Wellness
5 Natural Ways To Get Rid of Bedbugs From Your Home
By Kareem Azeez 20 May 2024 | 4:00 pm Bedbugs are creepy creatures, they could destroy anything and everything if not handled with utmost importance. These bloodsucking animals have a long life span and can survive several months without any blood meal, that's how dangerous they are. Though pesticides and other insect destroyers can make them weak or reduce them, some of these pesticides…
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Sunlight
Sunlight is a natural gift of nature. We can use this to wipe out bed bugs from our properties and keep our homes safe.
You can try sundrying your foams, chairs, and clothes under the sun, on weekends. This will automatically reduce all bugs, and you will see them coming out from hidden places. The essence of the sun is heat. It comes naturally and helps us preserve our house from these unneeded guests.
Hot water wash
Bed bugs can’t survive anything hot, so you can use boiled water to either wash your wears or use it to steam your furniture.
This method is less expensive but highly effective. Trying this method will not only reduce these bloodsucking animals, but it will also preserve the quality of your properties.
We use hot water to wash our clothes to remove stubborn dirt, we can also use it to take away stubborn insects that would not allow us to sleep peacefully at night.
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Thorough cleaning
Consistent and thorough cleaning can help permanently eradicate this pest. They don’t die off easily, so if you leave your clothes for more than a week after being used, then you are inviting more bugs to your home.
Heat treatment
This is considered the most effective method for eliminating bedbugs.
Professional pest control companies use specialized heaters that raise the temperature throughout your home to a level lethal to bedbugs and their eggs (typically around 140°F or 60°C).
This method ensures complete eradication throughout the entire room or house.
Kerosene and camphor
These come last, not because it is less effective, but because they will cost a bit more than the previous ways to free yourself from bedbugs.
Kerosene alone is highly effective, and will instantly kill any bedbug, adding ground camphor will only increase its effect, and will also give your home a good smell.
