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do u know anyone with the bedbugs yet?

me - one household (London obvs)

No, head lice are easily treatable with special shampoo and a fine comb. Bedbugs eat the shit out of you while you sleep and are almost impossible to get rid of. 

We had them (London) about 8 years ago. Apparently pretty common to pick them up off the tube.  Got a specialist in to zap the room they were in (our main bedroom) before they could spread.  It was a big job as all furniture had to be taken apart and sprayed (the eggs are tiny and they go into the crevices etc).  We were lucky and the treatment worked, the bites were grim - they eat across you in a line.

Horror show. I have had friends in NY that got infested and had to burn all their clothes and toss out all their furniture. Also cost them $$$ in extermination services and traumatised them for life. NO THANKS!

Bedbugs aren't impossible to get rid of.

Story time. 

Living in a shared house in Poplar. I was the tenant, with permission to sublet the other three bedrooms.

Discovered bedbugs in my own room - only a handful. Immediately told all the other tenants, and the landlord. Landlord arranged for pest control guy to come around.

In the meantime, the woman tenant was going apeshit, about how it was disgusting, we were all disgusting, and she was going to stay with a friend until sorted. 

I went around with the pest control guy as he looked at all the mattresses. Other two tenants had nothing, IIRC, but the woman tenant - her mattress was fooking black. I was literally startled at how bad it was.

So we had to vacate the house for a day for the pest control guy to do his job - we were all working so that wasn't too difficult.

Came back, bedbugs gone, landlord bought new mattress for the lady tenant but not for me, everything nice and clean. 

Bedbugs did not return. 

Quite clear that the woman tenant had brought them in and they had just made it to my room (above hers) whilst colonising her own bed. I refrained from telling her that she was disgusting, but she moved out anyway.

 and are almost impossible to get rid of. 

 

Not true really. The one thing they cannot stand and their eggs can't deal with are very hot temps. They get rid of bed bugs in a property by sealing it all up and turning the heating up to the max then installing heaters and warming the place to sauna levels, leaving that for 48 hours. Those disgusting things die where they lurk. 

If you come back fron a hol when you have been bitten:

do not unpack in the bedroom, do it outside and wash everything hot. If you dont have an outside, just extract non clothes and leave the rest until you can get to a laundrette.

Family stayed in a Hotel in Amsterdam a few years ago and we were all bitten like hell - it was horriblly itchy.

Good advice from Minkie about unpacking outside and then a v hot wash and tumble dry. 

We had them in our old house. Didn’t really appreciate how big a problem they were at first and by them time we did they were everywhere 

the pest control people told us to bag up everything in the room and either stick it in a v hot tumble dryer (for clothing etc) or a chest freezer (everything else)

in the meantime they used some sort of new spray on the floor that sticks to the bugs and then infects the others they come in contact with and so on.

the worst bit was having to stay in the room on the basis that if you don’t they go wandering into other rooms for some nice fresh blood. I’ve never slept so badly in my life.

anyways, we got rid. Whenever we go anywhere now we stop by the launderette on the way home and tumble dry everything in one of those giant drums, then stick the cases in the freezer for a few days. Not going through all that again

I actually saw something crawling on a headrest on the train this morning. Probably a spider - wasn’t close enough to see properly - but it did make me wonder.

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