Bed Bugs - How to get rid of bed bugs
Get Rid Of Bed Bugs
Sometimes it may happen that you will be unfortunate enough to find bedbugs in your room. There are various ways in which these repulsive pests may be brought into the house. They may be brought in with the laundry or they may get into your clothing when you are riding on the street cars or trains. No amount of trouble is too great in ridding your house of these pests, because they cause great annoyance and help to spread disease. When the first bedbug is discovered, the housewife should take great pains to clean the bed and room thoroughly, because within a few days the one bedbug may have produced many more. Bedbugs reproduce very rapidly and, of course, the more there are the more difficult it is to get rid of them.
One way of exterminating bedbugs is to wash the bed and springs with boiling water, which kills both the bugs and the eggs. Another way is to put kerosene, gasoline, or benzine on the surface of the bed, especially in the cracks and crevices. Caution: Gasoline or benzine should never be used in a room with an open flame because they are explosive. This method does not destroy the eggs, although it kills the bugs. There are various commercial powders that are sold for the purpose of exterminating these pests. Whatever means one takes of exterminating bedbugs, one must remember that one application is not enough. Eggs may hatch out after the live bugs are all killed. One indication that these bugs are about is the tiny, brown specks on the sheets and bed clothing. Every good housewife has a watchful eye upon her beds to see that by no chance these loathsome pests secure a foothold in the house.
The quickest way to get rid of this pest is by the use of naphtha, but this being very inflammable makes it a dangerous process and not one to be generally recommended. Thorough fumigation with sulphur is effective. Eternal vigilance, with chloride of lime or even kerosene applied generally and frequently, will do the work. Sometimes, however, it is necessary to tear off the wallpaper and use either enameline or paint, and to stain or paint the floors and all the furniture. By doing this one can be sure the pests are exterminated; but it is always best to keep a strict watch, for one can carry them in clothes, and they are to be found in the trains and electric cars.
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