Bed Bugs - How to get rid of bed bugs
Bed Bugs And Humans
Bed bugs are tiny arthropods (specifically arachnids related to ticks
and spiders eight legs as opposed to being insects) that live off of dead skin flakes from humans. Commonly
found in carpets, bedding, etc.
Bed bugs love to eat epithelial cells that slough off humans (skin), but
when they eat, they overeat and literally explode. It is the proteins
in their burst carcasses that cause people to have such bad allergies.
People are allergic not to household dust, but to those proteins.
Bed bugs like heat, will crawl over to you, and then like to crawl down into
a pore in your skin, but usually die there. As they rot, they create
irritation that itches and can turn red as small spots. When they crawl on you, you feel them as tiny little short lived pin
pricks that go away the minute you squash your skin a little.
Bed bugs are prevalent in any place that's dirty. Vacuuming often with
throw away paper bags will pick them up. Soapy solutions drown them.
The dumpable bags usually are porous enough for the bed bugs to go through and
recontamination everyplace. They are also prevalent in airplanes. Airplanes
are really dirty. You can kill them locally using House and Garden
Raid, or kill them, or at least paralyze them for a while, with an
alcohol spray.
The little bed bugs are too small to see unaided, but they love to chew
up fallen flakes of human skin, which is why they're such a nuisance in
bedding and carpets. They also, apparently, egests their food and then
ingest it again later after their digestive enzymes have worked on it
for a while. These proteins are the culprits in human bed bugs allergies.
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