Following a grueling day at work, you are looking forward to good night’s sleep. How can it be that you are now afraid to go to sleep? It started with waking up with a few bites on your arms, shoulders, and legs. The bites look red and swollen and have an even darker red center. There can also be a line of them, and they are extremely itchy. You have started to find blood on your sheets and have the symptoms of cold, and they just won’t go away. When you add all these things up, the answer points to one thing, bed bugs.
Bed bugs are now running rampant in the United States. How did you get bed bugs? Bed bugs are now found everywhere. They are found in places like senior citizen homes, schools, daycare and preschool centers, your workplace, university dormitories, hospitals, all forms of public transportation, and the places we always associate with bed bugs, hotels and motels. Two of the more common places where you can pick up bed bugs are airplane seats and at the movies. Why are bed bugs so dangerous?
Bed bugs carry diseases, such as Chagas Disease, and if not assessed and treated, can have grave repercussions. Bed bug excrement is also full of histamine. Histamine is found in the human body and will appear during an allergic reaction, and it will cause you to have a sneezing, labored breathing and a runny nose. You may think you have a cold, but all the signs of it just don’t go away. For people with a serious breathing condition like asthma, the exposure to bed bugs and histamine can have deadly ramifications.
According to a new
study from North Carolina State University
histamine levels in bed bug infested homes were at least 20 times higher than in homes that were bug free. Those levels continue to pose a problem for months after the bed bugs had been eradicated.
Don’t be afraid to go to sleep anymore. Call us today and we will come out and give you a free inspection, assess the issues and take care of the infestation before it spreads. A sound night sleep is only a call away.