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Home » Reader question » Reader question: How do you see if there are bed bugs in your hotel room?
Dear readers,
It may be a strange question, but who knows how to see in advance whether there are budbugs (bed bugs) in the room?
And if you didn't see them when checking the room, how do you avoid taking them with you in your luggage/clothing to the next hotel/guesthouse or to your home in the Netherlands?
I'm curious about the answer.
With kind regards,
jacqueline
Then you have to look very closely, usually they find out by accident that there are bed bugs in the bed, and it is quite an operation to remove them, usually the entire hotel room is turned upside down and chemically cleaned.
It may just be that there is never a problem, but that 1 traveler leaves them behind and then the lazer begins. Have read somewhere that it does occur regularly in backpacker hotels or hostels, so probably if you stay in some better hotels, the chance that you will encounter them is smaller.
Reportedly ??? do these bed bugs approach the woman and leave the male bed companion alone…
Sleep well
Hi Jacqueline,
I don't think you can really see the critters themselves. You can check the bedding for blood stains, if there are any, that could mean they are there.
I also always put my clothes in my vacuum bags before I go to sleep. At least they can't get in there. Well in your backpack maybe, but it's something.. I think closing my pockets has been my salvation, because it didn't bother me anymore after I got a good graze.
Douwe
I buy at seven eleven or familymarkt, a spray can for pest killers,
cockroaches etc,
And spray my bed with it in the wardrobe, etc., close the door and leave the room, when I return, just throw open the covers, and never any problems, I don't know if it works because I don't see any bed bugs, but precaution is better,
Regards Han
Jacqueline,
Take a look at google, there you will find all the information about bed bugs, bud bugs, bed bugs.
They are very unfriendly critters and are very difficult to combat. But there are resources.
Timo
Unfortunately, I have had the misfortune to encounter the bedbug twice. The first time in Bali, this by the way in an excellent hotel. After being punctured for a few days, I discovered that bugs/bugs unknown to me were crawling under my sheets at night. As I suddenly turned on the light and removed the sheet, I saw about ten of them in the bed, reported this to reception and moved to another room the same night. I still didn't know what kind of insect it was. I took a specimen with me to the Netherlands and my doctor recognized it as a bed bug. The same thing happened to me in April 2013 in a nice hotel in Cha Am. Neat clean room but noticed that I was bitten in bed. And yes, hit again. Animal in a napkin, taken to reception and another room. Nicely resolved. Conclusion: checking the hotel room for bed bugs has no effect, the bug family hides in cavities in the wood of the bed, baseboards, etc. By the time the guest is asleep, they emerge for the meal.
Only remedy: after being stung and in doubt about a mosquito or bed bug, switch on the light during the night's sleep and immediately remove the sheets from you. If there are bed bugs you will see them immediately!
Gert
It is difficult to determine 'in advance' whether there are bed bugs somewhere. If you already know which room they have in mind for you, you can send an exploratory expedition ahead.
If you find bed bugs when you are already in the room, the room and everything in it will have to be professionally disinfected. Then you immediately go to another hotel of course.
If there are no bed bugs, or if things have been properly disinfected, you don't take bed bugs elsewhere.
Bedbugs are very annoying, but they don't transmit any diseases. Any scratched wounds can be treated preventively with histamine.
I wouldn't worry about it beforehand. You will encounter potentially more dangerous animals.
If you want to keep an eye on whether there are bed bugs during your stay, you can consider purchasing a bed bug detector.
http://www.ongediertewinkel.nl/bedwants-detector.html
Dear Jacqueline,
Years ago I made a whole study about the behavior of bed bugs/bed bugs. Well, after a few months of that study, I did research in different hotels, from expensive 5 stars to basic lodgings. And not only in Asia, but on different parts of the world.
It turns out that these creatures are very curious, and they mainly want to know the correct time.
It sounds strange, but if you place the old-fashioned alarm clock on the bed shelf, one of those that you have to wind up, they will come to it. You can press them very easily with your flat nail. Another good tip: they love those fluorescent hands that glow green in the dark. So don't light up that blue.
Good luck,
Peer
Bed bug is actually a wrong name for the animal
originally they are called bedbugs but it is not a louse it is a bug
Because it lives near your bed, it has been given the name bed bug
Chemical control of the bed bug is very difficult as the animal can go 90 days without food (blood) without any problem
Pesticides usually break down within 30 days, so after 30 days the creature happily emerges and starts your blood dinner
If you want to know whether the animal is present in your temporary sleeping space, remove the sheet from the mattress and check the seams of the mattress!!!! also inspect carefully at the head of the bed on the wall and on the frame of the bed for the presence of the speck that sometimes walks but usually looks like black fluff, unless the black fluff has enjoyed a blood meal from the bed the day before. previous guest then he is dark brown and stuffed and is not interested in you as he has been under the tiles for 90 days.
The bedbug is attracted to the temperature difference in the room and your exhalation temperature, so being a male or female has no influence
Usually, after the bed bug has eaten its meal, the female human has a kind of inflammation similar to a mosquito bite but then many times larger simply because she is more allergic than the male human
If she goes to the doctor, in 90% of the cases he will think of an allergy instead of a bed bug bite
What can you do to prevent bites? Unfortunately there is no other hotel
You can go looking and if you find them, crush them to death, but nothing guarantees that you've got them all
You can always take it home and then the "fun" really starts, just try to get rid of it
The only proven method is to have your house heated completely to min. 60 degrees for 4 days, then the bugs but also their eggs are really a thing of the past
Until you get a box that etc etc etc.
PS
In New York it is illegal to sell second hand mattresses
hotels from cheap to the most expensive have problems with bed bugs there
This to indicate how big the problem is, the bath bug is actually the new cockroach that people first had such a problem with, but after inventing the now widely used cockroach gel, that animal is now more or less under control