School’s Resumption Don’t Bring Bed Bugs Home
Following CHOGON FACILITIES PEST MANAGEMENT STANDARD’s well received Don’t Bring Them Home for Travelers and Bed Bugs & You we have developed this information sheet to address the concerns of parents in regard to hitchhiking bed bugs and their children.

School is essential for a child’s education and socialization but it can be a spot of limited bed bug transmission. First, understand that schools are not infested and experts agree that significant bed bug populations cannot become established in schools. However due to the daily school trip and interaction especially in the lower grades it is possible for a bed bug to hitch a ride home and then in a home environment establish itself.

Bed bugs are most likely to be brought home in knapsacks or on coats
• Backpacks: try not to leave these piled up with other children’s belongings.
Try to keep them isolated or in a large clear plastic bag.
• When brought home keep knapsacks in a sealed plastic bag or sealable
Tupper ware type container or plastic bin.
• Do not take school bags to the bedroom or couch.
• Once a week put in the dryer, on high for 30 min. this will kill bed bugs & eggs
be sure to empty bag first and inspect items as you go. Watch out for crayons!
• For young children do the same with clothing, bags, shoes & stuffed animals.
• Coats: Don’t put coats in pile with other children’s coats or cloths. Drape over a chair instead of stuffing inside cubbies. Once a week run coat through dryer and perhaps bag or isolate it upon returning home.
After school activities
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If your child goes to another’s home follow the same precautions.
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Do the same if children frequent your home after school, especially
if you know someone has bed bugs.




Be mindful not to attach any stigma to having bed bugs especially for children.
The stigma will make them feel ostracized
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Educate yourself on what bed bugs look like.
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Be informed about your schools bed bug protocol.
Good prevention steps are inspection and vacuuming while being careful to contain and discard the vacuum bag.
UNFORTUNATLY SHOULD BED BUGS FIND THEIR WAY HOME CONTACT
CHOGON FACILITIES PEST MANAGEMENT TEAM

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Bedbugs: They're On The Increase and They Want to Feed on You! What You Can Do About Bed Bugs!

If you stay in hotels, motels, rental houses and bed-and-breakfasts then you should read this page that tells you how to check whether the place you are staying has bed bugs, and what to do to prevent taking bed bugs home with you from your trip. Studies claim that bedbugs are more prevalent in cheap hotels and motels)
How do bedbugs feed?
Bedbugs are generally most active just before dawn. Their peak feeding period is about an hour before sunrise. They do feed at other times, too.
If all of this isn't enough to give you insomnia, consider this: they often climb the walls up to the ceiling and then jump down on their human victims, when they feel the warmth of your body and the presence of carbon dioxide rising up.
The bedbug pierces the skin of its host (you) with two hollow tubes. With one tube it injects its saliva, which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while with the other it withdraws the blood of its host. After feeding for about five minutes, the bug crawls back to its hiding place. Normally, the victim won't feel the bites until minutes or hours later, as the skin reacts to the injected agents. The first sign of a bite usually comes from the desire to scratch the bite site.

Although bedbugs can live for a year or as much as eighteen months without feeding, they typically seek blood every five to ten days. Bedbugs that go dormant for lack of food often live longer than a year, well-fed specimens typically live six to nine months. Low infestations may be difficult to detect, and it is not unusual for the victim not to even realize they have bedbugs
How to recognize symptoms of bedbug bites
Since bedbugs inject an anesthetic so you won't feel them bite, you generally will only notice their bites after they have gone back into hiding. The bedbug bites usually affect only the surface of your skin, leaving a small itchy red raised mark. Sometimes the bites appear in a line or cluster, when the bedbug feeds repeatedly.
You might find the lesions in a linear or clustered fashion, indicative of repeated feedings by a single bedbug. Patterns of bites in a row or a cluster are typical as they may be disturbed while feeding. Bites may be found in a variety of places on the body.
It can be difficult to distinguish bedbug bites from other insect bites. Bed bug bites usually:
• are red, often with a darker red spot in the middle of the bite
• Itch
• appear in a line or clustered together
• are located on the face, neck, arms and hands
Some people have no reaction at all to bedbug bites. People who are allergic to the bites may see a reaction in their skin, like larger, itchy bite marks (as big as 6 to 8 inches across - 20 cm), blisters, sometimes filled with pus and other marks of an allergic reaction, like hives
Protect yourself and your luggage from bed bugs
• Remove the bedspread from the bed (it is rarely cleaned),
• Encase pillows in dustmite covers or bring your own, encased pillows,
• Keep your suitcases tightly closed (hard suitcases are better than fabric) except for the moment you need to get something out.
• Keep all of your luggage elevated on the metal luggage stand. (Bed bugs cannot climb smooth metal). Also pull the luggage rack away from the wall. This will reduce the likelihood of the bugs crawling up the wall and getting into your luggage.
• If there is no metal, folding luggage stand, use an ironing board to store your luggage.
When you get home
• Do not take your luggage into your home
• Unpack the suitcases outside or in your garage
• Immediately wash all washable clothes in how water and dry in a dryer
• Put dry clean only clothes into a plastic garbage bag, seal it tight (tight the opening in a knot) and take to the dry cleaners.
• Empty the suitcase outside, and thoroughly inspect and shake it out.
• If the weather is below freezing, leave the suitcase outside overnight

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