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We are going to Toronto soon and the city is quite notorious for a severe bedbug problem.
I've heard that if you put flea collars in your luggage that will keep them away and I also heard of hotels successing avoiding infestation by attaching flea collars to the boxsprings.
So, do flea collars really protect from bedbugs or is this just a legend?
Total legend. Best bet is to check for bed bugs as soon as you walk into the room.
That said, you could just as easily get them when your luggage is piled into the hold of the plane or the overhead bin next to someone who has bedbugs in theirs.
I travel every week for work, and have yet to have a problem, but I do check the above mentioned web site and avoid hotels with reported bed bug problems, and try to stay in nicer business class chains in more suburban areas rather than the budget/tourist places near airports and large cities.
Also, when I get home I put my bag on the tile floor of my bathroom for a day or two--I figure it will be harder for the critters to get across the tile floor unnoticed than it would be for them to burrow into the carpet to move around.
Annerks and stepkas posts are two ways of insuring the spread of these critters.
If you have brought some home, these practices will not prevent your home from getting infested.
Just one fact to keep in mind....they can live without feeding for up to 18 months.
Heat is effective(120/130 degrees for a length of time)....cold is not....even a household freezer won't do it in any reasonable length of time.
I live in Toronto and had no clue we are "notorious for bedbugs". We actually hear about it a lot more in other cities on the news. So there's one starting point.
Annerks and stepkas posts are two ways of insuring the spread of these critters.
If you have brought some home, these practices will not prevent your home from getting infested.
Just one fact to keep in mind....they can live without feeding for up to 18 months.
Heat is effective(120/130 degrees for a length of time)....cold is not....even a household freezer won't do it in any reasonable length of time.
I never said that my method would get rid of them, just that I might notice them if I did bring some home in my luggage. Unfortunately because I travel almost every week with work, it's a chance I take. If you can think of a practical idea (sorry, my suitcase doesn't fit in my dryer ) that would insure I not ever have a problem, let me know. Until then, I do what I reasonably can to not spread them or bring them home with me.
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) that would insure I not ever have a problem, let me know. Until then, I do what I reasonably can to not spread them or bring them home with me.
