we have disposed of everything beds pillows ,bedding toys ,video games from that room. then we find them in the other room, again everything thrown out. now i have two kids 8and 10 living in the same room in another part of the house well another bed thrown out from that room. they follow the kids for some reason.

I’ve found them in my sofa we keep exterminating but it seems endless with them. we spray,vacuum,dust but the bugs still come out its sad embarrassing,depressing its everything you can imagine DE doesn’t seem to stop them i had it caked on my granddaughters bed she was sleeping in two different beds two different rooms. they still bit her bought a brand new air-mattress found one on it next morning ,and yes i believe they are being carried from the school to my home

My husband killed a bug a few days ago, that in it’s semi-squashed version, looked somewhat like a roach (which is scary enough), but had pincher looking things. I began looking online and found that it more resembled an adult bed bug (which scares me even more because that means they will crawl on and bite us). I have dug through the couch (where he found it) and looked at the beds, with no luck of finding another.

I have dry skin that leaves my legs with small bumps (that don’t really itch) and usually have a (small, thin, almost clear) ingrown hair in it, but just an hour or so ago, while sitting on the couch, I began to itch on my arm, and found a small reddish bump (only 1) that I can only equate to the look of a chigger bite like you would get from sitting in the grass.

Since the bug my husband found was semi-crushed when I saw it, I can’t be 100% on the ID of it, but I am petrified of bugs, and if this is a brand new infestation (which I am pretty afraid might be the case) I want to try to eradicate it before it can get too bad…I have a 4 bedroom house in an upscale neighborhood and couldn’t possibly handle refurnishing it!

Aside from the storage scenario, the school, and then my hubby entering the Reserves, and having to stay in a hotel for training weekends recently, I cannot fathom anyway else we may have gotten them.

Any suggestions for how to verify that it is bed bugs, and how to quickly eradicate them if it is ?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Just settling in a few months ago I had planned to stay at my apartment for a few years to come.

Truthfully I have changed my mind…quickly…I don’t even have to think twice. Every minute matters now because I have realized we have been sharing our home with bedbugs.
So over the last week I have been spending my days throwing out all our carpeting and furniture, curtains, stuffed animals, clothing, everything.

I had spent the time washing and drying blankets, sheets and pillows so fresh ones could be used for each sleeping session. I have been investigating the lives of the creatures and investigating all the mattresses that I have now also disposed of. As of last night when my four year old woke up itchy at 4 am the beds and cribs have been disassembled sitting in their now almost bare bedrooms. I dunno what to do…my life has been turned upside down…nobody around me really knows how I am feeling but I am frustrated, angry , mad, and sad all at the same time. I am starting to get depressed…How will I get new furniture and beds, and should I actually bring a newborn baby in a bedbug infested environment? I can’t even purchase the new baby’s items fearing that they could become infested too. Should I send my daughter to school knowing I could contaminate another family or admit in embarrassment that “we have bedbugs”
What a mess this is becoming, I will never forget this.

The department of education is not helping the teacher and the child either. It’s not fair that the other children get them because of someone else.

Today my daughter was telling me that another girl saw on this girls backpack at school a bedbug. Should she be coming to school? Should the classroom be cleaned out? What should i do as a parent that doesn’t want them in my house?