Saturday, October 25, 2008

Watch Out For The Bed Bugs

Bed Bugs are found everywhere worldwide, every continent and every country. But how do they find their way into your home ? It’s really not all that difficult, they can travel in your clothes, in your luggage, they can get to you by swapping furniture with somebody so be careful of who you are trading or buying furniture from. If somebody is giving away a mattress I would stay away from that offer because they are probably giving it away for free for a reason, I had to learn this the hard way unfortunately and I will never accept a mattress from anybody ever again. So that means don’t ever ever get and abandoned mattress no matter how new and good it looks.

Common spots for the bed bugs to hide out are inside crevasses inside mattresses and they can also live in walls which in the past has been a problem for apartments and especially motels and hotels. So if you have to stay at a hotel for a night or two try and keep your luggage away from the furniture, that way if the hotel does have an infestation they have a lesser chance of getting a free trip into your home.
With that being said if your home or apartment does have a bed bug infestation simply moving to another house or switching apartments isn’t going to do much. There is also an assumption that bed bugs are more common in messy homes, as this is untrue, bed bugs are not attracted to dirt they are attracted to your blood. If you have a messy room the only thing that is going to do is give the bed bugs more places to hide, as if they don’t already have tons of places to hide out until your sleeping soundly.

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