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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

For more details about bedbug
Please call
08072292381
10 Diya street Gbagada Lagos- Nigeria
info@chogonfacilities.com
www.chogonfacilities.com