How To Avoid Bed Bugs When You Are Traveling
Posted in Avoid BedBugs on 15. Mar, 2010
Ever since bed bugs started appearing after the DDT ban, it is advised that you should check the hotel room you are given before settling in. The first thing you should check if there are any red or black tiny stains on the hotel room’s bed sheets.
Once you finished checking the bed sheet, you should get a flashlight and check the bed frame, the drawer, its legs and the nightstand that is nearby. Bed bugs can live in places that are very small, so be extra cautious when checking for their existence.
To totally avoid bed bugs from following you back home, you should not place your luggage on the bed for fear that they might crawl inside your bag. Bedbugs seem to enjoy traveling as they hitch on people’s backpacks and bag, then infest the new areas they arrive at.
Instead of putting your luggage on the floor, there are supplied luggage stands in the hotel room, usually found in the closet.
Apart from that, you should avoid leaving your clothes on the bed. It is a great place for bed bugs to hide and they have a better chance of sucking your blood if you wear that clothing that got infected.
When you wake up in the morning, check your body parts to see if there are any signs of bed bug bites. Their bites are a little different from mosquito bites as they will have bumps and a bigger red blotch on the affected area. Any way to differentiate it is by checking if there’s a small hole in the middle of the bite. If there is none, it’s usally a bed bug bite.
Adult bed bugs are brown in color and turn a little reddish only after they have sucked human blood. They raraely come out in the morning, so your best bet is to look for them with a flashlight in the evening or late at night.
If you spot even only 1 bed bug, you should wash all your clothes with extreme temperatures. You can either wash it in hot water or put it in a freezer. The latter sounds a little more extreme since noone has space for clothes in their freezer.
When there is a sight of one bed bug, there are usually more that are hiding. So get a bed bug spray and find crevices that could be their hiding place. Spray at as much areas as you can possibly find.
