Best Treatment For Bed Bugs
The common bed bug has become a cause of more disease, motel and hotel guest complaints, and a greater health concern over the last decade because the bed bug has evolved to protect itself from the pesticides that used to work in killing the pests. Common pesticides used to kill bed bugs simply do not have the effect they once had.
Improved personal hygiene will not suffice as a treatment for bed bugs. Bed bugs live on blood – human or animal. The bugs can go without feeding for almost a year and are attracted to carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is what people exhale when they breathe.
Bed bug bites by themselves can cause visible sores, reddened bite areas, and severe itching that requires some form of bed bug treatment. Repeated episodes of bed bug bites can lead to skin infection, asthma attacks, transference of other diseases if the bug bites an infected person and then bites someone else, and even death from anaphylactic shock in rare cases.
The unsightly sores and fear caused by bed bug attacks can produce anxiety, mental distress, and insomnia.
Getting rid of bed bugs requires two approaches. The bed bugs must be removed from the infested area and the person's symptoms must be treated.
Removal of bed bugs in bed bug treatment has become more difficult because nature equipped the bed bug with a desire to survive. The bugs have evolved a resistance to the pesticides that used to control them. One means of bed bug treatment is a multiple treatment of the infected area with pesticide. Not all bed bugs are immune to pesticides and some do not have a complete immunity so multiple treatments can get rid of a bed bug infestation.
New research by the FDA has developed other means of eradicating bed bugs that have proven safe to humans and affective in destroying a bed bug infestation. Vacuuming mattresses and heat treating mattresses have also been found to be effective as a bed bug treatment.
Depending on the severity of the bites and rash treatment for bed bugs can usually be accomplished by taking an antihistamine for the itch or a sorticosteroid. One should always consult their physician about possible side effects and interactions with their prescription and non prescription drugs before taking any drug. Severe infections should be attended to by a doctor. Emotional reactions to the affects of bed bug bites can be treated by a psychiatrist or with medication.
Asthma symptoms caused by bedbugs can be controlled with the normal regimen of asthma medication provided the bed bug treatment of the infected area is successful.
The treatment for bed bugs has become more complicated because the bed bugs want to survive and have adapted to do just that. New treatment methods have been developed that can successfully remove a bed bug infestation.
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