Bed bugs can be found anywhere, from the cleanest of homes right down to the direst of homes. They can be found in hotels, apartments, businesses and schools. You could go out for a night at the movies and come home with bed bugs. Who is to blame? Bed bugs are becoming more and more of a problem. So what is one to do about this little problem? Many tenants are finding their landlords to be very unsympathetic which is hard to deal with when it's impossible to sleep because you're getting bitten all night long by little unwanted guests.
Some have said that bed bugs should be considered a health hazard, but at the moment it's not. Like lice, bed bugs are defiantly a nuisance but not a health threat. Bed bugs don't cause any type of diseases so therefore the provincial government doesn't typically have much to do with cases of bed bugs because it isn't considered a risk to the public. Generally, the city doesn't deal with the issue either.
Do you think this is fair? People can pick up bed bugs virtually anywhere and while they don't cause any diseases they do cause extreme itching that can lead to more intense pain as well as rashes. So should bed bugs be considered a health risk? As bed bug infestations continue to grow so will this issue. Share your thoughts with us below.
To Kim:
Yes. I would highly recommend cleaning every spot in your house that you can and treat it as you would the infected bed. The moment you treat your bed, the bugs will try to run away to the other rooms, in which case, the other beds would get the bugs. Plastic bed covers should be fine for the beds, as long as they seal up tight.
I hope this helps you some. Ever since we got bed bugs in our own home, I’ve practically gone to war with them and have been doing as much research on them as I can.
I would like to say they /are/ a health hazard. My little sister is covered head to toe with bites and rash because of them. She bleeds out and scratches at them all the time. They are not safe for young children especially, because they don’t have the control not to scratch at the bites most of the time, and it’s even hard for someone like me to restrain myself. Luckily, I am not allergic, and they have not caused any kind of rash with me, but it has to my little sister.
Unrelated to health, they can cause a drop in confidence in anyone who has a bad reaction to them. Someone, who has a minor reaction like me, can pass it off as mosquito bites, but if the reaction is bad like in my little sister, it causes problems. She can’t go out to her after school group anymore because of the risk it could cause, bringing bed bugs to their home or other children. For young people, and for older, it’s hard to be confident with bites and rash all up your arms and legs, and for some people, their face. People think your diseased, and catchable, and quite honestly, in a sense, you kinda are. You can bring bed bugs with you to work, or school, and other people /can/ get them.
So yes, I would say that Bed Bugs are indeed a health hazard and should be taken care of the moment they are spotted.
This is still undergoing research but in Vancouver BC Canada a Dr/researcher discovered two patients with MRSA that had no previous risk factors other that bad bed bug bites. they are doing further studies, see Bedbugs as Vectors for Drug-Resistant Bacteria
if you found bed bugs in only one bed, should you be concerned with the other beds in your home as well. My bed has them only seen a few, but my daughters beds seem ok. I ordered some spray and going to treat all beds, but do I need to order the covers for the other beds as well, and will any mattress cover that is plastic work just as well as the ones on the websites, they are so expensive. I can’t believe I have bed bugs, I am a very clean person, and just moved into a new place a few months ago, should the person owning the home be responsible for getting rid of them or should I?
I rent a apartment in the country & my father and I have bombed, sprayed our whole apartment, but nothing seems to work. They are on our beds, bathroom, chairs, clothes… & I’m wondering if they are a serious health risk?
omg, I never have dealt with bed bugs before in my life. I just moved here a month ago and after 2 days I start itching and developing what I thought was a rash. Well it got worse and worse now after a month i am covered in bites from head to toe, not to mention the places I def dont want no bug crawling around let alone be feeding at. I have had a stroke and heart attack in the past 2 years. Could these bugs affect my health in a bad way?
Spent 7 nights at the Ridge Golf Resort in Sedona, Arizona. Came home with over 30 bed bug bites. My husband had about 10. I am allergic to the bites, my Husband not so much. I am living with the tortureous itchy that accompanies the bite & have tried hydrocortizone cream, Calamine, Caladryl and I have been taking antihistamines along with asthma control inhalations from Ventolin. I still itch, the heat and sun make it worse. But sat in the sun in case they are in my hair. I want them dead. I complained to the Manager on duty who said they had mosquitos..haha!! I’ve never had a mosquito bite my scalp or hairline, face or neck or butt or..the list goes on. It is sad we have no recourse. So my advice don’t stay at the above “resort” you’ll get eaten alive.
In the meantime…all of my bags outside as I do the laundry. Everything that was in that room will be dealt with by 100* temps in a couple of days. Wish me luck, I hope it works.
I just bought a 1000.00 bed and intend to keep it clean. I WILL NEVER succum to this torture again. MARK MY WORDS.
I’m sorry but i feel that they are a health issue. the loss of sleep the freaking out and tearing apart furniture and tearing down walls laying in bed clutching a flashlight NOT SLEEPING being parodied. Its very much a health Issue.. I used to think it was just a saying never dremed of them being real, and now I’m afraid to relax for fear that something wants me for dinner!
What I’ve went thru for the past 2 months is worst than any scary movie that I’ve seen.. and the cost to call a exterminator, omg I would cost me over $1,200 to have my house treated and to buy that many bags and totes.. I’m about to move away burn my house to the ground so no one else would have to deal with em here. and move to the Antarctic where I know they don’t like cold temps .. So Tell me they are not a HEALTH ISSUE….
My in-laws have had a bedbug problem for over a year. Recently my husband INSISTED that we share a hotel room with them (my stepson was graduating from the Air Force in San Antonio) I HATED the idea, opposed it to DEAF ears! Not wanting to appear to be the ungrateful stepmother, I went, and YES we shared a room with my in laws. After we got home I had bug bites that I was unfamiliar with.
I showed the bites to my mother in law (a nurse) she said “oh, that’s bed bug bites”. Today a bug was on my husbands shirt, I asked him what it was he said it was a bed bug. (This is when he informed me that his parents has a bedbug problem for the last year) I NEVER would have shared a hotel room with them, but my husband convinced me we needed to save money, so we did.
I am so FURIOUS! They unpacked their car literally filled the hotel room with 6 suitcases of clothes, FILLED the closet with hanging clothes (we were only there for 5 days). I feel we have an obligation to inform the hotel where we stayed about the problem. My in-laws also decided it was a good time to visit every single family member they know from Missouri, Texas, Chicago, and about 4 other places, taking all their clothes into their unsuspecting family members homes. What recourse if any do I have against my soon to be ex in laws? I feel this was EXTREMELY irresponsible, and selfish of them.
some of us who are allergic to everything. can be spending hospital time. It’s a big like that they are not a health hazard.
Hi Kay,
You couldn’t find because no one has asked yet. So here’s your answer: upon searching a number of online databases I could not find any reports of bed bugs at the Four Points Milwaukee North, 8900 North Kildeer Court, Brown Deer, WI 53209.
Thanks,
Bed Bug Girl
Could you research the following and also tell me how I can research other hotels myself. I tried control f and couldn’t find any matches for names I entered. Is there another site for me to search? Thank you for your help.
Four Points by Sheraton Milwaukee North
Thanks for the site!
Budget Inn N rth Federal Highway, Fort lauderdale…..management knew room 115 was infested with bed bugs when they rented me the room on a weekly basis, previous tenants who were still living in the motel told me after they saw all these red sores all over my arms and legs….a black man and a black woman both claim that the black management gave them free rent to hush them up…my particular problem is that now i have MRSA running rampant through my system…I believe RACISM at it’s best right here in the good ole USA
if an attorney reads this and can help me please contact me at 954 549 3788 or the budget inn room 113
Hi Amy,
I have never heard of them nesting in hair – it moves too much and is subjected to the elements plus they don’t care for light.
Even if bed bugs nested in your hair, they are not going to enter your body or penetrate your brain – nothing to worry about there.
I hope that helps!
Jim
I have a question if your home is severely infested to the point you have a nest in your hair can they get inside you and literaly eat you to death?