They sell an Insect Killer (food grade Diatomaceous Earth) which kills bed bugs. You must carefully follow the directions. We dusted our carpet with the product then vacuumed it up hours later. We encased our new mattresses and box springs with mattress protectors and pulled our beds away from the wall. Make sure blankets don’t touch the floor. Make sure bed frames are bed bug free. We purchased steel frames and threw out our wooden ones. Put the powder around the legs of the bed. When the bugs crawl up to bite you, they have to go through the powder to get you. The powder kills them. Keep applying the powder once a week for 5 weeks. Eggs hatch. The insects will then want to feed. It took 4 weeks to completely rid our house of the bed bugs. The product really works. Nothing else worked. We have been bed bug free for 3 years now.

Warning the powder is hard on the vacuum cleaner. We eventually bought a shop vac from Sears to vacuum the power.

Good Luck.

The diatomaceous earth stops working after 2 weeks. You need to vacuum and re apply. This is an epidemic that needs to be addressed. I am tired of them living on me. I will continue to fight to kill these pieces of scum that serve no purpose. THEY CAN GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The people that have bed bugs you are being tormented by the devil. Need to read the bible. Me too. God will deliver me from this !!!!!!!!! Trust in God

My husband and 2 children are practically getting eaten alive….We used diatomaceaous earth and as much as I would LOVE to say it worked, it didn’t…it did not get rid of them completely, but I will say that I think it helped for a while.

We put carpenter’s tape (double sided tape) and wrapped it around a plastic container and put the legs of our bed into them and then poured DE into the containers. We also poured the DE around the perimeters of our room and parts of our apartment and then put mattress covers on. This helped for a while, but drove the bugs into our other room and into our sofa looking for blood…..

I’ve never encountered bed bugs before and I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy! I did read that putting your bed legs in cups of mineral oil would help….I’m going to try that next!

Oh and by the way, with the exterminator….we have to clear out our ENTIRE apartment and just leave the furniture…..the sprays will be every 10 days! Good luck to EVERYONE who encounters these little devils!

It has been day 4 since my daughters have been waking up in the morning with a trail of bites in their arms n legs…..first thing came in my head was bed bug. After seeing the bites again i moved my bed and back spring and vacuumed around. I found 3 bugs…..does that mean there are more?, should i throw away my mattress? Please give any advice..thx

If I do have them what about the clothes that I’ve been wearing to work and to my friend’s homes. Could I have carried them there? I have visited my grandchildren and my grandson has spent the night. He usually sleeps on the floor in my room in a sleeping bag. He hasn’t been bitten, but could he have taken them home on his clothing that he is wearing? I’m just a wreck about this. Hopefully tomorrow I’ll have some answers. I’m also going to see my dermatologist.

God Bless you for this website!!

You can’t bring the bed bugs with you if wash the cloths you’ll be traveling with in hot water (see our bed bug treatment page) and make sure that your luggage is free of any bed bugs (you would see them). The eggs are hard to spot, but most likely they are not in your luggage (wipe it clean).

Did you check to see if the hotel you stayed at has had bed bugs in the past? If not, visit our page on hotel bedbugs and leave a comment with the address of the hotel and your request.

You’re not going to like this, but a single bedbug can produce 5 eggs a day up to about 300 eggs. These little guys hatch in about 6 days and are very hungry. Once the nymphs feast on your blood, they can then start molting and grow into adulthood (takes about a month). Once the adult bed bug has had a good meal, they can live up to a year without feeding again if they have to!

So, yes, you could have brought a female bedbug home with you and ended up with a whole family. But, let’s hope this is not the case and it’s something like seafood (let me explain : )

From time to time I get the same red blotches, about 11:00pm, they cover my chest and shoulders and like yours, they itch like crazy! A long hot shower does the trick, and it’s not bed bugs at all, it’s seafood that is not cooked well. I love calamari and found that if it’s not fried enough, I’ll have a reaction later that night.

In your case, you mentioned red splotches, did you mean red splotches of blood? If so, then something is biting you and my case would not apply.

On Thursday I woke up with these spots / bites all over my upper chest.. I’ve notice more mostly on my chest, stomach area. I thought maybe it was a spider bug bite, Then I was wondering if it might be bed bugs. I was freakin out. I tore my bed apart didn’t find anything. I called Terminix and thank God they had someone who came out yesterday. He couldn’t find anything and said most likely it was spider bites (see BadSpiderBites.com)

Oh I forgot to mention last weekend I took down some wallpaper in my bedroom and he said maybe that disturbed them. He asked me if I had been anywhere lately and I told him no. He said I didn’t have bedbugs. Then after he left I got to thinking I did stay at a Courtyard Marriott the 4&5 th May. That would have been a month ago. Would it take that long for the bedbugs to bite me. I didn’t get any bites at the Marriott.

Last night I put the tape around my mattress like some people had said and nothing was on it this morning. I again tore my bed apart and nothing. I have one of those Select Comfort beds so there is no typical box spring/mattress. Needless to say I didn’t sleep much. I had the TV on most of the night until around 4 this morning. I dosed on and off and kept checking for bugs through out the night and nothing. This morning when I got up around 5:30 I was itching like crazy on my upper chest. Rubbing my Tshirt over the area. Then a short time later I looked in the mirror and there was bright red blood splotches on my Tshirt. It was fresh not dried blood. I took it off and there was nothing nor nothing on my bed. I don’t know if it was from rubbing my self raw or a bed bug????

I don’t know what to do? I’m going to be gone for a week on vacation and I’m concerned now about staying with family. If I have bedbugs (even though Terminix says I don’t) could I bring them to them?

Also, I just thought of. A couple of weeks ago I purchased a new bedspread. It was in a sealed zipped plastic bag. It didn’t look like it had been opened…could bed bugs had been on that.

Will your body itch or only where your are bitten? Also if the blood spatter on my Tshirt was a bedbug wouldn’t I have seen the squashed bedbug? If I do have an infestation, how do I get rid of the bed bugs?

Any suggestions would be appreciated…or comments. Do you think I have bedbugs???

I’m the only person in the house. If I don’t know where they are what can I do. I don’t care what it costs I’ll do it. Please what is the BEST recommendation? …heat, steam, fog, spray. HELP PLEASE!

We hired an exterminator to treat our furniture, carpets, outlets, etc. We were instructed to remove everything but furniture from the second floor of our home, bag it tightly, wash all clothing in hot water and dry on high heat. The extermination was $700 for 3 treatments one week apart. We have had second treatment and are still being bitten.

We take our bed apart every morning and find them in the wooden slats where the bed side rails connect. Turned our furniture on it’s side and found them in the legs and small spaces under the furniture.

Harris Bed Bug killer from Ace Hdwe. works on contact, but not to eliminate completely. Purchased a Shark steamer to steam edges of carpet, blinds and bed mattresses / boxsprings. Definitely worth purchasing ($80 at Walmart) because it gets in small spaces and kills them instantly. Purchased carpet steamer to clean carpets which killed some also. Purchased sealed mattress/boxspring covers.

Most effective was this weekend when we sealed off our bedroom, turned on the heat, and placed many heaters in room to temp. of 115 for 2 hours. Monitored heaters every 15 min. for fear of fire. Found dead bed bug nymphs and adults and this temperature which also kill eggs. Didn’t get bitten that night.

We are now doing same to all bedrooms and bathrooms on 2nd floor. Good luck to all – this has been a nightmare for our family.

My grandson told me and I thought is was just saying because he heard the say of don’t let the bed bugs bit. Noooo it was, out all my 49 yrs. I have never experience anything like this. It actually scary to know that these bed bugs can take up to 120 degrees in heat or 32 below before they die!

All I do is worry about bugs now, I don’t want to be there meal. think the government or politic should have a grant for people who cant afford to have them kill, really there is going to be a epidemic around the world and people losing their minds like me.