Bed Bug Mattress Pad

A bed bug mattress pad can be the perfect answer to some pest problems. They are cheap enough and can be bought to fit most common bed sizes. If you have bed bugs in your home, you will have to get rid of them, but a bed bug mattress pad can provide temporary relief from bed bug bites in the meantime. However, using a bed bug mattress pad will not work as permanent bed bug protection.

Bed Bug Mattress Pad

If you go looking for bed bug mattress covers for use in your home, you will find various types of fabric and various claims. One claim that you will frequently read is that they are '100% bed bug proof'.

A bed bug mattress pad may well be a 100% bed bug proof encasement, but it will only protect you from the bed bug infestation that lives in your mattress and possibly the box spring, if there are any in it.

Before you go out and a buy bed bug mattress pad for your bed, inspect the mattress itself. Is it damaged, ripped or torn? Have the seams split, for example? If you find any damage, repair it immediately.

You could well find that repair work will seal an infested mattress. Bed bugs are the size of an apple pip, so it is practically impossible for an adult bed bug to get through the fabric of a mattress.

If your mattress is much too damaged, buy a new, bed bug proof mattress that is guaranteed. Once you have either disposed of the old mattress or sealed the infestation into the old one, you need to eradicate the bed bugs in the rest of the room.

The likelihood is that there are many more bed bugs living behind the skirtings than there were in your bed. In this case, a bed bug mattress pad - even one with a zip - will not help a lot.

However, as mentioned above, mattress encasements or covers and zippered pillow covers, can help in the short term, while you are you applying a treatment for your pest infestation.

Anyway, you have repaired your mattress or fitted a bed bug mattress pad and pillow covers, you should now try to stop bed bugs reaching you while you are sleeping.

The two best ways of doing this are: firstly, pull your bed away from the wall and then put the legs of your bed in cups of oil. These measures will prevent the bed bugs from getting into your bed.

A bed bug mattress pad can have another useful temporary role. If you travel a lot, staying in hotels, you could take a bed bug mattress pad with you.

Surveys have shown that hotels and public transport are the most common places to pick up bed bugs. Although most hotelliers are meticulous about stopping bed bugs, they cannot stop their guests bringing them in.

You can prevent being bitten by bed bugs, by slipping your own bug proof mattress cover over the hotel's mattress for the duration of your stay.

If you still want to use a bed bug mattress pad and pillow covers at home, get good ones. Get anti allergy mattress covers that are dust mite proof, because that will reduce your exposure to allergens as well.