State wants help in fighting bedbugs | The Columbus Dispatch

Faced with a growing invasion of bedbugs, Ohio has asked the federal government for permission to turn them back with a pesticide that is not labeled for use in homes.

[David]

I stayed at a Hotel outside the gate of Andrews AFB in Washington DC once, when their on base billeting was filled. I woke up the next morning with welts covering 75% of my body. It was the worst expereince I had in a hotel ever. I hate bed bugs and I can no longer sleep in any hotel because of it. The expereince gave me a trauma and I cannot sleep on a foreign bed without inspecting it now, and will never stay in a hotel again.

Hearing news like this discourages me.

[allie]

Perhaps the state should crack down on hotels/motels that do not wash bedding.

[Pesticide and cancer]

So what happens when one person misuses the product and some kid gets cancer from smelling it all night long, week after week. Is it worth the risk? Steam clean the carpets, throw out old bedding and clean your linenes.
It's a bug. It can be killed. Putting more chemicals into the home shouldn't even be an issue.
Aren't we all exposed to enough already?

[mmh]

The hotels should be allowed to use the chemical.After each guest checks out,the bedding should be stripped,and the mattress sprayed and the carpeting. As for home use, I agree with the previous response, throw out infected bedding, wash cloths in hot water and steam clean the carpet.

[bsj123]

ok thats all fine but most of the bed bugs are in poor areas and they dont have the money for steam cleaning and throwing away there belongings so the bugs continue the state schould step into low income houseing and hud houseing put these people in a shelter for a few days and get rid of the bugs and keep going till they get all the apts done so the poor little kids dont get ate up every night Where the hell did these things originate from anyway how did we end up with them all of a sudden. And all the people who can afford to get rid of them why are they still in your nieghborhoods get off your lazy ass and get rid of them

[woohoo911]

Bedbugs... is this scabies.... that has become a big problem that everyone denies and keeps on infesting other people?

[woohoo911]

allie wrote:

Perhaps the state should crack down on hotels/motels that do not wash bedding.

Wash the comforters and the mattress pads you slum hotel keepers

[fao]

Pesticide and cancer wrote:

So what happens when one person misuses the product and some kid gets cancer from smelling it all night long, week after week. Is it worth the risk? Steam clean the carpets, throw out old bedding and clean your linenes.
It's a bug. It can be killed. Putting more chemicals into the home shouldn't even be an issue.
Aren't we all exposed to enough already?

YES it is worth the risk, even though i don't believe it is so simple to get cancer from that chemical. it is easier to educate people than hoping for bedbugs to go away. my friend had them in his apartment, and i happened to stay there for a night. my first sleepless night!!! the trauma that one goes through is much more unhealthy and dangerous than the little risk of exposure to that chemical. and trust me no ordinary pesticide can kill them all.

[CHUCKO]

Select infested motels, and use them for billiting of illegal aliens prior to shipping them back. They should find it familiar, and just like home.

[Think harder]

TakingBackAmerica wrote:

This is because they allow anything to cross the borders. Now the foreigners have brought the filth with them along with an outbreak of TB again. This is discusting.

Bed bugs have beeen around much longer then foreigners. The only reason they haven't plagued us in recent history is because it's only been recently (20 or so years) that we some of the better pesticides have been restricted. Maybe the restrictions on these chemicals should be loosened, maybe they shouldn't, but bed bugs can be fought without them. It requires a bit of work and attention to details. Harvard has a great website about these little vampires. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/bedbugs/ There are other good sites too if you take the time to read before you react.

[Mrs Smith]

I'll get the PC police after me when I say this, but if you travel at all and stay at mid-priced hotels/motels, you will find that most of them are owned and operated by immigrants who have come from places where there is not a high emphasis on hygiene. Plus they don't want to waste money on laundry, when it is just stupid Americans using their facility. It seems the bed bug problem has become worse since that "takeover" occurred. I know of one instance right here in central Ohio where friends were going to stay in a hotel one night and actually left the hotel to attend a function here during the day. They were going to drive home, but decided to go back to the SAME hotel and get a room to stay over. They coincidentally got the same room WITH THE SAME UNCHANGED SHEETS. I don't know how they could tell that, but they did. They left and paid a bit more for another hotel room.

[Had them]

We've had bedbugs in our house -- I wouldn't wish them upon my worst enemy. It took several treatments from pest control co. And they get into any wood, books, pictures, any small space -- so just washing your clothes, bedding and carpet isn't enough. It is horrible! It took us several months to get over them. I inspect every hotel bed/room we go into now. I would take my chances with the poison.

[ambulothanatopho bia]

Get your facts about bed bug infestations.

It doesn't matter how clean an establishment is or isn't. They don't infest the sheets - they infest mattresses, nightstands - areas near the bed. Put your suitcase on the floor or clothes in one of the drawers they will crawl into them. Most bed bugs come in through luggage.
It has become more of a problem in recent years because of more international travel.

[Jason Thomas]

We can all thank the environmental a holes for their ban on DDT. That was the only thing that kept them in check in this country. The mexicans bring them back into this country, and then it's found DDT had nothing to do with making Eagle egg shells weaker. A pox and bed bugs on all tree huggers and their stupidity !!

[pikkil47]

Ohio wants ant to help with the bedbug fight??? Then by god close the Senate + House of Reps and send those vermin home!!!

[Duh]

I stayed at a local BIG name hotel in Columbus and brought them home the Hotel denied that they didnt have them it was a pain to get rid of and very expensive not to mention gross

[nascargrnny43080]

I heard that taking hot steam iron all over the mattress and spring or something easier but the heat will kill.

[Paul Sites]

Ok here we go again .......... the EPA tells us what we can use to combat
bugs and fungi of all types. Even when the perscribed pesticide doesn't work they ( EPA ) doesn't make adjustments.
After raising friut in Souteastern Ohio for 35 years , I gave up . You cant
fight a charging Bull with a fly-swater , and that is what we are try to do
against new and mutated strains of insects and dieases .

Here we have Bed Bugs , and also an pesticide that will work but our hands are tied.

One other EPA shortfall.... due to the change in laws , we must not drain
or disturb " wet - lands " , what we used to call " swamps ". More accuractly " a breeding ground for WEST NILE VIRUS ., in fact if you
must drain a swamp , another of equal size must be created in the area .

Anyone thought of draining the swamp and planting trees to eat up the
CO2 that is accused of distroying the Ozone ?

[Bedbugs in Columbus]

We had bedbugs two years ago, we believe that friends that traveled and stayed in New York before coming our way brought them with them in their luggage. They are a horrible, evil little pest and it took about six months to get rid of them. We went to Niagara Falls this summer and I was smart enough to check the hotel mattress and found two bed bugs! If you travel for business or pleasure, please read up on how to identify these pests and check your room for them every time you check-in!

The two common causes for their increase is more international travel (other countries just 'live with them') and the ban of certain pesticides that were able to kill them in less time with less application.

The pesticides today can only kill the living bugs, the ones that are not hatched yet don't die...that is why it takes so long to exterminate them.

The hints I learned to get rid of them I found on bedbugger.com

[Duh]

bsj123 wrote:

ok thats all fine but most of the bed bugs are in poor areas and they dont have the money for steam cleaning and throwing away there belongings so the bugs continue the state schould step into low income houseing and hud houseing put these people in a shelter for a few days and get rid of the bugs and keep going till they get all the apts done so the poor little kids dont get ate up every night Where the hell did these things originate from anyway how did we end up with them all of a sudden. And all the people who can afford to get rid of them why are they still in your nieghborhoods get off your lazy **** and get rid of them

it don't matter if its in poor or rich neighborhoods people travel the bug it a hitch hiker they can go on your shoelace or luggage (oh by the way computers do have spell check)