* Call in the professionals. At the first sign of bed bugs, you should clean everything in the immediate area and call in people to spray things down. Try to find where they are coming from before you call people in, and try putting double sided tape around parts of your room to try and see where the are coming in from. Once you have called in professional people, follow their instructions exactly.
* One doctor told me to change the bed twice a week, and wash the sheets in hot water; also wash my pajamas the same way. Make sure that you dry the clothes and sheets in the dryer and not on a clothes line.
* Treating or discarding any paper products, and loose sheets of paper may help, as bed bugs don't only like fabric.
* I got rid of mine with a high powered steam cleaner. These can be bought for around $50. You first need to find out where they are coming from. I started by going through all the cracks and spraying hot steam into them for 2-3 seconds. I had to do that every week for about 2 months, and I have not seen any again.
* I got rid of my problem using Pronto. It is specially made for bedbugs and dust mites. This product is about $8 per can.
* You need to wash every cloth item in the house from bedding and PJ's to curtains, and everyday clothing. Thick items like a pillow or comforter might take much longer than an hour to safely kill bed bugs in the dryer. And it is the long time in the dryer, not the washing machine, that will really ensure they are dead. Nevertheless once clothing and linens are brought home, they must be kept in sealed, airtight bags (for example, XL Ziploc or carefully sealed space bags). Dry cleaning is alright for delicate which cannot be washed and dried for an hour on Hot, but you must tell the dry cleaner the item is infested with bed bugs (otherwise they can reinvest you and others). And when you bring dry cleaning home, it also must be sealed as the other items are (dry cleaning bags are not airtight and thus not sufficient.)
* One of the products I found that was very useful is Steri-Fab, which you spray almost everywhere: your mattress, clothes and even carpets. Also using natural products (such as Rest Easy) is a good idea too, taking these types of product when your traveling so that you don't bring them back with you. Getting box spring and mattress encasements is a good idea: it not only helps eliminate them, but helps prevent them. If you try to cover your mattress and box spring with plastic, the bed bugs will just chew right through it. Spraying the mattress and putting dust into the holes in the sides of the mattress before covering the infested mattress is a good idea.
* Bedbugs can be exterminated by using an all natural product called Diatomaceous Earth. This is spread around the area where the bedbugs are located.
* Once you know you have got bedbugs in your home getting rid of them is not easy. but bedbugs are visible to the naked eye being about 5 millimeters long and colored reddish brown flat looking insects and they do not like daylight, so you need to go round looking for them and try to find their nesting places in your home. You can call in professional assistance for best results, but if you need to do it yourself, firstly you need to thoroughly vacuum your mattress and try to pick up as many bedbugs as you can. Then you need to put a cover on the mattress and zip it tight shut. Do the same to all mattresses on other beds in the home. This will trap any bedbugs inside and they will no longer be able to get out and feed off the blood of people sleeping in the bed. But once zipped in it may take as long as a year for any bedbugs to die from lack of food so leave the cover on forever more.
But that will not get the bedbugs elsewhere. You need to thoroughly vacuum everywhere and try to find places where they are hiding during the daytime. After vacuuming the way to exterminate remaining live bedbugs and destroy bedbug eggs that have not yet hatched is with heat and you need to buy or obtain a heat fan that directs a temperature of at least 212 degrees Fahrenheit everywhere they may be nesting during the day to kill them. You may need to repeat this on future days until you eventually destroy them all. But always be aware if you fail to find just one or two they will continue breeding. You will only be totally rid of them when you have destroyed every single one of them in your home.
Bedbugs can be exterminated by using an all natural product called Diatomaceous Earth. This must be spread around the area where the bedbugs are located.
Steamers work very well as a contact killer for bed bugs. Be sure when using steam to move at one inch per second.