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Anons, help. I just found out I have bedbugs, which explains why i've been waking up itchy and my thumb was grossly swollen when I woke up. I'm throwing every piece of clothing and linen I own in the wash right now and throwing away my mattress. Then imma buy and spray everywhere some bug stuff. What else should I do? I don't think my landlord's gonna take care of this and I can't afford a treatment. My roommates are out of town so I can sleep in the living room.

Heat. Heat kills them. Throwing away the mattress and spraying won't be enough. Try to look up ways to heat a room up to high temps to bake the room to kill the ones that stick around in the bedframe.

By law in most places your landlord is required to take care of this problem. Look into legal recourse. It is impossible to get rid of bedbugs without the help of a professional exterminator. In some places you can take the cost of the exterminator out of your rent if the landlord refuses to take action. Take advantage of a free consultation with an attorney who specializes in tenant/landlord issues.

do NOT spray, spray just makes the problem worse from everything I have heard. You either need to get your landlord to handle it or get someone with experience with bedbugs

Having just escaped this problem myself, I have some good tips.

Do not use spray unless it specifically says it is for bed bugs. Otherwise, you will only make room for more bed bugs, by killing off the others.

Definitely get rid of all the fabric items in your place, as well as any cardboard. Check your books, check your shoes, throw out anything cardboard or anything that is not glass or plastic. If you have anything made of real wood, porous wood, get rid of it or put it outside for at least a year; go ahead and throw a tarp on it.

Clothing and shoes can be put in a dryer, and it must be run on high heat settings for at least fourty minutes to be safe.

By law, your landlord is required to provide a safe, clean room, so get your copy of your contract and contact them. The sooner is definitely the better. Let your roommates know as well so they can come deal with their things, because just removing it from one room is not going to end it.

Vacuum your carpet as well; God I hope you have hardwood floors or well done tiling. Also pull the faces off your outlets and check in them; if you take a black light to the corners and see something white, those are bed bug eggs.

If you find a bed bug itself, take tape to it. Wrap it up. Squish it. Throw it away.

Anything you remove from that building needs to be wrapped in plastic with no holes in it, unless it is being thrown out. Wash your hands often. Bed bugs also can hide in book bindings, so flip through all of your books as well; if you play cards of any sort, look through them as well.

Bed bugs seriously can get everywhere. Do not leave any place unturned.

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