How come i SUDDENLY get bed bug bites out of nowhere?

Question

Bed Bug bites have been REALLY recent...im talking about 2 weeks ago. I looked around my matress but there wwere none. I have bedbug bites in the following areas:

-feet

-legs

-and just a little on my arm.

How the heck did those bugs get into my room? I am 100% sure that they are bed bugs that are causing all of this. And also how do i get rid of them? thank you in advance

Answer 1

How did I get Bed Bugs?

Since bed bugs hide in small crevices, they can travel with luggage, furniture, clothing, boxes, ect. This is how they move between hotels, homes and apartments. Used furniture, particularly bed frames and mattresses, are of greatest risk of harboring bed bugs and their eggs. They may be present in vacant apartments hiding in cracks and crevices since they may survive months without a blood meal. Bed bugs may travel between nearby apartments through voids in walls and holes though which wires and pipes pass. In a few cases, bats and/or birds may introduce and maintain bed bugs and their close relatives (bat bugs and bird bugs). All nests that harbor birds and bats should be removed.

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How To Get Rid Of Bed Bugs

Step I : Pre-treatment Procedures

Reduce clutter to inspection easier.

If you dismantle the bed frames, you may expose additional bedbug hiding sites.

Remove drawers from desks and dressers and turn furniture over, if possible, to inspect and clean all hiding spots.

Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the gauze fabric to expose bed bugs.If the fabric is torn ( possible hiding place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying.

Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and moldings to further reduce harborages.

Since infested garments and bed linen can't be treated with insecticide they will need to be laundered in hot water (120°F minimum). If washing is not available, sometimes heating the garments or bed linen for several minutes in a clothes dryer may work.

Thoroughly clean the infested rooms .Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.

Vacuum in area of bed bug harborages with an vacuum attachment. Vacuum along baseboards, nearby furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, footboards,bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding as well as the edges of the carpets(particularly along the tack strips) are key areas to vacuum. A good vacuum cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage greater insecticide penetration.

Discard vacuum cleaner bag in a sealed plastic bag when finished.

Caulk cracks and crevices in the building exterior and also repair or screen openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can serve as alternate hosts for bed bugs.

Answer 2

Bed bugs usually come out in the dark and late at  night..they are attracted to human body heat and blood...they are real pests,you might need to call an exterminator,,,they multiply  quickly...

Answer 3

the only way to be 100% sure you have bed bugs is you have one in hand to identify it as one....  many things can cause whelps the look like bites, especially if they were scratched while you were sleeping.   Bed bugs will leave blood on the sheets that they excrete while feeding, but even finding a small amount of  blood is not a sure sign of bed bugs.

bed bugs would of been brought in from a visitor (or brought in furniture from elsewhere) or from you traveling. Matress is just one of many areas in a room where the problem may be existing.  All furniture, baseboards, under carpet edge, behind fixtures on the wall...

if they are bed bugs hire a pro now to nip it in the bud...an improper treatment will only cause the infestation to worsen and a thorough infestation extermination can cost upwards to $500 a job.

If it is bed bugs...fleas ...even mites you will see them. Don't spray insecticides blindly in hopes you are killing something.  The "bites"  may be caused by a skin condition , reaction to soap or other house hold chemical and exposing yourself to more chemicals may just worsen it making you think the "bug" problem has worsen where you now want to spend hundreds of dollars for a pro to fix... and there are many pest companies out there that will take your money for basically killing nothing

Answer 4

I read an article about that...in the USA, bed bugs were almost extinct, but now they are making a comeback.  Bed bugs are also in hotels, so don't think that they have anything to do with cleanliness, because they don't.

Bedbugs hide in the crevices of the mattress, and live around the bed, and it's nearly impossible to see them.

Take a bottle, and fill it with rubbing alcohol, get someone to help you lift the mattress, and spray around all areas of the mattress, especially in the crevices.  Vacuum your mattress every evening, and around your bed-frame, and on the floor around your bed.  Wash your bedclothes in hot water often.

Bedbugs can go into "hiding" and don't have to feed for almost 18months before they starve, so although you can keep them at bay, as soon as you stop taking an active approach, they will come back.

Getting rid of your furniture won't help, either, because even new pieces of furniture (although rare) can contain these little pests.

Answer 5

My kids would get those from out in the yard by fleas. If you have a pet in the house that goes outside that might be them and not bed bugs.

Answer 6

What you are calling bed bugs could actually be fleas...the summer is an active time for fleas, and they get everywhere.  they can explode in population in a short time.  Bomb your house with an aerosol flea  bomb.. one per room.  you may have to repeat in a week to get the newborn also.

Answer 7

I am going to combinea  bit of the advice that you got.

You likely do need a good PCO to help with this but there are some things you can do on yoru own that will help.

The first is to get a good chemical free spray to use on yoru mattress and around your place in case the bedbugs you have are chemical resistent to whatever the PCO will use.

You can get a good spray at www.kleen-free.com that was designed for bedbugs and their name brand product can alls obe aded toyour laundry to help control them.  I do nto know what rates you add to laundry so you should ask them.

Since DEET was banned, the chemicals that are being used now may work well but may not which is why I would say do both chemical and chemcial free treatments and start soon.

Good luck