06-27-2024, 10:09 PM
The only thing that works to kill bed bugs reliably is heat. You absolutely need to heat treat everything before it enters your house and the hot car suggestion is a great one.
If you didn't open your bags at the hotel, you might be able to get away with just your clothing and the outsides of your luggage getting to 125. If this happened to me, I would buy black trash bags and a couple of new outfits/socks/a pair of shoes, head to a rest area or gas station bathroom, change and bag what you're wearing, and leave it sealed in the car along with your suitcases for as long as you can. Once you are at a new hotel, shower in the hottest water you can handle and change into another new outfit. Bag the first one and put it in the car.
When your trip is over, I'd wash and dry everything on hot and leave everything not washable in a hot car for as long as you can before bringing it into the house.
My sister ended up with bedbugs from renting an apartment in an infested multi-unit building. After months of fighting them, she ended up having to pack all of her belongings into a truck and take it to a facility that heat treated everything before moving into a new house.
If you didn't open your bags at the hotel, you might be able to get away with just your clothing and the outsides of your luggage getting to 125. If this happened to me, I would buy black trash bags and a couple of new outfits/socks/a pair of shoes, head to a rest area or gas station bathroom, change and bag what you're wearing, and leave it sealed in the car along with your suitcases for as long as you can. Once you are at a new hotel, shower in the hottest water you can handle and change into another new outfit. Bag the first one and put it in the car.
When your trip is over, I'd wash and dry everything on hot and leave everything not washable in a hot car for as long as you can before bringing it into the house.
My sister ended up with bedbugs from renting an apartment in an infested multi-unit building. After months of fighting them, she ended up having to pack all of her belongings into a truck and take it to a facility that heat treated everything before moving into a new house.