Kill Bedbugs Instantly | DIY Chemical-Free Method to Do It | Dawa ya Kunguni




This article will tell you what your fumigator won’t tell you. You can eliminate bedbugs from your furniture using extreme heat. By kill, I mean eliminate bedbugs and their eggs permanently from your bed, sofas, carpets, and any other household furniture.

Fun fact: Bedbugs are not only found in low income households. Households with frequent travelers are more likely to have bedbugs than rural homes. Some of the areas that help spread bedbugs include:

  •          Hotels
  •          Offices
  •          Planes
  •          Buses
  •          Daycare
  •          Retails stores
  •        Libraries

Therefore, it is unlikely that cousins from shags brought bedbugs to your home and likely that you picked a couple from your latest business trip. It is hard to notice bedbugs in the beginning, but the moment you see one, you need to take immediate action.

In an ideal world, we would take out our flashlights and look through the joints of restaurant seats to confirm the absence of bedbugs.

Do you know how often your favorite restaurant or hotel does fumigation to get rid of pests? I don’t know and I tend to stay away from hotels.

In fact, I’m one of those people who wash hotel bathrooms and ask for clean bed sheets on arrival. It may seem rude but hotels are businesses looking to keep their expenses at a minimum, unless you are staying in a presidential suite.

Now that we have established than anyone can carry bedbugs on their clothes or suitcase, or laptops and other electronics, let’s look at DIY solutions.

 

Why is it Hard to Eliminate Bedbugs?

Most bedbug solutions do not kill the eggs, which is the main reasons why eliminating a bedbug infestation is hard. A female lays 1-5 eggs per day, which makes it 7-35 eggs per week. Now imagine the capacity of five female bedbugs.

One of the sure ways to kill bedbugs and their eggs is through extreme heat or cold. Since we live on the equator, extreme heat seems like the best solution.

Healthline offers a few chemical free suggestions like rubbing alcohol (spirit) and 100% acetone (nail polish remover), but they cannot harm bedbug eggs. Also, many chemical solutions are not able to kill bedbug eggs. Overall, most methods can’t stop the reproduction process of bedbugs, which it why it’s hard to get rid of them.

Get this straight: It won’t matter how many times you do thorough cleaning in bedbug infested areas if you don’t eliminate the eggs.

How to Eliminate Bedbugs

Heat treatment is simple to apply to furniture with two products that will transform your life. You need a garment steamer and a handheld vacuum. If you have those items then you are ready to start eliminating bedbugs.

If you don’t, you can check out this garment steamer and handheld vacuum on Jumia. The steamer will be your source of heat and you can maneuver it to areas around your furniture.

Fill you garment steamer with water and turn it on to produce heat. Pass the steamer across every part of your furniture slowly so that the steam seeps through spaces and cracks. Don’t forget the sides on the wall and behind the head boards.

Let the furniture dry from the moisture and repeat the process 2-3 times. Once you are through, use the handheld vacuum to remove any dirt in the small spaces on your furniture. The powerful suction will remove all the lint, dirt, dead bedbugs and their damaged eggs.

Do the process for cushions, pillows, mattresses, or anywhere that you thing bedbugs may be hiding. You can repeat the process a few more times if you have a serious infestations (if you have seen bedbugs in your home for more than a month) to get rid of all of them.

Make it a habit to do the heat treatment on your furniture every 4-6 months to prevent any new infestation.

Remember: Everyday you may pick up bedbugs and bring them home. Regular heat treatments when doing thorough cleaning will ensure bedbugs cannot survive in your household. (Hurray!)

Meanwhile, What to Do with the Vacuum and Steamer

Other than using the garment steamer and handheld vacuum to kill bedbugs or do heat treatments, here are some uses.

A handheld vacuum is excellent for cleaning crumbs from car seats and floors, carpets, kitchen counters, or dust particles on cupboards. You can spot clean dirt particles and dust anywhere in the house. This is good news for those with dust allergies. Cleaning your closet or underneath your seat cushions just got easier.

Use the steamer in place of an iron. Say bye bye to burn marks on your work clothes. A garment steamer is an excellent way to remove wrinkles from your clothing, especially when in a hurry. Moreover, the price rag is similar to that of a regular ironing box.

Finally..

If you found any of my information useful, please click on my links below to buy a garment steamer and handheld vacuum from Jumia. I will get a small, tiny commission that will help me keep running this blog and providing useful tips.

Just remember, I gave you details on a lifetime solution for bedbugs, and their eggs.

 






Location: Nairobi, Kenya

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