Bed bugs are found throughout the world, they hitch themselves on peoples clothing or luggage. These bugs can latch onto a dogs fur and they are carried into ones home. Throughout Thailand many guesthouses and homes have bed bugs, shame doesn't need to be attached to this bug problem. Steam cleaning the mattress helps kill the bed bugs. Washing clothes, stuffed animals in hot water kills the bugs. Placing pillows in driers kills the bugs. Also by encasing the mattress in a cover, cheap covers do not work. A good mattress cover around $70.00 works.

Bed bugs are attracted to carbon dioxide which comes out of ones mouth at night. It is important to let fresh air into your room, the environment is less appealing to the bed bug. By spreading mint leaves on the areas where the bed bugs are living makes it unpleasant to the bed bug and it also repels it. Lavender oil is a turn off to bed bugs. Lavender sachets can be placed in closets, wardrobes or on the floor and this prevents bed bugs. Wear gloves if you decide to rub lavender oil on the bed frame, sometimes essential oils may cause health problems. By spraying the infested area with ten drops of lavender oil, eucalyptus and rosemary oil mixed with one cup of water into a spray bottle, this helps immensely. I prefer to do things naturally. The chemicals used to kill bed bugs are harmful to humans and people take it for granted that nothing will happen to them.

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Good post !

Bed bugs can be found in 5-star hotels, as well as on 3rd-class trains, and in the tropics there is no freezing-below-zero winter-season to help kill them off.

Even in colder climes, with the advent of background-heating in winter, they're becoming more common.

They're also becoming more-resistant to chemical bug-killers, just like bacteria becoming more-resistant, to antibiotics.

Apart from killing by desication, in a tumble-drier (do many people here have such things ?), one can also use sunlight/heat, to discourage/kill them in duvets/blankets/pillows. Just hang your bedding out in the sun ... it can't hurt !

Apparently a Thai friend told me there is a kind of Pine that they dislike if put under the bed. Otherwise everthing into the sunliight but they get into all the cracks in the bed so don't some may not die.

Get in the professionals would be my choice, i hate tham.

Good post. Is there anyway I can tempt you to come and treat my house for me?