How to Protect Your Home and Family From the Bed Bug Pandemic Affecting the World and Its Travellers
Bed Bugs the fastest growing problem for families who like to travel and who have travellers visiting.
These tips and advice will help prevent your home from becoming infected with the fastest growing problem that has hit world news headlines for ages.
Bedbugs the fastest growing menace in the world and it doesn't matter how clean you are, your home will become infected unless you take precautions.
The latest world news has shown that with the rapidly increasing travel arrangements of holidaymakers and business people, bed bugs have become a major unwelcome travelling companion causing discomfort and possible illness to unwary hosts.
How they travel is quite simple, they are hitchhikers, hitching a ride in your suitcase, briefcase or anywhere they can hide in a dark corner or so, and, if you think going to the poshest and most expensive hotel, you will have no worries, think again.
It doesn't matter whether its a London backpackers or a London Five Star the risk is the same if you are not prepared.
As Bedbugs are not that particular in who they travel with, stop them from the outset, you don't want them infesting your home when you return.
Step 1: in the fight against them, make it as hard as possible for them to survive the trip home, keep a can of bed bug spray with you or get one when you arrive, spray your empty suitcase after you have unpacked and close it, when you leave, again spray all your travel cases,(inside and out) including briefcases if you have them, then shake out your clothing before packing, you may even see some.
Step2: Prevent your home from the ones who might have survived.
Knowing the bugs don't like light, wait until daylight to unpack, again shake out your clothing before putting away, and then respray your cases.
Go an extra step, an inch of prevention is better than a mile of cure, or something like that, so spray your room, concentrating on the doorframes, skirting boards, bed base and any dark corner where they can take refuge, remember the bugs can fly and can settle up to five metres away from their hosts.
Step3: How do you know you have the dreaded bedbugs? Well if you only have a few, to start with, you may not know, that little red mark on your toe could be anything, like the mosquito, they feed on your blood fluid, injecting an anticoagulant and anaesthetic and then sucking up the fluid, they can suck up to 3X their weight and through this they can spread diseases and cause infections.
So when you wake up next morning you have a small red mark that can be itchy, the problems arise if you have major infestations, during one night you could be "bitten" up to 500 times leaving a nasty rash like appearance, this can also result in anaemia and possible infections.
Step4: Visitors to your home: Not being rude, but your favourite visitor may be an unsuspecting carrier, how do you go about this? A bit of common sense, use the cleaning time to give a quick spray around the room, when they have left a more intense spray program may be carried out as above.
It is not being over the top but more of being in control, after all world news is saying its becoming a problem, so, don't let it be your problem.
What do these dreaded villains look like, a search of web pages will show some lovely photos, but they are a small parasitic insect, a member of the Cimicidae family, they have been around since the cave dwellers and even before, feeding off the blood of bats and other warm blooded animals, and as humans developed and moved from caves to houses, so to the bed bugs followed, but only now, with increased world travel are they becoming more of a threat.
Prevention is better than cure so follow these tips to make your holiday a pleasurable experience to be remembered for the trip not the hitchhikers you brought home.
These tips and advice will help prevent your home from becoming infected with the fastest growing problem that has hit world news headlines for ages.
Bedbugs the fastest growing menace in the world and it doesn't matter how clean you are, your home will become infected unless you take precautions.
The latest world news has shown that with the rapidly increasing travel arrangements of holidaymakers and business people, bed bugs have become a major unwelcome travelling companion causing discomfort and possible illness to unwary hosts.
How they travel is quite simple, they are hitchhikers, hitching a ride in your suitcase, briefcase or anywhere they can hide in a dark corner or so, and, if you think going to the poshest and most expensive hotel, you will have no worries, think again.
It doesn't matter whether its a London backpackers or a London Five Star the risk is the same if you are not prepared.
As Bedbugs are not that particular in who they travel with, stop them from the outset, you don't want them infesting your home when you return.
Step 1: in the fight against them, make it as hard as possible for them to survive the trip home, keep a can of bed bug spray with you or get one when you arrive, spray your empty suitcase after you have unpacked and close it, when you leave, again spray all your travel cases,(inside and out) including briefcases if you have them, then shake out your clothing before packing, you may even see some.
Step2: Prevent your home from the ones who might have survived.
Knowing the bugs don't like light, wait until daylight to unpack, again shake out your clothing before putting away, and then respray your cases.
Go an extra step, an inch of prevention is better than a mile of cure, or something like that, so spray your room, concentrating on the doorframes, skirting boards, bed base and any dark corner where they can take refuge, remember the bugs can fly and can settle up to five metres away from their hosts.
Step3: How do you know you have the dreaded bedbugs? Well if you only have a few, to start with, you may not know, that little red mark on your toe could be anything, like the mosquito, they feed on your blood fluid, injecting an anticoagulant and anaesthetic and then sucking up the fluid, they can suck up to 3X their weight and through this they can spread diseases and cause infections.
So when you wake up next morning you have a small red mark that can be itchy, the problems arise if you have major infestations, during one night you could be "bitten" up to 500 times leaving a nasty rash like appearance, this can also result in anaemia and possible infections.
Step4: Visitors to your home: Not being rude, but your favourite visitor may be an unsuspecting carrier, how do you go about this? A bit of common sense, use the cleaning time to give a quick spray around the room, when they have left a more intense spray program may be carried out as above.
It is not being over the top but more of being in control, after all world news is saying its becoming a problem, so, don't let it be your problem.
What do these dreaded villains look like, a search of web pages will show some lovely photos, but they are a small parasitic insect, a member of the Cimicidae family, they have been around since the cave dwellers and even before, feeding off the blood of bats and other warm blooded animals, and as humans developed and moved from caves to houses, so to the bed bugs followed, but only now, with increased world travel are they becoming more of a threat.
Prevention is better than cure so follow these tips to make your holiday a pleasurable experience to be remembered for the trip not the hitchhikers you brought home.
