BED BUGS-SATANS LITTLE PETS.

My son came down the stairs demanding I fix his screen because the bugs were getting in at night and biting him, lots! I examined him quickly and yes his leg looked like it had mosquito bites all over it. I went to the medicine chest and returned with the hydrocortisone cream and told him to put it on and stop itching. I then fixed his screen. The next day comes and he has twice the amount of bites today. We did some cleaning up and more fixing of the window when no spiders or anything was found we just started getting a little serious but still just stocked it up to bugs outside or something, It was summer time after all. I would say it was a few days later when he really got my attention and showed me they had not gotten any better but worse, and had spread all over his leg. It looked like a small bumped rash, red and itchy. It had just been on his calf and now had spread up his thigh and all around it. I decided it was time for a doctor visit. The doctor looked at it and said it looked like bug bites, he gave him a stronger cream, said do not itch it and sent us home. Over the next week or two, he was out a lot and downstairs at night some so it wasn’t that bad. We thought maybe it was healing, and thanked GOD it was over. It changed when my younger son came back from his dads and they were back upstairs all the time. When my son came down stairs with them on his stomach, other leg, face, arms and everywhere anyway, I said enough. We went back to the doctors and this time I demanded an answer. A nurse happen to speak up and said,”looks like bed bugs to me”. I thought that was a bedtime quote,” Dont let the bed bugs bite”. I never thought they were real! He assured me they were. He gave me what information he knew and we came home to hunt. The first few minutes of tearing his bed apart led to nothing untill I open a folded up small quilt that was on his bed way down at the bottom which he never used, When I first saw them, I froze in horror. I could not believe my eyes. Ten of them or so, with tiny black looking dots all inside this one corner. It was horrifying and I ran to a garbage bag to get rid of the blanket. I still was not sure ,never seeing them before myself so I searched for a live one to take to my landlord. In the baggy, still alive, she said , YUP, that is an adult bed bug!.  The past two years have been nothing but a constant battle to get my house back from these blood sucking , cockroach type bugs!!! We have been lucky enough to not be infested with them since the first find so it has been livable. We find a bite in the morning , we vacuum and wash and dry everything that day and have usually one to two weeks before having to deal with it again. I have learned a few important factors when dealing with these , THINGS.

1. VACUUMING is your best defense, do it everyday and do it completely getting every crack and hole you can find.
2. WASH&DRY COMPLETELY anything you can put in the washer then do it.
3. STORE FOR OVER 18MONTHS if you can not wash it then you need to store it in a sealed bag for at least 18 months, these things can stay alive that long without feeding.
4. NOCTURNAL, these things do not actually nest in your bed always they just bite while you are asleep so they are called bed bugs but they are usually up to 20 feet away from your bed and prefer to lay eggs on wood.
5. EGGS LOOK LIKE DOTS, as if someone took a pen and made a bunch of dots with it, they are that small, they can be killed with water and bleach, just smudge them and they are dead and they take two weeks to hatch.
6. GOODNIGHTS brand is the only product that I have found that works, (even raids bombs)bombs and other sprays do not work unless you hire the pro’s to do it.
7. THEY ARE FLAT, completely flat, white when born and then red to brown as they grow and feed so they can hide, anywhere!

Thank GOD they do not pass diseases. They do not bite pets. They need two to mate. They can hitch rides onto your clothes and be carried to other peoples houses or cars. I think that is all but if anyone has any questions then feel free to ask.