Even in the 21st century, humanity has not gotten rid of domestic parasites - bed bugs. These tenacious insects can enter the house in many ways and remain undetected for a long time. Over many centuries of proximity to these parasites, man has invented different ways to get rid of bedbugs using folk remedies. Little bloodsuckers cannot adapt to them and die.
There are many methods to get rid of bedbugs. Which one to use depends on the circumstances. In some situations, it is more effective to use a toxic chemical. There are times when it is better to use traditional recipes. The main thing is a positive result.
Bed bugs reproduce quickly. Their bites carry the risk of infection. For young children, living in an apartment with bedbugs is especially harmful. A weak immune system can manifest itself as an allergic reaction to the bites of domestic parasites. Urgent destruction will be the solution to all problems.
Advantages of folk methods
Folk remedies for bedbugs have their advantages:
- can be used in an apartment where children, allergy sufferers, pregnant women, elderly people, and pets live;
- some methods can be used repeatedly;
- do not cause an allergic reaction;
- in most cases, they do not require preliminary preparation and subsequent cleaning.
It is very important that some folk recipes can be used as preventive measures against bed bugs. Synthetic chemicals do not have this quality. If there is a kind of breeding ground for bedbugs near the apartment, for example, a hostel, then preventing the appearance of parasites becomes a necessity.
Review of various recipes and tips for their use
Before choosing a method that allows you to quickly get rid of bedbugs using folk remedies, evaluate the possibility and consequences of use from the point of view of:
- safety for people and animals in the apartment;
- simplicity and convenience;
- the likelihood of damage to furniture and other interior items.
Over the centuries of forced cohabitation with parasites, the people have accumulated many methods of exterminating them. Whatever method is chosen, the emphasis is on harmlessness to humans.
Operating principle
Folk remedies for killing bedbugs have different methods of action. For some it is contact - household. A domestic parasite must definitely touch the poisonous agent. Bed bugs are very fond of the smell of kerosene, it is not for nothing that it is used in folk practice, and in the manufacture of chemical poisonous preparations they use flavorings with this smell.
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Toxic substances penetrate the chitinous shell of the insect and paralyze it. Some substances need to penetrate the insect's respiratory system to kill the parasite.
Not every toxic agent will have an effect on eggs and larvae. The thick protective shell reliably protects against the penetration of foreign substances. The hatched individual will be infected with poison, which will remain on the shell. This will be enough for her death. To do this, you need to spray a toxic composition on all habitats of domestic bugs, areas of their intended visit, and nests.
According to the method of influence, all methods are divided into 4 categories:
- Natural. This includes plants with an unpleasant aroma that many parasites cannot tolerate. They have a repellent effect. Plants do not pose a danger to people.
- Chemical. Drugs with a strong odor and harmful effects. Effective to use.
- Mechanical. Collecting pests with a vacuum cleaner, throwing away old furniture with insect nests.
- Thermal. Steam treatment, exposure to low or high temperatures.
What do bite marks look like?
One individual can make up to 7 bites in 1-2 minutes. Saliva anesthetizes, so the moment of “eating” is not felt. The marks look like mosquito marks and can be very itchy if you have an allergy. But not necessarily. The bitten area turns red and there is noticeable induration. Bedbugs love delicate skin - neck, shoulders, back.
Insects are carriers of serious diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis B, smallpox, and brucellosis. Allergies can cause severe itching, nausea, and anaphylactic shock. Bedbug bites lead to nervousness, lack of sleep, a person loses productivity, and the quality of life decreases.
To reduce the rash, you need to lubricate the affected area with lemon juice or St. John's wort decoction. Preparations with aloe juice help well. Completely removes traces of ointment containing cortisone. If the itching does not go away, the lumps increase in size, you should consult a doctor and not self-medicate.
Remedy #1: Vinegar
A popular remedy for night parasites is vinegar. It should be remembered that it does not kill, but only repels insects. Used as a preventive measure. You can coat the penetration areas of bed bugs with a vinegar solution. The disadvantages of the method are a specific smell, the need for constant repetition, as the smell disappears.
It is better to use vinegar with other means, for example, mothballs. If you mix vinegar, alcohol (90%), naphthalene in equal parts, and spray it on the bedbugs from a spray bottle, the effect will be positive.
Smells of some herbs
The safest folk recipes for bedbugs are the use of fragrant herbs, the aroma of which repels insects. Herbs with a pronounced aroma will help repel bedbugs - tansy, wormwood, wild rosemary, valerian.
How it works? The fact is that odors are very important for bedbugs; they play a leading role in the internal interaction of insects. When the strong aroma of these herbs interferes, the insects become wary and temporarily stop their activity. If several single individuals wander into your apartment, the pungent smell can provoke their complete surrender. But they won’t protect you from a large colony of insects; the bugs will sit silently under the grass for a couple of days, and when they get hungry, no amount of wormwood brooms under the bed will stop them.
Remedy No. 2: treatment with turpentine
Turpentine contains many essential oils that bed bugs do not like. The prepared solution should be sprayed in the habitats of domestic bloodsuckers and lubricated in hard-to-reach areas.
When treating surfaces with turpentine solution, precautions must be taken. The solution is highly flammable - this must be taken into account. It is toxic; gloves should be worn to protect hands. If you get turpentine on your skin, wash the affected area under running water and soap. The solution may leave permanent marks on surfaces. To avoid this, before processing you need to carry out tests with a brush and solution.
Recipes with turpentine:
- Dilute 10 ml of turpentine, 15 ml of kerosene. 100 ml boiling water 40 g soap;
- 50 g of laundry soap and the same amount of ammonia, 150 ml of turpentine;
- 100 ml of turpentine and also kerosene, 25 g of naphthalene.
After treatment with turpentine, the room must be ventilated for at least 24 hours.
What to do?
You need to understand that only chemicals kill bedbugs quickly and with a guarantee of results. They come in different forms. These can be ready-made sprays or concentrates for dilution. The toxic substances in them either destroy the outer shell of the parasite or kill it when inhaled. Such drugs are produced by the company MediLis. They are certified, have undergone the necessary testing and research, and have all the necessary permits. The preparations use various substances as a basis that have a detrimental effect on bedbugs. The choice of products is large: Antiklop, Superpower for bedbugs, Permifen, Tsiper, Neo, Super. They must be used in strict accordance with the instructions. When used correctly, they are no less safe than folk remedies, but much more effective.
Remedy No. 3: ammonia
Another folk remedy for bed bugs is ammonia. It is not used in its pure form; it must be diluted with water. 3 large spoons are mixed with a liter of water. Floors are washed with this solution. They pour it into the cracks between the baseboards and walls, and wipe down the furniture. After treatment, you need to open the windows and leave the room for a while to ventilate the smell.
For prevention, you can place small containers with ammonia in the habitats of domestic parasites. For example, these will be caps from bottles of medicine. Children and pets should not have access to such areas.
Are they afraid or not?
And now about what bedbugs are not afraid of. The use of all the senseless methods listed below will only aggravate the situation, helping to increase the population of bloodsuckers many times over. Despite the control methods advertised on the Internet, insects are completely indifferent to:
- Ultrasonic and magnetic resonance repellers. Despite the assurances of the manufacturers of these structures, which guarantee the expulsion of almost all synanthropic and flying insects, neither ultrasound nor the electromagnetic field has any effect on household pests. There are many cases where, in practice, bloodsuckers successfully explored an ultrasonic repeller without reacting at all to the high-frequency vibrations it emitted. Therefore, it makes no sense to purchase this kind of structure for this purpose.
- Saline solution. To prepare it, mix a few tablespoons of salt with water, and the resulting mixture is recommended to be used to treat pest habitats. However, wet cleaning of infected surfaces using this composition will not help remove bedbugs at all.
- Mixtures of vanillin and soda. Although the combination of these ingredients will smell pleasant, bed parasites are not afraid of this smell. Many people were able to verify in practice that the composition of vanilla and soda is not capable of working miracles.
- Garlic is another useless remedy for bed bugs.
- Alabaster. To poison bed bloodsuckers with it, the powder must penetrate the insects’ body, which is impossible to achieve.
- Conspiracies. Despite the fact that this method of combating parasites is still used in deep provinces, it is completely useless.
By knowing what bed bugs are most afraid of, you can prevent the next appearance of these harmful insects.
Remedy No. 4: kerosene
Kerosene helps remove bedbugs at home because it has a detrimental effect on them. The liquid permeates the chitinous shell of domestic parasites, enters the respiratory system, and prevents the penetration of oxygen. After some time, suffocation sets in.
Kerosene must be used carefully. It is highly flammable. Because of this, it should not be used near electrical appliances or open flames. There is no need to lubricate mattresses and upholstered furniture with kerosene. It is better to apply it on paper and push it into the baseboards. So that later you can pull it out. Bed bugs will run out to smell the smell, then you can spray them from above.
How do bedbugs perceive odors?
Bedbugs do not have the respiratory organs and lungs we are accustomed to. They need a small amount of oxygen to live. Their respiratory system consists of tracheas that extend out into the abdomen. That is, bedbugs do not have a nose as such, and the oral apparatus is not associated with breathing. Bed bugs sense scents through their olfactory sensilla, which are very small hairs on their heads. These hairs sense aromatic molecules and send a signal to the brain, which the brain interprets. Bed bugs pick up scents from up to a meter away. They are especially attracted by the human scent that lingers on bedding and clothing. There is an opinion that bedbugs are attracted not so much by the smell, but by the heat and carbon dioxide emitted by humans.
Remedy No. 5: camphor oil
House parasites cannot tolerate strong odors. Camphor oil can scare them away. For a more lasting effect, it is better to prepare a mixture of equal amounts of this oil and turpentine ointment. Coat the legs, all elements of furniture, beds, baseboards, areas behind the furniture, under the window sill, and heating radiators with the resulting composition.
It is important to treat the bottom of the mattress. This method will repel bed bugs. The disadvantage is the unpleasant odor, which will need to be removed by careful ventilation.
How to use plants against bedbugs
The most ancient way is to lay out or hang bunches of fresh or dried herbs in different parts of the apartment. Decorative sachet pillows filled with dried herbs and flowers look very beautiful. If you have the opportunity to collect or buy, you can use thyme, cloves, mint, and lavender to repel bedbugs. By the way, the same lavender or mint can be planted in a pot; they grow well as house plants in an apartment on the windowsill.
What plants repel bedbugs:
- sagebrush;
- tansy;
- wild rosemary;
- lavender;
- pharmaceutical camomile;
- calamus - it is sold dried in the pharmacy;
- garlic - cloves or garlic pulp are placed inside the furniture, but this remedy is weak, and besides, not all people like the smell of garlic in the house.
From the herbs listed above, you can prepare a concentrated decoction or infusion and spray it around the apartment using spray equipment.
Remedy #6: Tea Tree Oil
Tea tree oil is an effective folk remedy. It is used as an additional preventive method of repelling bed bugs.
First, high-quality treatment against domestic parasites is carried out. But in the future, according to all instructions, it is recommended to regularly carry out such treatments for preventive purposes. To do this, it will be enough to use tea tree oil. You will need to wash all your clothes and bedding using this product.
Furniture and floors should also be treated with oil. For every 500 ml of water add 18 drops of the product. Spray the solution on all objects in the room, even lamps and carpets. To increase effectiveness, you can diffuse tea tree oil every day.
Will bedbugs go away if you use the products they are afraid of?
Let's start with the main thing: bed bugs cannot be scared away from the apartment . Even though there are things that bedbugs are truly afraid of, there are no ways to apply these things in a way that will drive bedbugs away. Practice shows (and theory proves this) that you can either kill bedbugs indoors or continue to feed them with your blood.
The video below shows treatment in an apartment, in which they tried to repel bedbugs first with tansy and then with essential oils:
We do not know of a single case where people, after the fact of infestation of an apartment, managed to scare bedbugs out of it. We have encountered situations that seemed similar to this, but most likely it was not a matter of scaring.
For example, there was a case when a person caught a bedbug on his bed, crushed it, sprinkled vinegar in the corners and never saw any more bedbugs at home. The man believes that it was with vinegar that he was able to repel bedbugs. We believe that in this situation, a person brought home one bedbug on his clothes or in a bag, by a lucky chance he saw this one bedbug, killed it, and the vinegar no longer affected anyone, simply because there was not a single living bedbug left in the room. That is, in this case, there was no fact of infection of the apartment: bedbugs did not begin to multiply here.
If the bugs in the apartment have clearly begun to multiply, it is impossible to scare them all away, but not destroy them.
Remedy #7: Valerian
Valerian tincture can be used in a set of measures. If this product is applied to baseboards, blood-sucking parasites will crawl to the surface. Here you can treat them with other means for which contact with the parasite is important. The advantage of valerian tincture is its ability to identify the habitats of domestic bugs. Disadvantages - it is a deterrent, pets like it too much.
When there are pets in the room, they are able to lick off the valerian solution much earlier than bedbugs. In this case, there is no point in using this remedy. Valerian tincture does not harm the larvae and eggs of night parasites.
Light
Bed bugs are really afraid of light and normally do not bite either in the light of the sun or in artificial light. But if you simply do not turn off the lights in the room at night, then on the third or fourth day the bugs will begin to crawl out and bite people in the light. This has been verified.
We filmed those videos where our volunteers were bitten by bedbugs in the evening in the light, and the parasites bit safely, sucked blood and did not think of running away somewhere:
And many people tell us that after a long absence indoors they were bitten even in daylight. That is, bedbugs are afraid of light, but only when they are full and happy, and they are definitely not afraid of it enough to leave a constantly lit room.
Remedy No. 8: tansy
Folk methods of fighting bedbugs have always used medicinal plants in their practice. Tansy is a popular remedy for many problems. This plant with yellow tiny flowers collected in inflorescences is dried in summer. When nocturnal insects appear, tansy is laid out in their intended habitat, also under the mattress of a sleeping place, under the back of upholstered furniture.
Tansy has a pleasant bitter aroma that bed bugs cannot stand. The flowers of the plant are bright, but toxic. They should be kept away from small children and pets. It is good to use tansy for preventive purposes. It is also not tolerated by other parasites - flies, cockroaches, fleas. Dried flowers can be sewn into gauze bags and placed next to the bed. As a preventive measure, keep things in your belongings during a trip.
Temperature control method
Bed bugs are afraid of sudden temperature changes, so the temperature method is often used to combat blood-sucking parasites. Insects cannot tolerate either too high or low temperatures.
To kill bedbugs, you can use hot steam treatment using a steam generator or a powerful industrial hair dryer. Such devices are difficult to find at home. In such cases, you can use the services of a sanitary and epidemiological station, which uses special checkers and other equally effective methods of destruction.
Freezing parasites has a good effect. This method is suitable for people living in a private home. Collect all clothes, carpets, rugs, bedding and take them outside, leave for 2-3 days.
Turn off the heating in the house and open the windows. Leave the room for 8-10 hours - after such extreme freezing, not a single bug will remain alive.
This method of insect control is used quite rarely - this is due to its labor intensity and the possibility of freezing only at the appropriate air temperature.
Remedy No. 9: Pyrethrum
When there were no chemical preparations for domestic parasites, housewives themselves prepared folk remedies for bedbugs at home. So they dried chamomile flowers, then ground them into powder. He coped well with cockroaches, bedbugs, flies, fleas. Today you no longer need to prepare this unique remedy for so long; just buy Pyrethrum powder.
The active substances in the powder, upon contact with a parasitic insect, block the transmission of impulses along neurons between cells. Paralysis and death of the parasite occurs. Pyrethrum successfully fights ticks and helminths.
Benefits of Pyrethrum:
- nice smell;
- active ingredients do not cause addiction to bed bugs;
- environmentally friendly product;
- successfully fights parasitic insects, but is safe for humans and pets;
- disintegrates in the light, residues that are not completely removed will not pose a danger to children and pets;
- ease of use;
- acts on other domestic parasites - bird eaters, fleas, mosquitoes, cockroaches, garden pests.
Peretrum decomposes quickly, so it should be re-treated. It only helps with a small number of domestic parasites. The powder is scattered in places where insects accumulate.
To penetrate hard-to-reach places, you need to take a rubber bulb, pour powder into it, and spray it with its help. 23 g of the drug must be used per square meter. Peretrum can be diluted with water in a small volume. Treat furniture, window sills, door and window openings with the solution. The powder is not an allergen. But if you have an allergic reaction to plant pollen, it is better to carry out the treatment while wearing a protective mask.
Buying Peretrum is difficult. Not every pharmacy sells bedbug repellent. There is this remedy for human health. It is not suitable for controlling parasites. You need to look in specialized stores and on Internet sites.
Chemical odors
In addition to perfumes and herbs, the following chemical compounds have an excellent repellent effect against bed bugs:
- kerosene and turpentine;
- acetone and denatured alcohol;
- white and vinegar;
- ammonia or ammonia.
All these substances are united by a pungent specific odor, of which insects are afraid. None of these compounds pose a mortal danger to their body. If you want to fight parasites using the above means, you should also take into account the fact that their aromas will create no less unbearable conditions for human life.
Remedy No. 10: boric acid
This acid is an odorless white powder. It is not poisonous to warm-blooded animals, but poses a threat to insects. Often used to kill cockroaches and ants. The advantages of boric acid are low price and availability.
Bedbugs do not eat boric acid, so you will have to provide direct contact with boric acid to kill them. There are different ways to do this. You can sprinkle discovered bedbug nests with boric acid, sprinkle all baseboards and folds of upholstered furniture. You should only use dry powder.
This application has many disadvantages. We have to hope that the bugs will pass through the boric acid and die from such contact. Such an accident will not contribute to reducing the number of these creatures.
"Disadvantages" of using boric acid:
- long period of destruction;
- low efficiency;
- does not affect eggs and larvae;
- inaccuracy of the method of influence;
- powder constantly scattered in all places that cannot be removed.
Boric acid can be used as a means of controlling bedbugs if no other drugs are available. For a small population, the powder can cope.
Cold and frost
Like any living creatures, bedbugs cannot tolerate too low temperatures and die when exposed to them. At temperatures below 9°C they stop reproducing, at any frost they fall into torpor, at a temperature of -17°C they die within a day. Therefore, if they start to get cold and have the opportunity to move to a warmer place, they will move there. If you try to freeze them out of the apartment, this will not happen, because the bedbugs living in sleeping places and in different shelters in the apartment simply do not know where to run to keep warm. They will go into torpor right in the shelters, and if the temperature here is too low, they will die.
Only some of the bugs that live on the border between warm and cold rooms will be able to move to where it is warmer. These insects are relatively few in number.
Simply put, if you try to influence bedbugs with cold, constantly ventilate the apartment and lower the temperature here even to 0°C at night or for the day, this will not work. The bugs will safely survive such cooling and will bite again after it is complete. Those bugs that live in the sofa, behind the baseboards and behind the furniture will not go anywhere and will not die from such cold. If you try to lower the room temperature to -17 - -20°C for a couple of days, your radiators and water pipes will burst. You will have to make repairs, and this is more difficult than eliminating bedbugs.
Disadvantages of using folk remedies
There is no single recipe for how to remove bedbugs from an apartment on your own. Everyone uses the method that suits their situation. Any remedy has strengths and weaknesses. The disadvantages of folk remedies include their weak impact. Often they will not kill the pest, but will only scare it away. But even with the use of chemical toxic substances, after a certain time, parasites can again appear in the apartment.
Another disadvantage is the strong pungent odor, but it is one of the ways to influence pests. This can be avoided, since you can constantly ventilate the room.
Rarely does any folk method destroy larvae and eggs. Their protective shell is susceptible only to strong chemicals. Eggs left behind will continue the existence of a colony of house bugs.
Causes of bedbugs
Before you remove bedbugs yourself, you need to determine the ways of their penetration into your home. Otherwise, the fight will not bring the expected results and the parasites will reappear in the apartment.
The main ways of infecting a room with bedbugs are:
- In a dormitory and multi-storey building - from neighboring apartments. Insects enter through ventilation shafts, cracks in walls and ceilings, along external panels through windows and balconies.
- Furniture – Linen bugs often enter the home with the purchase of both new and used furniture items.
- Household appliances – bedbugs love to live inside various household appliances, in polystyrene foam or cardboard boxes.
- People - guests and apartment owners themselves - can bring insects on clothes, shoes, in a bag or shopping bag.
- Pets returning from a walk outside can also bring uninvited “guests” with them.
- Travel and travel – bedbugs can often be seen in inexpensive hotels and inns. They can easily get into a suitcase and thus enter the house.
Bedbugs have the ability to go into prolonged suspended animation. In the absence of food (blood), they can fall into a state of hibernation for 10-12 months and become active only when favorable conditions for existence are created.
This is why blood-sucking insects often appear in a purchased or rented apartment, which at first glance seemed perfectly clean.
Combining folk and chemical means of struggle
A good way to destroy blood-sucking parasites is a combination of traditional methods and modern chemical means of control. When domestic pests appear in the house, you should not wait for the population to multiply to unusual sizes. To forget about bedbugs, you must first treat them with a modern chemical preparation. It must precisely destroy all adults and larvae with eggs. According to the instructions, such processing must be carried out more than once.
Next, you need to use folk wisdom to begin preventing the reappearance of pests. If they appeared once, it is possible that they will wake up the next time they appear. For example, use essential oils in the house, arrange dried herbs.
Since it is not easy to get rid of them, you need to combine all known methods. Bedbugs develop a habit of using only one product, so using one product for a long time is ineffective.
How to use scents to control bedbugs
There are several ways to use scented substances to repel insects. The easiest way to make an aromatic spray is to fill a spray bottle with water and add 20 drops of essential oil to it. This amount is enough for 0.5 liters of water. Shake the solution and spray it onto surfaces and objects where bedbugs may be present.
Essential oils can be mixed, such as lavender and tea tree, eucalyptus and lemongrass. Or you can even create your own mixture by combining a variety of fragrant ingredients. You can add essential oils not only to water, but also to vodka or alcohol.
Important: before spraying, make sure that you and all family members like the smell or at least does not irritate it. Some materials absorb odors and continue to smell for a very long time, for example, this applies to the upholstery of sofas or armchairs. If you apply a mixture to them that causes headaches or is simply unpleasant to someone in the household, it will be very difficult to get rid of the smell.
You can apply undiluted oil to the surface, but this must be done carefully. Oil can damage some facing materials and change their color or texture. Do not coat objects that are constantly visible with oil. This method is more suitable for the back walls and internal compartments of cabinet and upholstered furniture, baseboards, cracks in walls, legs of beds, sofas, armchairs, tables and other invisible places.
A very convenient and simple way is to drip oil onto cotton pads and place them in different parts of the apartment. If you place such an oil disk on a hot battery, the smell from it will emanate more intensely. But the battery needs to be updated with discs and oil more often. If the smell becomes too strong or begins to irritate you, you can simply remove the discs.
Instead of oil drops, you can use incense sticks soaked in oil - one or a composition. Such sticks are simply placed in small vases, placed in cabinets or set on fire on a special rack. When ignited, smoke begins to smoke with a rather intense aroma. But you need to be careful: some incense is too heavy for humans.
You can also use liquid oils in aroma lamps. A lit lamp with oil can be left in a closed and unventilated room, and then ventilate the room. Be careful because the lamp contains a flame that can cause a fire. Instead of a traditional aroma lamp, you can use an air humidifier with simultaneous aromatization. Some humidifier models have a compartment where essential oils drip. During operation, the device not only humidifies the air in the apartment, but also gives it aroma.
Signs of sofa bed bugs
You can find out if there are blood-sucking insects in your home by the following signs:
- Bites of a certain nature on the human body. They appear in the morning. In addition, depending on external signs, the resulting spots can easily be mistaken for a reaction to a mosquito bite or other parasite. Bed bugs make several bites in food they find nearby. Pests attack a person on the sofa while moving, creating a trail of red dots or spots.
- Drops of blood left by pests on the sofa. They are always small in size and appear if a person crushes an insect in a dream. The furniture beetle is very swollen, with a lot of blood, and is easy to crush.
- A specific smell reminiscent of old cognac. It appears when there are more bed bugs. They multiply quickly inside the sofa, so the pest population increases in a short time.
Signs of sofa parasites
This symptom is a consequence of the accumulation of waste products of bed bugs on various surfaces and on the sofa.
- The presence of “shells” in various hidden places of the apartment. As insects grow, they shed their chitinous coverings several times, which allows them to become sexually mature individuals. The more pests there are inside the sofa, the faster the amount of debris will increase.
- When bitten by bedbug larvae, a person may wake up immediately, since at this stage of development they have not yet developed the function of administering an anesthetic substance. Used by adults for bites.
- Pest feces inside the sofa. Industrial waste is similar to poppy seeds.
The most obvious sign is bed bugs. If their number increases, parasites are found in a variety of places and on the inside of sofas. As soon as there are suspicions that an apartment is infested with bedbugs, you first need to look for them where the sleeping places of family members are located.
Self-destruction with insecticides
Treat all baseboards and furniture (nightstands, chests of drawers, chests of drawers, couches and chairs)
There are products on the market that work well for killing bed bugs, and you can choose an effective product.
Where and how to spray liquid insecticides or aerosols:
- To remove insects, first spray around and under the bed, as well as along the baseboards near the bed. After removing drawers from furniture, you should spray the inside of the cabinet, as well as the bottom and sides of the drawers. Do not treat the inside of drawers. If necessary, clothes in drawers should be removed and washed.
- Then spray on the inside of cabinets, door frames and doors.
- Follow with a spray at the top and bottom of the room. Spray around windows.
- You need to spray along the seams and drawers, both top and bottom. Spray the bottom of the chests of drawers where they touch the floor.
- Also spray in areas where the bed touches the floor, spray aerosols on chairs and under chairs.
- Spray all baseboards, plaster on walls, behind bed frames and headboards, look under beds and furniture, and spray springs and bed frames. Do not apply insecticides to furniture surfaces or mattresses where people will lie or sit unless using a product labeled for this type of control. Contaminated bedding should not be treated, but should be removed, placed in sealed plastic bags, and washed and dried at high temperatures.
There are, of course, also folk remedies. You can also include them in your arsenal of tools.
Damage caused
Bedbug bites are unpleasant, especially for people with sensitive skin. They itch, itch, irritate, and can cause allergies. Sometimes it comes down to treatment by a doctor.
But even worse is the added stress that deprives you of normal, restful sleep. As this stress accumulates, it triggers aging mechanisms in you. Bedbugs will undermine your health not through a direct attack, but through the underlying psychological pressure of anxiety and discomfort, when you no longer feel like a master at home, and in your bed you lose a sense of security.