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I got rid of mine by doing what I describe below.

WARNING :: WARNING :: WARNING Do NOT follow my advice if you have small children, pets or respiratory conditions such as asthma!

Following my advice will cost you less than $20. But it's not me you have to pay your money to. Although I wouldn't mind a donation if this web page helped you to got rid of your bed bugs.

You probably need to buy items from home improvement stores (in Canada you'll find stores like Home Depot, Rona, Canadian Tire. Here some stores in the US...). It will take about a month until so see real improvement, so please be patient. You should also only follow my advice if you have no pets. People with respiratory conditions such as asthma might also want to not try this.

Otherwise: Do it yourself and get rid of the infestation - be your own pest control.

You cannot usually see where bed bugs hide. That is the main problem. Although you can see bed bugs themselves (they come in sizes like an apple seed or smaller and dark, but younger bugs are yellow-ish, almost transparent and very small and thus not easily visible with the naked eye. They know well where to hide. They usually come out at night when you sleep and suck blood out of you, which you usually won't notice. Then they hide again. Even if you wake up they will notice it and run off, even alerting others to also flee. Out of reach again. They are attracted by CO2 emissions by the breath of humans or animals.

According to Wikipedia bedbugs can tolerate temperatures above of 112F(44C) and below 6.8F(-14C). Hot water steam applied to parts of your bed might kill off most or even all of them. Freezing is supposed to only help if you can expose items you suspect bed bugs in to the extreme cold for several days.

Bed bugs are no risk to your health, unless you develop symptoms against the bites. That is because they usually stay with the same host. That is you.

Bedbug nest with eggs

I was about to call an exterminator. But that would have been costly. Plus since other apartments in the building had bed bugs too the PCO had to also clear those. And although it might be the duty of the landlord to deal with this (payment, making appointments...) he seemed to not care. So I thought to first try DIY to fight the bed bugs myself.

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Do it yourself: How to control, fight and kill bed bugs

Do-it-yourself detection: You will need a table with 4 skinny legs, a heating pad, a couple of alka seltzer tablets, a jar lid or small cup saucer/plate, and and some glue traps. The glue boards I got from Walmart for like $2.50 - Catchmaster Baited Mouse and Insect Glue Boards 4 pack. Its a reddish-orange and yellow package. Put the table in the room you think there are bedbugs. Take the glue boards out. Do not fold them into the box shape (for trapping mice) but rather leave them flat. Peel off the wax paper to expose the glue. Take one of the glue boards and with the glue side up, stick the bottom of each of the legs of the table in the middle of the glue board. Now anything trying to climb up the legs of the table will first have to get through the glue moat to do so. (They will not succeed) Plug the heating pad in and put it on low heat. Put the pad on the table. (Make sure the cord is not touching the floor. If you want to be extra careful you can put double sided sticky tape on the cord just below where it reaches the tabletop. I didn't do this part, didn't actually think of it till now) In the lid of the jar (or plate or whatever, just make sure if it's plastic not to put it directly on top of the heated pad) put 2 alka seltzer tablets. Put a few drops of water on top so they start to fizzle. Put them on the table next to the heating pad. Turn the lights off in the room, leave the room, and shut the door behind you. The bugs are attracted to body heat and the carbon dioxide we exhale. The heating pad mimics our body heat, and the fizzing alka seltzer releases carbon dioxide. Dry ice would probably work better, but I wanted to work with what I already had. This will work, though it might take a day or so. Do not hang out in the room where you have set this trap up! (I know, not a problem...) As soon as I figure out how to post pics here, I will show my results.

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Do it yourself bed bug detection Got Bed Bugs ...

BLUEFIELD, WV (WVVA) - A hotel room may have hundreds of people staying in it throughout the year. Guests

sometimes unknowingly leave things behind. It could be clothes, a phone charger, or even a hairbrush.

But guests can also leave something else you may not be thinking of, bedbugs.

"It's an unpleasant thought you know, says Superintendent of Pipestem Resort Dave Caplinger. The idea that something might be biting on you in the night and you're unaware."

Caplinger says one of the biggest fears in hotel management isn't rowdy guests...but bed bugs.

"They are out there and they travel around on people. So it's inevitable that the possibility is there, that someone could bring them to your establishment," says Caplinger.

During the holidays people travel all over the world to visit family and friends, many stay at hotels or resorts and can either bring the bugs in or take them home.

"Bed bugs are transferred they don't magically appear," says Pete Farris.

According to Pete Farris, owner of pest control plus, cases of bed bugs have been on the rise for the last 10 years. And international travel doesn't help.

"Know what you are bringing into your home. Know who is coming into your home," says Farris.

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Bed bugs on the rise

Pro Tips

Use EcoVia EC along the edges of the floor and under the bed. EcoVia EC should be treated two more times.

The Cimexa dust is applied in cracks and crevices, such as along the tack strip on carpeted floor, behind the molding on hardwood, in and around electrical outlets, and around door encasements. Cimexa Dust may also be used in the seams and tufts of your mattresses. Make sure you remove personal items. The dust is a one time treatment.

Essentria Bed Bug Broadcast Aerosol may be applied on mattresses, baseboards, furniture and carpets. Repeat as needed.

Use the bed bug monitor traps to trap and monitor your results.

This kit includes everything needed to treat three or four bedrooms except a Pump sprayer and Mattress and Box Spring Encasements

Bed Bugs

Inspection Check List:

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Residential or Commercial. Beds, bedrooms, couches, furniture, bed stands, headboards, foot boards, cracks and crevices, mattresses. Various products in this kit have distinct uses, please see instructions for details.

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Organic Bed Bug Kit | Do-It-Yourself Pest Control

Nobody likes bed bugs, but one thing we could always say was at least they donttransmit any human diseases! Thats still true, althoughsome research published this week is causing some concern.

A new paper in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene reportedthat bed bugs mightbe able to host and transmit Chagas Disease, a chronicheart disease caused by the blood parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. That sounds scary, but the experts I talked to all agree no one should panic.

A lot of alarmingthingscan be found inbed bugs; over 45different potential human disease agentsare known, including bacteria, viruses (Hepatitis B), worms, and protozoans (like the trypanosomes in the new paper). So far, none of themare transmitted to humans bybed bugs. This new research doesnt change that.

Heres a run-down of the new research, and what you need to know.

In areas where Chagas Disease occurs, you get infectedwhen akissing bugwith the parasite in its gut first bites you, and then poops into the wound it makes. Seriously.

Kissing bugs are a relative of bed bugs, and they both feed the same way they stick a beaky straw into your skin and slurp up your blood.Kissing bugs poop after they feed, and if the bug is infected, it releases the parasite onto yourskin.

Breaks in the skin (like the one the bug just made to drink your blood) or mucus membranes allow the Chagas parasite easy access to your blood.Kissing bugs get their name from their habit of biting near the lips and eyes. Which are mucus membranes.

Scratching makes it more likely that you get the disease, because you create an opening in the skin and then rub the feces into the wound. Insult, meet injury.

To recap: the bug bites you on the face; then poops on your face; and then you scratch the wound (on your face? Did I mention its on your face?) and infect yourself.

How do these kissing bugs get infected in the first place? They feed on small mammals and pick up the Chagas parasite. There is anothersource of Chagas disease infection in kissing bugs:coprophagy. Literally: shit-eating.

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Bed Bugs Wont Give You Chagas Disease (probably)