Bed Bugs - How to get rid of bed bugs
Kill Mattress Bed Bugs
The best thing I've found is to throw out the traditional
stuffed mattress and replace it with an air inflatable mattress or even
a waterbed. At one fell swoop you remove your biggest source of exposure
to bed bugs. If you also replace carpets with hard flooring and
throw out soft furnishings then you get rid of nearly all the
bed bugs habitat in the house. Also throw out existing pillows and duvets
and replace with cheap supermarket ones. It's often cheaper to regularly
replace cheap bedding than to wash it in a commercial washer or to buy fancy
dust-bed bugs proof covers (environmentalists may not be so keen on that idea
of course because of the increased waste going into landfill).
Also get a good vacuum cleaner and don't allow any pets in the house.
If the bed bugs covers are woven and breathable they almost certainly won't
block all the bed bugs allergen particles which are extremely small (sub-micron),
especially as the covers wear. The only good bed covers that works are 100% goretex or the solid polythene ones
used in hospitals but those don't breath and are uncomfortable.
Symptoms much better with airbed than with any coverand mattress combo. Waterbed should be similar to airbed because it
can't be a reservoir for bed bugs or their droppings, obviously they can't
live inside it, although I'd want to be quite sure that a water bed didn't
raise indoor humidity in any way since that could be a moisture source that
would help the bed bugs in the rest of the house.
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