Bedbugs Mattress
Do You Need Mattress Covers to Prevent Bed Bugs? How to Protect Yourself From Bedbugs While Sleeping
Author: William Tribble
Bed bugs in your mattress can be the cause of some serious health hazards and can draw an enormous amount of blood from the human body. They nestle in your bed mattresses and come out mostly towards dawn, sucking blood for 10-15 minutes at a stretch, and then again retreating to their safe location in the folds of the mattresses. In order to avoid this, and make sure nothing bad happens to you or your near and dear ones, you must have mattress covers to protect yourself from bed bugs.
You should be able to identify bed bugs from their round shape and flat bodies. Their color, however, keeps changing. 'Bloodsuckers' that they are, their color depends on their intake of blood. They are usually grey or light brown, but after they have fed, such colors usually change to brick red, even orange at times. It is also possible to identify them by their action. If sleeping on your mattress causes you itches and irritation, it is possibly because there are bed bugs inside your mattress. These bugs inject an oily, sticky substance into the body of their hosts, and these infections can be pretty deadly at times.
Also note - Each female bug lays about 500 eggs each. Each bug starts feeding immediately after being born, and attains the ability to reproduce after a month or so. The point here is, until and unless you take drastic steps of remedy after you first notice the 'bug attack', the situation may soon spin out of control.
• Cut off the source of blood supply - Bed bugs are unable to survive without blood. Getting mattress covers to protect yourself from these insects thus seems to be the first thing that needs to be done for your protection.
• Mattress covers have very tightly woven fabrics - These do not allow the bugs to penetrate and nest in the mattress itself. Furthermore, the bugs which are already there cannot get out, and perish within one or two days. Remember - if you have bed bugs ALREADY in your mattress; make sure you do not remove the cover.
Further, there are some advantages of using mattress covers as well:
There is of course the factor of keeping the mattress new, but what many people do not realize is the extent of the newness. Mattress covers can keep your mattress of two years looking brand new! That is a fact, and as the years pass, you can still NOT SEE the effects of time!
Secondly, if you have seasonal allergies, mattress covers can be a very good solution. One of the biggest causes of seasonal allergies is pet dander. Together with dust, pet dander can accumulate on your mattress and cause serious allergies. Your mattress cover ensures that there is no accumulation.
Bed mites, too, can cause asthma attacks and bronchial infections. At any time, there are around a million bed mites in a two year old mattress, and their dropping, minute but accumulated, can be a carrier of these diseases. Mattress covers can protect you here by cutting off their main source of food - shed skin cells of humans (or what we call 'dead skin').
About the Author
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February 7, 2012
6:23 am
Yes, it could be bed bugs, or some wort of mites – I have had this problem myself. Try to find a hardware shop and get some spray for it (something that will kill bed bugs, mites, fleas etc). Get a couple of cans so you dont run out. Take all your bed clothes off and wash at a high temperature, then spray the bed well (make sure you leave the windows open), as well as the skirting on the wall behind the bed, under the bed, the bed frame and around the bed. You can also spray other areas, for example carpets and sofa if you think this may also have bugs.
Leave it for a while (with the windows open) and then remake the bed with the clean sheets.
Try not to hoover for a while afterwards as the spray will need some time to kill the live bugs and also those emerging from eggs.
February 7, 2012
6:23 am
Bedbugs can hide in your sheets and clothing. Simply getting an air mattress won’t cure the problem. You should fumigate the house if you want them completely gone.
February 7, 2012
6:23 am
yuck – I would not consider that wasting money
February 7, 2012
6:23 am
http://www.bedbugsguide.com/remedies-that-fail.htm
They say bleach won’t work and will irritate your skin. If your hotel has bedbugs, tell the management and then leave. They are very difficult to get rid of because they move around and hide in the walls and furniture. The proper treatment involves spraying and fumigating.
Even if you kill the adults with spray, the eggs will hatch later and then you will have more. There is little that effectively kills the eggs. The only thing that consistently works is dry heat above 120F.
February 7, 2012
6:23 am
I woudl probably get a new one or get some spray and spray it and everything else several times before you move to be sure taht you are safe.
There are some effective bedbug sprays online that are chemical free so you can apply them yourself and you can use them on your mattress and clothes etc without harm.
The one that I have had recommended is called BedBug Terminator and it is made by a company called Kleen-Free. Works well and safe to use around kids, pets etc.
Good luck and happy moving day when it gets here.
June 12, 2007
12:12 am
Is it possible to have bedbugs living in your mattress?
i have been getting random bites.not mesquito bites.tiny bites on my arms legs back stomach and shoulders is there a possiblity of bedbugs?
March 27, 2009
8:27 pm
How do you get rid of bedbugs without wasting money on a new mattress?
at the moment I dont have enough money to buy a new mattress and all those nigths on the couch are driving me nuts!, please someone help!
May 6, 2009
8:05 am
Bedbugs — Safe to keep mattress or cough up money a buy a new one?
I had/have bedbugs, but havn’t gotten bit in a few weeks, they came and sprayed and everything, we are moving to a new apartment, BRAND new complex, do you think it is save to take my mattress or just cough up the money and buy a new one??
February 21, 2010
7:49 pm
Will bleach kill bedbugs on a mattress?
I will be staying at a hotel and wonder if I spray 1 part bleach to 9 parts water it will help prevent bed bugs from biting.
August 10, 2010
9:01 am
Bedbugs – does it help buying an air mattress ?
I live in a shared house, and sincerely these bugs must be brought by some other people.
I dont know where the bugs hide, and because they are called bedbug, I wonder if it helps to buy an air mattress.
My questions are if the bugs will disappear, and if my mattress will stay inflated ?