Comments on: Schools Risk Bed Bug Problem

By: J.M.

J.M. — Sun, 02 May 2010 05:01:36 +0000

I recently started removing items from a storage (10×20 so a lot of items), and my son attends a school, where children come from all over the county, many from areas where bed bugs have been reported to be especially bad.

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!

By: Bitten

Bitten — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:01:47 +0000

Every day I strive to keep everything tidy and organized. With 2 children and another one on the way in the next month or so, it is my job to keep everything in order. I am living on social services…It took so long to inquire the items in my household.

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.

By: maggie

maggie — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:07:51 +0000

I was concerned about my school as well as myself. my school has a bed bug infestation because of what i found last week in class. i was at my table when i found a bedbug crawling on the desk i immediately killed it and blood came out of it. it was small so there must be more. what can i do? i already advised some teachers and students as well as my principal but have not done anything? what should i do?

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:45:13 +0000

Bedbugs have NOTHING to do with being dirty, do the research before calling people dirty especially a child it wouldn’t even be her fault. Also its not fair that anyone gets them, they are so easily spread that it could come from anywhere, the child who has it got it from someone else and so on. Its nobody’s fault. I’ve never had them but I’ve done a project on it for school and like I said ITS NOT FROM BEING DIRTY, bed bugs are not concerned about messes or food just human blood.

By: carmela

carmela — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:24:42 +0000

I have bed bugs in my school and no one is helping us! The child has them at home while the mother and grandma are not doing a thing about the infestation!

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.

By: cheryl procillo

cheryl procillo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:49:38 +0000

My daughter has at friend at school i knew she was kinda of dirty, at my daughters birthday we went swimming and i noticed that her whole body was covered with bite marks old and new!

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?