How to get rid of Bed Bugs?

Bed bugs are small nocturnal insects that live by feeding on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. Although bed bugs can live for a year or as much as 18 months without feeding, they typically seek blood every five to ten days.

Bed bugs may be erroneously associated with filth in the mistaken notion that this attracts them. However, severe infestations are often associated with poor housekeeping and clutter. Bed bugs are attracted by exhaled carbon dioxide and body heat, not by dirt, and they feed on blood, not waste. In short, the cleanliness of their environments has effect on the control of bedbugs but, unlike cockroaches, does not have a direct effect on bed bugs as they feed on their hosts and not on waste. Good housekeeping in association with proper preparation and mechanical removal by vacuuming will certainly assist in control.

One can use mattress covers that completely zips up the mattress sealing it entirely so that no bugs can get in or out. As long as the bugs can’t bite you, there isn’t any harm with having them there. They will die out eventually without food. The encasement or mattress covers can come in either fabric or vinyl.