Bedbugs are small nocturnal insects that feed on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. They are urban pests that have been pestering human beings for centuries. They usually cause sleepless night, itchiness and discomfort by stinging the flesh. Many people have been toiling everyday to kill these nuisance pests but have failed. Getting rid of them can be problematic generally because they resistant to pesticides.
Worry no more, here are effective home remedies for diminishing them completely.
Baking soda.
Baking soda is an ingredient used for making baked foodstuffs. This is due to fact that are loaded with 100 percent sodium carbonate which have leavening agent. Apart from their leavening properties, they are undoubtedly effective in combating bedbugs.
Sprinkle the powder on your mattress, sofasets, and affected areas, spread on the walls, doors, windows as well. Leave the powder to sit for a week. Thereafter, oust all the baking soda with a vacuum cleaner. By vacuum cleaning, all the bedbugs plus the eggs will be quelled.
Steam cleaning
This is no doubts. It is the most preferred and effective in quelling them. Steaming cleaning do not spare even a single egg.
You can do steam cleaning in different ways. You can resort to boiling water in an electric kettle, then pour the hot water gently on the infested areas and their thriving places like sofasets and others.
Alternatively, you can buy a small handheld steam cleaner which might be quite expensive . The device creates a fog-like steam that will completely eradicate bedbugs.
Cayenne Pepper, Ginger, and Oregano Bed Bug Fighting Spray.
Ginger is renowned for its wonder including cayenne pepper. When aforementioned mixed together, have 'anti-killing' property. They cause discomfort and irritation on bedbugs hence killing them.
Here is the homemade recipe for making the spray: in a sufuria, add one cup of water, one tablespoon of cayenne pepper, grated ginger and oregano essential oil. Then put the sufuria on a source of heat to boil for about 7 minutes. Afterwards, strain the solution into a spray bottle and spray it all over the house. Reiterate spraying till bedbugs are doomed.