Bed bug care is very important because they can disrupt your sleep and they can be transported in your luggage, planes, buses, hotels, trains, etc without even being noticed.  Basically they can hitchhike all over the world in a variety of ways.  In addition to the above ways they can also be transferred to your home via someone else’s clothes, they can come in through common pipes and vents from one apartment to another, and even fresh clean laundry that was done at the Laundromat.  They can be found in pillows, in between the bed joints, the wardrobe, the dresser drawers, and under the mattress.  Another interesting thing is that they can survive a year without eating.

Bed bugs feed on human blood and they can quickly multiply.  It does not matter if your house is immaculate, you can still get bed bugs.  This is why it is very important that you do the proper bed bug care either by a professional or with home remedies.

How to Know if you Have Bed Bugs

Bed bugs are nocturnal and you will not see them during the day.  One of the common signs of bed bugs is having a skin rash that often have round raised edges with tiny red specks and redness that is dried blood.  They leave black fecal stains on your bed frame and mattress.  There may also be red marks where you squished them at night when you rolled on them and sometimes you find a shed skin.  You may also see white oval eggs and nymphs that are transparent.  You may even see dead or live insects.  To find any of this evidence, besides the skin rash, you need to check places where they would be hiding.

Bed Bug Care—Professional Treatments

When hire a professional exterminator to get rid of the bed bugs, they will use many different low-odor sprays, aerosol, and dusts insecticides to get rid of the bed bugs.  Make sure that the company that you choose will clean up the chemical residue from the spray used to get rid of the bed bugs because if it is not removed it can damage your carpets, upholstered furniture, and rugs.

Bed Bug Care—Home Remedies 

Because they can live in your carpet, make sure that you vacuum your carpet every week.  You can also have New York Carpet Cleaning or New Jersey carpet cleaning do a professional cleaning on a monthly basis.  To prevent them from making a home in your mattress cove it with a plastic lining and seal all the crevices and cracks in your bed.  If you go on a trip look for any signs of bed bug infestation in the room before you open your luggage and put your clothes in the dressers.  When you get home, wash your clothes in hot water to make sure you are not bringing any home.

In Conclusion

It is very important to get bed bug care and the best treatment to get rid of them as soon as you know, or even suspect, that you have an infestation in your home for you and your family’s health.