First, if you have bed bugs infestation in your apartment, contact your apartment management for treatment. Bed bugs easily move from one apartment to the other, so they might need to treat more than one apartment.
These are the steps that you can do to help you get a better sleep.
Equipments or items you will need:
 Vacuum cleaner with bag (not the bag less version)
 Black trash bags with string
 White trash bags for clean items (with string)
 Mattress cover (the cheapest one, under $20, at Target made from vinyl material)
 Clear packaging tape ($1 from Dollar Tree store)
 Flash light
 Rubbing Alcohol (put into a bottle sprayer)
 Soap, brush and water
 If your mattress rest on the floor, find things to elevate your mattress. o Example: metal bed frame (with box spring) or wood bed frame is fine just please make sure it is clean. o Bed bugs traps:
 4 small containers/bowls (enough to fit the foot of the bed or bed frame)
 4 big containers/bowls (small bowls should fit inside the big bowls)
 Masking tape
 Baby or talcum powder
You can purchase these items at Dollar Tree Store or even you could use containers like empty tuna cans.
 If your mattress rest on the floor o Masking tape o Double tape (the double tape for carpet is better)
Steps:
1.
Inspect your room for bed bugs hiding places, crack and crevices, around electric plug, behind pictures, furniture as chairs, couch and drawers. Use flash light if needed. Things to look for are the bugs themselves, and the light-brown, molted skins of the nymphs. Dark spots of dried bed bug excrement are often present along mattress seams or wherever the bugs have resided. Do not move the stuff yet, this is important to decide what to do next. Example if you find bugs in your clothes drawer, it means you have to lauder all your clothes and clean the drawers.
2.
De-clutter your room. Put your stuff in black trash bags if you see bed bugs around them. Tie the trash bag so the bed bugs cannot escape. You can put the bags outside in the hot summer sun for several days so the bed bugs will die, and inspect them before you put them back to your room. Inspect the furniture thoroughly.
If you see bed bugs, you can spray them with alcohol. Test on a small section of furniture to see if it stains; wood surfaces finished with lacquer or varnish may be damaged by alcohol. Alcohol kills on contact, but it does not remain on the surfaces to continue killing bedbugs. It has a dehydrating effect, so it may have some effect on eggs in multiple treatments. If someone visits with a suitcase, or you return from travel, spray the suitcase as well. After using the alcohol spray, make sure the room is ventilated and everything is dry before you sleep there.
3.
Carefully remove the bedding: pillows, pillows covers, blanket, bed sheet and bedcover. Put them in the black trash bag and tie them. Lauder them with hot water and dry with dyer for minimum 1 hour. After all clean put them in white trash bags and tie them, mark it as clean items. Inspect your mattress, if your mattress is vinyl, you can spray it with alcohol too.
4.
Disassemble your bed: head board, foot board and the bed frame. Wash and scrub them with soap and water or spray them with alcohol.
5.
Vacuum your bed and entire room thoroughly, use the vacuum attachment.
Pay particular attention to seams, tufts and edges of mattresses and box springs, cracks and crevices, behind pictures, furniture and gaps between floor and wall.
You can spray all with alcohol, too. Couch is difficult to treat, vacuum every detail. If you have heavy infestation on the couch, you might have to dispose it, cover and mark the couch so that others will not take it. Afterward, dispose the vacuum bag in a black sealed trash bag.
6.
Carefully cover your box spring with vinyl mattress cover, if you tear the cover, sealed it with clear packaging tape.
Sealed the zipper with the tape too. If your mattress has tears or holes you need to cover it with mattress cover, too.

This cover will make sure if there is still bed bugs in the box spring or mattress they will die eventually. Remember adult bedbugs can stay alive without feeding for about a year.
7.
Cover the crack and crevices with caulk or clear packaging tape.
8.
Make bed bugs traps:
 Cover outside of the big containers/bowls with masking tape or glued fabric.
 Dusted the inside of the big bowls with baby or talcum powder. Dusted outside and inside of the small bowls, too.
 Put the small container inside the big bowls.
9.
Assemble the clean metal or wood bed frame in the clean room. Put the feet of the bed frame inside the bed bugs traps. Set up your covered box spring and clean mattress. The side of the bed cannot touch the wall. The only way bed bugs get to you is by the traps. The bed bugs can crawl in the big bowl but cannot get out because the slippery inside of the bowl and cannot climb to the small bowl.
10.
Put the clean bedding, and have a good night sleep!
Over the next few day you can put your clean stuff back in your room, make sure there is no bed bugs or their eggs in your stuff. Make a habit of cleaning and vacuuming once a week or at least once every two week. Change your bed sheet and pillow case every week.
Bed bugs also sensitive with heat, if you have a steamer, you can kill them by steam clean you mattress, couch or carpet.
If your mattress rest on the floor, you can follow the same steps, but instead of make traps, tape the perimeter of your mattress with masking tape (to protect the floor). Then on the top of that tape the double tape (double tape for carpet, works better). Do not step on the tape when you go to sleep. Bed bugs have to pass the double tape to get to you, so they will get stuck on the sticky tape. Change the tape when it is not sticky anymore.
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Compiled by Lian Foe