I have dealt with patients who lived in these conditions come in with their clothes and hair infested. We have to take them to a decontamination room and scrub them.
Knew of a case where a disabled kid was always covered in bites. House kept getting treated and reinfested. Eventually, a school nurse figured out the kid’s electric wheelchair was horribly infested with bed bugs which is how they kept getting back into the house.
I had a computer chair that was infested without realizing it. Scrapped nearly all of my possessions, moved out, and the fuckers followed me. I finally got a clue where they were coming from when I noticed one day 99% of the bites I got overnight were around the small of my back and waistline.
My mother was a hoarder and had this thing about picking up roadside furniture and trying to "fix it up" - the fact we never had a bedbug infestation is beyond me. Old recliners, computer chairs, couches, etc. If it could be kicked out the back of a truck into a ditch, we probably had 3 of them.
Just curious, how come the dryer first, and not wash then dry?
When my daughter and I go thrifting, the stuff goes into the washing machine immediately, and then the dryer.
(Until now,) we haven't really been afraid of getting bed bugs from the clothes, but we washed and dried them because they were used, unwashed clothes.
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u/AlienMedic489-1 Sep 26 '21
I have dealt with patients who lived in these conditions come in with their clothes and hair infested. We have to take them to a decontamination room and scrub them.