If you can get bed bugs out of your bed, you can sleep again.

Climbup Insect Interceptor Bed Bug Monitor

Are Metal Beds Better?

Have you heard that bed bugs can't climb up metal beds.

This is false. Bed bugs cannot climb up perfectly smooth slick surfaces but can climb up most metal beds. They can also take harborage in the little openings missed in welding the joints. Those can be duct taped closed.

Putting the legs of a metal bed in climb-up monitors will prevent bed bugs from climbing up the legs of the bed.

How About Platform Beds?

Platform beds are the most complicated to treat next to Murphy Beds. I ended up getting rid of my platform bed as it provided too many harborages.

The bed was taken apart, dissasembled, wrapped in plastic sheeting and taken to the dump.

What does isolating your bed mean?

Applying bed bug proof mattress and box spring covers.

Having the bed professionally treated and inspected to ensure there are no bed bugs remaining on the bed.

Washing and drying on extended high heat all bedding and

pillows. (The Packtite is perfect for heating your pillows, sofa cushions, and/or blankets to 130 for 4-6 hours and killing all bugs and eggs)

Moving the bed 6 inches from the wall and any furniture.

Do not allow any blankets to touch the ground or wall.

Placing the bed legs in Climb-Up monitors to prevent bed bugs from getting up the bed legs but not allowing them to climb back out so you can monitor activity without reinfesting your bed. The monitors have talc in them which prevents the bugs from climbing out.

To avoid reinfesting your bed you must be meticulous about getting into bed freshly showered/bathed including hair, every time, and clean your feet thoroughly before letting them touch the bed.

If you are going to wear pajamas to bed they must be freshly laundered and come from a clean sealed bag.

Even if you still have bed bugs after one or two treatments, isolating your bed means you can sleep at night. Your bed can go from being a dangerous, scary place, to the safest place in your house.

It is important to note that isolating your bed means you will have very hungry bed bugs in your house. They will seek you out in other places when you are at rest.

Helpful Information

Bed bugs will bite you regardless of what you rub on your body. Neem, lavender, it doesn't matter what, they will still bite you. They are primitive beasts and want to eat, and you have the blood they want. Fragrance will not deter them.

They prefer to bite in open areas (arms, eyelids, neck) but will bite under clothes as well. They are instinctive, they are not strategists.

Do not saturate your clothes or skin in alcohol. The fumes are harmful, it will dry out your skin and evaporate and you will still get bit.

Bed bugs will bite in the day or night if they are hungry, and they are always hungry.