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   gjwilliams2
   

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   Posted 8 months ago
   Sun Mar 1 2009 11:31:34
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   Once the mattress and box spring have been treated and covered in bed bug proof encasements, do people use normal sheets on top of the encasements?
   My girlfriend wants the mattress pad back on the bed, but I can't find a bed bug certified encasement for the pad, any suggestions?

   Thanks.

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   buggyinsocal
   

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   Posted 8 months ago
   Sun Mar 1 2009 19:09:09
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   Regular mattress pads should be washable. So long as you're washing it regularly, and it's not some sort of luxury material foam topped thing that can't be washed and dried, there's no reason you can't use a mattress pad.

   The point of the encasements is to keep the things you can't wash and dry (your mattress and box spring) or that cannot be reliably heated without cold spots (comforters, pillows) during washing and drying from becoming a harbor for bed bugs.

   No mattress pad that I've ever used would fall into that category (although I would imagine that more frequent exposure to higher heat may make the elastic in the mattress pad crap out on you sooner than it normally would, but that seems a reasonable trade off to me.)

   And yes, once I put an encasement on my bed, I used regular sheets. I did switch to lighter colored sheets to make it easier to tell if the bugs were back, and I bought a new set that didn't have the tell tale fecal stains on them, but that was more because I was trying to monitor their return more than there being anything special about the sheets.

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