If you throw away the mattress outside, it walk into other house or some homeless person will take your mattress away. It will only multiply the number of bed bugs into different house hods.
It isn’t just you mattress that can become infested. Every miniscule crack in the bed frame is a hiding space for bedbugs and eggs.
These Are the Steps that You Should to Clean Your Mattress from Bed Bugs:
- Vacuum
- Sanitize every inch of bed frame
- Spray rubbing alcohol into every crack in the frame (this kills the eggs),
- Tear a hole in the mattress box-spring (somewhere inconspicuous)
- Completely clean out the inside, every little inch, and sanitize it with alcohol.
- Buy an approved bedbug spray from your local hardware store
Follow directions carefully and spray your bed down. Make sure you know how long you need to wait before being able to use the bed so that it is no longer toxic (could vary from 12 hours to a few days).
You may want to use an inflatable mattress for the time being.
Wrap Your Mattress Up
Once you mattress and bed frame has been treated, buy a thick plastic cover to cover your entire mattress. Make sure there are not holes in your plastic cover, because these tiny bloodsuckers can still go inside the mattress and multiply again.Do the Same for Your Pillows.
Wash Your Bedding Every Day
Wash all bedding in HOT water, and pop them in the dryer on the hottest setting until they are bone-dry. You should wash and dry, using the hottest settings, ALL bedding daily until the infestation is over.Sanitize Yourself
Make sure that you, and your bedtime clothing, is absolutely clean. Keep your pyjamas clean and wrapped in plastic until you put them on. Make sure to shower or wipe yourself down before getting into bed. Don’t allow pets in your bed until the bedbug problem is under control.More Tricks
There are certain tricks you can do to keep bedbugs away. For one, move your bed away from the wall. Since these are crawling bugs, they need a path to your bed to infest it.Another trick is to put the foot of every bed post in a small container of oil, such as baby oil. This stops bedbugs from being able to climb up the posts and onto your mattress.
Use double sided tape (or expose the sticky side of tape) around bed posts to stop bedbugs in their tracks. This is useful to find out where the bedbugs are coming in from in your room, by placing some along walls, floor boards, etc.
Being diligent about a cleaning routine will allow you to sleep tight, and not let the bedbugs bite.
The information about bed bugs that I have researched, collected is to help the growing numbers of bed bug sufferers.