How To Kill Bed Bugs In A Mattress

Travelers often bring home bed bugs in their luggage and clothing.

Bed bugs could have snuck into your home, by hitching a ride onto you or someone else. If you live in an apartment building, then the bed bugs could have crawled over to your place.

Bed bugs are excellent at playing the game of hide and seek. They are referred to as bugs in the bed 'cause they get to you when you are sleeping. They also tend to live close by you.

You could be the cleanest person in the world, it doesn't matter. Bed bugs don't attach themselves just to dirty places. They are after blood.

You want to become your own best housekeeper, or get someone else to do it. You want to thoroughly clean every nook and cranny in your place.

1. Get a good vacuum, and clean up your home. Seal holes and cracks in the walls. Steam cleaning your carpet will help kill those bed bugs that vacuuming missed. Also spray steam your bed.

2. You will want to wash all your clothing, throw rugs, and linens, including your mattress pad and sheets, in hot water. Then you will want to throw these items in a hot dryer. Dry cleaning works too.

3. It is recommended that you get your mattress and box spring covered with quality plastic encasements to lock in any bed bugs, and to prevent any new ones from hiding in.

You could also use a heater unit that will kill all stages of bed bugs in your belongings.

Bed bugs can live a year or longer without food (blood), so they stay in their hiding places.

A pest control professional will be your best bet in eradicating a bed bug problem. There are several methods available depending on your budget, and the extent of the problem.

Exterminators can use insecticides and pesticides, thermal (heat), fumigation (vikane gas), as treatment options.

Bed bugs are persistent, so getting rid of them requires persistence. A pest control professional will help you get piece of mind more quickly than you would otherwise get tackling the bed bug problem on your own.