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Been reading a lot about bed bugs, anyone


Posted: Sep 21, 2010

any ideas about how to get rid of the creatures.  I don't have them here personally but now I am totally freaked out and paranoid.  I keep reading about people bringing them home from vacation and that they are getting to be an epidemic in this country.  What do we do if we do get them?  How do you kill them?  Anyone know anything more about this - I totally dislike bugs.  I hate to kill any of them but ...

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DDT or heat but as DDT is illegal you cannot get it - sm - ECMT

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I know how you feel. My DH travels now and then and we are more paranoid now. But if you happen to get them, yes you need to kill them unless you like bugs comeing out and chewing on you and sucking your blood at night. About the only route is to call an exterminator and expect it to take several treatments as they have a hard time killing them as they are resistant to a lot of chemicals but killed by DDT which was banned in the 70s since it is quite environmentally damaging. Mattress and boxspring encasements too. But bed bugs also get in furniture, etc. so it is not just the bed you have to worry about.

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