Isolating Your Bed

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Whether and when to isolate your bed is a big decision and somewhat controversial. Here are the reasons you may or may not want to isolate your bed. When we describe isolating your bed that typically means you have:

Inspected your bed and determined there are no bed bugs on the bed, mattress, boxspring, or frame. The best way to determine this is through the use of bed bug sniffing dogs.

Put ClimbUp Interceptor Bed Bug Traps on your bed legs to prevent bed bugs from climbing from the floor to the mattress, and you.

Moved your bed away from the wall at least 6 inches and ensured no bedding, blankets, covers or sheets are touching the wall or the floor.

Chemical treatment relies on bed bugs biting you while you are sleeping.

After feeding bed bugs can be four times heavier and makes them full and drag their bellies on the ground. This is how they get the residual pesticide on them, as they do not "groom" or lick their legs.

If you don't allow this to happen the entire process takes even longer.

If you are having chemical (Pesticide) treatment to kill bedbugs you should talk to your Pest Control Company to discuss the best time to isolate your bed.

Benefits of Using Bed Bug Traps and Isolating your Bed

You can sleep! This is a big one and hard to resist if you've had bed bugs for some time and are suffering from sleep deprivation.

Drawbacks of isolating your bed:

The bugs will still be hungry and WILL seek you out in other locations around your home. This has the potential to expand the geography of your infestation. In an early infestation, most of the bed bugs will be living on or near the bed, however there is never any guarantee they are all near the bed. They're not that smart, they can get lost.

What does isolating your bed mean?

Applying bed bug proof mattress and box spring covers. IMPORTANT: Pest professionals advise if you can only afford one encasement, cover the box spring. Underneath and inside the box spring provide bed bugs with a private and generally undisturbed place to reproduce like crazy. This doesn't mean they wouldn't also nest on your mattress piping and seams, or in your bed frame itself, they would.

Washing and drying on extended high heat all bedding and pillows. (The Packtite is perfect for heating your pillows, sofa and chair cushions and blankets to 120 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 out so you can monitor activity without reinfesting your bed.

In order to not reinfest your bed it helps to be meticulous about getting into bed freshly showered/bathed including hair every time and clean your feet thoroughly before letting them touch the bed.

Pajamas should be freshly laundered or come from a clean sealed bag.