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.

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.

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.

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….

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.