Having bed bugs in your home is not an easy feat. While having bedbugs is not a synonym of dirtiness nor neglect of your home and overall health and sanitary behavior, for many it is still a disgraceful event that causes both shame and embarrassment.
Once you realize that you have one individual, the time to take action begins. The sooner you prevent this individual to gather with more or lay eggs, the sooner you can get rid of both the problem and the potential infestation.
Why can’t I treat my problem myself?
There are many products in the market are more than suitable for the extermination of bed bugs. Many of these are safe enough to be applied by the homeowner himself with no additional knowledge, experience or equipment. Sadly, while most of these do work, they have a brief success span; this means it is quite feasible for a few individuals or eggs to go unharmed and this will cause a new infestation.
There are other commercial products that are indeed very good and that they can be applied also with a minimal amount of equipment and by people who lack experience. These products are excellent and do the work; the problem lies in the lack of experience from those who apply them.
Their lack of experience will provide a safe heaven for bedbugs to lie hidden and let the effect of the bedbug killer diminish. In other cases, this lack of experience will miss on laid eggs and the result will be the same as in the first case…
Finally, there is one last kind of bedbug killing products in the market. These are indeed sold to the public even though they should not. These products are highly efficient but, at the same time, they are very dangerous for both humans and pets.
These products do require special equipment and it would be recommendable to have both experience and knowledge. Nonetheless, the places where they are sold rarely make comments or notes on the matter.
As a clear consequence, people who buy these products end up applying them in their homes without the proper care or training and can cause serious health issues, sickness and even death to the residents of the home, be that they may be humans, pets or even plants.
But some of them do work, right?
Some products that you can buy in any of the home-related products, gardening and insecticides work. Some of them are better than others and there are those that are plain duds.
Since there is no real way to make sure that any individual spotted in your home has “just walked in” and that “it has laid no eggs around”, the safest way to tackle a noticed individual is to spray your home yourself as a first countermeasure.
It is advisable though that once you have tried and failed, approach the specialist.
When to approach a specialist?
The decision should and is always yours. For some people the best time to call them is at first sight. They do not trouble themselves with the application of any insecticide when they see a bed bug crawling around in their home. They just find a specialist and have them deal with the potential problem.
In the aftermath, they will randomly spray their house with insecticide to prevent new infestations. Others prefer to wait and see if their labor yielded fruit and there is no new bed bug sighting in their home; if there is, then that is the time for them to call the specialist.
So it is entirely up to you when to call the specialist.
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