12/28/2023 0 Comments Bedbugs library booksI had 50+ bites on my body at one point in time. Don't hire one until you know the bugs are in your home. Pray to the bedbug gods that you don't already have them, and do everything that you consider non-crazy to mitigate their spread in case you do.Įxterminators are expensive. If you get any suspicious bugbites (mine were a bulls eye pattern, clustered in groups), call an exterminator.Ħ. They must enjoy the taste of paranoia in your blood.)ĥ. These asshole fuckhead bugs and their eggs can survive just long enough for you to think they're gone, then rear their ugly little bodies to cover you in bites again. Be suspicious of any and all bug bites that happen in the next few months (yes, months. Check corners of walls, base molding, crevices in mattress for bedbugs or bedbug droppings during the daytime.Ĥ. Quarantine any other books that may have been nearby in plastic bags.ģ. This is relatively easy, and worth the trouble.Ģ. If possible, treat all textiles within close proximity to the book in this manner. Take all linens and pillows off your bed, seal in plastic, and heat treat. Chances are that the bedbug you caught and killed was the only one in the book, however if I were you, I'd do the following:ġ. The infestation turned into an infestation because I had no clue what was biting the crap out of me for a good week or two after the initial exposure. I've dealt with a horrendous months long ordeal with bedbugs after a person carrying bedbugs on their person or in their bags slept on my bed. Posted by insectosaurus at 6:45 PM on September 3, 2012īest answer: Honestly? I don't think you need to panic just yet, but there are some precautions you should take. An alternative to washing is to put them in a black plastic bag in a car in the sun for a couple hours - it needs to get to around 115 degrees if I remember correctly, which it will easily do if it's a warm day. If you're nervous, you can also wash/dry your sheets, comforter, and pillows in hot water. Then, if there is a bedbug in your apartment, it will be unable to get in to your bed. Don't let the bedsheets or comforter touch the floor. Place each leg of the bed into a dish filled with water or diatomaceous earth. Move your bed away from the wall, so it's only touching the floor. I would consider isolating your bed so that if another bedbug escaped from the book, it can't get in to your bed. If you do end up with an infestation, a treatment will cost the same amount after you start getting bites as it would now, and while bites are uncomfortable, they're liveable for a little bit. Personally - and this is speaking as someone who dealt with a bedbug problem for a couple months - I would not go all out and treat your apartment at this point. Ultimately it's going to be your decision whether you want to take the nuclear option or be more cautious. I will be curious to read the responses, because I think different people have different levels of risk-taking with something like this. Strip naked the moment you enter your house from outside and wash everything you own in hot water, and anything that can't be washed, super-heat in a Pactite for 8 hours." Is that excessive or should we be at that level of decontamination at this point? posted by rednikki to Home & Garden (16 answers total) 5 users marked this as a favorite I have tried reading Bedbugger's forums, but the message I've taken away is "Don't ride public transit, don't go to libraries, don't go to restaurants, don't go to movies, don't go to other people's houses. Neither of us have had any signs of bedbug bites. We also had about ten people over Saturday night, so in theory it could have come from one of them and crawled into the book from the coffee table, but that seems unlikely. I've put the book in a Ziploc bag and slipped a note in with it explaining the situation. It crawled out during daylight hours, which I understand is abnormal for the critters. Hardback book (Charlaine Harris' "Dead Reckoning," not that it matters.) I'd been keeping it on the table beside the bed (yikes), but I was reading it in the living room when I saw the bug. The bedbug crawled out on Monday, about an hour after I started reading it. More details: got the library book out on Saturday.
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