Awareness truly is the first key to prevent your home from bed bug infestations. Although there is no way to guarantee an infestation will never happen in your home, but if you will know that what to look for will help your odds.
Below are some important tips to prevent your home from bed bugs infestations.
Travel
During your travel if you have to stay in a hotel, first of all check your bed for signs of an infestation. In case you find anything there, inform the hotel staff immediately and demand a room change. Even do not put your luggage on the infested floor or bed. Bring a plastic bag to place luggage in, or put your luggage in the bathtub if that is not in use. Upon returning home, vacuum your luggage thoroughly and wash your clothes in hot water and dry them.
Mattresses and Furniture
If you purchased used furniture or mattresses recently there is a chance of bed bug infestation in your home. So avoid buying used furniture if necessary then treat it first before placing in your home.
Purchase Bed Bug Covers
It’s also a better option to purchase bed bug covers for your box spring and mattress. This gives bed bugs fewer places to hide and they are easier to spot.
Bed bug Registry
You may or may not know that Bed Bug Registry is a national registry of bed bug reports in apartments and hotels. Before booking hotel, check here http://bedbugregistry.com/location/AB/
Are You Safe Now?
After taking all above precautionary measures there are still many other way by which bed bugs may introduced in your home like, you may bring them home from your office, your guest may bring them in, they may ride on you from public transport, hospitals and many more.
How To Deal With infestation?
After taking all above precautionary measures even then if your home is bed bug infested, its time to hire pest control professionals to deal with bed bug infestation. Its useless to treat bed bugs with chemicals because all available bed bug sprays are only contact killer and they do not kills bed bug eggs and the bugs which not come in direct contacts. Researches also reported that bedbugs have developed immune power against many available pesticides.
So chemical treated home always re-infested after few months. I suggest you to use only heat to exterminate bed bugs completely. Because thermal treatment is the only available option which eradicates bed bugs their eggs completely. Many pest management firms switched towards eco-friendly heat treatment so you can now easily found a Bed Bug Heat Treatment Firm in your region. Taken together, if your home is infested by these irritating bugs kill them completely with heat and sleep tight.
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