How and how can you quickly remove bed bugs from the apartment?

 

Bed bugs are the most domestic of all insect parasites of man. Nowhere else, except in a human dwelling, they can find a power source, and therefore they are literally tied to apartments, houses and dormitories.

Compared with other insects - cockroaches, ants, mosquitoes - bed bugs are less versatile in terms of habitats and feeding objects. However, they are also more resistant to various methods of struggle, which is why bedbugs from the apartment - rather time-consuming process.

However, today you can quickly and reliably remove bedbugs. The method of disinsection of various premises is well developed, and regardless of whether professionals will rid the premises of parasites, or the tenant of the apartment will do it, the chances of success in getting rid of bedbugs turn out to be very high.

 

How to bring bed bugs: a review of methods

Before you remove bedbugs from housing, you need to figure out which methods exist for this and which one should be preferred in each particular case. Among the main methods are the following:

• Direct destruction of bugs by special poisonous substances. This may be Combat, Executioner, Dichlorvos, Malathion or any other means. It is only important to initially count on the complete processing of the room and not to harbor illusions about the possibility slack off bugs only on the couch: almost always parasites inhabit many places in the apartment, and only in upholstered furniture can be found by the owners. Before you remove bedbugs from the apartment in this way, you must comply with all safety requirements.
• Freezing or "burning out" of bugs. The first operation is carried out with the complete cooling of the apartment in the winter or the removal of the furniture in which the insects live in the cold. Removing bed bugs in the second way consists in heating the apartment with industrial fan heaters with a temperature rise of up to + 50 ° C for several hours.
• Collection of bedbugs with a vacuum cleaner or hands.This method is very time consuming and will not allow completely get rid of bedbugs in a residential apartment. But as support for other methods is often considered.
• Use of strongly smelling substances - dust, turpentine, denatured alcohol, some herbs. Very rarely with such means it is possible to completely rid the apartment of bedbugs, but in part they can be expelled.

 

Bedbugs quickly develop resistance to the means by which they are regularly poisoned. Therefore, if the bugs in the apartment came from the neighbors, you need to know what they were poisoned there, and use another drug.

Feedback on breeding bedbugs:

“I do not know, fortunately or not, but we have got bugs just before the repair. We did everything - changed the wallpaper, floors, ceilings, and therefore all this filth simply swept and passed. They threw out two sofas that were directly infested with bedbugs. They did not process the house with any means, only they did not heat the month, but it was still warm in it. Already half a year after repair, there are no bugs. I think they got rid of ... "

The most effective expulsion of bedbugs from the apartment will be when they will deal with professionals.

To do this, usually called the brigade of health services, whose specialists are well aware where bugs can hide and in what cases what means and methods are better to use. In addition, the treatment of the apartment with heat can be done only with the help of specialized equipment, which is available for such specialists.

 

Removal of bugs depending on the specifics of their localization

Bed bugs in the apartment usually settle in different places. This may be a bed, and furniture, and chinks in the floor and behind the baseboards, and household appliances, clothing or a pantry. The main thing for them is darkness, normal temperature and availability of food.

The most common place of accumulation of bedbugs are beds and sofas on which people sleep. You can drive them out of here in different ways:

• to make furniture in the cold;
• process it with special preparations - the Executioner, Karbofos, Tetrix and others;
• scald over the entire surface with boiling water or a hairdryer.

It is important to understand that if the bugs hide in some other place in the apartment, the processing of one bed will not give the result - they will return to it sooner or later anyway.

Feedback removing bed bugs from the sofa:

“We have already done this, and this way this sofa was processed. And Doust, and Dichlorvos, and Malathion. Bedbugs still remain.In the end, threw it and bought a new one. But they still came back! They called the service and showed us that all the parasites are in the closet and behind the carpet on the wall. In general, the need to poison the whole apartment ... "

If the bugs have chosen very hard to reach places, it is necessary to carry out a comprehensive disinsection of the entire room, either on their own or involving specialists. The latter, by the way, have special tools for introducing poison into narrow slits.

In life, Pyrethrum and some similar powders and solutions with which it is possible to process such slots, baseboards and sockets are widely used. These funds are relatively inexpensive, but do not give a quick effect.

Many powdered insecticides are ineffective against bedbug eggs. This means that even after destroying the main nest with these means, in a few weeks you can meet bugs that hatch from previously laid eggs.

And, finally, the settlement of bedbugs in clothes is the most favorable option. It is easiest to get rid of them: it is enough to wash the clothes at a temperature above 50 ° C or simply to warm them in the sun or with an iron, and all the parasites will die.

 

Removal of bugs from sofas, beds and armchairs

Upholstered furniture - a favorite haven for bedbugs. Here, a sleeping person is the most accessible for them, the optimum temperature is constantly maintained, and the insect is less likely to die when feeding, being crushed.

Important: the smallest larvae of bedbugs can crawl inside the mattresses. Because of this, it is much more difficult to find and destroy them.

But upholstered furniture is the easiest to handle. It can be scalded with boiling water from a large pot in the old-fashioned way, it can be brought outside to frost, or it can be treated with insecticides outside. It is important before you remove the bedbugs from the apartment, to check that they are not found anywhere else. Otherwise, all efforts will be in vain.

Upholstered furniture can be processed with turpentine or denatured alcohol. For bugs, these substances will be scared away, and therefore such treatment should be carried out on the street. However, it is usually impossible to completely get rid of parasites in an apartment by such means.

 

How to remove bedbugs from clothes

The simplest way to remove bedbugs from clothes is to heat them. Here practically everything is effective:

• wash at high temperature;
• scalding in a large bowl;
• ironing;
• steaming clothes in a closed car in the sun on a summer day;
• dry cleaning - they usually include the processing of clothes with special insect repellents.

With the integrated treatment of an apartment, it is possible to fold all the clothes in bags, carefully treat them with insecticide and tie the packages. In a few hours all the bugs on the clothes will die. The main thing is not to forget to wash the clothes after this.

 

What if the whole apartment is infected with bedbugs?

How to remove bed bugs from a particular apartment, it is best to tell a representative of the sanitary service. Here it is necessary to consider:

1. The size of the apartment;
2. Infections of bedbugs of neighboring apartments;
3. Season of the year.

As a rule, in the complex treatment of an apartment, highly effective insecticides are used, and only occasionally they resort to treating the apartment with heat. Both methods are quite reliable, but the processing temperature is much safer for permanent residents of the room.

When self-treating the apartment, you must:

1. Carefully choose a drug to fight. Today, the most effective are Karbofos, Hangman, Fufanon, Combat and some others.Choosing what means to poison bugs, you need to know which of them are used by local sanitary services. They are usually most effective in specific conditions.
2. Follow all precautions specified in the instructions. In any case, it is necessary to remove all residents and pets from the premises for a day, and the treatment should be carried out in a gauze bandage and gloves.
3. As carefully as possible to handle all the places where the bugs are hiding or can potentially be located.
4. Leave the room with the windows closed for several hours.
5. Ventilate the apartment and thoroughly wipe all surfaces with a damp cloth. Most of the insecticides used today, quickly disintegrate in air, but even their minimum, remaining on the walls and tables, can lead to unpleasant consequences (for example, allergies).

In the northern regions in the winter time the apartment can be frozen, leaving the windows open for several days. It is only important to provide protection of engineering systems from freezing and make sure that the temperature outside the window has dropped below minus 22 ° C.

A particularly difficult case is the simultaneous infection by the bedbugs of several apartments in a high-rise building.Here, for an effective struggle, it is necessary to find out who has bedbugs in the house, to cooperate and coordinate their actions so that they can either simultaneously carry out an independent treatment of the apartment, or call a disinsection team at once in several rooms. It is important to understand that if bugs remain in at least one apartment in the house, they will quickly spread throughout the building.

Feedback about the persecution of bedbugs in the hostel:

“I never saw this filth in my eyes, and only after moving, when they started biting at night, she sinned on mosquitoes. And then I found out that almost all of the new hostel is amazed by them. Once it has become etched, the second, all to no avail. They from the next rooms for a few days run over. In short, for two weeks they agreed on a persecution, they called a brigade, they killed a lot of money (104 rooms with kitchens and storerooms!), But they sounded noisy. For more than a year, nobody has ever bitten anyone. They called just a sanitary epidemiological station, without any services. ”

 

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