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veryconcerned
newbite
Joined: Aug '09
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Posted 1 month ago
Mon Sep 28 2009 13:28:20
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So I posted some months back about my in-laws being entirely infested with bed bugs. They had the bugs for 2 years before seeking treatment. We highly encouraged them to get treatment and said we really couldn't have them visiting us or us visiting them until the problem was under control. They have had several treatments already. They came by twice last week and we let them in our home. This is the first time we have done this. We thought since they are seeking treatment that we would be "safe" to have them in for just a little bit. They stayed for about an hour the first time and ten minutes the second time. The first time they just sat on a kitchen chair or on my daughter's floor. The second time they stood.
Friday night (night after second visit) we found a bed bug on our living room curtain and fecal matter. We know it is a bed bug after looking at pictures and because my daughters had seen the same exact thing crawling around our in-laws place. We haven't seen any other signs anywhere, but have decided to seek a series of treatments anyway. We want to make sure that we don't get an infestation. Is is going entirely overboard after seeing just one bug? I think I was bitten in the living room on Thursday night, but it is hard to say since I had been around a park earlier in the evening. We have had no other signs of bites. No inidcation of bed bugs on the beds and have been unable to find any indication of bed bugs on the couch, really anywhere else in the house for that matter.
Would you treat just to be safe? I would hate to think that there was one we missed or that the one we found laid eggs?
What do you think?
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parakeets
oldtimer
Joined: Mar '07
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Posted 1 month ago
Mon Sep 28 2009 14:17:39
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Since you have seen bedbugs in your place, it is not going overboard to be seeking treatment. From this point on, your PCO will guide you on what kind of treatment and how much you need. You may want to start with a bedbug dog since the dog can identify which, if any, rooms are involved.
The best way to not get infested is to wash and dry your clothes on hot when you come back from a location where you might have been exposed, and to not bring coats, pocketbooks and bags in (or take any bags out) of the place that has an infestation.
If you do have to take things in that can't be washed from a place that might be infested, you can put them in a Packtite, or seal them in ziplock bags until you are sure they are not infested.
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