How can I prevent bed bugs from spreading to my new apartment?

Question

I moved into an apartment, and they didn't tell me but they have bed bugs. I've been getting bit every night so i'm planning on moving out. I just want to make sure no bed bugs follow me to the new apartment and lay eggs. Any tips on what i can do or how i can make sure any bed bugs don't move with me?

Answer 1

Since bed bugs hide in small crevices, they can travel with luggage, furniture, clothing, boxes, ect. This is how they move between hotels, homes and apartments. Used furniture, particularly bed frames and mattresses, are of greatest risk of harboring bed bugs and their eggs. They may be present in vacant apartments hiding in cracks and crevices since they may survive months without a blood meal. Bed bugs may travel between nearby apartments through voids in walls and holes though which wires and pipes pass. In a few cases, bats and/or birds may introduce and maintain bed bugs and their close relatives (bat bugs and bird bugs). All nests that harbor birds and bats should be removed.



Step I : Pre-treatment Procedures

Reduce clutter to inspection easier.

If you dismantle the bed frames, you may expose additional bedbug hiding sites.

Remove drawers from desks and dressers and turn furniture over, if possible, to inspect and clean all hiding spots.

Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric to expose bed bugs.If the fabric is torn ( possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying.

Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and moldings to further reduce harborages.

Since infested garments and bed linen can't be treated with insecticide they will need to be laundered in hot water (120°F minimum). If washing is not available, sometimes heating the garments or bed linen for several minutes in a clothes dryer may work.

Thoroughly clean the infested rooms .Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.

Vacuum in area of bed bug harborages with an vacuum attachment. Vacuum along baseboards, nearby furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, footboards,bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding as well as the edges of the carpets(particularly along the tack strips) are key areas to vacuum. A good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage greater insecticide penetration.

Discard vacuum cleaner bag in a sealed plastic bag when finished.

Caulk cracks and crevices in the building exterior and also repair or screen openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can serve as alternate hosts for bed bugs.



mattress or size of infestation. If there are holes or tears in the gauze fabric or fabric of the mattress, bed bugs and eggs may be inside, as well as outside. There are restrictions on how beds can be treated with insecticides.



After the mattress is vacuumed , scrubbed and treated with either an approved concentrated insecticide or dust, it can be enclosed in a zippered mattress encasements such as that used for house dust mites. These zippered mattress covers , available at bedding and allergy supply stores deny bed bugs access to other hiding areas. It would be helpful to encase not only the mattress, but the box spring as well. It is important to treat the zipper area as well when you follow the spraying and dusting procedures. Any bed bugs remaining on the mattress or box springs will be trapped inside the encasement. Leave the cover in place for a year or so since bed bugs can live for a long time without a blood meal.



More on this website where I copied and pasted info for you on: http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/how_to_get_rid_of_bed_bugs.htm

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I don't know who Toinette is but if you people buy whatever they are selling, you will be with your bugs and without your money. Since we no longer use the chemical ddt, bedbug infestations are on the rise again. Also in part, due to Americans doing more traveling as the bugs tend to hide well in our luggage after a stay in hotel rooms or even in a friends' home. There IS NO do it yourself way of getting rid of these bugs and definitely not one that will be less time consuming than a part-time job (the spelling in the article they posted should at least be a red flag for anyone desperate enough to simply try anything). The first thing you need to do is identify the bugs or at least their identifying character trademarks. After identifying the bugs YOU MUST immediately change your thinking and your way of doing everything. You will need: strong trash bags from 'kitchen' size to 'lawn and garden' size, large Ziploc bags, spray bottle, rubbing alcohol, gloves, and a phone and/or internet. Your phone/internet is to call an exterminator that SPECIALIZES in the control and elimination of bedbugs not one that has heard about it and think they can figure it out. Once they are on the way, you will need to mix pour rubbing alcohol into the spray bottle, put on your gloves, grab your lawn and garden bags, and head to the infested area. Have your washer and dryer empty and ready to go. (you may want to run your dryer for a cycle so it is hot) spray any infected items such as bedding and pillows with cases on. Roll blankets carefully and slide into bags with the pillows. twist and tie. Spray mattress edges, sides, corners etc. Now check you hands arms, and shoes to insure there are no hitchhikers. Lets grab that bag and head off to the laundry room. Untie the bag and place it in the dryer with the opening facing away. With a pouring motion, dump lines into the dryer (be careful as it will still be hot). Slide the bag and an tie immediately and inspect to insure there are no holes. You need to run dryer on hottest setting for at least 20 minutes. Once items are done, you will need to put them in an airtight container or some sort to keep them safe. Repeat the process with other soft safe items such as clothing, stuffed animals, slippers, robes, etc. Do not take for granted that if you do not see bugs on an item, it is ok to walk thru your home without bagging that item. This is the number 1 reason these guys spread so rapidly...they are difficult to detect....don't cut corners or you will pay for it.

Answer 4

Heat and BedBugPowder!! That is all you need to get rid of bed bugs. First of all, you need to wash your bedding items with HOT water. And use a steam cleaner on the mattress and on the carpet. You need to do that because bed bugs cannot survive with the heat over 120 degrees. So you need to kill live bed bugs with heat first, and it is very important process to get rid of bed bugs. Next, after everything is dried, apply BedBugPowder on the mattress and bedding items and put the cover over them. We bought the powder from the site below and it worked great!! It is natural powder and is safe to humans and pets. So touching the powder is not going to hurt you. That is all you have to do. You may still get bitten for next a few days, but they will go away and the powder lasts a lot longer than those sprays or foggers that most of people believe they work. Well, those sprays or foggers did not work at all. We ended up using BedBugPowder, and it seems to be an ultimate method for bed bugs. Good luck

Answer 5

Washing yours clothes and what you have and putting a cup of vinegar in the rinse water would kill bugs. After drying all your things put them in sealed plastic bags or sealed containers.

They like mattresses. If you move that, you will need a plastic zip up cover to cover it or get a new mattress. The cover would need to be on it for over a year.

Rubbing alcohol kills bed bugs. Washing what you can will kill them. It is good for the bites.

Answer 6

Well i would go and not take a shower there for safeness and try to find something to prevent them:)