Sleep Tight: The Bed Bug Epidemic is Real (2009)

Experts say we are seeing a bed bug infestation at an epidemic proportion in the US. Homes, hotels/motels, college dorms, cruise ships, even taxis and aircraft have reported bed bugs. While they were essentially wiped out in America years ago, the parasites have made a big comeback by hitching rides in the suitcases or clothing of world travelers and have now firmly made a comeback. They have been reported coast to coast in the US including Hawaii.

To combat the pest, many pest control companies are spraying toxic chemicals into bedrooms and directly onto your bedding. But the reality is that these poisons only work if they are applied directly to bed bugs and their eggs -- something virtually impossible to do in one or sometimes multiple treatments. Why knowingly put poison chemicals into your home and onto the bedding of you and your children?

Fortunately, there's a new, healthy and green method to kill bed bugs and their eggs 100% of the time and with only a single treatment: heat. It also disinfects the structure much like pasteurization.

Don't believe the chemical pushers: heat won't hurt your home or your belongings. When properly applied by a licensed ThermaPureHeat technician, sensitive objects are either covered and protected with thermal insulating blankets or removed completely from the heated areas.

The following video shows how this patented process -- ThermaPureHeat (www.thermapure.com)-- works.

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Science & Technology

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• bedbug
• bed
• bug
• thermapure
• hedman
• heat
• pesticide
• infra-red

[wxyzca2000]

C-I-L Tomahawk (tm)brand Kills those little bastards !

[nickthompson44]

@wxyzca2000 Home pesticide sprays can work with direct contact to bed bugs. But here's the problem. MANY bed bugs and their eggs are hidden in cracks and crevices and even inside walls. The sprays won't ever reach them and you'll just have a bed bug problem arise again. Plus, do you really want to spray pesticide on your bed? Heat is the only treatment that works to kill bed bugs and their eggs throughout a structure in a single treatment.

[nickthompson44]

@clairishe Now, let's talk about cost. Heat treatments are more expensive initially than pesticides. It's true. The material and labor is more expensive to provide. That said, if pesticide treatments don't work and you have to repeat them, what money have you saved? Also, very often, people need to replace their mattresses/bedding rather than spray pesticides all over it. Add in that cost too, and you're not that far apart.

[nickthompson44]

@clairishe Thanks for your comment. Store-bought pesticides will also work if sprayed directly onto a bed bug. The problem is that if you've got bed bugs in a structure, most of the bugs cannot be seen. So, killing a few visible bugs is like stopping a gushing wound with a band-aid. It won't work.

[clairishe]

@kw0s Diatomaceous Earth can be effective when combined properly with other strategies, but unfortunately many brands of Diatomaceous Earth are not effective because the silica particles are not small/fine enough to scratch the shell of a bedbug. Only the finest grades of Diatomaceous Earth will kill bedbugs. It is difficult to find Diatomaceous Earth of this quality and it is becoming rarer and rarer with time since Diatomaceous Earth is a finite resource that comes from extinct organisms.

[clairishe]

@nickthompson44

Thermapure is a great technology and has advantages over chemicals, but to say that alcohol does not work at all is simply a lie. Isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) at 90% concentration will kill bedbugs as long as it comes in direct contact with them. It will not kill eggs and it will not kill with the fumes only liquid contact. I have first hand experience with this so I know what i'm talking about. The biggest problem with thermal is that its massively expensive.

[nickthompson44]

@crawhip2 According to a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, bed bug bites should be considered a possible cause of iron-deficiency anemia in people who have signs of severe bedbug infestation.

[crawhip2]

@nickthompson44

Some sites claim that they probably cause anemia, is this true?

[nickthompson44]

@XximaproxX Sadly, they would do just fine -- even in the winter. And here's why. While the outside temperatures on a cold winter's day would be enough to kill them, they don't live outside. They live in your home...all throughout the home...and will migrate to where it's nice and warm. They don't just live on your bed, they live in the cracks and crevices of your home, including light sockets, behind picture frames, in wall joists and even inside electronics.

[XximaproxX]

how would these suckers do up north say southeastern wisconsin? wouldent the cold kill them in winter?