What and how to treat the room from bedbugs

The bugs were disturbed by their bites even by cavemen. Moving along with the person in the apartment and house, bed bugs continue to deliver discomfort to residents today. Scientists, chemists, biologists, genetics are struggling to create a universal, effective and safe means of controlling the population of this blood-sucking parasite.Consider the most popular ways to treat bed bugs to get rid of synanthropic insects forever.

Professional ways to fight

The most effective method of dealing with bedbugs is professional treatment of the apartment. In large cities there are many companies that are engaged in the disinsection of private apartments and industrial, office space. The advantage of this option is the use of effective means:

• professional insecticides that require special equipment and skills to work with them - Klopoveron, Sinusan, Xsulat-25, Furri, Microcin;
  

  Ksulat C25
• the use of efficient, but expensive devices that the apartment owner will not acquire — cold and hot mist generators, cryo-freezers, industrial hair dryers.

The means used provide a prolonged and combined effect. At hot mist treatment create an insecticide suspension with high temperature. Cooling down, the fine preparation evenly and slowly settles on all surfaces, penetrating into hard-to-reach places of localization of bedbugs. Similarly carried out cold mist treatment, the difference is only in the temperature of the insecticidal cloud. Before treating an apartment from bedbugs, experts evaluate the degree of infection.

Important!

Disinfection methods depend on the scale of infection of the apartment with furniture bugs. If the parasites are indoors for less than a month, then all residential areas should be treated. With the presence of parasites in the house for more than a month, sanitation is carried out in the common areas - kitchen, bathroom, hallway. When the bugs bother the owners of the apartment for more than six months, then the room is given quarantine status, at which the processing is carried out under the condition that the dwelling is completely cleaned from old furniture.

Firms give a different warranty duration - from 1 year to 5 years. Insecticides used are safe for humans. At the request of the customer, no odor products are used. All preparations do not leave marks on furniture, walls, upholstery. Can effectively deal with both adult bedbugs and their maggots and eggs. Disinfection cost starts from 1500 r. for one-room apartment. In addition, professional companies can create a barrier against the entry of insects into the apartment from the outside. But not all such services are available.Often the apartment owners prefer to independently handle the room.

Professional processing

Self-processing methods

On your own you can use several ways to combat bed bugs. We will not consider as a serious means - the physical destruction of parasites. Slippers and newspaper will not help to clean all the secluded places of pest accumulation. Various bed bug traps do not justify themselves, because with a strong infection the insects just fall from the ceiling.

Interesting!

The method that is used today to create a barrier for the penetration of bedbugs into the bed was described in his story "Bugs" by Leo Tolstoy. Placed under the legs of the bed are bowls with water, only for a while they stopped the bloodsuckers. The writer was forced to leave the hotel room, when on his bed the parasites began to pour from the ceiling.

Traps that are produced by industry, also have their drawbacks. They need to be regularly changed, devastated and they can not clean the house from bedbug eggs.

Thermal exposure

Scalding, burning out, freezing have been used by people since ancient times.Bedbugs can breed, turn into adults, live in a narrow temperature range. Temperatures below - 20 ° С or higher + 50 ° С destroy not only adults, but also eggs of parasites. To treat the room from bedbugs, creating such extreme conditions is quite problematic.

The death of bedbugs

Prolonged exposure to low temperatures can damage the plumbing and heating pipes. A house bug is hidden in the crevices of the furniture and the floor, under the baseboard, in the upholstery of the sofa and other upholstered furniture. So, to freeze insects in shelters, the temperature should be even lower. The use of cryogenic plants, liquid nitrogen or other refrigerants in a separate apartment is unprofitable and does not give 100% of the result.

Interesting!

Bedbugs were the scourge of the Middle Ages. To combat parasites invented different ways. So beds with canopies were invented as a means of protection from bedbugs falling from the ceiling. Klopovarka was very popular. This samovar-like aggregate killed insects with steam. People used special "devices" for the burning of bloodsuckers. But these "innovations" could not reduce the number of parasites and people suffered from bedbugs bites until the middle of the XX century.

It is difficult to heat an apartment above + 50 ° C, as the use of a powerful building dryer that can give the desired effect is an expensive pleasure. And turbo lighters are flammable and can ruin the furniture.

A good result can be achieved with processing the apartment with a steam generator. Ideally, this device should create a vapor pressure of at least 4 atmospheres and a temperature of + 100 ° C in order to process all the secluded places of the bugs nests. Hot steam will kill not only the bugs, but also clean the tissue from dirt, provide disinfection. Steam generator is convenient to handle upholstered furniture, textiles, carpets, pet bedding. But the procedure will have to be repeated several times to completely get rid of insects.

Steam generator

Increases the efficiency of the thermal method, the alternation of high and low temperatures. It is worth assessing the safety and efficiency of these methods, before buying an expensive building dryer or a container with liquid nitrogen.

Chemical control methods

The most effective and affordable, in a private apartment, is a chemical method of combating synanthropic insects.In the application of insecticides, which are many in the open market, does not require special skills. They are safe for warm-blooded animals, including humans. Many preparations for odorless bugs or flavored. Funds from domestic bugs do not require a long absence of tenants in the apartment.

Important!

Modern effective drugs for bedbugs often contain several insecticides from different groups, which increases their damaging ability, helps to fight insects resistant to popular insecticides. The composition is often complemented by synergistic substances that enhance the action of the active components, which expands the spectrum of action.

Ready-to-use products are available in a convenient form of aerosols, sprays. Emulsions are easy to dilute to the desired concentration with water. Having the instruction, prepare solutions for the disinsection of apartments with different degrees of infection and for prevention.

The most popular means of bedbugs:

• Clean house;
• Cucaracha;
• Fufanon;
• Dichlorvos;
• Malathion;
• Executioner;
• Raptor;
• Forsyth;
• Geth.

Spray spray

Liquid preparations are used to disinfect clothes, textiles, soft toys.It is enough to soak in an insecticide solution, and then wash at a temperature of + 60 ° C. With the help of the solution it is convenient to carry out the treatment of floors, walls, furniture, tiles, plastic panels.

Folk recipes

Those who do not want to live in an apartment treated with chemical preparations have access to traditional methods of dealing with bedbugs. Their impact is based on fear of bedbugs strong odors. Repellent properties have more than 20 species of plants. Only powder made from dried flowers of Dalmatian chamomile kills insects. She began to use in ancient Greece. Under the name "Persian Powder", a natural insecticide got into Europe with trading caravans and was actively used until the middle of the 20th century.

Safest folk remedies for bedbugs - it is decoction of plants repellents that are used in the processing of premises, clothing, furniture. Use of vinegar will help not only get rid of parasites, but also cure the bug of the bug. Sachet with dry lavender, citrus peels, wormwood, mint, tansy not only expel parasites from nests, but also deodorize the room. The same effect is observed when use of essential oils from bedbugs.

Essential oils, mint, eucalyptus

Interesting!

At the court of the French monarch Louis XIV de Bourbon there were court perfumers who created perfumes on the basis of essential oils, which repelled bedbugs, fleas, and lice. In 1829 in the book "True, convenient and cheap means used in France for the extermination of bedbugs" was given a detailed description of these spirits and recommendations for their use. There was also given a brief description of the effectiveness of the use of fragrances in the fight against "bloodsuckers".

Such an abundance of methods for the destruction of synanthropic insects in the room allows everyone to choose how to handle furniture from bedbugs or walls and floors of an apartment. But each of these methods requires compliance with the rules for processing the room.

How to handle an apartment

Before choosing a method of dealing with bed bugs and the most effective drug, the room where the treatment will take place must be prepared:

1. Pack hermetically and remove food, personal care products, cutlery.
2. To process bed linen, wash and pack clothes into vacuum bags.
3. Remove and process carpets, curtains, tapestries.
4. Take out of the apartment indoor plants.
5. Remove pets, fish, birds.
6. All tenants, except the person who will process the apartment, must leave the premises.
7. Move furniture away from walls.
8. To carry out general cleaning.
9. Close windows and doors to avoid drafts.
10. Start processing from the far wall of the room, moving to the exit.
11. Carefully treat with bugs all parasitic sitespossible cover, walls, windows, doors and air duct openings;
12. Close the room and leave it for 3-4 hours for more complete disinfection.
13. Carefully ventilate the apartment for 30-40 minutes.
14. Worn areas with soap and soda solution.
15. It is advisable not to wash the rest of the area for 3-4 days.
16. Re-process in a week.

Important!

Despite the fact that the bulk of insecticides belong to the 3-4 hazard class (safe for warm-blooded animals), personal protective equipment should be used during the processing of the room - a full-body suit, rubber gloves, goggles and a respirator.

Proper treatment of the premises and compliance with safety rules will help get rid of parasites, without causing harm to health.