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Important facts I learnt today about bed bugs!

I was telling a colleague about the time my sister and I were coming home from overseas and did an overnight layover in Shanghai, and my sister's bed had bedbugs in it. And my colleague (who travels LOADS) told me two main things:

Bedbugs don't live in the mattress or the sheets, they live in the bed frame, in any cracks or hideyholes there are, like in the joins etc.

Bedbugs will only come out in the dark.

So therefore, if ever you find yourself in a place that has bedbugs, you can do two things to prevent being bitten:

Take your sheets and pillows, and sleep on the floor -- preferably on tile, if the room has it, but just get away from the bed.

Sleep with the lights on, and the little fuckers won't come out at all. They hate light, so just leave the lights on and put on an eyemask or wrap a t-shirt around your head or something, and sleep with the lights on. Insta-fix.

She also told me that the couple places she's stayed in with bedbugs, she told the staff the next day about the problem and they then gave her free breakfast and took all her clothes to be laundered free of charge, so make sure you tell the folk if you ever have this problem. Quite aside from informing them of a serious health and sanity problem, they give you free things as an apology.

She also said that if ever you get somewhere and they have the furniture out in the sun, then the place knows they have bedbugs, and think that putting the furniture in the sun will kill the bugs (pro tip: it won't. The bugs just hide. Literally the only way to get rid of them is to fumigate the furniture), so if you ever see a place sunning their furniture, maybe just call it and find somewhere else to stay.