
Don’t Bring Home Bed Bugs From Your Vacation
Tips on preventing bed bugs from hitching a ride home from your vacation.
- It’s possible bed bugs can hitch a ride from the flight. Wrap your luggage in heavy plastic or use anti-bed-bug sleeves.
- When you arrive in the hotel take your bags directly into the bathroom where there is a tile or vinyl floor. Non-porous flooring such as tile are not bed bug friendly. This gives you time to inspect the hotel room and bedding.
- Don’t place them on luggage racks, beds for floor. Those areas could be infested with bed bugs.
- Before you start unpacking inspect the room. When inspecting start with the bed, under it, behind it and walls.
- Check the linens, mattress and it’s seams, box spring, pillows and anything connected to the beds.
- Don’t stop checking at the bed. Next check behind the headboard, night tables, carpeting, rugs and drapes. If possible check the carpeting, rugs, drapes and upholstered furniture and behind wall decor.
- Don’t toss your clothing on the floor after you wear it, and any clothing you wear while in the room should go into a plastic bag when you’re done with it.
- Before heading home you should consider washing or dry cleaning all your clothing just in-case you are carrying a few of those pests. Once done drop your clothing into plastic bags.
- Your final inspection should be your suitcase before zipping it up.

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