This page is dedicated to information, observations, speculations and suggestions about avoiding bed bugs and their horrendous infestations.
Certain professions, employments and lifestyle practices are more likely to bring you into contact with bed bugs. These include but are not restricted to: Health workers: carers, nurses, ambulance drivers. Travellers: be it commercial, sporting or leisure. Those sharing accommodation: miners, armed forces, entertainers. Hospitality workers: cleaners, room attendants, valets. Transport workers: taxi drivers, removalists, laundry couriers. Accommodation providers: B & B's, student and short term worker accommodation.
Anyone in these or similar occupations needs to be informed and observant to avoid an unwanted bed mate.
Forget the bells and whistles and all the gimmicks that are appearing on the market, your brain and your eyes are your best defense. You are extremely unlikely to pick up a bed bug from a very small infestation, but, as the population grows, so does the probability that you will take one with you (and that bed bug is almost always an impregnated female)! The good news is that larger infestations are quite easy to see, especially when you know what to look for.
When you use temporary accommodation of any form, take a couple of minutes to look around the bed. This is where all infestations start but be aware that the bed may have been replaced so you need to check the nearby furniture and wall floor edges.
Book taught experts place way too much emphasis on mattresses. Certainly mattresses can be involved but in my experience, not as often as you may think due, in part to fitted sheets impeding bed bugs paths to you. Most times, bed bugs are found in headboards, slats or under the base of an ensemble. When inspecting, you may not see an actual bed bug as they tend to squeeze into crevices and folds, but you will see the spotting or feacal evidence of bed bug presence.
This spotting won't brush away and, when wiped with a wet finger or cloth, will immediately smudge because it is digested blood droplets.
A quick inspection of the areas mentioned will soon expose evidence of medium to large infestations and this is no place to spend the night. You are not generally at risk by being in the room by day (unless the bed bugs get desperately hungery) but don't hang around. Inform the person who is providing the accommodation and get right away from that area.
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