I once worked in a hostel that encountered a bedbug infestation and I can tell you it's no joke. If you really want to get rid of them in a singular building you have to clear the building, spray it, leave it unoccupied for a few days to a week, then check again for any signs of eggs and possibly spray again. Herein lies the problem: most businesses that rely on a constant flow of customers like hotels, cinemas etc. can't afford to completely shut down for a few days, and they only partially spray rooms at a time. And then again you might get completely rid of them and a month later a guest brings a new infestation on their clothes.
Bed bugs can hide in wood crevice's in furniture and bed frames for 6 months without feeding. They also started a comeback in America 15 years ago. It doesn't a person's social status or wealth as they get into the most luxurious of hotels and homes.
@@The-Great-Brindian Yeah a big part of the problem is that people reuse things they find or buy second hand more & more. Bedbugs isn't even the only problem you can get from that.
My upstairs neighbor did that. He was a hoarder and picked things up outside. His apartment was ground zero and the entire building ended up infested. He was not allergic so he get bites. When the building manager went in there, he said there were hundreds under his mattress.
Definitely. In the US most of our buses are hard surfaces for ease of cleaning, but some busses still use padding like the longer distance express busses. 😬
10 years ago I stayed in a hotel that about an hour after I turned out the lights I had this incredibly uncomfortable feeling so I quickly turned on the light. I saw a couple bugs on the wall. I looked behind the headboard and found more. Looked on the edges of the bed and there were tons. I placed my suitcase on the bathroom counter. Took a very hot shower ... blew dry my hair. Kept the lights on all night. Left as soon as possible. When I got home I left my suitcase outside way away from the house. Took my clothes off outside ... ran to my shower and took the hottest shower and blew dry my hair. Lice and bed bugs cannot survive heat.
I did. I removed the blankets and top sheet ... made sure there were no bugs on the sheets wrapped her up in the top sheet ... kept all of the lights on and watched her sleep making sure nothing crawled on her all night. She got the same shower at the hotel and when we got home.
They can survive upto 60degrees Celsius, a temperature that human skin cannot bear. So, most probably they were washed away during the steamy baths you took.
I was an Integrated Pest Management specialist in bed bug eradication and it's no joke. They hide in your CD players, your remote controls, all furniture, wall plugs especially, closets, boxes and clothing. For a six month infestation, with cooperation with the client, it will take approx 30 days and three treatments to eradicate them. Which means that if you live in the same place you're killing them have to basically live out of clear plastic bags for a month. You have to be careful who you visit because you can infest another person's home- which is why people don't discuss it, the shame factor and the same goes for other people who come from an infestation. These are really the most tenacious, time consuming and costly pests to get rid of. When checking into a hotel, the FIRST THING you must do upon entering the room is to place all your luggage in the bath tub (dry) or shower while you turn up the mattress. You'll want to look under the mattress in the folds of the seams near the head and at the foot. You are looking for thousands of tiny dark brown specks, their feces and dried blood. These spots will be in groups, you may not see the hundreds of actual bed bugs. Bed bugs have five growth stages and the smallest is barely seen without a flashlight. If you see this, grab your things and go to the desk and report it immediately. You may not want to stay because they travel between the walls into adjacent rooms. You will find them in airplanes, cargo holds of the plane, movie theaters, buses, trains, restaurants, sofas in cafes. They are attracted to carbon dioxide, your breath and high blood sugar if you're diabetic, while you are sleeping and they come out to feed nocturnally, usually around your legs. Their characteristic bites are in 3's, usually in a line- we call them the "breakfast, lunch & dinner bites." The most effective and least costly is to use a chemical sprayer and get the chemical specifically for bed bugs, diatomacious earth powder that needs to be put in a "bellow" squeezer with an aperture that gets the earth into crevices and plastic containers sold to hold a pesticide gel that emits vapors- use these in the plastic bags where you keep your clothing. You will need to coat the legs of your bed, tables and chairs with petroleum jelly so they cannot use the legs to climb up into beds, tables & chairs. You'll need to treat the entire apartment three times every ten days. My advice- stay away from bed bug high traffic areas. I've successfully treated apartments while occupied and the hardest job is getting the occupants to comply with keeping their belongings in CLEAR plastic bags- clear so you can see if bugs are in there. Your purse, wallet, cel phone, keys, anything with a hold or crevice they will hide in- guaranteed.
Very informative. I wonder why they made a comeback? I believe it was rare at one time. I've also heard that high heat is blown into a building to eradicate them.
The part about using petroleum jelly around the legs of your bed only somewhat deters them because they've been found to climb up on the ceiling and then fall onto the bed. They're very determined for sure.
Honestly I'm glad this is making international news. I'm hoping it will make the national and local governments do much more than what they're doing now
There is something they can do and that is to stop people from travelling. Once they've done that they can start fighting the bed bugs in their cities, it will be pointless if people keep traveling this much.
@@MaliekCannon-tk4xm WTF ???? NYC have had those for YEARS ! Paris isn't the problem, bedbugs were brought by the tourists so the tourists are the problem. 😒
Living in a bedbug-infested hostel was traumatic, and I can't imagine the distress of living in a city infested by these pests. My thoughts and best wishes go out to the people of Paris.
Why is that green woman laughing? Studies insects, tell us something we don't know, useless and laughing. Bedbugs ARE NOT A JOKE AND NO ONE SHOULD BE GOING TO PARIS IF THERE IS AN OUTBREAK
I live in Paris Montmartre, no problems for me, didn't encounter any, same for my friends, it's always always media making it appear far worse about everything...😂... Like the riots cuz of nahel death by police shooting at him.. France is burning blablabla lmao nobody's life were affected by that "riots France is burning" bullshyte
It's incredible people are so ignorant about bedbugs. You should NEVER travel anywhere if you have bedbugs in your house, for one. That horrible irresponsible. About hotels, I was wonderings the same thing the British guy mentioned in the end. Hotels should be LEGALLY obligated to take preventative measures and practices to stop these foul insects from spreading all over.
Treating is extremely expensive plus as soon as you finally got rid of them, another customer contaminates the area again. What you're asking is companies to go bankrupt.
If you wake up with an itchy bump that looks like a pimple. It's a bedbug bites. A pimple doesn't develop overnight. Some even become infected. So be careful.
I live in Toronto, Canada, and have had bed bugs in 3 different apartments that I stayed at! Gotta say the psychological side effects are long term and very real, because my current place also experienced an outbreak and it's been so difficult to fall asleep at night knowing this.
Let me tell you,.. I woke up one night. I just happened to pull the blanket off of me there was sooooooooo many of them.. they was about to have a whole thanks giving on me.. I jumped up and stayed in the bathroom the rest of the night.. that morning I went home. You will never be the same after dealing with bed bugs.
@@Itsoktoloveyourself OMG SAME I could relate to you sm it happened to me as well. But sadly its so hard to get rid of them my bed still has bedbugs, I did everything, letting my bed and mattresses cooked in the heat of sun, it'd get rid of most of them but since its an infestation they'd return in like half a month. At this point I had just given up its so tiresome.
My complete sympathies. I dealt with bedbugs in the apartment I lived in Vancouver in the early 2000s. These pests are horrible to manage and they can make life very difficult.
I encountered bed bugs once when I stayed in an Air-Bnb in Amsterdam. My gf and I arrived there completely knackered, after a bike ride of 120km with luggage in the Summer heat. At around midnight, while I was sitting on my bed and planing next day's bike route, I noticed those insects in the wall. I didn't know what they where but after I killed a bunch of them I noticed that one contained red blood. Then it dawned on me that this must be bed bugs. I was grossed out and tried to kill every bug I saw. The idea of going to sleep in that room and potentially infesting our luggage with bed bugs gave me shivers! At 2AM I contacted AirBnB and told them about the incident, while my gf was on the phone calling the nearest hotels. At 3AM and dead tired, we left the air bnb and rode to the Hotel, where we washed the clothes that we had been wearing and spread out and inspected all our belongings for bed bugs. Found around 5 more. Next day, our first stop was the laundry, where we washed all our stuff with hot water. Half a day wasted, but fortunately never saw a bed bug again!
On another note, I was on a plane from the mainland to Hawaii and there was a woman with extremely thick hair in a bun sitting right in front of me and the amount of LICE she had crawling in and out of her hair on the back of her neck was just absolutely insane that I asked if I could be moved, I just pointed at the lady's head when the hostess quietly asked why...
You CAN be highly allergic to the toxins in their saliva. I rented a flat in NYC 13 years ago and they didn’t even know there was an infestation until I got there because I unfortunately am one of those rare people who are highly allergic. I had sores on my legs that looked like termite mounds it was a jarring and traumatizing experience. It took 9 years for the intensive scarring to finally fade from my legs 😢
Same. I experienced both and Covid was way less stressful than bed bugs. I had to suffer bed bugs for months and I couldn’t get proper sleep at all for those months. Covid only lasted a few days and I was able to sleep through that.
I once let a family of three sleep in my guest bedroom for a month. Once they moved out we discovered that they carried bedbugs and were ashamed about it and were ashamed to admit it. It took 6 months and thousands of dollars in pest control to get rid of the problem.
That is so awful! I once noticed them in a hostel bed I was staying in, called my mom, she waited for me at the station with plastic bags and spare clothes. I changed in the train station bathroom, put everything I was carrying into multiple plastic bags, at home I put everything in the freezer, showered, put the new clothes I changed into in the freezer as well. Luckily they never reoccurred. I‘m so sorry for what you had to deal with! They could have gotten rid of their problem if they would have just talked to you.
We battled with bedbugs for over a year. After two chemical treatments, we finally hired someone with a powerful mobile furnace to heat our entire house to about 140°F (60°c) for several hours. We had attempted to remove anything that would be damaged by the heat (food, medicines, candles, etc), but some plastic items like plastic window shades were warped during the treatment. I have read that a slightly lower temperature (113F, 45°C) will eventually kill the bugs, but the difficulty is reaching that temperature in all the places the bugs hide, like between towels, inside clothing, etc. For that reason, most exterminators bring the entire house to a higher temperature and hold it there for a few hours.
@@HagiaFantasiaCold will indeed kill bedbugs, but it takes a long time. Once study showed it took 80 hours at 3.2°F (-16°C). Even -4°F (-20° C) took two days. I did use cold to kill bedbugs after using a vacuum cleaner (I put the bag into the freezer for several days).
I was once loaned a tent by a friend .I put it up and then during the night what seemed like hundreds of bed bugs started swarming me. At first i thought they were little seeds that got in the tent. Got up washed everything including the tent in hot water at the campsite laundry, that was over 20 years ago in Australia. Once they get into your home they are extremely difficult to remove.
It was so hard to sleep. Once you did start to finally fall asleep, that’s when you get woken up again from the biting. At the crack of dawn is when they do most of the biting, and then they go retreat for about twelve hours.
@@spiritualantiseptic Yeah and it's shocking to me. Atleast where I'm from. you don't usually get infestations of this scale. You can control this within a household if you're knowledgeable enough. But a whole town?! I have so many 'hows' and 'whys' that I wanna ask right now. Surely, they lack in the information dissemination department.
Same I was planning to visit Paris too next year but I don’t wanna bring bedbug to my home after hearing how long it’ll take to get rid of them including expenses
I once caught a bedbug in the bus here in Canada. The good thing about them is that they're not stealthy. It felt a bit like an ant walking on my clothes so it's noticeable. It's if one gets in your bag that it could be harder to spot. They're not stealthy and armored like wood ticks.
Same thing happened to me at an EconoLodge in Mesa, Arizona and a Marriott in Scottsdale, Arizona. I threw out everything and never booked rooms from either of them ever again. I stuck with Wyndhams and Hyatts after that. Even though I know bed bugs can be found anywhere. Gotta be careful!
@@alexw853 Not actually sure. my company deals only with bedbugs. not had a case of scabies yet. just read about them leaving rashes for long periods due to them living in the skin and laying eggs there. Bed bug bites should go away during the day.
Toronto actually have the same problem, some old apartments are infested with these bugs. There're actually mattress case overs that are bed bugs resistant, also bed bugs don't like metal bed frames so don't use wooden bed frames. I knew someone that was in this situation. He solved the problem by switching to metal bed frame using the mattress case cover.
Went through an infestation and the only thing that really worked was natural Dicotamus Earth. I sprinkled it over everything, bedframes in corners and I used a heat steamer to clean with.
Never saw a bedbug for the first 64 years if my life, then rented a house that had them. It was quite an ordeal, one I hope never to experience again. I recently read that they can survive for months, allegedly up to a year, without eating, which explains why they're so hard to get rid of.
They can set up in a mattress but then can live in the wall board if they set up in your house. Put your clothing/luggage in the bathroom of your hotel or where there’s no fabric or upholstery. Check the head of the bed for dark red spots, bedbug poop. 🤷🏼♀️
We bought an old house in the sticks and fought them for a few years. Eventually I got rid of all the furniture and went through the house from top to bottom looking for nests. We *very carefully* killed the nests with 70% rubbing alcohol (don't use if you lack common sense to ventilate and the discipline not to light a cigarette.). Pro tip, they like to make nests in and around power sockets, electronics, etc. We remodeled to a very minimalist layout and have not had any problems since. These evil things love clutter and places that don't get cleaned regularly.
I have worked with residential rentals a fair bit. We had a unit that was empty, treated for bed bugs multiple times. Before the last treatment we cranked the heat to get them to come out of the walls and stuff. It helped.
They are absolute Monsters!! I wonder if there is an animal that is a natural predator of BB's I won't buy used (FBMarketplace, i.e.) furniture or other items for this reason.
I once lived in a 12 unit apartment building that had an outbreak beginning at top floor and worked its way down to all other floors. It was a nightmare!! No sign or trace of it when exterminators came to my unit multiple times. My only proof were the bites and red welts on my skin and then I’d turn the lights on and see a couple crawling on my bed trying to scurry away. the unit was bombed multiple times although true professional exterminators advise against that. Bagging my clothes in plastic storage units for months on end. I wouldn’t wish this issue on anyone. I always advise my son after coming from Public places, put the clothes directly into the laundry.
The bed bugs in my house have been immune to pretty much everything under the sun except for diatomaceous earth and extreme heat. Like, 140F+ for 8 hours kind of heat. And even then it doesn't guarantee everything in the room got killed. It's horrible. I bet burning down the house wouldn't even get rid of them all, a few would survive and reproduce.
need couple of treatments to break their life cycle and they do run around the house as they follow u around, especially at night. so the treatment has to be the whole house, not just the room whee u sleeo or fond them intially
I wish this video would address what to do to protect yourself when travelling. We're going through France and Spain to Portugal using trains (including a sleeper). How do we protect ourselves? This is keeping me awake worrying about it.
I had bed bugs in my apartment, I live in New York, and it is traumatizing. I treated in the beginning but I want to let you know it is hard to get rid of them. I used products that I bought in Costco, but I also bought a steamer, and used even on the carpet, to make sure they had disappeared.
@@ejk_flzsgyeah yeah blame Americans/Canadians lol Paris ain’t cheap so those who travel there aren’t carrying any bedbugs. Stop trying to blame someone else
Use a flashlight they hate light . I check my bed every night after three years ago I befriended someone who had them in their apt and I did not fully understand how nasty they are . Some people may not react but I developed an allergy to their bite and it was horrifying . Grossed out major . Finally I feel free . Used good spray that dissolved them
Wouldn’t this be classified as a public health crisis due to the potential health risks reactions for children and adults? This is horrible! I’m wondering what they are doing to eliminate this problem.
Well they are doing nothing to prevent it. Paris was always praised as one of most beautiful cities but all I saw was layers of garbage in the streets when I went there some 20yrs ago. Hard to imagine now.
when i lived in Japan i suddenly had bedbugs in my apartment. no idea how they got there. never stayed at hotels or so. it was an absolute nightmare. i fell asleep and woke up an hour later to see if there are any on the walls next to my bed or in my bedsheets. killed all i could and eventually got rid of them this way as i was quick to handle the situation. but it affected my sleep pattern as well as my work and school-life because of the itchings. bad times for sure and i wouldnt wish bedbugs even for my biggest enemy
even concrete high rise apts. have enough space for bedbugs to get from one unit to another. had a friend in Canada that lived like a nun, and was possibly on the hook for contaminating several other apts. (if it can be traced to yours, your insur. might cover you, but not the infested neighbour! My guess was that a senior friend of hers that occ. visited MIGHT be the culprit, but you never know. the other tenants were all retired educators and low level interactive people, so doubtful it was any of them. I called by former co-worker who now worked at Blue Cross, a specialist cleaner. Funny thing is bedbug infests are LOW in the resident hotel and dayh stay units because they're always being looked for: expensive condos and seniors housing complexes are where the bedbugs hide and don't get caught fast.
I once stayed in a hostel infested with bedbugs. It was nightmare. I left my bedding there and upon coming home didn't bring the luggage in, soaked all clothes in dettol, took a shower and washed those clothes also in dettol, other items were kept in the sun. Luckily these measures worked, i didn't bring that bug home.
I live in Toronto, Canada, and we have bedbugs in diffrent apartments and homes, as well as public transport. Its psychologically effecting lot of us. Our government don't do much to help.
Here in South Africa it's in my hygiene practices to take my mattress outside once a month on a hot sunny day. I sprinkle with bicarb and leave it in the sun for the day. Then beat it out with a stick and I've never had a bug in my bed ever.
I was born in Algeria and it is the common practice there as well. Everything gets a sunbath and a good beating. We do get a lot more sun now in France, I guess it's time to update our practices.
Does it only work in high temperatures? I live in England, say it happened. Would leaving a mattress out in cool weather, then beating it do something. Or is it very high temperatures only.
@@salkoharper2908 We got hitchhikers from the laundromat, they were hard to get rid of few months of nightmare. We did the white vinegar spray bottle would kill on contact (but you had to see them), winter, our furnace died, 4 days of 47 - 51 degrees in the house, we kept the water lines trickling, water pipes coming into the house had a little bit of work light for warmth, and after we got the heat back on, we didn't have bed bugs. We kept the house cold for a week longer, I think 53 degrees to make SURE we didn't have anymore. It was cold, but end results, priceless! lol
I travel often and I had bed bugs in Cambodia, Sweden, Uruguay, Italy and Cyprus but luckily never took them home due to never putting my luggage on or directly next to my bed. Even though I recognised the bites immediately it was still a tramautic experience every time because the days and weeks after you think of every itchy feeling that youre getting bitten again by bedbugs. Most say that at most of the accommodations were I had bedbugs had a good response to me because I know some places dont know about bedbugs or are simply denying it to their customers when they get bitten
I’ve never encountered them (to my knowledge), but I’m terrified of them. I know they are insidious once they catch hold. Once a group of us were at a hotel and there was a rumor that someone saw a single bedbug. When I got home, I stripped just inside the door and emptied my bag and threw everything straight in the wash
It's heat that kills them. You want to dry on high heat your clothes/shoes first. Then wash & dry again. Washing first may actually make them survive the dryer from what I read.
I used diatomaceous earth to kill bed bugs. I used once a week for about four weeks, which is about the whole life cycle of bed bugs from an egg to an adult bug.
This reminds me of the year 2015. What a horrible year!! I spent that whole year trying to eradicate a bedbug infestation that just wouldn't go away. I tried and tried and tried. Nothing worked. It was an absolute nightmare. In the end, I just decided to pack up and move, twice. Just to make sure that we were as far away as possible from those nasty little creatures. After a couple of years of respite, one of the rooms got infested again in the new house! I was beyond horrified when I found out. I had to send everyone packing and asked them to leave the house and we decided to fix the problem by boiling huge amounts of water and pouring them like crazy on the entire floor in each room. Luckily that seemed to have stopped the nasty bugs in their tracks and I never saw them again.
Put everything out (beddings,sofas,pillows,clothes) out in the sun .. or wash it like crazy,soak for 2 or 3 hours with detergent and wash it ...and sun them dry to crisps.
@@thisnthat7760 I certainly did all of that and it's all good advice. Another thing I used to do was putting clothes etc inside a plastic bag and then putting the bag in a car parked outside on a sunny day and it would get as hot as 140 degrees or more inside the car. Unfortunately if you don't catch the infestation early enough you're basically toast no matter what you do. What really helped me was that I drastically reduced all the clutter and switched to a minimalist style after I moved and kept things that way until I was sure it was gone.
Diatomaceous Earth. Live in the powder all over your floors. They live in the cracks of floors not just furniture. They can survive up to a year weekly without blood.
2012 in Montpellier i had a terrible experience, I am allergic while i was a French Language Student in a Hostel there. Nobody could find them... i move apartment an wash all my clothes with boiling water... i think now the enemy is Airbnb, once was concentred only at hotels, hostels... now travelers are settled everywhere, with luggages and all. DDT now needs to come back... for the good or worst...
I lived through that nightmare once in a 7-unit apartment house. It was SO hard to get rid of them. Seriously almost lost my mind from fear and lack of sleep! I can't stand to look at a picture of one, now! Pure evil. They can live for YEARS without feeding. 😱😱😱👾👾👾
Diatomaceous earth is the solution for bedbugs . Basically diatomaceous earth is a dehydrant which dehydrates any insect having exoskeleton thus eliminating bedbugs completely as they spread it to their peers.
A friend of mine had bed bugs in her apartment once. It was a nightmare and full time job getting rid of them. It’s a good thing she was between jobs at the time and could deal with all of this.
I moved to Europe a year ago and was shocked to see that no one has the zippered mattress covers designed to keep bed bugs out. I don't understand that. France is the most visited country but they dont use those...? It makes no sense. I went shopping for one in Croatia and no one knew what I was talking about. I had to ask a relative to bring me one from the US.
Most people just don't expect to ever get them if they live in reasonably salubrious and clean conditions. There was little sense that about anyone could get unlucky if they lived in dense habitat or needed to use collective transportation, even if it was always true to some extent.
Yeah...this is the first time, I'm hearing about them being a problem in a country close by. I'm German and I didn't even know about them at all, until a couple years ago (I'm in my 40s, for context). Don't know anyone, personally, who had them, nor are they a 'topic of discussion' in the media, usually. I do wonder, why that is, since they don't seem to live only in certain climate zones or such.
I‘m European and can say it is not a new phenomena in Europe. I had a good friend who visited the Netherlands and stayed in a 4 star hotel over 10 years ago. He got bed bug bites there. So you see: not new. We are just now hearing about them on a larger scale.
When I've been to Italy, even in 5-star hotels, I've always had bed bugs biting me. It just puts you off travelling because the itching and rashes can be painful and irritating. Their not easy to get rid of either. It's a long process, and heat doesn't always work.
If you've ever had them they will scare you so bad you will be afraid to read this comment section,or to say anything bad about them for fear of their return.
I’ve never had them but I’m scared of them. I worry every time in my public. I worry about traveling especially and guys…. I have a husband that works internationally. I worry when my kids bring jackets and backpacks home from school. I just worry. I never ever want to deal with those bugs in my calm space. Before my husband gets in the car he wipes his bag down with alcohol. Then when he gets home the clothes get thrown in the water with hot water and all other belongings get wiped down. The duffel gets bagged and hung up until he leaves again. It may seem excessive but I don’t care. I’ve heard stories of people feeling them crawl on them all night without relief. No thanks
I live in nyc. Paris should get rid of the fabric on public transportation. Change your clothes when you get home before you sit on your furniture or your bed. Wrap your mattress up on a bed hug protector. When you stay in a hotel I ALWAYS check the mattress and sheets for bedbugs.
In the past they used to place the four feet of the bed frame into containers of water to stop them getting into the bed and mattress. The bugs used to climb up wall, go onto the ceiling and just drop down onto the bed.
Put the four bed posts in containers of 2 inch layer of diatomaceous earth, bedbugs die when they climb into those containers and get covered with the diatomaceous earth.
In every country there should be a law that if a business has bedbugs, hugr noticed need to be placed on doors and again right inside and another twenty feet away.
The volume of human traffic from all over the world into and out of Paris is absolutely huge. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Paris are teetering on the brink of collapse. Terrifying times.
There was someone who was blaming the immigrants. I have never seen bedbugs in my life! I think they are usually in colder regions. Us being near the equator has at least one positive side.
My granddaughter recently had a bad experience in a holiday apartment in Portugal.. the bed was crawling with bedbugs so they spent the first night on the sofa and checked out immediately in the morning. Unfortunately they are still trying to get a full refund
You're not up to date but anyway, you are a big part of the problem. Yes, stop coming, you ruined it. We are decreasing in population and it doesn't look like it, because we have too much tourists. Airbnb is what started the bug infestation, caused a major shortage in available appartments for renting, and we're not seeing most of the benefits as restaurants and such because they don't pay most of their taxes anyway, and exploit their staff to the bone. Not to mention the crazy prices in all the center of the town because of your standards. We've had enough, and we're pushing laws towards that. There's more to life than cash on legs and like I said, it mostly goes to someone else's pocket. We need to take back our city, it's not a freacking tourist attraction.
And check headboards, side tables (inside and against the wall), behind picture frames, mattress seams, chairs, luggage racks, etc…. With a bright light. Look for blood marks on the mattress protective covering. While looking everything over put your bags in the bathtub.
There almost completely stamped out in the UK. People using steam cleaners regularly on there mattresses and other things bedbugs like to explore is the best option, no chemicals that are harmful to people. Repeated use of a steam cleaner keeps them at bay if you have any issues do it one day, turn your heating up full put wet towels over the radiators as this moist hot air helps there eggs to spawn and repeat the process everyday for 1 week,
I have never known of any here in the corner of UK where I live or in the hospital where I worked for 35years. I have lots of cats and Husband has allergies to dust mites so I steam floors and soft furnishings, no curtains. my waterbeds are immune I suppose. When I travel I take waterproof mattress/pillow protectors. All this to stop my Husbands allergies and occasional cat flees probably saved us from the bedbugs.🤞
It's not fun when you get affected. When it causes you to lose sleep when you are tired from work the situation can lead to a physical as well as mental breakdown
The problem is that these insects have been incorrectly named. They should be called traveller’s itch or briefcase beetles. Sure they love to be in human beds due to their behaviors and needs but they travel in our stuff and live in our homes
Maybe live in your house, not in mine! They stay in the matresses because they like warm places, they don't live in houses or suitcases! LOL They travel in our clothes if you catch them, but they won't stay in a suitcase.
I’ve got serious bitten by bedbugs during walking Camino in Spain few years ago, it was over my whole body and the itchiness was irresistible, very unpleasant experience.
@@BatsiraiMusuka Incredible amount of tourists, some years there are more tourists than actual French people in France. Add to that illegal immigration and the conditions in which they travel, it makes a recipe for disaster.
Im in California. I had never seen one in my entire life. Im 48. Until one day about 3 months ago. Woke up to a single bed bug on a pillow on the floor. Laying next to an open window. It was 5 a.m. and I was googling pictures of what kind of bug it was 😂!! I was terrified when I found out. I squished it and blood came out. Since then I've never seen one again. I'm thinking it came from the neighbor's house!!! 😳 The neighbor's own a business for bounce house rentals that they let air out in the front yard. 🤦
You might want to check the seams of your mattress. It can take a little time before you really start to notice them. They also give off an odor of rotten fruit. My kid brought them home from dance class. The dance company had been preforming in Europe & must have brought them home. My daughter started have problems sleeping, but she didn’t realize she had them. My point is, if you seen one, check for others because they hide extremely well. It took a good six months to be rid of them. Damascus earth became normal on our floors during that time. I still treat the rooms every other month. Good luck, hope you find nothing but clean mattress seams.
I recently had a war with bed bugs. Got them from a hotel in Berlin. For about 1-2 months we fought epic battles, I didn't sleep much, but at the end I won. They can be defeated, but you have to act quick and not stop until they are dead. Use diatomaceous earth food grade, steamer, dryer for the clothes and traps for bed,sofa legs.
Once you get them im your home it is a nightmare to get rid of them. Usually have to toss all furniture. One thing to do is after your out and about come home and immediately put your clothes in the hot dryer for at least 20 minutes. If you don't have a dryer, double bag your clothes tightly and keep in your car or outside if possible until you get to a laundry mat. I've dealt with them twice and it's not fun!
@@lupolinar One time I was desperate and I had low income so I decided to boil water and pour it on them and I swear to you, some of them still survived that! I had to toss everything once again, I tried salt as well which is known to dry out fleas and eggs, but that didn't work much either. Now I haven't had them in years by simply taking the precautions I listed above, having a drying is truly a blessing.
I think it's tempting to throw out furniture but apparently you don't have to. Just find another place to sleep on and use steam and pesticide, maybe Diam. Earth. Thankfully, never had them. The problem is that a banned pesticide helped eradicate the problem in Europe and America so now this pesticide can't be used and they are back, especially with people travelling from other countries where they have them. I can't imagine what it's like in those places if they think it's a normal household pest like a spider is.
You really really don't want them it's extremely hard to get rid of them, you can basically pick them up from any 2nd hand item even clothing! And the nymphs are almost transparent you can barely see them! Why on earth they let people staying in hostels or auberges use their own sleeping bags from bed to bed is beyond me, the camino de Santiago auberges are notorious for bedbugs for this very reason.
Years ago I worked in a St Vincent DePaul thrift shop. The place was sprayed for bedbugs and other pests twice a week. It's amazing how many people donated soft goods and upholstered items with cooties.
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I once worked in a hostel that encountered a bedbug infestation and I can tell you it's no joke. If you really want to get rid of them in a singular building you have to clear the building, spray it, leave it unoccupied for a few days to a week, then check again for any signs of eggs and possibly spray again. Herein lies the problem: most businesses that rely on a constant flow of customers like hotels, cinemas etc. can't afford to completely shut down for a few days, and they only partially spray rooms at a time. And then again you might get completely rid of them and a month later a guest brings a new infestation on their clothes.
That's true. They're pretty stubborn because the first spraying doesn't take care of the eggs. Just the adult bugs.
Bed bugs can hide in wood crevice's in furniture and bed frames for 6 months without feeding. They also started a comeback in America 15 years ago. It doesn't a person's social status or wealth as they get into the most luxurious of hotels and homes.
lol
Also, check the mattress seams. That’s a good spot for them to hide during the day.
They could try to heat up rooms to sauna temperatures for some time after every guest.
Never, EVER, take a couch from the side of the road.
Unless you're looking to adopt a family of bed bugs, stick to furniture stores. Safety first, adventures later!
@@The-Great-Brindian Yeah a big part of the problem is that people reuse things they find or buy second hand more & more. Bedbugs isn't even the only problem you can get from that.
@@MrTomtomtest cushioned padding seats are a no no. Strong oak furniture with no cracks or splits is fine.
Or bed
My upstairs neighbor did that. He was a hoarder and picked things up outside. His apartment was ground zero and the entire building ended up infested. He was not allergic so he get bites. When the building manager went in there, he said there were hundreds under his mattress.
Whoever decided to use padded seating on urban public transportation like subways and city buses messed up horribly.
heh
Definitely. In the US most of our buses are hard surfaces for ease of cleaning, but some busses still use padding like the longer distance express busses. 😬
Maybe they should wheel the guillotine out of storage
@@Iqueyno the US is just pain cheap, that’s why they don’t provide proper seats😂
Leather seats is the answer.
10 years ago I stayed in a hotel that about an hour after I turned out the lights I had this incredibly uncomfortable feeling so I quickly turned on the light. I saw a couple bugs on the wall. I looked behind the headboard and found more. Looked on the edges of the bed and there were tons.
I placed my suitcase on the bathroom counter. Took a very hot shower ... blew dry my hair. Kept the lights on all night. Left as soon as possible. When I got home I left my suitcase outside way away from the house. Took my clothes off outside ... ran to my shower and took the hottest shower and blew dry my hair.
Lice and bed bugs cannot survive heat.
What would you do if you had kids with you? 🤔
I did. I removed the blankets and top sheet ... made sure there were no bugs on the sheets wrapped her up in the top sheet ... kept all of the lights on and watched her sleep making sure nothing crawled on her all night. She got the same shower at the hotel and when we got home.
@@serenity8876 ... it was a nightmare.
They can survive upto 60degrees Celsius, a temperature that human skin cannot bear. So, most probably they were washed away during the steamy baths you took.
@@saschamayer4050🗑🗑🗑🚮
I was an Integrated Pest Management specialist in bed bug eradication and it's no joke. They hide in your CD players, your remote controls, all furniture, wall plugs especially, closets, boxes and clothing. For a six month infestation, with cooperation with the client, it will take approx 30 days and three treatments to eradicate them. Which means that if you live in the same place you're killing them have to basically live out of clear plastic bags for a month. You have to be careful who you visit because you can infest another person's home- which is why people don't discuss it, the shame factor and the same goes for other people who come from an infestation. These are really the most tenacious, time consuming and costly pests to get rid of.
When checking into a hotel, the FIRST THING you must do upon entering the room is to place all your luggage in the bath tub (dry) or shower while you turn up the mattress. You'll want to look under the mattress in the folds of the seams near the head and at the foot. You are looking for thousands of tiny dark brown specks, their feces and dried blood. These spots will be in groups, you may not see the hundreds of actual bed bugs. Bed bugs have five growth stages and the smallest is barely seen without a flashlight. If you see this, grab your things and go to the desk and report it immediately. You may not want to stay because they travel between the walls into adjacent rooms. You will find them in airplanes, cargo holds of the plane, movie theaters, buses, trains, restaurants, sofas in cafes. They are attracted to carbon dioxide, your breath and high blood sugar if you're diabetic, while you are sleeping and they come out to feed nocturnally, usually around your legs. Their characteristic bites are in 3's, usually in a line- we call them the "breakfast, lunch & dinner bites." The most effective and least costly is to use a chemical sprayer and get the chemical specifically for bed bugs, diatomacious earth powder that needs to be put in a "bellow" squeezer with an aperture that gets the earth into crevices and plastic containers sold to hold a pesticide gel that emits vapors- use these in the plastic bags where you keep your clothing. You will need to coat the legs of your bed, tables and chairs with petroleum jelly so they cannot use the legs to climb up into beds, tables & chairs. You'll need to treat the entire apartment three times every ten days. My advice- stay away from bed bug high traffic areas. I've successfully treated apartments while occupied and the hardest job is getting the occupants to comply with keeping their belongings in CLEAR plastic bags- clear so you can see if bugs are in there. Your purse, wallet, cel phone, keys, anything with a hold or crevice they will hide in- guaranteed.
Horrendous. It doesn’t bear thinking about
Thank you so very much !!! Grateful to you
Very informative. I wonder why they made a comeback? I believe it was rare at one time. I've also heard that high heat is blown into a building to eradicate them.
The part about using petroleum jelly around the legs of your bed only somewhat deters them because they've been found to climb up on the ceiling and then fall onto the bed. They're very determined for sure.
DEMONS!!!!!!!¡!
Why does it feel that the whole world has regressed a few centuries? 😥
Because it is
@@astra-rb6szscary, right?
@@JoC-l2h scary no just true.
Covid 19
Because we have. Stupidity. Corporate owned media. Criminal corporate overlords.
Honestly I'm glad this is making international news.
I'm hoping it will make the national and local governments do much more than what they're doing now
Better if the Politicians get bedbugs themselves (otherwise normally they do little to help)
@@tinamarie9809🤣🤣😭 so true!! ✌️🇨🇦
It is the same story in Montreal. Government covering up the problem.
I wouldn't count on any government helping with it...
There is something they can do and that is to stop people from travelling. Once they've done that they can start fighting the bed bugs in their cities, it will be pointless if people keep traveling this much.
I can feel tingles all over my body just thinking about it... Hopefully this get solved soon.
I thought I was the only one who felt that way... I felt itchy after watching this !!!!
@@MaliekCannon-tk4xm
WTF ???? NYC have had those for YEARS ! Paris isn't the problem, bedbugs were brought by the tourists so the tourists are the problem. 😒
I feel itchy too they're little monsters.
I get sooo itchy!! Yes psychosomatic , but still effing itches none the less 😂
Me too…
Living in a bedbug-infested hostel was traumatic, and I can't imagine the distress of living in a city infested by these pests. My thoughts and best wishes go out to the people of Paris.
Why is that green woman laughing? Studies insects, tell us something we don't know, useless and laughing. Bedbugs ARE NOT A JOKE AND NO ONE SHOULD BE GOING TO PARIS IF THERE IS AN OUTBREAK
I feel you
In Ghana we call them landlords. They can kick you out of your own home😂😂😂
BROUGHT IN BY ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM AFRICA.
I live in Paris Montmartre, no problems for me, didn't encounter any, same for my friends, it's always always media making it appear far worse about everything...😂... Like the riots cuz of nahel death by police shooting at him.. France is burning blablabla lmao nobody's life were affected by that "riots France is burning" bullshyte
Anyone else feeling itchy all of a sudden?
yup
It's incredible people are so ignorant about bedbugs. You should NEVER travel anywhere if you have bedbugs in your house, for one. That horrible irresponsible. About hotels, I was wonderings the same thing the British guy mentioned in the end. Hotels should be LEGALLY obligated to take preventative measures and practices to stop these foul insects from spreading all over.
OK, calm down.
Treating is extremely expensive plus as soon as you finally got rid of them, another customer contaminates the area again. What you're asking is companies to go bankrupt.
@@jeremyfielding2333 Right. I booked my ticket darnit. LOL
@@shizukagozen777The state or insurances company should take care of the price
Your country should be legally obligated to secure your border and keep the illegals out and their bed bugs
So who else was itching the entirety of this episode? I have never seen one Myself but the paranoia is definitely there
Damn I have never in my life even seen one. And the instant I saw this video it started itching me everywhere...
my head itches but thats head lice lol
not bed bugs.
two TOTALLY different things 😀
* scratches scalp again *
Itching no, though that may indicate that you have erm some ^^. Shuddering though yes.
If you wake up with an itchy bump that looks like a pimple. It's a bedbug bites. A pimple doesn't develop overnight. Some even become infected. So be careful.
@@The-Great-Brindian Bed bug itch is far worse than lice. Last for days the itch is unbelievable.
I live in Toronto, Canada, and have had bed bugs in 3 different apartments that I stayed at! Gotta say the psychological side effects are long term and very real, because my current place also experienced an outbreak and it's been so difficult to fall asleep at night knowing this.
It is exactly the same in Montreal. Government refuses to create database of infested buildings. Landlords do nothing.
I almost lost my mind, it seemed from the sleep deprivation and panic. I'm sorry for you, too. They're just evil.
Let me tell you,.. I woke up one night. I just happened to pull the blanket off of me there was sooooooooo many of them.. they was about to have a whole thanks giving on me.. I jumped up and stayed in the bathroom the rest of the night.. that morning I went home. You will never be the same after dealing with bed bugs.
@@Itsoktoloveyourself OMG SAME I could relate to you sm it happened to me as well. But sadly its so hard to get rid of them my bed still has bedbugs, I did everything, letting my bed and mattresses cooked in the heat of sun, it'd get rid of most of them but since its an infestation they'd return in like half a month. At this point I had just given up its so tiresome.
@@vetriv702 they are belong to insect not animal...
My complete sympathies. I dealt with bedbugs in the apartment I lived in Vancouver in the early 2000s. These pests are horrible to manage and they can make life very difficult.
I encountered bed bugs once when I stayed in an Air-Bnb in Amsterdam. My gf and I arrived there completely knackered, after a bike ride of 120km with luggage in the Summer heat. At around midnight, while I was sitting on my bed and planing next day's bike route, I noticed those insects in the wall. I didn't know what they where but after I killed a bunch of them I noticed that one contained red blood. Then it dawned on me that this must be bed bugs. I was grossed out and tried to kill every bug I saw. The idea of going to sleep in that room and potentially infesting our luggage with bed bugs gave me shivers! At 2AM I contacted AirBnB and told them about the incident, while my gf was on the phone calling the nearest hotels. At 3AM and dead tired, we left the air bnb and rode to the Hotel, where we washed the clothes that we had been wearing and spread out and inspected all our belongings for bed bugs. Found around 5 more. Next day, our first stop was the laundry, where we washed all our stuff with hot water. Half a day wasted, but fortunately never saw a bed bug again!
On another note, I was on a plane from the mainland to Hawaii and there was a woman with extremely thick hair in a bun sitting right in front of me and the amount of LICE she had crawling in and out of her hair on the back of her neck was just absolutely insane that I asked if I could be moved, I just pointed at the lady's head when the hostess quietly asked why...
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Oh my! Flight attendant should’ve moved everyone around her!
@@gdavis2020kick her off the plane really. But I’ll happily remove myself tbh 😂 no trip for me
Bedbugs are much, much, much worse than lice, much harder to get rid of. Barely any comparison.
How did she not notice? I hope someone informed her there are ways to rid that. Yikes
You CAN be highly allergic to the toxins in their saliva. I rented a flat in NYC 13 years ago and they didn’t even know there was an infestation until I got there because I unfortunately am one of those rare people who are highly allergic. I had sores on my legs that looked like termite mounds it was a jarring and traumatizing experience. It took 9 years for the intensive scarring to finally fade from my legs 😢
9 years?????
I'd rather take dealing with the COIVD over bed bugs anyday
Same. I experienced both and Covid was way less stressful than bed bugs. I had to suffer bed bugs for months and I couldn’t get proper sleep at all for those months. Covid only lasted a few days and I was able to sleep through that.
@@artman12the true pandemic❤
I once let a family of three sleep in my guest bedroom for a month. Once they moved out we discovered that they carried bedbugs and were ashamed about it and were ashamed to admit it. It took 6 months and thousands of dollars in pest control to get rid of the problem.
That is so awful! I once noticed them in a hostel bed I was staying in, called my mom, she waited for me at the station with plastic bags and spare clothes. I changed in the train station bathroom, put everything I was carrying into multiple plastic bags, at home I put everything in the freezer, showered, put the new clothes I changed into in the freezer as well.
Luckily they never reoccurred.
I‘m so sorry for what you had to deal with! They could have gotten rid of their problem if they would have just talked to you.
We battled with bedbugs for over a year. After two chemical treatments, we finally hired someone with a powerful mobile furnace to heat our entire house to about 140°F (60°c) for several hours. We had attempted to remove anything that would be damaged by the heat (food, medicines, candles, etc), but some plastic items like plastic window shades were warped during the treatment.
I have read that a slightly lower temperature (113F, 45°C) will eventually kill the bugs, but the difficulty is reaching that temperature in all the places the bugs hide, like between towels, inside clothing, etc. For that reason, most exterminators bring the entire house to a higher temperature and hold it there for a few hours.
Some ants eat them. They are big ants. It is better to have ants than such plague.
He’s right. It’s what the pros use.
That heat will melt a television lol, seen it
What about extreme cold?
@@HagiaFantasiaCold will indeed kill bedbugs, but it takes a long time. Once study showed it took 80 hours at 3.2°F (-16°C). Even -4°F (-20° C) took two days.
I did use cold to kill bedbugs after using a vacuum cleaner (I put the bag into the freezer for several days).
Never put your luggage on your hotel bed or floor. Keep luggage as far away from bed as possible.
Maybe keep it in the shower while the shower isn't on.
Bring a big plastic bag to cover your entire baggage
I was once loaned a tent by a friend .I put it up and then during the night what seemed like hundreds of bed bugs started swarming me. At first i thought they were little seeds that got in the tent. Got up washed everything including the tent in hot water at the campsite laundry, that was over 20 years ago in Australia. Once they get into your home they are extremely difficult to remove.
nightmare
Little seeds 😂
Damn pretty scary stuff man
Just like the the 2 legged ones from 3rd world countries
Wait what?
What sort of tent was it?? A modern tent or an historic canvas type tent?
I get chills when I think of bed bugs. One of the most horrible experiences in my life. I wanted to cut my skin off.
It was so hard to sleep. Once you did start to finally fall asleep, that’s when you get woken up again from the biting. At the crack of dawn is when they do most of the biting, and then they go retreat for about twelve hours.
And the worse part is, bedbugs can get into your luggage and thus, transfer to your home. Yikes!
Now you know how they got to France.
@@spiritualantiseptic Yeah and it's shocking to me. Atleast where I'm from. you don't usually get infestations of this scale. You can control this within a household if you're knowledgeable enough. But a whole town?! I have so many 'hows' and 'whys' that I wanna ask right now. Surely, they lack in the information dissemination department.
I was planning a trip to Paris next spring, but I just changed my mind. I’m not bringing these horrible bugs back home with me to the US.
Same I was planning to visit Paris too next year but I don’t wanna bring bedbug to my home after hearing how long it’ll take to get rid of them including expenses
This is one "souvenir" you don't want to bring home.
Bedbugs are terrifying. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. ☠️
I would.
@@damongirl66😂😂😂
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I would wish them upon my noisy upstairs neighbours, but then I'd also have to wish they didn't spread from that apartment.
I hope I get two wishes.
@@charlie_charldon😂😂😂
I once caught a bedbug in the bus here in Canada. The good thing about them is that they're not stealthy. It felt a bit like an ant walking on my clothes so it's noticeable. It's if one gets in your bag that it could be harder to spot. They're not stealthy and armored like wood ticks.
The babies are invisible. The adults are slow and are quite easy to visually spot but they are certainly stealthy in how they approach their meal.
Lots of Dunning-Kruger _experts_ showing up who clearly don't know jack about bedbugs.
I was bit by bed bugs at a hotel once and the itching was so intense and the bites lingered for almost 2 months. No joke!
That would probably be scabies and not bedbugs. Similar but you should have treated your arm for eggs under the skin.
Same thing happened to me at an EconoLodge in Mesa, Arizona and a Marriott in Scottsdale, Arizona. I threw out everything and never booked rooms from either of them ever again. I stuck with Wyndhams and Hyatts after that. Even though I know bed bugs can be found anywhere. Gotta be careful!
@@Pvt-Lennyhow does someone do that?? Wtf!!!
@@alexw853 Not actually sure. my company deals only with bedbugs. not had a case of scabies yet. just read about them leaving rashes for long periods due to them living in the skin and laying eggs there. Bed bug bites should go away during the day.
Don't exaggerate 😂
Toronto actually have the same problem, some old apartments are infested with these bugs. There're actually mattress case overs that are bed bugs resistant, also bed bugs don't like metal bed frames so don't use wooden bed frames. I knew someone that was in this situation. He solved the problem by switching to metal bed frame using the mattress case cover.
Yes the little bugs hide into wood holes of furniture. So yes that is helpful.
Bed bugs hides in the corners of metal bed frame also. Saw it first hand.
@@kaong66 I have also. My cousin bought a used bed from someone. Metal Bunkbed frame
Toronto has the same problem? interesting
Went through an infestation and the only thing that really worked was natural Dicotamus Earth. I sprinkled it over everything, bedframes in corners and I used a heat steamer to clean with.
Never saw a bedbug for the first 64 years if my life, then rented a house that had them. It was quite an ordeal, one I hope never to experience again. I recently read that they can survive for months, allegedly up to a year, without eating, which explains why they're so hard to get rid of.
Buying used furniture can also bring bedbugs in your home 😮
Bringing in bedbugs will do it, too.
The two times I had them were from people coming to stay with me.
They can set up in a mattress but then can live in the wall board if they set up in your house. Put your clothing/luggage in the bathroom of your hotel or where there’s no fabric or upholstery. Check the head of the bed for dark red spots, bedbug poop. 🤷🏼♀️
We bought an old house in the sticks and fought them for a few years. Eventually I got rid of all the furniture and went through the house from top to bottom looking for nests.
We *very carefully* killed the nests with 70% rubbing alcohol (don't use if you lack common sense to ventilate and the discipline not to light a cigarette.). Pro tip, they like to make nests in and around power sockets, electronics, etc.
We remodeled to a very minimalist layout and have not had any problems since. These evil things love clutter and places that don't get cleaned regularly.
That last line is irresponsible. They live in floor boards and in baseboards. It has nothing to do with how cleanly you are are.
@@OneAdam12Adam I am not trying to shame anyone, that would be pointless.
They also go into the cracks underneath dressers and tables/ nightstands.
I have worked with residential rentals a fair bit. We had a unit that was empty, treated for bed bugs multiple times. Before the last treatment we cranked the heat to get them to come out of the walls and stuff. It helped.
They are absolute Monsters!! I wonder if there is an animal that is a natural predator of BB's
I won't buy used (FBMarketplace, i.e.) furniture or other items for this reason.
I once lived in a 12 unit apartment building that had an outbreak beginning at top floor and worked its way down to all other floors. It was a nightmare!! No sign or trace of it when exterminators came to my unit multiple times. My only proof were the bites and red welts on my skin and then I’d turn the lights on and see a couple crawling on my bed trying to scurry away. the unit was bombed multiple times although true professional exterminators advise against that. Bagging my clothes in plastic storage units for months on end. I wouldn’t wish this issue on anyone. I always advise my son after coming from Public places, put the clothes directly into the laundry.
hostels should use metal beds and also use mattress covers to ensure bedbugs have nowhere to survive
They have to get rid of all those fabrics and paddings on public facilities.
I agree, paddings on buses and transport should go. No need for them. Plus it's good to seee what you're sitting on. lol
The bed bugs in my house have been immune to pretty much everything under the sun except for diatomaceous earth and extreme heat. Like, 140F+ for 8 hours kind of heat. And even then it doesn't guarantee everything in the room got killed. It's horrible. I bet burning down the house wouldn't even get rid of them all, a few would survive and reproduce.
need couple of treatments to break their life cycle and they do run around the house as they follow u around, especially at night. so the treatment has to be the whole house, not just the room whee u sleeo or fond them intially
Trust the ultimate insect to constantly adapt to the human enemy.
Have you tried to burn the house to get rid the bed bugs?
Crossfire product is about the only thing that works.
Perhaps now the place is a toxic chemical waste site.....:(
I wish this video would address what to do to protect yourself when travelling. We're going through France and Spain to Portugal using trains (including a sleeper). How do we protect ourselves? This is keeping me awake worrying about it.
I had bed bugs in my apartment, I live in New York, and it is traumatizing. I treated in the beginning but I want to let you know it is hard to get rid of them. I used products that I bought in Costco, but I also bought a steamer, and used even on the carpet, to make sure they had disappeared.
@@ejk_flzsg France is known for not showering.
Carpets suck, I don't use carpet now.
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Ok hater, keep spreading those dumb cliches. 🤡🤡🤡
@@ejk_flzsgyeah yeah blame Americans/Canadians lol Paris ain’t cheap so those who travel there aren’t carrying any bedbugs. Stop trying to blame someone else
Diatomaceous earth
There was me blissfully unaware when I was in Paris in June. Maybe it’s for the best!
You brought them home with you...
Use a flashlight they hate light . I check my bed every night after three years ago I befriended someone who had them in their apt and I did not fully understand how nasty they are . Some people may not react but I developed an allergy to their bite and it was horrifying . Grossed out major . Finally I feel free . Used good spray that dissolved them
Love the bug expert lady! She looks genuinely loves her job
I know a couple of female entomologists and they are both sweetly delightful, like Jody Green.
Her job would bug me
She's a *lady bug* 😊
Always read hotel reviews before traveling! If there are any about bed bugs in the last months, do not go there even if it is a 5 star hotel.
I do the same. I'll never stay in a accomodation that had/has bed bugs again.
Wouldn’t this be classified as a public health crisis due to the potential health risks reactions for children and adults? This is horrible! I’m wondering what they are doing to eliminate this problem.
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Well they are doing nothing to prevent it. Paris was always praised as one of most beautiful cities but all I saw was layers of garbage in the streets when I went there some 20yrs ago. Hard to imagine now.
when i lived in Japan i suddenly had bedbugs in my apartment. no idea how they got there. never stayed at hotels or so. it was an absolute nightmare. i fell asleep and woke up an hour later to see if there are any on the walls next to my bed or in my bedsheets. killed all i could and eventually got rid of them this way as i was quick to handle the situation. but it affected my sleep pattern as well as my work and school-life because of the itchings. bad times for sure and i wouldnt wish bedbugs even for my biggest enemy
even concrete high rise apts. have enough space for bedbugs to get from one unit to another. had a friend in Canada that lived like a nun, and was possibly on the hook for contaminating several other apts. (if it can be traced to yours, your insur. might cover you, but not the infested neighbour! My guess was that a senior friend of hers that occ. visited MIGHT be the culprit, but you never know. the other tenants were all retired educators and low level interactive people, so doubtful it was any of them. I called by former co-worker who now worked at Blue Cross, a specialist cleaner. Funny thing is bedbug infests are LOW in the resident hotel and dayh stay units because they're always being looked for: expensive condos and seniors housing complexes are where the bedbugs hide and don't get caught fast.
Is anyone else itching while watching this?😮
Yes! I'm reading this lying in bed. I'm all tickle-itch everywhere now. 😂😂😂
I once stayed in a hostel infested with bedbugs. It was nightmare. I left my bedding there and upon coming home didn't bring the luggage in, soaked all clothes in dettol, took a shower and washed those clothes also in dettol, other items were kept in the sun. Luckily these measures worked, i didn't bring that bug home.
We just had a flea infestation. It was a nightmare, yet I realize that bed bugs would be even worse!!
I live in Toronto, Canada, and we have bedbugs in diffrent apartments and homes, as well as public transport. Its psychologically effecting lot of us. Our government don't do much to help.
When did Toronto start having this bedbug plague?
really? I started living in Toronto a year ago and I haven't seen them on public transit as of yet.
Bedbugs love Indians
Can you get Trudeau to help?
Toronto also has the Leafs
Was it just me or did she not answer a single question about how to get rid of them?
Here in South Africa it's in my hygiene practices to take my mattress outside once a month on a hot sunny day. I sprinkle with bicarb and leave it in the sun for the day. Then beat it out with a stick and I've never had a bug in my bed ever.
It is quite rare in South Africa so not just you.
I was born in Algeria and it is the common practice there as well.
Everything gets a sunbath and a good beating.
We do get a lot more sun now in France, I guess it's time to update our practices.
Does it only work in high temperatures? I live in England, say it happened. Would leaving a mattress out in cool weather, then beating it do something. Or is it very high temperatures only.
@@salkoharper2908high temperatures
@@salkoharper2908 We got hitchhikers from the laundromat, they were hard to get rid of few months of nightmare. We did the white vinegar spray bottle would kill on contact (but you had to see them), winter, our furnace died, 4 days of 47 - 51 degrees in the house, we kept the water lines trickling, water pipes coming into the house had a little bit of work light for warmth, and after we got the heat back on, we didn't have bed bugs. We kept the house cold for a week longer, I think 53 degrees to make SURE we didn't have anymore. It was cold, but end results, priceless! lol
I am pleased that you are talking about this huge issue !!! The governments should come up with a solution as this issue is huge !
It’s the government’s causing it lol, by letting hordes of buggy illegal immigrants pour into our countries daily without delousing them first.
🇫🇷France need another lockdown. The whole of Europe should too! 😁
I am terrified of bedbugs ever since I spent a night in a house full of them. It was horrible.
They don’t shower properly in France
I travel often and I had bed bugs in Cambodia, Sweden, Uruguay, Italy and Cyprus but luckily never took them home due to never putting my luggage on or directly next to my bed. Even though I recognised the bites immediately it was still a tramautic experience every time because the days and weeks after you think of every itchy feeling that youre getting bitten again by bedbugs. Most say that at most of the accommodations were I had bedbugs had a good response to me because I know some places dont know about bedbugs or are simply denying it to their customers when they get bitten
I’ve never encountered them (to my knowledge), but I’m terrified of them. I know they are insidious once they catch hold. Once a group of us were at a hotel and there was a rumor that someone saw a single bedbug. When I got home, I stripped just inside the door and emptied my bag and threw everything straight in the wash
It's heat that kills them. You want to dry on high heat your clothes/shoes first. Then wash & dry again. Washing first may actually make them survive the dryer from what I read.
@@Allaiya.if you live in a place with hot summers, you could also leave you’re luggage in the car. Temps in cars almost double
I used diatomaceous earth to kill bed bugs. I used once a week for about four weeks, which is about the whole life cycle of bed bugs from an egg to an adult bug.
It’s non toxic for humans and pets but for insects it cuts up their exoskeletons and they die. It’s like broken glass for anything really small.
Disclaimer: Wear a mask when applying. Don't breathe it in.
same happens to you alveoli in your lungs @@Sashazur
This reminds me of the year 2015. What a horrible year!! I spent that whole year trying to eradicate a bedbug infestation that just wouldn't go away. I tried and tried and tried. Nothing worked. It was an absolute nightmare. In the end, I just decided to pack up and move, twice. Just to make sure that we were as far away as possible from those nasty little creatures. After a couple of years of respite, one of the rooms got infested again in the new house! I was beyond horrified when I found out. I had to send everyone packing and asked them to leave the house and we decided to fix the problem by boiling huge amounts of water and pouring them like crazy on the entire floor in each room. Luckily that seemed to have stopped the nasty bugs in their tracks and I never saw them again.
Put everything out (beddings,sofas,pillows,clothes) out in the sun .. or wash it like crazy,soak for 2 or 3 hours with detergent and wash it ...and sun them dry to crisps.
Diatomaceous earth. Try it.
@@thisnthat7760 I certainly did all of that and it's all good advice. Another thing I used to do was putting clothes etc inside a plastic bag and then putting the bag in a car parked outside on a sunny day and it would get as hot as 140 degrees or more inside the car. Unfortunately if you don't catch the infestation early enough you're basically toast no matter what you do. What really helped me was that I drastically reduced all the clutter and switched to a minimalist style after I moved and kept things that way until I was sure it was gone.
You declared war against the bedbugs and won! Thanks for sharing your tip
Diatomaceous Earth. Live in the powder all over your floors. They live in the cracks of floors not just furniture.
They can survive up to a year weekly without blood.
a first world country having bed bugs problems, what a laugh
2012 in Montpellier i had a terrible experience, I am allergic while i was a French Language Student in a Hostel there. Nobody could find them... i move apartment an wash all my clothes with boiling water... i think now the enemy is Airbnb, once was concentred only at hotels, hostels... now travelers are settled everywhere, with luggages and all. DDT now needs to come back... for the good or worst...
Good night sleep tight dont let the bugs bite 😢
😆 I remember my mom saying that when I was a kid, I always thought they were a myth until I grew up. What a rude awakening lol
If you're afraid of bed bugs, don't come to Memphis TN either
I'm more worried about the XXXLarge bedbugs with guns in Memphis
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Arkansas too! Ugh.
They are all over the states they just aren’t as big as the ones in Paris.
@@seadragon1456 * shudders *
I lived through that nightmare once in a 7-unit apartment house. It was SO hard to get rid of them. Seriously almost lost my mind from fear and lack of sleep! I can't stand to look at a picture of one, now! Pure evil. They can live for YEARS without feeding. 😱😱😱👾👾👾
I experienced it too, it was most difficult thing to get rid of, I reaally almost post my mind
Diatomaceous earth is the solution for bedbugs . Basically diatomaceous earth is a dehydrant which dehydrates any insect having exoskeleton thus eliminating bedbugs completely as they spread it to their peers.
"Sleep tight , dont let the bed bugs bite" i never knew they were real.
A friend of mine had bed bugs in her apartment once. It was a nightmare and full time job getting rid of them. It’s a good thing she was between jobs at the time and could deal with all of this.
I had a friend of mine who was abducted ans forced married to a taliban, bad things happens to anyone
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WTF ?? LMAOOOOO
lol just talking about really bad news@@shizukagozen777
Wow…that’s really bad if it’s in the trains…that means that you can bring them home and to get rid of them will be impossible!
I moved to Europe a year ago and was shocked to see that no one has the zippered mattress covers designed to keep bed bugs out. I don't understand that. France is the most visited country but they dont use those...? It makes no sense. I went shopping for one in Croatia and no one knew what I was talking about. I had to ask a relative to bring me one from the US.
Because we never have them, until now
Most people just don't expect to ever get them if they live in reasonably salubrious and clean conditions. There was little sense that about anyone could get unlucky if they lived in dense habitat or needed to use collective transportation, even if it was always true to some extent.
I didn't even know we had these bugs in Europe
Yeah...this is the first time, I'm hearing about them being a problem in a country close by. I'm German and I didn't even know about them at all, until a couple years ago (I'm in my 40s, for context). Don't know anyone, personally, who had them, nor are they a 'topic of discussion' in the media, usually. I do wonder, why that is, since they don't seem to live only in certain climate zones or such.
I‘m European and can say it is not a new phenomena in Europe. I had a good friend who visited the Netherlands and stayed in a 4 star hotel over 10 years ago. He got bed bug bites there. So you see: not new. We are just now hearing about them on a larger scale.
When I've been to Italy, even in 5-star hotels, I've always had bed bugs biting me. It just puts you off travelling because the itching and rashes can be painful and irritating. Their not easy to get rid of either. It's a long process, and heat doesn't always work.
I am Italian, I never heard about them here
Sometimes I feel like we’re living in an episode of South Park.
If you've ever had them they will scare you so bad you will be afraid to read this comment section,or to say anything bad about them for fear of their return.
I know the feeling.
Paranoid much?
I’ve never had them but I’m scared of them. I worry every time in my public. I worry about traveling especially and guys…. I have a husband that works internationally. I worry when my kids bring jackets and backpacks home from school. I just worry. I never ever want to deal with those bugs in my calm space. Before my husband gets in the car he wipes his bag down with alcohol. Then when he gets home the clothes get thrown in the water with hot water and all other belongings get wiped down. The duffel gets bagged and hung up until he leaves again. It may seem excessive but I don’t care. I’ve heard stories of people feeling them crawl on them all night without relief. No thanks
Spot on
I live in nyc. Paris should get rid of the fabric on public transportation. Change your clothes when you get home before you sit on your furniture or your bed. Wrap your mattress up on a bed hug protector. When you stay in a hotel I ALWAYS check the mattress and sheets for bedbugs.
In the past they used to place the four feet of the bed frame into containers of water to stop them getting into the bed and mattress. The bugs used to climb up wall, go onto the ceiling and just drop down onto the bed.
😂😂😂😂 them bugs are wise
They'll always find a way..😭😭😱
Put the four bed posts in containers of 2 inch layer of diatomaceous earth, bedbugs die when they climb into those containers and get covered with the diatomaceous earth.
In every country there should be a law that if a business has bedbugs, hugr noticed need to be placed on doors and again right inside and another twenty feet away.
Well Europe isn't known to be very good at this type of law
The volume of human traffic from all over the world into and out of Paris is absolutely huge. Cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Paris are teetering on the brink of collapse. Terrifying times.
I couldn’t agree more.
What?
There was someone who was blaming the immigrants. I have never seen bedbugs in my life! I think they are usually in colder regions. Us being near the equator has at least one positive side.
@@ejk_flzsgidk bro, I would blame the Brits
@@neshwhat702European nation love to blame every problem to the immigrants for some reason, it gets no job done
My granddaughter recently had a bad experience in a holiday apartment in Portugal.. the bed was crawling with bedbugs so they spent the first night on the sofa and checked out immediately in the morning. Unfortunately they are still trying to get a full refund
Does your credit card customer service have options for return of payment?
Tell them to call their credit card service and dispute the charge. As time passes it will get difficult
That's a good reason to avoid France 🇫🇷 for awhile 🔥
Paris isn’t all of France lol
New York is supposedly bad as well.
All those Foreigners help the spread.
Come to the Alps, cheese heaven where the air is always pure !❄🗻🌬
Bro these things can enter your ear canal. Just Imagine. hundreds just waiting a new blood from abroad 😂
Absolute state of Paris, overrun by bug pests, streets overflowing with trash and there is nothing we can do.
Lets not forget the urine stench thats rampant throughout Paris. Absolute state indeed.
Time for another revolution?
You're not up to date but anyway, you are a big part of the problem.
Yes, stop coming, you ruined it. We are decreasing in population and it doesn't look like it, because we have too much tourists. Airbnb is what started the bug infestation, caused a major shortage in available appartments for renting, and we're not seeing most of the benefits as restaurants and such because they don't pay most of their taxes anyway, and exploit their staff to the bone. Not to mention the crazy prices in all the center of the town because of your standards. We've had enough, and we're pushing laws towards that.
There's more to life than cash on legs and like I said, it mostly goes to someone else's pocket. We need to take back our city, it's not a freacking tourist attraction.
Can anyone from Paris confirm for me if this bed bug situation in Paris has been going on since last year??
Watch out for the fleas ok
They banned Abaya & now getting small reward in return. Still more reserved for them
They banned the hijab covering Soon everyone in France will be required to cover head to toe😂
They recommend to put your luggage in the bathroom of your hotel where there aren’t any fabrics
And check headboards, side tables (inside and against the wall), behind picture frames, mattress seams, chairs, luggage racks, etc…. With a bright light. Look for blood marks on the mattress protective covering.
While looking everything over put your bags in the bathtub.
Ah yes, the perfect thing to watch before bed.
There almost completely stamped out in the UK. People using steam cleaners regularly on there mattresses and other things bedbugs like to explore is the best option, no chemicals that are harmful to people. Repeated use of a steam cleaner keeps them at bay if you have any issues do it one day, turn your heating up full put wet towels over the radiators as this moist hot air helps there eggs to spawn and repeat the process everyday for 1 week,
it's to do with the cold winters killing them off.
but due to global warming uk getting bed bugs outbreaks now too
Really glad i bought that steam cleaner. 😂😅 pretty sure if u had Thema i would know since i clean daily
I have never known of any here in the corner of UK where I live or in the hospital where I worked for 35years. I have lots of cats and Husband has allergies to dust mites so I steam floors and soft furnishings, no curtains. my waterbeds are immune I suppose. When I travel I take waterproof mattress/pillow protectors. All this to stop my Husbands allergies and occasional cat flees probably saved us from the bedbugs.🤞
Once I was so desperate to get rid of them, I boiled water and dumped it on them and to my surprise some actually survived that... 😳
@@22lilacsky oh god the horror
Is anyone surprised given the hygiene in Paris? Human excrements on the streets. Bedbugs are the least of problems.
It's not fun when you get affected. When it causes you to lose sleep when you are tired from work the situation can lead to a physical as well as mental breakdown
The problem is that these insects have been incorrectly named. They should be called traveller’s itch or briefcase beetles. Sure they love to be in human beds due to their behaviors and needs but they travel in our stuff and live in our homes
Maybe live in your house, not in mine! They stay in the matresses because they like warm places, they don't live in houses or suitcases! LOL They travel in our clothes if you catch them, but they won't stay in a suitcase.
They are vampires
Soooo... You believe incorrect naming, is the problem.
Literally called bed bugs because they stay within bedding areas... so yes it's correctly named
I’ve got serious bitten by bedbugs during walking Camino in Spain few years ago, it was over my whole body and the itchiness was irresistible, very unpleasant experience.
I don't have to think long to figure out why France is stuck with bedbug outbreaks.
Amuse us with your thoughts.🤔
@@BatsiraiMusuka It all begins with a certain group of profiteers moving from one continent to the other...
@@BatsiraiMusuka
Incredible amount of tourists, some years there are more tourists than actual French people in France.
Add to that illegal immigration and the conditions in which they travel, it makes a recipe for disaster.
@rydekk-4644 Right-wingers?
@@rydekk-4644French colonialists?
maybe they should wash their bedsheets
"For more on this FUN subject"
Lmao. I like your humor. 😅😂
Im in California. I had never seen one in my entire life. Im 48. Until one day about 3 months ago. Woke up to a single bed bug on a pillow on the floor. Laying next to an open window. It was 5 a.m. and I was googling pictures of what kind of bug it was 😂!! I was terrified when I found out. I squished it and blood came out. Since then I've never seen one again. I'm thinking it came from the neighbor's house!!! 😳 The neighbor's own a business for bounce house rentals that they let air out in the front yard. 🤦
Bats, the carrier of bed bugs
You might want to check the seams of your mattress. It can take a little time before you really start to notice them. They also give off an odor of rotten fruit.
My kid brought them home from dance class. The dance company had been preforming in Europe & must have brought them home. My daughter started have problems sleeping, but she didn’t realize she had them.
My point is, if you seen one, check for others because they hide extremely well.
It took a good six months to be rid of them. Damascus earth became normal on our floors during that time. I still treat the rooms every other month.
Good luck, hope you find nothing but clean mattress seams.
If you saw one in plain sight, you have more.
@@hokavistark7671actually humans bring bed bugs to other countries!!! By air , train and automobiles!!!
@Mossbeehave yes this is what foreigners bring in to the country
I recently had a war with bed bugs. Got them from a hotel in Berlin. For about 1-2 months we fought epic battles, I didn't sleep much, but at the end I won. They can be defeated, but you have to act quick and not stop until they are dead. Use diatomaceous earth food grade, steamer, dryer for the clothes and traps for bed,sofa legs.
Great interview and informative
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It was depressing. She have no solutions that could be applied in a wider scale.
Once you get them im your home it is a nightmare to get rid of them. Usually have to toss all furniture. One thing to do is after your out and about come home and immediately put your clothes in the hot dryer for at least 20 minutes. If you don't have a dryer, double bag your clothes tightly and keep in your car or outside if possible until you get to a laundry mat. I've dealt with them twice and it's not fun!
We had these once and a steam cleaner and cleaning clothes and sheets at 80C got rid of them - no need to use chemicals or throw stuff away.
@@lupolinar One time I was desperate and I had low income so I decided to boil water and pour it on them and I swear to you, some of them still survived that! I had to toss everything once again, I tried salt as well which is known to dry out fleas and eggs, but that didn't work much either. Now I haven't had them in years by simply taking the precautions I listed above, having a drying is truly a blessing.
I think it's tempting to throw out furniture but apparently you don't have to. Just find another place to sleep on and use steam and pesticide, maybe Diam. Earth. Thankfully, never had them. The problem is that a banned pesticide helped eradicate the problem in Europe and America so now this pesticide can't be used and they are back, especially with people travelling from other countries where they have them. I can't imagine what it's like in those places if they think it's a normal household pest like a spider is.
Wrong, bed bugs are not just a few millimeters long.
Their average sizes about a centimeter long.
You really really don't want them it's extremely hard to get rid of them, you can basically pick them up from any 2nd hand item even clothing! And the nymphs are almost transparent you can barely see them! Why on earth they let people staying in hostels or auberges use their own sleeping bags from bed to bed is beyond me, the camino de Santiago auberges are notorious for bedbugs for this very reason.
From the city of love to *city of bugs* ! What a transition 😂😂😂
The bites of love. lol
Quarantine the city now, once they get into a place it's incredibly hard to get rid of them.
Years ago I worked in a St Vincent DePaul thrift shop. The place was sprayed for bedbugs and other pests twice a week. It's amazing how many people donated soft goods and upholstered items with cooties.
I always heard it’s one of the oldest dirtiest smelliest places on earth and the last freaking place I will go to waste my money
More ignorance😅
@@sTraYa249 buzz is the sounds of the bugs right?