Re: um ew bedbugs

ack! I'm SOOOO skeeved right now!!!

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My brother got them from somebody at work too--there were thousands of them in his house... the baby kept getting weird bites all over her... they kept going to the doctor, had the poor thing tested for allergies, and they finally figured out that it was bedbugs because they ALL started getting red welts ALL OVER THEIR BODIES!!! My brother then saw one and had to send a specimen to the EPA or something (not sure which agency, but they tested it and came back with that they were bed bugs.)

SOOOO gross. They had thousands of them in the couch... they had to throw out every single piece of furniture with upholstery... ALLL of the baby's stuffed animals, and the exterminators came 3 or 4 times and they still kept coming back. They finally had to move, and they put all of their clothes in a black plastic bag on the porch overnight to freeze the little suckers to death (it was winter), then washed all of the clothes in hot water.

Please be careful, you do NOT want these nasty things.

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thanks everyone for all of the advice

i am SO glad i am in a special work group right now so i am nowhere near the area where they were seen!!! so they are exterminating and when i go back in a month i am going to start taking extra precautions

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omg i have to stop reading this thread

I cant even imagine...to think they can come from another apartment or you can get it from coworkers

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Posted by MeeshkaMich

omg i have to stop reading this thread

I cant even imagine...to think they can come from another apartment or you can get it from coworkers

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Posted by Phyl

Posted by MeeshkaMich

omg i have to stop reading this thread

I cant even imagine...to think they can come from another apartment or you can get it from coworkers

Step away from this thread...

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Posted by MeeshkaMich

Posted by Phyl

Posted by MeeshkaMich

omg i have to stop reading this thread

I cant even imagine...to think they can come from another apartment or you can get it from coworkers

Step away from this thread...

lol ok I will no longer go on the health board

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I had them in my last apartment before I moved to LI. It was AWFUL. FH and I slept on an air mattress in the living room for months. Exterminating works, but only kills the grown bedbugs, not the eggs. So it's a 3-step process. The exterminator sprays, and the adult bedbugs die. Over the next 3 weeks, the eggs hatch and you get new bedbugs, he comes back, sprays, and they die. 3 weeks later, he comes back a final time. So it takes a full 6 WEEKS from the first extermination until there are none left. We had a wooden bed from IKEA and they were living in the wood, and at night would crawl out. I thought I had allergies for 2 months or so (and that I was getting hives) before we figured it out from - sorry, TMI but it might be useful - blood spots on our sheets and pillows. The bedbugs suck your blood and then excrete out what they don't want, and if you have them, that's what you should look for - blood spots on your linens.

That was 2 years ago and we've since moved 40 miles away, but I still sleep with plastic over my mattress. The suckers can live for a FULL YEAR between feedings, so even if you isolate them under plastic, they can come back.

Ugh, remembering this s*cks. I'm off to go cry now.

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Posted by DavaDay

I had them in my last apartment before I moved to LI. It was AWFUL. FH and I slept on an air mattress in the living room for months. Exterminating works, but only kills the grown bedbugs, not the eggs. So it's a 3-step process. The exterminator sprays, and the adult bedbugs die. Over the next 3 weeks, the eggs hatch and you get new bedbugs, he comes back, sprays, and they die. 3 weeks later, he comes back a final time. So it takes a full 6 WEEKS from the first extermination until there are none left. We had a wooden bed from IKEA and they were living in the wood, and at night would crawl out. I thought I had allergies for 2 months or so (and that I was getting hives) before we figured it out from - sorry, TMI but it might be useful - blood spots on our sheets and pillows. The bedbugs suck your blood and then excrete out what they don't want, and if you have them, that's what you should look for - blood spots on your linens.

That was 2 years ago and we've since moved 40 miles away, but I still sleep with plastic over my mattress. The suckers can live for a FULL YEAR between feedings, so even if you isolate them under plastic, they can come back.

Ugh, remembering this s*cks. I'm off to go cry now.