The holiday travel season is in full-swing and many people are busy with the hustle and bustle of trying to get to grandma’s house or their fun holiday destination. In their haste, they may inadvertently forget that bed bugs may be lurking in any hotel or motel establishment that they visit. It is important to look for bed bugs any time that you travel, lest you accidently bring the bloodsucker’s home with you warn Monmouth County, NJ pest control professionals.
Many New Jersey residents wonder what to do when they suspect that they may have picked up bed bugs while they are traveling. Here are a few good tips that will help to keep you safe from bed bug infestations after you travel.
• Using a soft sided collapsible luggage piece that fits into the dryer is a great way to travel. Placing luggage into the dryer on high heat for at least 30 minutes will ensure that any hitchhiking bed bugs or their eggs will be killed.
• All clothing should be laundered, whether clean or dirty, in hot water and dried on high heat to ensure that bed bugs and their eggs are killed.
• Larger pieces of luggage or hard-sided luggage pieces should be carefully vacuumed inside and out. Pay special attention to pockets and folds as this is where bed bugs will hide and lay their eggs. Sealing luggage in plastic bags and leaving them outdoors in the cold weather or garage will further ensure that any remaining bed bugs will be killed.
If it’s too late and you believe that you have bed bugs in your home, it is imperative that you call a Monmouth County, NJ pest control professional at the first sign of the bloodsucking pests. The earlier that bed bug treatment can commence, the earlier that bed bugs will be killed and therefore unable to reproduce within a home.