Denatured alcohol and kerosene from bugs are used by the people, perhaps, more often than any other recipes. It is difficult to say how many private houses and apartments were doomed to a persistent stench because the owners prefer these tools to more modern and effective insecticidal preparations, but the fact remains: kerosene and denatured alcohol are widely used to destroy bedbugs even today with all their flaws.
And there are a lot of disadvantages of these funds:
- both kerosene and denatured alcohol have a strong, persistent and unpleasant odor;
- both substances can harm the health of the person performing the treatment;
- denatured alcohol and kerosene are highly flammable - with room treatment from bedbugs increases the risk of fire in it.
However, for all these serious shortcomings, these tools have one main advantage: accessibility.Both kerosene and industrial alcohol can be bought almost anywhere, and their price is lower than the cost of even the cheapest insecticidal drugs.
But how effective kerosene and denatured alcohol in the fight against bedbugs - still need to figure out ...
The effect of kerosene on bedbugs
Kerosene acts on bedbugs both as a deterrent and as a means to mechanically damage their airways.
It is known that insects breathe through the so-called spiracles, which are in large numbers on their body. Kerosene, being able to wet the chitinous cover of the bug, easily envelops the parasites with a thin film, flowing into the spiracle and thereby clogging them.
That is, in fact, the bugs die in contact with kerosene from a lack of oxygen - almost the same mechanism of action is observed when removing kerosene lice.
But all this is in theory. In practice, kerosene is far from being so effective from bedbugs. And that's why:
- To reliably destroy bedbugs, they must literally be poured with kerosene, because otherwise there is no guarantee that the parasites will be completely wetted with the substance.
- It is easy to pour a separate bug with kerosene or even spray the liquid on the parasite's nest, but it is almost impossible to treat all insects in this way. This means that a significant part of the bugs in the room will still survive.
- And finally, kerosene is not capable destroy the eggs of bedbugs.
As a result, kerosene from bedbugs can be used either as a deterrent - insects are really avoiding its smell - or for direct processing of nests when a large amount of bedbugs can be doused in a small area. But even here there are some nuances: bedbugs' nests are most often located on mattresses and in upholstered furniture, for which pouring kerosene will be the last step before discarding.
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“In our village, my grandfather lived this way, he only worked with such sadistic methods. Not on the forum will be remembered, he drove the rats, but he bugged the bugs with kerosene. And so that from his house on the street it smelled like from a canister. I don’t know if it helped him or not, but my grandmother and grandfather started using Dichlorvos as soon as it appeared. They immediately said that it is much more efficient and easier than kerosene. ”
Olga, Borisoglebsk
Consequently, with all its potential dangers for bedbugs, kerosene is hardly worth considering as a means to help destroy the parasites in the house.
Denatured alcohol and its effectiveness
The denatured alcohol, despite completely different chemical properties, acts on bedbugs in almost the same way as kerosene, and has the same advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, by virtue of its high volatility, methylated alcohol is generally less effective than kerosene (it will evaporate more quickly from the surface).
The bug entering a bottle with technical alcohol, by all means perishes. But a parasite that lives in a room and slightly splashed with denatured alcohol will come to its senses for a while, but it will not die, and sooner or later it will return to what it was decided to fight with - it will again drink human blood.
How does meth and kerosene exactly work for bed bugs
Denatured alcohol and kerosene from bedbugs work most reliably as scaring agents.
- If parasites were found in the room, the sofa and bed should be carefully checked. If there are no bugs here, but they are hiding in other places, it is necessary to simply handle the legs of furniture with kerosene or denatured alcohol. Until the remedy disappears, bugs along these legs will not be able to crawl up and bite a person.
- If bugs are destroyed by thermal methods - boiling water and steam - then it is with the help of kerosene or denatured alcohol that they can be taken from such places where it is impossible to get a stream from a kettle. For example, kerosene can be poured over the baseboards or in the slits of the parquet, and then just mechanically push insects running out of there or collect them with a vacuum cleaner.
Finally, using denatured alcohol and kerosene (or turpentine), you can protect yourself for several days even in a seriously infected room - the floor around the beds and sofas, which change linens and pillows, are carefully treated. For three or four days, well-fed bugs will be afraid to run through the “barrier gate” and people will be able to sleep peacefully.
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“Our bugs appeared somehow unnoticed, they started biting me first, then my husband. Even before the normal remedy, methylated plinth was poured over the baseboard - from there this muck climbed like pus from a wound. When my husband began to crush them, I almost turned out. I said that I would not survive this in the whole apartment. The stench was like at some station. We ended up calling a brigade of exterminators, I went to my mother, and my husband stayed with them to control the work.When she returned, there were no more bugs. ”
Inna, Stary Oskol
And absolutely surely kerosene and alcohol work in conjunction with an effective insecticidal drug. For example, denatured alcohol or kerosene can be used to process the most inaccessible places, expelling insects from there, and then in open spaces to poison them with an inexpensive aerosol such as Dichlorvos Neo or Raptor.
Important!
Popular folk recipes, in which kerosene or denatured alcohol dismount with mothballs, apply dangerous! Not only do the basics themselves irritate and even burn the airways, but naphthalene, according to doctors, can lead to cancer. Such mixtures can be significantly more dangerous than bedbug bites.
Safety measures at work and disadvantages of the method
But if kerosene or denatura were chosen to control bedbugs (let's say you decided to experiment), when using them you should strictly observe safety measures:
- Wear a respirator and rubber gloves when working.
- remove all people and animals from the premises
- work away from open flame sources.
It is impossible to process clothes, carpets and upholstered furniture with kerosene or denatured alcohol - after that they can be not restored.
And whenever possible, it is better to do without kerosene and denatured alcohol at all. Still, modern technologies are not so much folk remedies as trivial grandfathering methods.
Today, there are many drugs for bedbugs, and safer, and much more effective. Among them are Klopoveron, Get, Hangman, Agran, Xsulat, Raptor from crawling insects, Combat, Reid, Medilis-Tsiper and others.
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