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Greybnk48

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7. Buy the bed bug sacks for your mattress and boxspring

Reply to jodymarie aimee (Original post)

Sun Oct 21, 2018, 04:54 PM

Oct 2018

and your pillows. They have them at Walmart. If the legs on your bed or headboard are wood, put the wooden legs of your bed into glasses about 5" high. They can only get up wood.

You can run your bedding in a hot drier for 30" and that should do it. Vacuum the hell out of your carpet.

Our daughter brought them home from a 5 star hotel in Milwaukee about 3 years ago. Everyone in her party was bitten to ribbons. A male friend had to go to the E.R. because his eyes were swollen shut. We haven't heard much about bed bugs since then.

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Anybody here have any experience with bedbugs? [View all] jodymarie aimee Oct 2018 OP

Yes Tiggeroshii Oct 2018 #1

I've read about diatomaceous earth but don't know the protocol since I haven't had to deal with them fierywoman Oct 2018 #2

I've been lucky but very careful. Even 5 star hotels, movie theaters, high rise apts and condos hlthe2b Oct 2018 #3

Yes duforsure Oct 2018 #4

Yes I have and they freaking SUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKK ... mr_lebowski Oct 2018 #5

I get an occasional one, probably from city buses left-of-center2012 Oct 2018 #6

Buy the bed bug sacks for your mattress and boxspring Greybnk48 Oct 2018 #7