main symptoms you may have a bedbug infestation?

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Bedbugs are active mainly at night and usually bit people while they are sleeping. Bed bugs feed by piercing the skin and withdrawing blood through an elongated beak.

The bites are initially painless but later they turn into itchy welts.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said: Many people have mild to severe allergic reactions to the bites with effects ranging from no reaction to a small bite mark to, in rare cases, anaphylaxis.

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Main symptoms of bed bugs

If a person wakes up with itchy areas they didnt have when they went to sleep,may mean bedbugs, particularly if they have a used bed or other used furniture.

Other signs of bedbugs include seeingon the sheets or pillowcases, dark or rusty spots of bed bug excrement on sheets, mattresses,and walls, bedbug focal spots, egg shells or shed skin in areas where bed bugs hide or an offensive, musty odour which comes from the bugs scent glands.

How to get rid of them

If a person suspects they may have an infestation, they must remove all bedding and check very carefully for signs of the bugs or their excrement.

Remove dust covers over the bottoms of box springs and examine the seams in wood framing.

Peel back the fabric where it might be stapled to the wood frame.

The bed needs to be checked too, including the edge of the carpet, around the tables and even in electrical outlets.

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