BEDBUG INFESTATION!
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I feel the same way. You've heard about bed bugs in hotel rooms in mattresses even carpeting.
But now according to a report in the New York Post. They're also in the subway. At a recent department of housing preservation and development forum a city bedbug educator admitted to seeing bedbugs on the benches of subway stations. They were spotted at Brooklyn’s Hoyt Schermerhorn station, also at Union Square and Fordham Road stations.
Can they latch onto you?
They can. They can get on your clothes, into your house and infest the whole place. It's a real problem here in the city. And it's not pleasant. I've treated lots of people in the ER for bedbugs, and it can be really annoying not to mention difficult to get rid of the bugs from your house.
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Comments: 3
Question: When is it time to seek medical treatment for bedbugs? I had the experience of discovering 17 bites on one shoulder - should I have gone to the ER? (I didn't because I didn't know what they could do for it). What is the treatment in the ER for bedbugs?
What I believe is crucial to stopping the bedbug problem here in the city: BANNING THE SALE OF REFURBISHED MATTRESSES. Almost every day I see trucks piled with mattresses collected from sidewalk garbage. People are dumping these because of the bedbug infestation, and they are being refurbished and returned to the community (probably without being treated for the infestation), which just creates a cycle of the problem.
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Hi what should i do if i have a bed bug problem. Should i contact 311. do you know of any free services that can help me get rid of bed bugs.
where is the info about the guy who was working on an invention to get rid of bed bugs. He used an upside down "dog dish", powder and a blow dryer. I would love to try that invention but can not find anything about it on the wpix website. I hope someone can help.