Don’t Let The Bedbugs Bite
Posted October 7, 2007 by Ed Szajniak · Filed Under Health
Your journey is over and you are ready for a good nights rest in your hotel room. In the morning you have dozens of itchy little red bumps all over your body. You have been the victum of bedbugs!
Bedbugs are known for being elusive, transient and nocturnal. Because bed bugs hide in small crevices, they may accompany luggage, furniture, clothing, pillows, boxes, and other such objects when these are moved between apartments, homes and hotels.
What does this mean for you?
If you know how to recognize bedbug signs, you may save yourself a lot of grief. Bed bugs are small, brownish, flattened insects that feed solely on the blood of animals. The common bed bug, Cimex lectularius, is the species most adapted to living with humans. It has done so since ancient times.
Small rust-colored stains on bedding are caused by human hosts rolling over on engorged bedbugs during the night. The ‘rust’ is actually bedbug blood. Another sign of bedbugs is little reddish or black dots. These dots are bedbug fecal matter.
Beds is not the only place these parasites inhabit. You can find them in carpeting, drapery folds, floor cracks, in corners of dresser drawers.
If you suspect that your room is infested by bedbugs, ask the hotel for a different room or switch hotels. As an added safety precaution, you might want to pack some large leaf bags. Place your luggage inside the bags while in your hotel room. This makes it more difficult for bugs to get into your belongings.
There is no reason to avoid travel because you are worried about bedbugs. Just be aware of what to look for and enjoy your next trip.
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Sadly, you can’t hide from bed bugs in a sleep sack, or detect them with a Hotel Room Inspector light, both pictured above.
Bed bugs can easily crawl into your sleep sack. And they can sometimes be found by a throrough visual inspection of the room including under the bed, behind the pictures and headboard, around edges of mattresses, in and under and behind side tables, around the baseboards and on other furniture. But it is hard to find them.
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Hi!
While we may not be able to hide from bed bugs in a sleep sack, I’d rather have some protection from a sleep sack than no protection at all.
Cheers,
Ros
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