Practical steps to avoid bringing bed bugs home from a hotel stay or trip.
Call (844) 924-1337Inspect the mattress seams, headboard, and box spring of a hotel room before unpacking, keep luggage off the bed and floor when possible (a luggage rack away from the wall is ideal), and inspect luggage carefully before bringing it back inside your home after the trip. These few habits catch most risk without requiring elaborate precautions.
Before unpacking, pull back the sheets and check the mattress seams, particularly near the headboard end, along with the box spring edges and the headboard itself if it's attached to the wall, for the small reddish-brown insects, shed skins, or rust-colored spotting described in our bed bug identification guide. This takes only a couple of minutes and catches the most common introduction point.
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Using the room's luggage rack, positioned away from the wall and bed rather than right up against furniture, reduces the chance bed bugs travel into your luggage during the stay even if the room does have an issue that wasn't caught during inspection. Avoiding placing luggage directly on the bed or floor, especially near the headboard, adds another layer of separation.
Before bringing luggage back into living spaces at home, inspecting it carefully, ideally in a garage or entryway rather than the bedroom, catches any hitchhikers before they spread. Washing and drying clothes on high heat immediately after a trip, even items that weren't worn, is an additional step some frequent travelers use, since heat is effective against bed bugs at all life stages.
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Reach out when signs are recurring, hard to identify, connected to structural risk, or affecting daily use of the property. The right next step depends on the pest and setting discussed in Bed Bug Prevention When Traveling. For Guides Bed Bug Prevention When Traveling, keep the discussion tied to guides bed bug prevention when traveling and details such as pest type, rooms affected, entry points, moisture, and timing.
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