Cases when it is necessary to destroy single individuals or the number of parasites is minimal are not uncommon, so you should try to cope on your own. Before you start poisoning bedbugs in the apartment yourself, you must make sure that it is they. Check for the following symptoms:
- Bites occur in the morning, and then itching occurs;
- Localization of bites in the area of places with delicate skin or on the body;
- Purely visually, you can notice the accumulation of a couple of bites;
- The site of the bite is slightly swollen, and the eminence has a dense base.
After confirming all the guesses, you can safely start looking for ways and means. Do not forget to take into account the fact that preparations for the treatment of premises are toxic and require compliance with safety measures and strict adherence to instructions. As a rule, sprays or aerosols of various sizes are available for sale, with the presence of fragrances, odorless and with characteristic, sometimes unpleasant aromas. Having familiarized yourself with the assortment of products, you can easily determine how to poison the bugs in the apartment yourself, choosing what will suit your needs.
Why turn to specialists
Calling a medical service allows you to get a guarantee for the service performed and recommendations to prevent re-infection. There are companies that will not only carry out the treatment, but also put things in order after disinfestation. Accordingly, the payment for treatment against bedbugs will be higher, but the client's efforts to prepare the apartment will be minimized.
Attention! There are times when the company has the right to refuse warranty processing. This clause must be stated in the contract for the provision of services!
Pest control from bedbugs requires a careful approach to the problem and the skills of a specialist. It is necessary not only to apply the drug to the furniture. This is a complex and time consuming process that requires patience. Even an experienced disinfector cannot process a one-room apartment in 20 minutes. At least 1 hour is required to apply the drug to all structures of the sleeping place, the space under furniture, cracks in the floor and walls.
Significant arguments in favor of calling specialists are:
- Saving your own time;
- No risk of poisoning family members with chemicals;
- Warranty for the work performed;
- A quick result that cannot be achieved using folk methods;
- Legal responsibility of the contractor in relation to the client;
- Anonymity.
The last point speaks of the possibility of ordering treatment using odorless preparations. Neighbors will not know that pest control measures are being taken in your apartment. Most do-it-yourself products smell strong. The smell spreads to the entire staircase and rises through ventilation structures to the upper floors. It is impossible to hide the fact of bedbug baiting.
When ordering a service from a company, remember that you need disinfestation, not disinfection from bedbugs. These are two distinct events. Disinfection is the destruction of pathogenic microflora, bacteria and spores, and disinfestation is the destruction of insects.
Attention! When calling a medical service, state the problem correctly! Irresponsible companies will disinfect the apartment by spraying a disinfecting solution.Microbes in the room will be destroyed, and the bugs will continue to function!
Warranty obligations
At the end of the work, the exterminator issues a contract-receipt. This document will indicate the drug used, warranty, precautions, as well as a reminder to preserve the achieved effect.
In cases of critical population density, the presence of hard-to-reach places or acquired "poison-immunity", tenacious individuals can leave offspring even after disinsection. For these reasons, 5-10% of the orders we have completed require re-processing.
The head of the quality department contacts the customer in 3 weeks to clarify the result. If the result is not achieved, we re-process it completely at our own expense. The warranty is 1 year.
What needs to be processed
When ordering a service for the destruction of bedbugs, many want to process only the sleeping place, referring to the fact that they bite only one family member at night. The question is - why "flood" the whole apartment?
Treatment of an apartment from bedbugs is a set of measures that includes applying a chemical to all surfaces, washing and ironing linen. Partial processing will not bring the desired result. Bed bugs from the sofa migrate into the genital crevices or to the back wall of the wardrobe.
Attention! Do experts strongly recommend completely disassembling a sofa or bed before processing? Watch out! Parsing furniture into components will lead to the bugs scattering! Such actions can be resorted to in the presence of a disinfector who will immediately process every component of upholstered furniture.
The ceiling is subject to processing if it is covered with tiles or is tensioned. Even the seams of the departed wallpaper must be "passed" by the preparation in order to destroy all the parasites.
When infected with bedbugs in a hostel, all rooms and MOPs (places of public stay: kitchen, corridor, shower) are subject to processing. If other neighbors refuse pest control, take all measures to prevent relapse by sealing outlets, outlets of sewer and heating pipes, ventilation and a door frame.
Anti-bug herbs
Herbs scare off the scent of bedbugs. At the same time, plants are safe for humans and pets. They use wormwood, tansy, chamomile, calamus, wild rosemary.
Plants are used both fresh and dried. The main thing is that a pungent aroma emanates from them.
You can tie herbs in bunches and hang them around the room. Dried plants are ground into powder and scattered around the perimeter of the room, under the sofa, bed, mattresses and armchairs. The only drawback is that you will have to periodically replace powders and bunches of herbs with fresh ones.
Tinctures are prepared based on such plants. This requires:
- 8 tbsp raw materials pour 1 liter of boiling water.
- Cook for 5 minutes.
- Insist until it cools down.
- Strain and spray around the room with a spray bottle.
- Wipe the surface with a product.
This procedure will have to be done 2-3 times a day.
How to choose a pest control service
A difficult choice is to call a SES for the destruction of bedbugs or give preference to a private company. As practice shows, non-state firms work cheaper, give a guarantee for the work performed and go to the facility at a time convenient for the client.
But a private company also needs to be chosen correctly.
Be carefull! When choosing a company based on reviews on the Internet, keep in mind that negative reviews can be tricks of competitors!
A bona fide bed bug control service must:
- Provide the client with a complete package of documents, including a warranty card, an agreement for the provision of services, an act of work performed, a receipt;
- Give full advice on preparing an apartment for the upcoming pest control;
- Provide certificates of conformity for the chemicals used;
- Work in accordance with SanPin;
- Do not allow unauthorized persons to be in the apartment;
- Be fully responsible for the safety of the client's property;
- It is available to provide information on further actions of the owner of the apartment;
- Do not be rude and do not impose additional paid services that are not specified in the contract.
No company with a well-deserved reputation will promise to remove bedbugs in one go. It's impossible! The degree of colonization by blood-sucking animals may be such that a second, and sometimes even a third, treatment is required.
The sanitary and epidemiological station is distinguished by its honesty towards clients; they recommend at least 2 disinsections from bedbugs, with an interval of 10-14 days.
When they do not provide a guarantee
Each company practices its own methods. Someone promises to carry out reprocessing for free, but the cost of the first will differ many times from the price of competitors. Some companies provide a warranty discount, which can be used for a certain period. The amount of the discount depends on the degree of infection of the object.
Destruction of bedbugs with a guarantee of the result is carried out only after assessing the infection and the sanitary condition of the apartment. If the house is cluttered, more than 4 people live in a small area, the basic rules of sanitation are not followed - the company has the right to refuse a guarantee.
Professional treatment for bedbugs consists not only in the application of highly effective products, but also in the use of special equipment. It is the correctly chosen pest control method that guarantees the result.
Karbofos
Karbofos is a somewhat outdated tool, which is increasingly being replaced by the more modern Executioner, Klopomor or Kombat. Nevertheless, the extremely affordable price and wide popularity still allow it to remain among the leaders in sales of insecticides against domestic bugs.
True, before etching bedbugs with it, you need to get acquainted with all the specifics of its use. Its use in general requires a little more effort and time, but it is well suited for the processing of very large rooms. For example - private houses.
The disadvantages of Karbofos are a rather persistent smell, as well as the need to poison bedbugs with it twice: re-treatment is carried out 3-4 days after the first disinfestation procedure.
What equipment do medical services work
Cold and hot fog generators are used to combat blood-sucking insects. The preliminary stage is the application of the active substance with a pump spray. Many people use a paragenerator to bait bedbugs. This cannot be the main method of destruction.
High-quality treatment of rooms from bedbugs is filling the perimeter of the apartment and furniture with a pump sprayer, with the further use of a cold fog generator. In the first case, drop spraying is practiced, in the second - finely dispersed, in the form of a fog. It is the suspended cloud with the chemical that prevents insects from escaping for cover.
Not all companies use the hot fog machine. Many drugs disintegrate when heated and are not suitable for pouring into equipment. The result may be null.
Professional destruction of bedbugs using hot fog and a preparation that retains its properties when heated can be recommended to residents of the private sector. Such processing cannot be carried out in apartments! A cloud of fog will rise over ventilation structures and can cause poisoning for neighbors.
Before calling a SES to destroy bedbugs, ask about the practiced methods.
What do the disinfection services use?
Professional remedies for bedbugs are preparations with a high content of active ingredients. Household insecticides contain a minimum concentration of toxic compounds, therefore, the result from self-baiting is not effective enough.
To sanitize bedbugs, professionals use several chemicals. "Cocktail" can combine products based on:
- Cypermethrin;
- Chlorpyrifos;
- Malathion;
- Fenthion.
Alpha-Cypermerine, Zeta-Cipemetrin can be used as excipients.
It is interesting! The security services use nerve agents, intestinal and contact agents. A triple blow to the bloodsuckers does not leave them a chance for life.
All drugs must pass state registration on the territory of the Russian Federation, and are also approved for use in residential premises.
Soap is an assistant in getting rid of bedbugs
This method is not suitable for textiles (bedspreads, carpets, linen). The solution is used to wipe only floors, furniture, walls and other hard surfaces.
It is recommended to use a household. Grind the product using a grater. Then fill with water. The result is a concentrated soap solution. They wipe surfaces in the house where bugs can move.
Apply the composition with a brush or sponge. You don't need to rub it hard - just moisten it. Do not wipe - wait until it dries. You will have to repeat such actions 2-3 times a day.
Soap solution is also used in a different way - it is poured into the cracks where there are bugs. The insects are suffocating.
In addition, the soap is alkaline, so the parasites are poisoned. It is allowed to add salt to the solution. Household soap is replaced with liquid soap.
It is recommended to wipe the surfaces with insecticidal preparations before using petroleum jelly.
Preparation
It is important to properly prepare the living space for pest control. Bedbugs hide in the most secluded corners of the apartment. With a strong infection, colonization is observed even in the bathroom.
Apartment processing is a well-coordinated work of professionals and the client. The most important thing is to provide the disinfector with access to hard-to-reach places. How to prepare an apartment for bed bug treatment? Start with furniture. Bedside tables, beds, a sofa, the TV should be pushed to the middle of the room to allow the professional to apply the chemical to the nooks and crannies under the skirting board and the back walls of the furniture.
The next steps in preparing an apartment for pest control are:
- General cleaning of the premises;
- Analysis of heaps of books and newspapers;
- Discharge of household waste;
- Insulation from the apartment of pets, indoor flowers, birds for the duration of processing;
- Washing bed linen at the highest possible temperatures;
- Disconnecting the fish filter from the electrical network and covering the aquarium with a lid;
- Packing opened food products in plastic bags or jars with tight lids;
- Removing paintings, clocks, panels from the walls. Bedbugs like to hide behind decorative items.
Plastic toys for children can be packed in bags and folded in the middle of the room. Ragged play accessories are subject to processing and subsequent washing.
Essential oils
Essential oils are used to combat bedbugs. Such products scare off pests due to their specific aroma, affect the nervous system of parasites.
Thyme, mint, lavender, clove, and eucalyptus oils are better suited. You can leave 2-3 drops around the perimeter of the rooms, near the beds and sofas.
Essential oils are mixed with clean water - 1 tsp. for 100-200 ml of liquid. Then spray from a spray bottle around the room, over bedding and furniture.
We'll have to repeat the procedure periodically. You can use more than one oil, but mix in different combinations in the same parts.
Cedar nut oil works well. It repels insects, is used to treat bite sites. The product removes itching, burning, swelling, redness, and accelerates healing.
Lavender oil is used as a preventive measure when traveling. The corners of suitcases are moistened with it, so as not to bring home bugs from hotels and other places.
Activities after disinsection
Depending on the insecticide used, you cannot enter the apartment from 3 hours to three days. It's not just about the smell. Many drugs can cause an allergic reaction in the household. Children and pregnant women are usually at risk.
What to do after processing the apartment from bedbugs? Carry out a thorough general cleaning using bleach and detergents. Upon returning home, the house needs to be ventilated. A rational solution would be to open all windows and leave the premises for 1 hour.
Cleaning after treatment from bedbugs comes down to wiping the surfaces with which all family members are in contact with a soap-soda solution:
- Handles for doors, refrigerator, cabinets;
- Table-tops of pedestals;
- Dinner table.
Bed linen needs to be changed, treated with washing and ironing with steam.
You do not need to clean the carpets, it is enough to vacuum the floor covering, collecting dead individuals.
Improvised methods of dealing with bedbugs
You can use improvised means that are in addition to modern store drugs.
- Salt. Stir in water to form a concentrated liquid. Then add 2 tablespoons of salt to 1 liter of salt. hydrogen peroxide and medical alcohol.
- Vinegar. Mix technical alcohol, naphthalene, vinegar in equal parts. Treat the surfaces with the resulting product. You can also grease with vinegar essence without mixing.
- Petrolatum. The product has a viscous consistency. Spread them on the legs of the bed. Bedbugs running through the petroleum jelly will get stuck. In the morning, all that remains is to throw out the dead insects.
- Industrial alcohol. Pour technical alcohol (denatured alcohol) into the places where insect nests are found.
- Ethanol. The parasites cannot tolerate alcoholic beverages. Alcohol suppresses the central nervous system of insects. It is required to wipe the surfaces with such a liquid.
- Turpentine. Used in homemade insect repellents. Mix 1 tablespoon each. turpentine and kerosene, add 80 ml of water and 20 ml of liquid soap. With this composition, wipe problem areas where pests may appear.
- Ammonia. Dissolve in water - 0.5 tbsp. ammonia per 0.45 liters of water. Spray in the room.
- Kerosene. Stir 200 ml of cresol and kerosene, add 10 g of naphthalene. Apply such a solution to places where there are bugs (you can use a brush).
What results to expect
Bedbugs after disinfection can annoy households for 5 - 7 days. Intoxicated individuals move slowly, they are easy to catch and crush.
Don't expect immediate results. Bedbugs that have bred for several months cannot die overnight. For the first baiting, up to 90% of individuals die.
Attention! The cold fog has no effect on the larvae! In case of severe infestation, egg clutches may remain. After hatching, some of them will receive a dose of a toxic compound, while others will continue their vital activity.
The chemical used by the disinfectant determines how long the bugs live after treatment. The death of individuals on average ranges from 15 minutes to 1 week. If insects run briskly and continue to bite at home, it is necessary to call the disinfection service a second time.
Insecticidal preparations
When considering how to poison bedbugs at home, you can use the developments of scientists in the field of insecticides.
Almost all drugs are quite effective and do not harm a person if the instructions are followed.
You can buy a better, in each specific case, release form - aerosol, powder, solution. All drugs act on the nerve impulses of insects and one hundred percent destroy a huge accumulation of parasites. Moreover, their action is focused on both adults and larvae.
Chalk called "Mashenka"
Masha is a very old remedy for all types of domestic insects. Chalk is quite troublesome to use. However, this method allows you to poison bedbugs without harm to the inhabitants of the apartment.Widely drawn stripes along the perimeter of the floor, repel parasites for a long time. When small particles get on the body of a pest, chemical components begin to destroy its body.
Feedback
“Before going on vacation to the country, my husband used an old, but proven method of repelling insects. A week before our arrival, he plastered the floors in all rooms. The bloodsuckers attacked us only on the street. "
Where does the attack come from
Before poisoning bedbugs, it is worth realizing where they came from. If the conditions for breeding are suitable, then a whole colony will multiply in a small gap of time. That is why the fight against parasites becomes more complicated, because when a person discovers them, it takes a long time.
Possible prerequisites for populating an apartment with bedbugs:
- From unscrupulous neighbors.
If people are often absent in a similar apartment, then, in search of food, insects begin to move using ventilation ducts.
- From a budget hotel. With things in a suitcase from the hotel, you can bring one sexually mature individual, which will become the breeding ground for the colony.
- Things from second-hand or from hands. Sometimes people bring bedbugs on things that they got from their hands. In this situation, it is recommended to perfectly shake them out on the street, and at home to wash them outright at a very hot temperature.
Ironing will enhance the effect. - Together with used furniture. Hand-held furniture is not recommended.
Larvae can be found in upholstered furniture. If you get a table, chair or cabinet furniture, then before entering the house it must be treated with insecticidal agents.
Suspension GET
A novelty that is rapidly gaining popularity. If there was a question about how to poison bedbugs, then you can advise this suspension.
It is a small capsule that needs to be diluted with water, according to the suggested annotation. Further, all the alleged habitats of the parasites, their paths of movement are treated with the substance.
It is noteworthy that the product adheres perfectly to the paws of the bug. Even if only one individual passes over the treated surface, it will infect all relatives from the nest. At the same time, the product's validity period is 12 months.
It is also fundamental that Get is one hundred percent devoid of any aroma and is considered safe if precautions are taken. The main working component is chropyrifos, which can be used in children's institutions.
Features of the
With the advent of bedbugs, there is always a risk of various infections of the human skin. This is due to the constant mechanical effect on the wounds when combing them. Microscopic scratches are a direct route for pathogenic bacteria to spread.
With a large number of parasites and the absence of pest control, massive bites by bedbugs can lead to the development of anemia. Their effects can be dangerous for children who are allergic. There are cases where bites have been the cause of anaphylactic shock.
Before full maturation, the bed bug changes its chitinous cover several times, so insect larvae are more vulnerable than adults
Bed bugs are not always an indicator of lack of hygiene. They spread easily through ventilation, furniture, other household items, and clothing. Insects can spread quickly in good living conditions if they were introduced there from the outside.
