Bed bugs home remedy

My boyfriend and I moved into a new apartment a few months ago, and since then we've been experiencing a ridiculous amount of bug bites. We do keep the door to our deck cracked open a bit during the day, but the bites seem to occur at night while we're asleep. My hunch is that it's bed bugs. I've never seen an actual bug or the traces of one (fecal matter or shells), but there are a couple small blood spots on our sheets.

We're both clean people and I change our bedding regularly. I'm not sure where their hideout is, or where they even came from. They may have hitched a ride on some furniture during the move, or quite possibly they were a house-warming gift from the cleaning crew of our apartment complex–how thoughtful!

Anyway, my questions: Has anyone else had this problem after a recent move? Could it be something other than bed bugs? Is there a cheap home remedy to get rid of them?

Heat will kill them. Steam clean your mattress and all cracks and crevices in your bed room.

I vacuum my mattresses every couple of months because that's where they congregate. So try that and wash your sheets and you should be ok.

Bedbugs are tough to control because most of the insecticides available today are repellent to bedbugs. This means bedbugs may respond to a chemical application by scattering away from the treated areas. In apartment settings or hotels, treatments can inadvertently spread the bedbug problem.

Because bedbugs are difficult to control, it may be most efficient to hire a pest control company rather than the do-it-yourself approach. Pest control professionals have a greater arsenal of products available and tools needed to get treatments into cracks and crevices where bedbugs hide.

But, people can help with control efforts to make the treatments more effective and eliminate an infestation more quickly:

Examine all items in infested rooms for bedbugs. Look for black or brown fecal spots to pinpoint hiding places. Kill bedbugs by dropping them in hot, soapy water and flushing. Remember that immature bedbugs are very tiny. Don't forget to check under mattress buttons and between the mattress and box springs.

Launder bedding and dry in a hot dryer to kill all stages of bedbugs.

Thoroughly vacuum infested areas. This includes the mattress, box springs furniture, beds, headboards, sofas. Don't forget the void area underneath box springs–tear away the cambric fabric and look for bedbugs there. After you are finished, bag the vacuum cleaner bag and take it to the trash. Bedbugs are very resistant to being killed and you don't want them crawling out of the vacuum cleaner to re-infest the house. Vacuum every couple days until the infestation is gone.

Use a steamer on mattresses to kill eggs that might have been overlooked. Steaming is effective and safer than spraying mattresses with insecticides. Steam cleaning carpets is also a good idea, but work with the pest control company to make sure you are not interfering with the effectiveness of treatments.

Eliminate clutter in infested areas to reduce bedbug hiding places and make treatments more effective. Because these bugs like to hide in small cracks, stacks of clothing, paper items and corrugated cardboard are likely hiding places.
Some people recommend throwing mattresses away. If the mattress is in good condition, it may not be necessary to discard it. After vacuuming and steaming the mattress, cover it with a plastic zippered cover to trap bugs inside. Keep the mattress cover on the mattress for at least a year to make sure all the bugs are dead.

When considering pest control companies, ask about previous experience successfully treating bedbugs. The company should use a number of tactics to control these pests. These include dusts in wall voids, crack and crevice sprays and sticky traps to monitor bedbug movement and assess the effectiveness of treatments.

get a new bed, once they get into the lining of your bed they are almost impossible top get rid of , also get a pest control company to fumigate your house as they also hide in the cracks where the moulding meetes the floor and canget into your walls and other furniture.

Also can some one suggest a natural repellent for bed bugs ?

If it is that bad, then I think you might have to buy a new bed and bedding. Next time, make sure you wash your bedding at least twice a month, (more if you can be bothered). That should keep the nasty beasts at bay!