Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Prevention Can Be A Successful Bed Bugs Treatment

By Aidyn Huffman

Traveling and other overnight stays make you a prime candidate for having bed bugs come into your home. Exposure comes from sleeping on bedding in different areas that may be infested. For what can be a pretty common problem however, most online information tends to sound a bit bleak. Even though once you have these parasites in your home finding a successful bed bugs treatment can be difficult, time-consuming and costly, simple preventative steps can keep your living areas clear and free.

Bed bugs have been a part of the human existence for quite some time. Many believe this is why households commonly kept a boiling vat of water on. Sufficient amounts of heat can be incredibly efficient in doing away with bed bugs. Bedding and clothing could be easily submerged on a routine basis to avoid reinfestation. Because these parasite are just as happy to feed off of animals as well, including domesticated animals, treating these areas would have been necessary as well.

Heat is one of the more effective ways to kill these parasites without seeking professional treatment. The difficulty in using heat is doing so without damaging your items. Also there are hiding places in which bed bugs may be present that you are unable to permeate with the needed amount of heat.

Using the old method of submerging clothes and bedding into boiling water will make your colors bleed and fade. It can also create stains in other items. When you already have an infestation this is an inadequate modern solution. Trying this will ruin the items that you place in hot water, and all for naught.

A truly effective method of prevention is to lock all of your luggage and other travel items into the car with the windows rolled up. The car should be sitting in direct sunlight. This will create the greenhouse effect and bring the temperature of the car high enough to kill any hitchhiking bed bugs. Leaving your items in the car for several hours will likely do the trick.

This of course, is only a preventative method. It should only be used when you have stayed somewhere that you suspect has an infestation of bed bugs. If when you return from your travels you lock your belongings into the car before going into the house, your will have nearly eliminated the possibility of bringing these nasty traveling companions into your home.

If you find that you are waking with bed bug bites it is likely that the parasites are already well settled into a routine of feasting and breading. Getting rid of them at this stage might be easiest by enlisting the aid of a professional. Home remedies are generally effective in prevention can be quite a headache when performed in the midst of a clutter-filled home.

If you missed the preventative steps because you were not aware that bed bugs were a possibility, enlisting the aid of a professional will be the best course of action. Once bed bugs begin permeate the cluttered corners of your life, it is impossible to tell where they are all hiding, and the likelihood of leaving one healthy female and male behind is enough to start infestation problems anew. By making sure to institute a professional bed bugs treatments you can prevent having your infestation spread to the homes of family and friends.

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