While the grizzly bear responsible for this responds with “Oh really, you want to lose more than your lower jaw? I can take more from you and have you placed in the morgue awaiting your funeral if you don’t learn to stay out of my territory, idiot!”
Check any hotel you stay in. Look under the mattress and in crevasses and seams. And don’t put your suitcase on the bed. Use the luggage stand or a desk.
And even if you check carefully, put your clothes straight from the suitcase and into the dryer and run for 60 minutes on high. The heat will kill bedbugs. If you can, also heat the suitcase or keep it sealed in plastic.
Also, protect your stuff. Put your mattress in a zippered encasement.
Check the straps of those portable luggage stands first those. They are a favorite location of bed bugs since the don’t often get treated. Unroll the straps a little bit to check underneath them next to the tubes.
I only recently (say, 3 months ago?) discovered Cory’s blog and I just have to say that it is absolutely amazing. The books he wrote & co-wrote are fantastic reads and help explain how we ended up in this mess in the first place.
As someone who’s had bedbugs multiple times… Yes it’s very much with throwing away your entire wardrobe if you have to. Do everything you can to prevent getting them.
Yup. Had em 3-4x in this very apartment. First day we discovered them I was hauling my box spring the fuck outside and dumping it by the trash downstairs at 3am while my wife was panicking.
Thankfully been several years since I’ve seen em and I aim to keep it that way.
The first time it happened, I remember killing everything with fire. I even slept on a plastic covered mattress and did daily vacuuming for like two months. Even worse, the bug bites caused my cat to be extra irritated, forcing him to clean himself nonstop from all the bites and having us lock him out of the bedroom else he go through another “obsessive bite cycle”.
It was near impossible since the neighbors didn’t care and solved it by moving.
They can’t even get out for people to take them in. The exits are blocked and the ‘safe evacuation route’ seems to be a major target for Israeli bombs and missiles. This is so fucked.
Prepare your flats and take that shit seriously when traveling. Just look under ever mattress you sleep on. And tell your friends and family to do that. For real, we need to get a hold on that.
At the very least, treat your bed frame and headboard. Remove any skirts around your bed so the only place the bedbugs can access your bed is the treated surfaces. When you do get them it will slow them down significantly. My best advice to prevent them is to avoid using public coat racks at places like work.
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