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My bf and I just discovered that we have bedbugs last week, and I'm having trouble being as nonchalant about sleeping in the bed as he is. I wish so badly that I could be like him and just sleep...but I can't knowing that bugs will crawl on me and sit on me for up to ten minutes and suck my blood.
I think our infestation was caught early enough to where the whole room isn't crawling, but when we did the first de-bugging, there were quite a few concentrated mostly around the corners of the mattress, but not too many along the sides. Since then, we've sprayed Lysol on the bed and put it in an encasement.
Woke up last night, however to find one on my leg and under my pillow and saw 2 or 3 crawling around on the floor.
My question is-can I let him sleep in the bed and bait the bugs (since he doesn't care) and I can sleep on the couch? Or do you think that will draw them out to the living room and then they will infest my only remaining safe haven?
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
Chances are real good they are already in the living room, too, but you just don't see them since they have no food source. Lysol kills germs, not bugs. Alcohol will kill bugs, though. You can wet the mattress down with mouth wash or straight alcohol (the mint kind isn't quite as bad as the regular). Also spray it around the baseboards and in the corners of your wooden furniture. You need to wash all of your clothes and linens in super hot water. Empty all the wood furniture and pull the drawers out. Wet the underside, corners, any place you can get to with the alcohol spray. It's safer than a pesticide, but may damage some finishes, which is why you only want to use it on the inside and underside. It will also take more applications than regular pesticides. Soak luggage with it, too. Everything. Books in the freezer. Toss magazines. Any place they may hid has to be soaked.
