http://bedbugger.com/forum/ Bed bug support forums en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:04:58 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/how-i-didnt-bring-bugs-home#post-75064 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:49:24 +0000 mcsmcs 75064@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>I have two BB experiences - the one I think I am going through now, and the entirely unrelated one I went through 2 years ago. I successfully dealt with being exposed to BBs while out of my house on a trip...and here's how.</p> <p>Ok - so what happened is, I went on a relief trip to the Gulf Coast and stayed in a Habitat for Humanity/Salvation Army housing settlement for the week. Partway through the week I started noticing bites. We were working in a very shaded area near deep woods and, well, it was the summer, so assumed they were typical bug bites until the other people in my work crew said - bugs? I don't have any bites..... Uh-oh. I was the only woman there (it was a small crew because NO ONE in their right mind goes to Mississippi to do construction in the summer.) and I quickly figured out that the dorm I was in had BBs.</p> <p>I freaked. I lived with the bites till the end of the trip. I came home. I washed and dried everything that could be dried on HOT HOT HOT settings. I threw away the luggage. I threw away all the clothes that couldn't be dried. I found one nymph on me on my way home (eww!!) but after a few days of bites showing up (which I think were bites I got on my trip)....nothing, except a year of fear and then finally relief.</p> <p>Probably there are ways I could have done it without throwing so much away (but the Packtite wasn't something I knew about then). Still, the cost of luggage and some clothes is nothing compared to an exterminator, so....it was so worth it.</p> <p>So it can be done. You can avoid bringing them home - especially now that there are things like the PackTite.... </p>