I am a property manager. I have found that the most effective way to kill bed bugs is by heating the home or apartment to 140 degrees for 24 hours. It can be dangerous though, you have to rent heaters to heat the home and keep checking to prevent a fire. It is also difficult with someone living in the home since they can have items that can be damaged by heat. I hope this helps.

My wife I found out we had bedbugs. We called an exterminator. They came and sprayed our house and we hope the problem goes away. Please stay away from hotels, movie theaters, libraries, hospitals and people's houses.

I had no problem with any kind of bugs until my oldest son moved in with his dad and then moved back in with me a couple of months later. The bed bugs came with him in his clothes, and now they are downstairs. Until I can afford the right kind of help, I vacuum beds and furniture every day, and it does seem to be less every time. I still will call and get it taken care of when I have the money. They don't bite me, but they do my kids.

The bedbugs were biting my legs from the knee down. Before going to bed I covered my legs from the knee down with a generous coating of baby oil. (Don't rub the baby oil in. Just let it set on top of your skin). During the night the bed bugs got stuck in the oil and took in the oil instead of my blood and they died. The next morning there were many bed bugs dead on my skin and in the bed. I brushed them off. It took 3 nights of coating my legs to get them all.

We went to a water park hotel Easter weekend of 2011 and didn't realize we brought home bedbugs with us until July. My poor little toddler was getting eaten alive. We burned the mattress and box spring and made sure all of our beds had bed bug rated encasements. We bug bombed our house on a regular basis and used several different sprays specified for bedbugs, and heated the rooms up to over 100 degrees for most of a day. We used lavender soap to help repel. Well it is now February, 2012, and we still have the little pests.

I got rid of my bed bugs by going to a feed store (animal) and bought Diatomaceous Earth. Sprinkled it all over and took a squeeze pointed bottle and put it all around the baseboards in my 3000 square ft home, even sprinkled it on the furniture. Will not harm you, kids or pets. Trust me it works just as long as you don't get it wet. Also, before you vacuum put some DE in it. I've had no problems and haven't seen any bugs. It is not expensive to buy.

I brought home bed bugs from a hotel in either New York or Las Vegas. After I saw one in my bed I jumped online to find a non-poisonous remedy. I have pets. After much research I ordered Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth. It came next day shipping. (well worth the money). I put it between the mattresses, under the sheets. Also, around the bed. Results are instant. I vacuumed it up a week later. bugs are gone. A little goes a long way. I bought 5lbs. I still have well over 3lbs left.

I had 14 bites in my bed but had read of a lady who used lavender essential oil to rid her family room of bed bugs. I got some, put some in small bowls under my bed, then dabbed it on the mattress, the bed rails, and my body near the bites for several days. I have never had another bite since.

I have contacted bed bugs from a motel in Belleville Ontario. I have gotten treatment from family Dr and bed and house pray from drug store was treated for a few weeks as poison ivy that just kept getting worse with a very itchy red rash and many bites all over my body. Just bought a new box spring and mattress two months before all of this. I got a few bites while at this motel and thought it was mosquito bites as we were out that night. Now we think it is all under control after treating and spaying and bleach the floors a lot of work to get under control.