Contents:
- Medical Video: How To Get Rid of Bed Bugs: Prepping For a Bed Bugs Treatment
- The steps to eradicate bedbugs once and for all
- 1. Check every corner of the house
- 2. Once the fleas are found, catch and collect
- 3. Clean items affected by bed bugs
- 4. Spray insecticide if needed
Medical Video: How To Get Rid of Bed Bugs: Prepping For a Bed Bugs Treatment
Bed bugs that have the scientific name Cimex hemioterus are human pests. These fleas are 5 millimeters in size, even smaller than the eraser on the tip of the pencil. Bed bug infestation problems are often found in homes, office buildings, or other human activities. The reason is, they usually live on the surface of the mattress and the surface of the pillow and sofa seat, until behind the painting or poster reaches the crack of the wall. Bedbug bites make skin itchy red. So if your house turns out to be a place for fleas, how do you get rid of it?
The steps to eradicate bedbugs once and for all
These fleas can reproduce quickly and survive up to monthly to yearly. The spread is also fast. If you suspect your place of residence is infested with lice, consider how to effectively eradicate it below.
1. Check every corner of the house
Quickly check all the corners of your own home. The earlier you find it, the spread of bedbugs can be overcome. Lice usually perch on the edges and surfaces of mattresses, in the cracks of walls or floors, on the edges of home furniture, under the paintings and posters on the walls.
Use a flashlight and magnifying glass to check all of these areas. Signs of bedbugs are:
- Adult fleas live reddish and are a little long in size. There is also a slightly rounded one.
- Mites can be pale egg yolks, like egg shells and small shapes.
- There are small black spots on the bed indicating that bedbug feces have ever roamed.
2. Once the fleas are found, catch and collect
It's good once you find enough lice, immediately destroy it before continuing to hunt the nest. If the amount is small and possible, put your catch fleas into a closed bottle filled with one teaspoon of rubbing alcohol.
However, if there are many, use a vacuum cleaner. Suck up the top and sides of your bed, cabinets and gaps, carpets, electronics and edges, and other house cracks.
Next, immediately pour the dust collected in the vacuum cleaner into a closed plastic bag, pour a few spoons of alcohol and throw away. Then clean your vacuum cleaner thoroughly.
3. Clean items affected by bed bugs
All objects that have been infested with fleas, such as sheets and pillowcases, tablecloths, curtains, feathered dolls, and clothing must be immediately separated from clean items for washing. Wash in the washing machine with hot water and immediately dry it in the washing machine. If your machine does not have a dryer feature, immediately dry it in the hot sun.
Other home furnishings such as sofas, mattresses, and pillows and bolsters should be sucked up with vacuum cleaner then dry in the sun.
If fleas reside in items that cannot be washed like in piles of books and magazines, clean and tightly cover them completely with plastic so that fleas will eventually run out of air and no more new lice can enter.
If the item is possible to dispose of, it should be disposed of. Do not move items from a room infected with fleas into a clean room or room. This actually makes the fleas spread more. Replace your worn pillows and bolsters.
Also fix the cracks of the wall or floor with a plaster to reduce flea hiding places.
4. Spray insecticide if needed
If the above methods do not work to eliminate bedbugs, spray your house with insecticides. Effective insecticides to kill flea colonies should contain one of the chemicals below:
- Pyrethrins and pyrethroids. But in some places, fleas are resistant to these chemicals.
- Neonicotinoids, work on fleas that are resistant to other pesticides.
- Dessicants. Lice are not resistant to these chemicals, but their effectiveness is slow.
If the case continues, you should call a professional pest control officer. Pest control professionals have more complete equipment and stronger flea killer drugs so they can more effectively eradicate bedbugs.
