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Peculiarities

Bed bug

Various types of bedbugs

They bite, most often, children and women, as their skin is thinner. They organize shelters not only in the bed, but also in the furniture that is located next to it - at the junctions of the boards, in chests of drawers with bed linen and towels, which are relatively rarely torn off.

Bed bug bites

Bed bugs inside the mattress

bedbug eggs

In addition to bedbugs, fleas can also live in bed. An animal may have 1-2 fleas, while the rest are found in upholstered furniture and bedding. You can get rid of them in the same way as bed bugs.

Fighting methods

Temperatures

But fight with bed bugs it is possible otherwise. They cannot withstand exposure to extreme temperatures.

The effect of temperature is quite effective. But it also has its drawbacks. In addition, this processing method cannot be compared in efficiency with professional processing. chemical compounds carried out by the health inspector.

Chemical compositions

Available in the format of sprays, formulations for application, powders for preparing solutions, etc. Sprays Raptor, Dichlorvos, Kombat, etc. are considered the most effective.

Concentrates are used to prepare the solution high efficiency Executioner, Sinuzan, Karbafos, Lambda Zone, Delta Zone, Get. The solution is prepared according to the instructions and applied with a spray, cloth, sponge or brush.

Video

A person thinks about the presence of a hanger-on in the house only after bites on the body, which are on initial stage can be confused with allergies.

• fleas;
• ticks;
• lice;
• bedbugs.

domestic fleas

• Wash bed linen in washing machine at a temperature of 90 ° C, or better, boil.
• Iron the dried laundry with an iron, be sure to use steam.
• Pillows, duvets and mattresses should be dry-cleaned.
• If the item cannot be washed, treat it with insecticidal preparations.

Bed bug

• For the isolation of enzymes from saliva.
• For swallowing blood.

A large bug with a red and round body has recently drunk blood. Hungry - smaller, flattened body, grayish-brown color. He is very active, quickly climbs to the ceiling and from there falls on a sleeping person.

Bed bug diet

When deciding who to attack, the bug will first of all choose a host with delicate skin - a child, then a woman, and then a man. Place of nutrition - open areas of the body without clothing and hairline. The bug feeds every 10 days, drinking about 7 ml of blood. In search of skin areas with a blood vessel located in the penetration zone accessible to his proboscis, he can make a chain of bites, which then become inflamed. Bedbugs do not spread diseases, but for people prone to allergies, their attacks can cause Quincke's edema, anaphylactic shock.

The linen bug easily adapts to any adverse conditions. Carrying out etching measures in apartment buildings leads to the migration of individuals in whole colonies to a safe territory, then the bug can return to previously developed places.

• from neighbors from other apartments;
• with things brought from a business trip;
• with the purchase of things and household items in the secondary market.

Where is he hiding?

• under the mattresses of the beds
• under linoleum;
• in frames of upholstered furniture;
• under skirting boards;
• between old books;
• V household appliances;
• under the carpet;
• in old sockets;
• behind the pictures.

Ways to fight

In order for the bug not to settle in the house, it is necessary to create poor conditions for its habitat. If he accidentally gets into the apartment, he will not be able to actively breed and leave the home if:

• Regularly wipe the floors, adding vinegar, ammonia, essential oils with persistent odours.
• Bring chamomile, wormwood, mint, tansy into the house. Lay out bunches of these plants in places where insects are supposed to live.

• Treatment of the room with the use of a steam generator. High temperatures kill bedbug larvae and adults.

• Chemical insecticidal treatments of the premises are carried out in 2 stages, with a break of 2 weeks.

bed mite

Insect characteristics

A dust mite enters the house with the help of a person. An adult can bring it on clothes after a trip in public transport, from a hairdresser. The child is from kindergarten. The tick settles on the fur of pets during walks.

Presence symptoms

• bronchial asthma;
• scabies;
• allergic rash;
• atopic dermatitis;
• sore throat;
• dry cough;
• frequent headaches.

Prevention

• Change bedding every week.
• Clean your home with disinfectant chemicals.
• Iron linen, towels, pajamas.
• Replace old pillows stuffed with feathers with new ones with a different stuffing material.
• Do not allow dust to accumulate near the bed, often carry out wet cleaning.
• Wash carpets.
• Vacuum and clean all upholstered furniture in the house.
• Carry out regular ventilation of the premises.
• Remove bedding from time to time Fresh air, in winter - in frost, in summer - in places of baking by the sun's rays.
• Decorate your home with tansy and wormwood flowers, their smells repel dust mites.

A dust mite gets into a house with a person. It can be brought on clothes after a trip on public transport or going to the hairdresser. During walks, a dust mite can cling to the fur of a pet.

Signs of presence

To determine the presence of conduct special medical tests. Allergies can be fully cured only if all insects are destroyed in the house with the help of a high-quality dust mite remedy.

The waste products of the tick can provoke the development of the following pathologies:

• Bronchial asthma.
• A sore throat.
• Scabies.
• Allergic rash.
• Dry cough.
• Atopic dermatitis.
• Headache is frequent.

These insects can also carry infectious diseases, even such as plague, typhoid, tularemia.

Prevention of dust mites

Fleas in the apartment

• on dogs;
• cats;
• birds;
• rodents.

Description of the insect

An adult reaches 0.5 mm in length. The oral apparatus of the insect has a piercing-sucking structure, the body is flattened on the sides. It is almost impossible to beat an individual with cotton.

Fleas are localized in small cracks and cracks, behind skirting boards and wallpaper, under carpets, floors, near pet beds and bins.

These insects are characterized by high fecundity, so they can significantly increase their population in a minimum period of time. Their bites are painful and unpleasant.

Removing all pests from the house is quite simple. The main thing is to prevent their re-settlement. If there are pets in the house, it is advisable to wear special anti-flea collars on them.

Lice

When bitten by a person prone to allergies, a rash occurs on the body. It can develop into purulent formations - ulcers, boils and even pyoderma. These insects can carry typhus and relapsing fever, so it's important to know how to get rid of lice.

So, how to remove lice?

1. All bed linen should be washed in a washing machine at 90°C. Boiling is ideal.
2. Dried linen must be ironed. Use steam for this.
3. The mattress, pillow and duvet must be taken to the dry cleaners.
4. Items that cannot be washed should be treated with special chemicals.
5. Upholstered furniture and carpets also need to be treated with insecticides.

Bed bug

• under the mattress
• in the cracks of furniture;
• behind the carpet.

The insect has a flat body 4-8 mm long. The size of the bug may increase depending on the filling of the nutrient tract. The females are also larger than the males.

The surface of the body has characteristic notches that allow the individual to move quickly even along the ceiling. On the head there is a small proboscis, with which the insect pierces human skin. There are 2 canals in the jaw:

• for the release of enzymes along with saliva;
• swallowing blood.

Hungry bugs climb to the ceiling and from there fall on a sleeping person. These insects feed only on human blood. In exceptional situations, they can "feast" on the blood of pets: dogs, cats, rodents, birds. Such food can only support their livelihoods. In this case, the larvae do not develop, and adults do not reproduce.

For normal life, the bug needs to drink blood once every ten days. He drinks about seven milliliters of blood. Trying to find a suitable area of ​​​​skin with a blood vessel, the bug makes a series of bites. They get inflamed and itchy.

Bedbugs are not carriers of various diseases. But they are dangerous for people prone to allergies. Such bites can cause the development of Quincke's edema.

The process of metabolism in bedbugs can be suspended for a period of lack of nutrition. If the hunger strike lasts about a month, the insect enters a state of suspended animation. If necessary, it can last up to two years. At the same time, if eggs were formed in the body of the female, she can extract nutrients from them.

As soon as the bug smells human body, his vitality returns and he immediately attacks. After the first blood supply to the body, it returns to its former life.

Bed bugs multiply at an incredible rate and lay their eggs in the most secluded corners of the apartment and even in household appliances.

Way to deal with bedbugs

You should take care of preventive measures that will prevent bed bugs from entering the house. But if the individual has already penetrated, then unfavorable conditions must be created for it. In this case, the bug will not be able to actively multiply and quickly leave this housing. So:

• It is necessary to regularly carry out wet cleaning of the floor, adding essential oils, ammonia, vinegar, etc. to the water.
• In places where insects may live, bunches of plants can be decomposed: tansy, mint, wormwood.

Mosquitoes enter the house through open doors and windows. After the bites of these annoying insects, itchy pimples remain on the body. They often flow into allergic edema, to which children are especially prone. Mosquitoes can also carry infectious diseases when they bite. Therefore, you need to choose the right remedy to deal with. Today in stores you can find special fumigators, aroma sticks, stickers, aerosols and creams that repel these insects.

Only females feed on blood.

Often, mosquitoes live in large numbers in wetlands. Often they live in basements and storerooms, where there is coolness and humidity. From there, they enter apartments.

cockroaches

Cockroaches are known to many who have ever lived in a hostel. Unwashed dishes, lack of hygiene, uncleaned food remains - these are the main reasons for the reproduction and habitat of these harmful insects.

But sometimes cockroaches appear in houses where cleanliness is observed. They enter the house through:

• cellars;
• ventilation holes;
• attics;
• cracks in baseboards;
• from nearby catering establishments;
• from garbage dumps.

These unpleasant insects can be easily brought from a business trip.

As soon as the cockroach has settled in the house, he chooses cozy place- kitchen. It's warm, humid, and there's plenty of food. Most often in this room, insects hide behind the baseboards and gas stove, in the slots of the hood, in furniture.

They can also be found in living rooms. They often hide under mattresses, in closets, behind paintings and baseboards, under carpets and in household appliances.

Cockroaches are unpleasant to people not only because of the specific smell and unaesthetic appearance. They are also carriers of dangerous diseases, because they come into contact with waste products that have already disappeared. These insects can cause the development of tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis, poliomyelitis, gastroenteritis.

Harmless, at first glance, insects can bite painfully. Children often suffer from them.

Cockroach bites, their excrement, dead shell particles can cause a serious allergic reaction.

• "Raptor";
• "Dichlorvos";
• "Dohlox";
• crayons;
• trap containers;
• ointments;
• creams.

In the fight against cockroaches can also help and folk remedies based on boric acid:

• 200 g of borax powder is mixed with starch, vanilla and powdered sugar. This mixture is diluted to a doughy state with water.
• Boric acid is mixed with pre-cooked yolk. This mixture is rolled into balls of small diameter and laid out in places where insects often appear. Also boric acid you can process the sink and toilet. The use of water from these containers will lead to the death of insects.

Interesting to know

Some species can already be identified by one specific bite, but still it is better to look at the bloodsucker with your own eyes.

In truth, our waste and crumb lovers, cockroaches, can also get into bed, but this is rare. With a lack of moisture, redheads and mustaches can gnaw at the epithelium in the lip area on a person.

Bed bugs and their lifestyle

These are the largest bloodsuckers in our beds. Below you can see bedbugs. They will present something like this picture if you suddenly turn on the light at night and look into your bed.

Bed bugs also place their nests closer to humans. Below in the photo is a cluster of eggs and adults right in the sofa.

Review

We are a clean family and have never encountered bed bugs. And then in the mornings, like a bolt from the blue, bites began to be discovered. And this is in winter! At night, they woke up on purpose and found a bug right in their bed. Terrible, such a creature! Nasty, greasy and smelly! You may not believe it, but I even moved to my mother for a while, while my husband dealt with this there. Some experts called, processed. Now I still check every day.

Lilia, Yekaterinburg

Any bug, be it a larva or an adult, should drink blood at least once. Small ones need it for development, large ones for population growth. The only thing they can eat is human blood. They pierce the skin with their trunk, and make their way to blood vessel. Sometimes in the morning you can find bloody footprints on the sheets. This is a sign that a person, tossing and turning in a dream, crushed a bug with his body.

This is interesting

Bed bugs are nocturnal. During the day you will not meet them casually walking around the apartment, they carefully hide behind carpets, under the upholstery of a mattress, in cabinet furniture, behind paintings, skirting boards, etc. Their hunt for man begins late at night about two or three hours.

If you disassemble a bed or sofa completely, you can find their nests, which do not have any structure. They are hideous clusters of eggs, larvae and adults.

What are the consequences of a bedbug bite

Like most bites, bedbugs are the usual reddish spots on the skin with a trace from the inserted proboscis. Most often, the bug leaves a kind of series of such bites (3-7 pieces each). If you distinguish such a path on your body, know that bedbugs bite you!

With a large infection or sensitivity of a person to his bites, an allergy may develop. Children are at risk of developing anemia. Eruptions from bites are too plentiful, and in some cases can fester. This causes a lot of discomfort.

Bed bugs are clear carriers of many infectious diseases through their bites, but there are no reported cases of transmission of hepatitis and HIV infection.

How to defeat bedbugs

There are only two ways to get rid of bed bugs:

Those who want to save money can try to withdraw them on their own, but do not forget that this does not save you time and effort. And if you are contacting companies, it is important not to run into scammers, carefully study the documents and first read the reviews about it.

If you notice bed bugs in your sofa, keep in mind that they can be frozen. But you need a temperature below -20 degrees. You will take out the furniture and freeze it outside. But, unfortunately, the method is not always effective, since bedbugs often hide in other places in the room.

Just like frost, you can kill an insect with heat. This requires a temperature of plus 50 and above. It can be achieved with the help of thermal fans for industrial use, observing safety measures.

How to deal with fleas

This is interesting

Fleas and their owners - rats in the Middle Ages caused the spread of the plague, as a result of which almost a third of Europe died out.

Their bites are incredibly similar to bedbug bites and can also be in the form of a chain. It is not difficult to notice fleas on light-colored linen, but it is not so easy to catch them. They jump fast and not every person can react.

They should be destroyed in two stages: first at the animal-distributor, then throughout the room.

You need to poison fleas indoors with the same means as for bedbugs, but for your pet, the veterinarian will advise the remedy.

Lice

Lice in your bed is rare. They spend their whole lives in the hairy part of the head. They are rather clumsy and slow, so any fall from their hair can be fatal for them. They constantly need blood, and having fallen down, it is already impossible for them to climb to the source of food.

As we have already said, they spend their whole lives on the head, or on the pubis of a person. There are also underwear species, but they are not so common now. Basically, they are amazed by the homeless and tramps, who do not change or wash their clothes for a long time.

Lice bites are not as painful as those of the same fleas or bedbugs. But they can also cause a lot of discomfort with their itching.

Review

Elena, Arzamas

Can a cockroach bite at night?

It is unlikely that a cockroach will attack a person. It is much more interesting for him how many crumbs and leftovers of other food are in the kitchen. Only in some cases, when their population has increased enormously or there is not enough water, they can crawl into bed and gnaw on the surface of the skin of the lips or near the nose. By the way, in hostels such cases take place to be more often. For some reason, cockroaches are especially attracted to children. Probably because the skin is more delicate.

As you can see, these insects do not suck our blood and their bites are not at all like flea or bedbug bites.

Be that as it may, the bite of any of the above insects should be treated. To reduce the itching risk of infection with any disease:

1. Wash the bite site with soap
2. Treat with alcohol, propolis or calendula tincture
3. Spread with gel type Fenistil.

But only if after a bite a person has an undesirable reaction (headache, fever, strange rashes), you should not hesitate and consult a doctor. Allergy to bites can be different for everyone. And even if the symptoms are not too severe now, things can become more serious in the future.

They can be located near a person's sleeping place. Very often they form a nest under the mattress, in the sofa. The most inventive bed bugs build nests anywhere in the bedroom. Bed bug infestation occurs in several ways:

• with purchases from the store;
• with parcels;
• gifts;
• from neighbors;
• a person himself brings to his home from an infected room.

To pick up a bug, you need to go to an overnight stay in an infected place. Daytime poses less danger.

You can get rid of bed bugs using the temperature method - they are afraid of both frost and intense heat, using modern insecticide-based means. Or call the SES staff. It is quite difficult to get rid of a heavily contaminated room by independent efforts.

bed mite

• intractable atopic dermatitis;
• sore throat, dry cough, rhinitis without signs of disease;
• headache, weakness;
• an increase in asthma attacks.

It is completely impossible to get rid of bed mites. It is in the power of man to reduce the amount to a less dangerous one. Pillows are taken out in the sun, frost, bed linen is washed at high temperature, iron with steam. Pillows are dry-cleaned once a year. Or they are replaced with products made from bamboo fibers, synthetic. Ticks can be found anywhere. Infection occurs quickly, the surest way is overnight.