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8 Early Signs of Bed Bugs and Home Remedies

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8 Early Signs of Bed Bugs Infestation

The signs of bed bug infestation can become a notorious issue if not detected early. The first signs of bed bugs are often subtle. With finding only one sign does not mean you are facing a bed bugs, instead you need to investigate deeper. They can disrupt your sleep and will gradually spread to other corners of your home if not eliminated efficiently.

Therefore, it is important to look for signs of bed bugs and identify them early. Even though they are sneaky, they often leave evidence of poop or shed skin. A careful owner or renter can still spot the early signs of a bed bug problem. To protect yourself and your family from these bloodsucking pests, it is important to find and eliminate them early.

You must do this before they get the chance to reproduce and spread widely. Getting professional confirmation is definitely better to be certain of the severity of a bed bug infestation.

Understand the Signs to Lookout for During Bedbugs Infestation

Clear Signs of Bed Bugs Activities

Faecal Matters

Mattress that are infest with bed bugs have stains and marks on it. Often dark brown to black spots on bed sheets, pillowcases, mattress and box spring. Bed bugs are not neat and these scattered spots are from their faecal matters. Bed bugs can hide in narrow cracks and seams and may be tough to spot.

Bite Patterns

Bites from a bed bugs are commonly mistaken for mosquito and other insect bites. They will only bite during night time and often unnoticed throughout the blood meal. Bed bugs bites are in clusters of red bumps in a zigzag pattern, each cluster has around 3 to 5 bites. Eventually, their bites eventually turn and for sensitive skin it can cause significant skin allergies.

Eggs and Eggshells

An adult female bed bug lays oval shaped, white in colour eggs after mating and a blood meal. You can locate the bed bug eggs in between upholstered furniture cracks and crevices. The eggs are being close to invisible and smaller than the apple seed, it can be easily miss and overlook. You can also keep a look out for their empty eggshells white to beige in colour scattered around the infested area.

Moulting Skin

Inspect thoroughly within the bedsheets, pillowcases, or mattresses, usually in the corners. The remaining of the outer shell is what remains after the bed bug shedding process. The reason for them to shed skin is to grow and some goes through moulting for about 60 times per lifespan. Adult bed bug skin shed are useful proof to confirm and identifying the bed bug problems.

Blood Stains

Two reasons why they leave stains, firstly blood may have dripped from your body after they feed. Secondly, they give out blood from the rectal area while crawling back to their hiding spot. The stains may appear to look rusty with reddish brown specks or dark spots. Bedbug blood stains are clearly visible on bedsheets, pillows, comforters, mattresses, even in hotel rooms and furnitures.

Musty Odour

Bed bugs have scent glands that produces a musty odour to communicate with other bed bugs near the affect area. The smell may resemble sweet, or to some a kind of a musty smell from a bad rotten fruit. Bed bug faeces are mainly just from digestion of their blood meal, contains iron that gives off a nasty metal rust smell.

Changes in Pet Behaviour

Even though bed bugs prefer to feed on humans for a blood meal, they can go after your pets too. You may find your pet acting restless and get irritated easily, scratching more often than usual. Commonly, fleas or ticks are the type of species that gets attach to your pet body. Nonetheless when dealing with bed bugs your pet can be their food source too.

Dead or Alive Bed Bugs

In location with a heavy bed bug infestation, you can identify those live or dead bed bugs easily. They usually hide in dark areas, like under the mattress. Some well hidden in cracks and crevices, on the walls, or even around power socket plugs. They will hide in furnitures and areas accessible to their food source.

Treatment for Treating Bed Bug Bites

BedBug Bites Home Remedy

If there is no signs of a serious allergic reaction, you can often treat the bedbug bites treatment at home. Before treating bed bug bites you need to wash the bites gently with soap and water. This is to prevent a skin infection and help bring down the itch. If the bites still itch, you can apply calamine lotion to it.

Bed bug bites normally heal and will go away within a week. Off the shelve creams such as calamine lotion, balm or hydrocortisone are ways to help ease with the itch. If you have an allergy reaction from the multiple bed bug bites, please take note of your symptoms and visit the doctor.

Ultimately Innovative Pest Control services is the best bed bug control and bedbugs exterminator in Singapore. Our pest control professionals will perform the suitable treatment to rid of bed bugs problems permanently.

How to kills bed bugs and be clear of bedbugs infestation?

Treating bedbugs with do-it-yourself home remedy methods can be a tedious process. Entire process will take months, depending on the scale of the bedbug infestation. The success rate also depends on a few factors. Perhaps you might miss some eggs which may lead to a recurring problem.

How to kill bedbugs with baking soda or diatomaceous earth powder?

Gently sprinkle the baking soda powder around the infest areas, the mattresses and the perimeter around your bed. After a few days, thoroughly vacuum and repeat the process again to prevent bed bugs spread. The baking soda powder method may work but do not guarantee that it gets to eliminate bed bugs entirely.

How to kill bedbugs in a high temperature dryer?

Be careful when washing and drying bedbugs on sheets and clothes as transporting to the washer can potentially spread. When washing the clothes set the water at 60 degrees for a 30 minutes washing machine. This step alone will kill 100% of all bed bug life stages. You need to set the heat treatment at high heat to kill these bedbugs in the dryer.