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- How to use this anti-bedbug kit?
- Turn your bed into an impregnable citadel
- How to do a natural treatment?
The low-budget bedbug solution
Living with bedbugs is impossible.
Day and night, they bite us, it's unbearable.
To help you get rid of bedbugs while keeping your budget in check, I have prepared for you a bedbug kit to treat a room of 10 to 20 m² . It contains everything you will need. See the product
Be careful, to eradicate these insects, you need to know them well, use the right techniques and the right products.
Take a few moments to read my advice, and to share my experience of over 30 years as a druggist, but first:
How to use this anti-bedbug kit?
It is absolutely necessary to avoid the scattering of bedbugs, therefore:
To avoid spreading, start by spraying the edges of the room with BSI Stop Insectes (skirting boards, door and window frames, roller shutter box, around electrical outlets) then continue spraying on all surfaces, getting closer to the bed (floor, indoor and outdoor furniture, suitcase). In case of heavy contamination, you can also spray the ceiling above the bed.
The bed is the place where there are the most bedbugs . It is therefore important to treat it very strongly. Use Kapo Bedbug Killer in 400 ml . This is a cocktail of different pyrethroids in very high doses. able to kill bedbugs in 15 seconds , which is a record. Spray the mattress top / bottom, insisting along the seams. Turn the box spring over and treat the joints and fittings in particular. Spray around the bed, the headboard, the nightstand, the floor around the bed and the feet of the bed.
All your clothes, sheets and textiles in general should be placed in plastic bags while waiting to be washed (large garbage bags for example). Before sealing them tightly, spray the inside of the bag with BSI Stop Insectes or in case of heavy infestation with Kapo Destructeur Foudroyant for bedbugs in 400 ml. Your plastic bags will be smothering places for bedbugs.
Well, if you followed all my recommendations I think I managed to make a real mess at your place. It's time to take a selfie in the middle of the rubble to scare your grandmother.
Turn your bed into an impregnable citadel:
If you can afford it, equip yourself with bed bug covers . Bed bugs hide and lay eggs in mattresses. This cover will be an impenetrable barrier, the bugs will neither be able to enter your mattress nor leave it to bite you at night. See the covers
Use freshly washed sheets. They should be tucked in so that they do not touch the floor.
Move your bed so that there is 30 cm of free space between the bed, the wall and the nightstand. Bed bugs cannot fly or jump. They can only walk and climb, so they will be forced to poison themselves upon contact with any surfaces you have treated.
To prevent them from climbing up the bed legs, simply place under each of them a bowl filled with a centimeter of diatomaceous earth at the bottom . They will not be able to overcome this obstacle.
Sprinkle diatomaceous earth between the mattress and the box spring , and place the anti-bedbug tablet also between the mattress and the box spring. This will not please bedbugs at all. This tablet has been tested in the laboratory: after 10 hours, 100% mortality of bedbugs present in the bed. See the product
Well done, you've done the hardest part, but it's not over yet.
The mistake would be to think that you got rid of bedbugs so easily.
Bedbugs feed exclusively on our blood. After biting us, they hide in places inaccessible to treatments to digest and lay eggs (under parquet floors, in false ceilings, in electrical outlets, behind cupboards, in air ducts, in the thickness of the mattress, in the assemblies of the box spring). They will spend several weeks (usually 3) or several months there depending on the temperature. During this time, a company has treated or you have treated and you think you are rid of them, but no, those that were not affected by the first treatment will come back hungry, accompanied by their little gluttons, and it will start again! Since we know that they will come back, we must continue to spray products so that they poison themselves as soon as they move on these surfaces.
You have two more treatments to do, one in 3 weeks, the other in 6 weeks. Rest assured, unless you have a very heavy infestation, these treatments will be much easier to carry out than the first. But they will have to be carried out meticulously even if you do not see any live bedbugs. Afterwards, you will have to commit to regular monitoring of the bedding.
You saw that we combined chemical treatment and natural treatment.
Natural treatment has many benefits.
Essential to complement chemical treatment, it is practically free, it is non-toxic and, unlike chemicals, it does not produce any habituation or resistance in insects.
How to do a natural treatment?
A vacuum cleaner is essential. If you don't have one, ask the university residence to provide you with one or get together with other students to buy one. Everything must be vacuumed methodically to remove as many bedbugs and eggs as possible. Pay particular attention to the bedding, mattress, box spring, top/bottom/joints of the slats and assemblies. If the bottom of the box spring is covered with fabric, cut it with a cutter and throw it away. Dispose of the vacuum cleaner bag in a hermetically sealed plastic bag and treat the vacuum cleaner with a cloud of Kapo, a lightning-fast destroyer for bedbugs.
A steam cleaner is perfect for killing bedbugs and their eggs, but it is not easy to get one. You can get by with a steam iron. Here too, you must insist on the bedding, along the seams, on and under the mattress.
Washing machine and dryer: all your clothes and sheets should be washed at 60° if possible. If you can, put them in the dryer, it is very effective in killing eggs (be careful, they can withstand temperatures below 60°). A very hot steam iron will perfectly complete this treatment. These textiles should be placed in a place where they can be recontaminated and sealed in tightly sealed plastic bags.
The freezer: This is not easy to find in a university residence either, but you might be able to do it on the weekend. The idea is that these insects and their eggs do not survive prolonged freezing. Place the objects in plastic bags before freezing them at -20° for 72 hours.
The heated anti-bedbug tent.
It's an investment, but it's the most effective way to kill bed bugs at any stage of their development.
Also be vigilant about anything that comes in or out of your room and avoid at all costs carrying this problem into your family (freshly washed and uncontaminated clothes, treated suitcase).
For more information, you can read my blog article "how to get rid of bedbugs without getting poisoned" Read the article
It is in hoping that this article has helped you, and in telling myself that you will perhaps keep from this experience that you should never give up in the face of adversity, that I see that you have become real serial killers of bedbugs.
