Bed bugs are not limited to any level of cleanliness or income, which means they can be found in any home or hotel. They’re great hitchhikers, and people often bring them inside on their clothes or in their luggage. To get rid of bed bugs, quick remedies are often the product of deceptive marketing and only professionals should get the bugs out. Some measures can prevent bed bugs from multiplying quickly, like buying bed bug covers for mattresses and box springs, wash and dry regularly. Hiring a pest control company requires some research,read reviews and ask question before any spraying pesticides or performing services that can cost hundreds of dollars. Interviewing the selected companies is not only good practice, it is strongly advised. Ask companies about their membership in recognized national, state, and local pest control associations.
Bed bugs have been found in five-star hotels and resorts and their presence is not determined by the cleanliness of the living conditions where they are found. Bed bug infestations usually occur around or near the areas where people sleep. These areas include apartments, shelters, rooming houses, hotels, cruise ships, buses, trains, and dorm rooms. They hide during the day in places such as seams of mattresses, box springs, bed frames, headboards, dresser tables, inside cracks or crevices, behind wallpaper, or any other clutter or objects around a bed. Bed bugs have been shown to be able to travel over 100 feet in a night but tend to live within 8 feet of where people sleep. How do you get bed bugs? 1) Bed bugs often live or crawl in the spaces in between walls as well, That also can make it harder to permanently get rid of them, especially in apartment complexes where neighbors share walls if the units are not treated at the same time. 2) Many hotels have infestations. With international travel, this is even more likely. Bed bugs will often crawl into luggage and get carried back into homes, and all it takes is one to get an infestation started. 3) Buy used clothes or used furniture, sometimes there can be bed bugs in them. By law whoever discards furniture or clothing and is going through a bed bug infestation should lebal or disclose that so other people don’t take them home. 4) Working in high traffic areas like hotel and business centres can run the risk of carrying bed bugs home or to apartment building complexes 5) Guests can alway bring those blood suckers to homes or buildings, One big source of this is students coming home for the holidays – the dorm rooms could easily pick up an infestation given how many people are coming in and out all the time from all over. How do I know if I’ve been bitten by a bed bug? It is hard to tell if its a bed bug bite until there is evidence of bed bugs or signs of infestation. When bed bugs bite, they inject an anesthetic and an anticoagulant that prevents a person from realizing they are being bitten. Most people do not realize they have been bitten until bite marks appear anywhere from one to several days after the initial bite. The bite marks are similar to that of a mosquito or a flea, a swelling and red area that may itch and be irritating. The bite marks may be random or appear in a straight line. Other symptoms of bed bug bites include insomnia, anxiety, and skin problems that arise from profuse scratching of the bites. Because bed bug bites affect everyone differently, some people may have no reaction and will not develop bite marks or any other visible signs of being bitten. Other people may be allergic to the bed bugs and can react adversely to the bites. These allergic symptoms can include enlarged bite marks, painful swellings at the bite site, and, on rare occasions, anaphylaxis.