Help.... bed bugs, I don't know how to tackle it. Advice please.?

I'm a cleaning professional in the NY area. My work involves the controlling of bed bugs without the use of pesticides, which may or may not be harmful to the pest, but likely harmful to you.

If you are suffering from bedbugs, I strongly suggest use of very thorough cleaning methods before the use of any toxic pesticides. You want 6 hp (11 amp) or 6.5 hp (12 amp) wet dry vac as a minimum to get more than 170 cfm & more than 66" of water lift, basically how much & how hard is the air flow. The little bugs have no chance against that much power. When you are done, remove the bag and discard in the outside trash, preferably just before the trash is hauled away, to minimize re-infestation.

You have to clean EVERYTHING and EVERYWHERE or nothing will work. The means mattresses, that means box springs, that means remove the fabric and inside the box springs. That mean where the carpet tucks into the walls. In and under all furniture. Even vacuum the power outlets. Of course every inch of carpet.

This alone may take care of the problem. This is what pest control companies are going to do with a vacuum designed for the pest control industry that has 2x the power of the one I will suggest. You simply can not skip the cleaning.

You may want to use pesticides after you have truly cleaned at least twice, but keep up with the cleaning, it has so many other health benefits.

Here are two good, pesticide makers:

http://www.jteaton.com/retail_home.php

http://pfharris.com/

If you're disabled, then i totally propose hiring an exterminator, or possibly round up some household individuals or shut acquaintances which can be willing to aid you eliminate them. First off you wanna find the jackpot of bedbugs, where they are coming from. It may be inside of your mattress, your bed body, a hole to your wall, at any place. Second, toss out all of your old bedlinens and possibly even your mattress. Dont get new ones til you solve the problem. Do an inspection of the relaxation of your house. Spray all of your furniture with mattress trojan horse spray. Get rid of all sources of bedbugs. You could wish to use a couple of kind of mattress computer virus killers on badly infected areas. Try to hold guests away out of your house as so much as viable, as that you can spread them to their houses or probably they're the supply of how you got mattress bugs. Every time you depart the apartment, make sure youre clean, check your pockets, wallet, and so forth, and make certain there are no bed bugs hijacking a trip with you. After exterminating your entire furnishings, wait a couple of week before putting to your new bedlinens and different new furnishings so you know that they are gone. Use the bed worm spray possibly once a day or each two days, double assess on crevices and holes. If all else fails, call the exterminator, its valued at it.

It doesn't seem like you have bed bugs but perhaps he was bitten by red ants or mosquitoes or fleas.. You would have seen webs or spots on the sheets if it were this bad along with the bugs in the seams of the mattress. I think we are all somewhat paranoid about beg bugs but if you haven't seen evidence then it most likely is not.

look up photos of bites from these insects listed and compare.

If your son is having a bad reaction to any bite, he should see the doctor.

I had that same problem when I was 8 years old, went to visit grandma, slept in a bed that hadn't been moved in a while and all of a sudden I had huge welts, it was from spiders.

A couple of years later I went to Atlantic City and stayed in a motel with my parents and again got the welts and ruined their vacation. This time it was from mosquitoes. Must have been a certain kind of mosquito because they really swelled up. This time we used alcohol and calamine lotion on them and it made things worse.

I'm thinking it's the poison from bug bites that I had an allergy to. Check with the dermatologist for your son. I don't know of an antihistemine would work, it didn't for me. When my mother got the prescription filled the pharmacist asked her "who was poisoned" and followed up with the medicine was for that purpose. The pills worked.

Cat I don't think its bed bugs biting your little boy

You would see signs of these on the mattress

Plus they would be on both beds not just his

If its only his legs could it be his pyjamas have you bought him new ones ?

Or maybe he,s getting too warm in bed

Try leaving them off or buy him cotton ones

Bed bugs don't just bite legs

if still has red bumps get him to the doctor, he/she will be able to tell you for sure and how to proceed