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ohbugger

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Posted 4 years ago
Tue Feb 24 2009 21:29:44
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I had my first treatment yesterday. My apt. stinks from the chemicals. I'm worried about the fumes - more for my 3 1/2 year old daughter than myself. She slept someplace else last night but I stayed at home. She's sleeping home tonight and for the next three nights. I've opened some windows to ventilate and am running my fan but it still smells.

Should I be concerned about our health staying here between treatments?
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Posted 4 years ago
Tue Feb 24 2009 22:01:45
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How long has it been since your treatment? What does it smell like if you can describe it? What did your PCO use as choice of pesticide for your apartment? Did he find active harborage throughout his treatment?
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Posted 4 years ago
Tue Feb 24 2009 22:25:13
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I had the treatment yesterday. It's actually a sort of sweet smell - not a horrible smell as far as being disgusting. But it is strong. I don't know exactly which one they used. I know they used something "green" in my daughter's bedroom (but she's sleeping in my bed now so what does that matter). It smells the same throughout my apt. The PCO gave me a list of things they use. He also said it was safe for us to be here - even last night (but I just had my daughter sleep elsewhere to be safe).

I had a dog come in after I had gotten some bites and the dog detected about 4 different "hot spots" I have seen some fecal matter but no bugs.
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Posted 4 years ago
Thu Feb 26 2009 1:46:50
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ohbugger,
I developed a chemical sensitivity and began to have some physical reactions. After that, when we were exterminated, I'd have to go elsewhere for a night or two. It's my best advice, that if you can, as long as it really bothers you, go elsewhere. The catch 22 is, though, that we need to be there as human bait. But, I think the bugs can wait a night or two, as we know, they can go for quite the time without eating...

I know of another person that actually got quite sick from the pesticide. Very sick. There is a company that "bills" themselves as green, but, the pesticides they use for bed bugs is not green. I have no way of knowing if it's the same company, but listen to your body. Please, listen to your body.
Winston O. Buggy

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Posted 4 years ago
Thu Feb 26 2009 10:01:44
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Tell your pest control company about the problem and if the smell is bothering you have your daughter sleep out another night. Most materials odor should dissipate rather quickly.
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Posted 4 years ago
Thu Feb 26 2009 14:08:25
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It is very possible to develop chemical sensitivities, adults as well as children. If the smell is bothering you, please listen to your body. Certainly, open windows and get some fans going. I'm not trying to be alarmist here, just wanting you to be aware that some people can be sensitive to chemicals and I know of at least one person that has gotten quite ill from pesticides used for bed bugs. Most, have not though. But if it's really bothering you, go elsewhere.
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Posted 4 years ago
Sat Mar 7 2009 20:45:05
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Hi, I have been having a problem at my house for over a year now starting Jan 08. I am getting what looks like bedbug bites (small bites in rows), my cats are scratching an itching (something they never did before). The cats have been checked several times for fleas by different vets and they do not have fleas. I had them on Frontline anyway from Jan 08 to Sept 08 and it made no difference. I sprayed flea spray and it only made me and the dog ill. I have have been to 2 different dermatologists and had 2 skin biopsies with not answers. I have had a Bed bug dog to my house in Sept 08 and Nov 08 and no indication that there were bedbugs (but the agreement says there are no 100% guarantees). In all this time I have never seen a bedbug but I did at first see some tiny black "balls" of something on my sheets. I just had an Orkin guy to my house and he said that he finds no indication of bedbugs. I just looked on my mattress and in my boxspring. He said it was impossible to have bedbugs for over a year and never see them. Someone please help me. I am looking for some answers. I am at the point that I am on Xanax and seeing a shrink because every avenue I have gone down had lead to a dead end. And this morning I saw small blood spots on my bed. Last fall I also saw 2 small blook streaks. Is this bedbugs or not? I haven't travelled in years and can only think I may have gotten them at work.
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Posted 4 years ago
Sat Mar 7 2009 23:35:45
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terrik, if you could consider getting a double blind bed bug detection done, it is where there are two dogs and two handlers, one goes in and walks through, and when they are done, the second dog goes through and repeats. If two dogs clear you, chances are you are really clear. I would think after one year that you would literally be drowning in them if you had them. I suppose it is possible you have one sterile female or one male or maybe two males and they are not increasing so they continue to eat off you until they die. Have you considered having your mattress steamed, sealed in encasements, and then putting those little bed bug capture devices on the legs of your bed? Or perhaps finding a PCO with a CDC 3000 that he could use in your house. Hang in there, the not knowing is so hard. Hugs.
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Posted 4 years ago
Sun Mar 8 2009 1:18:57
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Whats with this double blind super expensive fancy shmansy inspection. These companies are making millions off you people cause you just can't find a very experienced bedbug pro in your area. I"ll beat all these fancy rip off companies prices by %50 and do a %500 percent better over all job by myself... These companies make me sick and they should just stick to spray and pay jobs and rip off the regualr customers they have been for years.. Go ahead and bash me... I'd love to get into this!! I have never ever once used a dog and I've helped hundreds of cases from the smallest to the worst. These companies are raping all of you with super high prices and fancy techniques that aren't even %100 guarenteed. Its just unreal and really makes me wana throw up all over these expensive scam artist with scamming dogs. Yea yea yea... say what you want about techs being only %30 acturate.. I"ll bet my whole career that I can prevent and destroy bedbugs within a structure with or without a dog with tried and true techniques.... Go ahead.. call the orkin guy... call arrow... better yet... call two dog handlers to charge you $1200 for 20mins of work... hey they deserve it right!? Not even a plastic surgeon makes that money... I"m sorry... but only a human being could stomp on a man when he's down.... I"m all for helping the lower and middle class.. and one day I will seperate myself from all the fancy 200+ employee companies or expensive bed bug task forces out there that are full of CRAP!!! I'll challenge a dog anyday... Cause a dog can't treat... a dog can only smell... and what if his nose is clogged... what if he smells something else... what if the PCO just bought a dog and put a cookie in the sheets... This dog thing although I guess highly effective for hotels and extremelly difficult situations which is extremelly rare IMO your just buying the boss a fancy benz.... Go BedBug yourself!
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Posted 4 years ago
Sun Mar 8 2009 1:24:41
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Terrik stop with the Xanax cause benzo addiction is not something to mess around with. You think bedbugs is bad... shesh.. you have no idea some stories I've heard.. Terrik.. If your seeing small blood stains, black spots, and what not, but hey, YOU CALLED THE ORKIN MAN!! UH OH!! THE ORKIN MAN!!! WATCH OUT NOW!! I bet he specialized in ants... Wait.. i feel it coming up... oh and how much? $3000? wait no... $10,000 and a 60 day guarentee!! Now thats a deal... I've heard orkin is horrible by the way, and very expensive cause they have to place all those adds on TV for all you suckers to use the phonies!
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Posted 4 years ago
Sun Mar 8 2009 10:27:31
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Although I don't know very much about K-9 usage I have a bit of skeptisism about using dogs. First off I don't like how they can't reach up high on the celings. Dose the handler have to pick the dog up and hold him/her over his head and point his nose at the ceiling corners and paintings? Can the dog notice the difference between live and dead bed bugs? I dunno. I've never really had a problem finding BB's when asked to do an inspection. Sometimes it takes 30 seconds, sometimes it take 40 minutes but I usually on average find evidence within 5-10 minutes. I guess dogs can be used like any other tool but from what I understand it isn't cheap. But then again that price is nothing compaired to the peice of mind the customer will receive after getting an "all clear" I guess.
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Posted 1 year ago
Sun Jul 10 2011 1:13:25
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I get very very sick from the insecticides being used. It makes you very weak and you vomit and get headaches and have to urinate over and over and it's terrible. I can't even really explain it because
most of the symptoms are just so bizarre, I have nothing to really compare them to. I worry that
after this happens over and over I could wind up with Cancer or worse, some kind of a neurological disorder that there will be no cure for.