Bed bugs.. what to do?

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1. I have had this problem in the past. You need to call an exterminator and get rid of your futon and bedding. They have likely laid eggs by this point and it will become difficult for to get rid of them without help. Generally it’s proper to inform housing management as it could lead to other tenants getting infestations. Don’t wait either. The longer you wait the harder it is to deal with. Also I think it if the building already has an infestation you might be able to get housing management to pay for it, but if they determine it was caused by you it could be your responsibility to pay for the service.

2. You will get through this.

   You need to act as though you have a highly communicable disease that can spread through objects that have been in your living environment or even touched you. Rule number one is *do not expose other people to them*. Someone else’s carelessness and ignorance is the reason very likely why you’ve got them so don’t bring it on anyone else. I’d be pretty interested in knowing where you were before this… whether you took and airplane or stayed in a hotel. But anyway…

   If you are single and living in an apartment this will be easier. If you own a house and live in it with other people it will be more difficult.

   Basically **you immediately need a highly competent exterminator**. You cannot do this yourself. They will use a combination of poison and heat* to set up your environment to kill them and isolate and sanitize your things in plastic bags. The stuff they heat treat gets taken out of bags very carefully and sparingly by you according to their instructions and you continue to sleep in your environment which causes them to come out to get you and get poisoned and die along the way.

   Continue reading in English about best practices for how to manage yourself and maintain your life in the short term. *Get an eye mask if you need to sleep with the lights on*. Be wary of DIY and hearsay that mention miracle solutions. *Get a bottle of spray alcohol*. Get bags of various sizes to put things in that you know are safe because you have run them through an extremely hot dryer or sprayed the heck of them with alcohol. Be prepared to throw (carefully) throw a lot of stuff away since that will make it easier. Do not assume anything is bb-free by thinking ‘surely they’re not on that’ because they very well might be. It sucks but it’s true. This includes your expensive tech items. Yeah. I know. It sucks.

   As for an exterminator, you will definitely need to be searching in Japanese whether that is you doing the searching or a trusted person in your life. My final advice is also some of the most important: ***spare no expense***. Pay a professional for their professional services. Once you are on the other side of this you will be glad you did. If you called a professional exterminator today you’d be well on your way to putting this behind you within the next couple months. Avoid idiots and uncertain people. Look for a professional that says ‘Yes, we treat them. We need you to do exactly as we say. It costs this. We will come on this date. Are you ready?’.

   All the best. Please post a link to your exterminator and guidance for others in the future once you have put this behind you.

   *Duskin says they use super cold air but I’d never heard of this.

3. https://preview.redd.it/5nyeb7d3q41b1.jpeg?width=712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=ac38d034124405e3dff979e463800a228ec9ce12

   They look like this

4. Get external pest control

5. Are those the bed bugs you find around all the world or the more Japanese dani? I had dani in my bed a few weeks ago. Bought dani sheets to put on the mattress after cleaning the wood of the bed, vacuuming the mattress, spraying dani spray on it and washing and drying all the linen on the bed including the duvet. Fingers crossed that they won’t come back.

6. food grade diatomaceous earth, might be useful:

   https://mandmpestcontrol.com/how-to-use-diatomaceous-earth-to-kill-bed-bugs/

7. Had this once. Sadly you’ll probably have to dump everything. Mattress, bedframe, carpet, anything with fabric that was near the bedroom. Then call exterminator and fumigate. Take all your clothes and bedding to the coin laundry and wash it all (yes, all), if you want to be extra safe dry them twice. If you got curtains next to bed wash them as well. If you got electric sockets next to the bed open them up and check for eggs. Bed bugs are attracted to heat.

   You won’t be able to do it yourself, don’t cheap out. It’ll cost more. Do it now before they consume your house. Also try to make a mental note who came to your house lately or where you went.

   Good luck

8. Nuke them from orbit, mattresses cloth furniture , (along with any sheets and blankets laundry,) it’s the only way to be sure.

9. My husband (zoologist) says they are cigarette beetles.

10. Honestly, I’d just move. But unfortunately they’ll move with you. Time to die I guess.

11. I have no advice that I can offer you unfortunately, but I’m just curious if you have any idea where you might have gotten them from? Have you stayed in a hotel or something recently?

12. Do you have tatami matts? We have this issue, and the only solution we found was to basically wash everything, and put in drier at laundry matt. Things you can’t dry that way we sprayed with Dani killing spray, and we bug bombed the room as well as used the special spray for tatami mats. Even then the issue still seems to periodically return once every year for us.

13. Also if you stay somewhere else, like a friends, grandparents or even a hotel* put your clothes I the wash immediately when you get home and dry preferably in a drier

14. Buy 20000 mg/h ozone generator. Let it run for 4 hours in a room. It will obliterate any living thing. Bacteria, virus, bugs, larvae eggs, anything.