Bedbug bites are very painful AND the pain lasts for days
after the bites are delivered.
I cook with electricity & refuse to have gas anything in
the house. I can smell it in any building. We have never
had bedbugs, but stayed in a motel once that had them.
That’s where I got a hard lesson about bedbug bites.
I use natural stuff for pest control. DIATOMACEOUS EARTH
is good on a lot of different pests, but you MUST be very
careful with it and be sure no one rubs it into their eyes.
I place it out of the reach of any human being. The bugs
crawl through an inch strip of it and are suffocated. I’ve
used it on window sills where I know children won’t be
playing. I’ve dissolved a tablespoon in a little milk &
fed it to the dog for worm control, even took it a few
times myself.
I have to think it would kill bedbugs if it is shaken
onto the mattress where no human being can get it on
themselves (maybe between the mattress & springs).
DIATOMACEOUS EARTH is the prehistoric skeletons of little
sea creatures. They are very white and cut the innards of
bugs when they crawl through the “powder”. It’s great if
you KEEP IT OUT OF YOUR EYES; as it also cuts the eyeball
the same way it cuts bugs to death.
I use it under the kitchen sink for roaches & NEVER see a
roach in the house. (I use FOOD GRADE D.E.)
It’s little shards of glass to the average gut.