Rules and nuances of using barrier protection against bedbugs

A protection method such as a barrier against cockroaches and bedbugs is used to limit the access of insects to residential and non-residential premises. Special mechanical obstacles or chemical agents can act as barriers to unwanted guests. If you have bedbugs in your sofa, then they obviously crawled from your neighbors and you urgently need protection.

By type, barrier protection can be of two types:

• passive;
• active.

What types of barrier shield are there?

Barrier protection is a set of measures to prevent pests from entering a living space. There are different ways to control parasites:

1. Mechanical. Mosquito nets on windows and air ducts, traps and canopies over beds are passive methods of pest control. This method works until the first bug accidentally enters.
2. Repellent. Using repellent to repel arthropod guests. This element mainly repels blood-sucking parasites.
3. Exterminating. The classic fighter barrier is a professional treatment.

Traditional methods

This is perhaps the most harmless protective barrier for human health:

Traditional methods

1. Vinegar essence. Bedbugs are very afraid of its smell. It is enough to treat the furniture with the product, and parasites will definitely not appear in it.
2. Kerosene and turpentine have similar properties.
3. Wormwood is effective in the fight against bedbugs. Our grandmothers used this plant to repel pests. An apartment in which the smell of wormwood is present will not become a habitat for bloodsuckers.
4. Valerian tincture also has a repellent effect. It is enough to treat the sleeping area (bed, linoleum, window sill, heating radiators) with it and insects will not bother you.

What is a repellent barrier?

Barrier treatments of the premises are prescribed in the presence of parasites in neighboring apartments, to eliminate the constant penetration of linen bugs. With the help of special preparations, an exclusion zone for parasites is created in the apartment. The repellent effect is created by impregnating the walls with products based on repellents. They are evenly applied to the surface and create a protective shield.

Such insecticides contain enzymes that bedbugs can smell from several meters away. The protective film on surfaces lasts up to six months. This method of treating a room not only repels insects, but also affects their nervous system for several months. Barrier treatments are carried out only after thorough destruction of insects and their larvae.

Advantages of this method:

• It has been observed that pigeons carry bedbugs on themselves to the balcony. Barrier treatment will prevent unexpected guests from entering the apartment.
• If you have a parquet floor, bed bugs settle in the cracks between the boards. Repellent liquids will prevent them from coming to the surface.
• Repellents repel all types of insects.
• The drugs are odorless.

Validity period of professional barrier protection products in Moscow

Professional treatment of residential premises is carried out with special preparations of hazard class 4-5. Modern professional products have a prolonged effect and guarantee absolute protection of a residential property from insects for up to four months. These pesticides cannot be purchased by the average person and are not recommended for use on their own.

Reviews:

“I tried everything I could when cockroaches appeared in the apartment. I smeared, laid out, sprayed every day... I don’t even want to say how much money I spent on these experiments. The price of each product in the store is from 200 to 600 rubles, but how many were there? When I realized that my attempts were of no use, I turned to specialists. And, lo and behold, I even forgot what these red monsters look like!”

When is protection required?

If the premises are located close to infested apartments, the installation of barrier protection against bedbugs is required immediately. The main risk-prone objects include:

• wooden buildings;
• premises in poor repair;
• communal apartments and dormitories.

Usually, after the first disinfestation, insects do not enter human homes for a year. To perform the processing correctly, it is best to invite specialists. Experienced SES workers treat all kinds of surfaces through which pests can enter the house. On average, such events cost from 2 to 5 thousand rubles.

Electric barriers

There are also electric bed bug barriers. Such fumigator repellers have gained great popularity among consumers today, as they have many advantages:

• safety;
• long service life;
• simple method of application;
• affordable price.

Electric barriers come in the following types:

• Electromagnetic devices . They emit high-frequency waves that cause disturbances in nerve impulses in parasites, resulting in their death.
• Ultrasound devices. Bed bugs do not like their high-frequency sound, as a result of which the parasites tend to leave the room faster. However, not all reviews about barriers against bedbugs of this type are positive due to the low effectiveness of such devices.
• Aroma fumigators - according to consumer reviews, these are the most effective devices for protecting an apartment from bedbugs. They are electrical appliances that, when heated, emit a smell that repels insects.

Aquafumigator Raptor

How to process it yourself?

Not all victims of insect attacks can afford expensive services from special services. So maybe try to save your home yourself? To do this, it is necessary to use long-acting drugs with a residual effect. The most common of these chemicals is Get. When renovating a room, this drug can be added to wallpaper glue or putty. It is also necessary to treat all places where pests move:

• ventilation;
• ceiling;
• sockets and switches;
• all the cracks.

One of the easily available insect repellents is the wormwood plant. Dry branches of grass are laid out under mattresses, on window sills, under entrance mats and near pets’ sleeping places. However, this method is not more effective.

Today we have determined what barrier protection against bedbugs is and what types of protection can be used. To summarize the above, you need to remember:

• It is necessary to use an insect barrier only if you are absolutely sure that there are no pests in the room yet.
• Calling specialists will cost more, but will be more effective.

Disadvantages of using a bedbug and cockroach barrier yourself?

Using natural ingredients to repel bedbugs and cockroaches, including plants, herbs, boric acid and ammonia, will not bring much results. Some insects will probably smell unpleasant odors and leave the apartment. But in the case of red-haired and mustachioed immigrants, such a trick will not work.

As for the use of household pesticides, you should be as careful as possible. This is especially true when small children and pets live in the house. For a baby, as well as for a furry pet, a small dose of a toxic substance is enough to cause severe poisoning. Therefore, crayons, pencils, powder and gel insecticides are not relevant in some situations to create a chemical barrier.

The disadvantages of using a household barrier against cockroaches and bedbugs yourself include the fragility of the result obtained. The maximum validity period for most store-bought products is 10 days. This means that you will have to treat your apartment three times a month. In terms of cost, this can be much more expensive than the price of professional treatment of housing from insects.

Can I use bleach?

When you start cleaning the apartment, after removing bedbugs using products from the “Clean House” series, pay attention to the information below

Bleach may react with some pesticide chemicals. Reactions may result in more toxic chemicals, unexpected fumes, or other problems. If you have identified the specific product in question, ask the product manufacturer if bleach or detergent is recommended. Without proper information, avoid using bleach. Products containing sodium hypochlorite are bleaches.

How to use masks

The World Health Organization recommends:

• Wear a mask if you are coughing or sneezing, or if you are caring for someone with suspected COVID-19 infection.
• Masks are only effective when used in combination with frequent hand cleaning using alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• Before putting on the mask, wash your hands with an alcohol-based wipe or soap and water.
• Cover your mouth and nose with the mask and make sure there are no gaps between your face and the mask.
• Avoid touching the mask during use; if you do, wash your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.
• Replace the mask with a new one as soon as it becomes damp and do not reuse disposable masks.
• To remove the mask: remove it from the back (do not touch the front of the mask); dispose immediately in a closed trash bin; Clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or soap and water.

Elena Sarattseva

adds that it is not necessary to wear a mask outdoors (on the street), if you are not planning to meet with potential carriers of the virus, and at home, if everyone in the family is healthy and in self-isolation. The mask should be worn for no more than two hours.

When putting it on, unfold the folds on the mask for a tighter fit to your face. If your mask has a nose piece, make sure to fit it snugly across the bridge of your nose. If the mask accidentally gets dirty, it should be changed immediately. Use disposable masks once – that’s why they are disposable: they lose their properties and sterility and can become a source of infection.

Preventing the appearance of bedbugs in the apartment

To avoid ordering a bedbug extermination service, the price of which, although not too high, still burdens the family budget, you need to follow a few simple rules.

1. Seal all the cracks and cavities in the apartment through which insects can get to you from neighboring apartments. Regularly re-glue the wallpaper, as harmful insects often settle under them.
2. Check every piece of furniture that comes into your home. There are known cases when bedbugs were found in a new sofa brought from the salon.
3. When staying at a hotel, guest house or other temporary accommodation, immediately check the premises for bedbugs. Inspect baseboards, mattresses, sofas and armchairs, cabinets and other furniture.
4. Treat ventilation grilles and other possible entry points for parasites with long-acting barrier preparations, and do not forget to renew them regularly.

If you still need qualified services for the destruction of bedbugs with a guarantee of success, then contact the professionals - the Moscow City Disinfection Service.

Useless masks

“Often, construction or hygiene masks are sold on the Internet under the guise of medical ones. Construction ones are designed to protect against dust and dirt. Hygienic are textile products. Their protective properties have not been established or proven by anyone,” explains Elena Saratseva

.

Meanwhile, taking advantage of the hype, unscrupulous sellers claim the antibacterial and antiviral properties of non-medical products: personal protective equipment (abbreviated as PPE) and household protective masks.

Personal protective equipment is construction and other respirators and masks used in hazardous, but not biologically dirty, industries.

If the marking (or on the mask itself) says “TR CU 019/2011”, this is PPE. Depending on the degree of protection, they protect the respiratory system from dust, shavings, cement, coal, pollen, sawdust, asbestos, solvents, welding and other harmful gases, and mold spores.

The degree of protection can be marked on the FFP scale.

Only products marked FFP3, as well as products with the American N99 marking, claim protection against bacteria and viruses.

Nowadays, online trading platforms are filled with household masks. They can be called protective, barrier, hygienic. All of them are not suitable for protection against viruses.

You should not believe in the antimicrobial properties of knitwear.

Even impressive-looking masks made of thick neoprene (synthetic rubber) or masks with “ion-rich” copper fibers do not protect against viruses.

Neoprene is used in medicine, but as a material for the manufacture of orthopedic products - wherever fixation and support of problem areas of the body are required, as well as in sports medicine for rehabilitation treatment. That is, you will need a neoprene mask if you are recovering from a jaw fracture.

Sellers claim that “copper” masks protect against germs. However, a virus is not a microbe, but only a fragment of genetic code. Perhaps the “richness of ions” will help against E. coli, but will not repel coronavirus.

Household masks are suitable for motorcycling, biking, rollerblading or jogging when there is no epidemic, to protect against city dust and partially from exhaust gases. Fashion designers make such accessories for the youth subculture from colorfully colored materials with creative prints.

Professional processing and protection

If it is not possible to achieve maximum results by self-treatment, it is better to use the services of pest control specialists who are engaged in the destruction of bedbugs with a guarantee. The principle of their operation is based on the use of two main methods of exterminating parasites: cold and hot fog.

Cold Mist and Barrier Protection

This processing technology makes it possible to break down chemicals into microparticles, which cannot be achieved by any sprayer. It is thanks to this feature that insecticidal components penetrate even the most inaccessible places. As a result of cold fog treatment, the maximum surface area in the apartment becomes covered with an antiparasitic agent. The insecticide will work even if the bug for one reason or another managed to survive the treatment process. After all, he becomes a distributor of poison, infecting more and more of his fellows.

After treatment, it is advisable to install barrier protection. As a rule, these are special barrier gels that are applied around the perimeter of the entire apartment.

Hot fog and barrier protection

Hot and Cold Mist Treatment
This barrier treatment method differs from the previous one by using a highly toxic gas-like substance. Due to this, hot mist seeps into all hard-to-reach cracks, cracks, air ducts and risers. As a result, the bedbugs will inevitably die. To achieve maximum effect, leave the treated room closed for at least 2 hours. After which it is thoroughly ventilated and wet cleaned.

To exclude the possibility of repeated penetration of bedbugs from neighbors or from the basement, experts recommend barrier treatment with gel.

Features of bedbugs

These are small yellow-brown insects that feed on blood. Their appearance in an apartment does not depend on its hygienic condition; bedbugs are only interested in food and shelter. Parasites are nocturnal. The bites remaining after them are located in a straight line, along the trajectory of the bug.

The bites are painless when applied, but then cause severe itching. There is a danger of allergic reactions and disease transmission. Therefore, the fight against parasites begins at the first signs of appearance. The insects' small size and habit of hiding during the daytime make the task of extermination more difficult.

How to protect your child

Children's thin skin is especially vulnerable to bedbugs. Bedbugs find capillaries by pulsating blood. Children's skin has blood vessels close to the surface, which is why it attracts bedbugs.

Bedbug bites are dangerous for children because... the child is unable to resist scratching, and the bites turn into ulcers. Introducing an infection into them can have dangerous consequences, because the immune system of babies is not yet formed. Bites are especially dangerous for children with allergies.

Another danger of bedbug bites for a small child is that the presence of bedbugs is not immediately detected. The baby cannot describe his sensations, and parents, and sometimes pediatricians, mistake scratched bites for diathesis or dermatitis.

If bedbugs appear in an apartment where small children live, it is necessary to carry out complete disinfection as soon as possible. If immediate destruction is not possible, or the presence of bedbugs is only suspected, parents should protect the baby as much as possible, preferably without the use of insecticides.

Protecting the children's room

What parents should do if there is a risk of bedbugs:

• look around the room for nests;
• seal the cracks, glue loose wallpaper, install a fine mesh for ventilation;
• remove excess furniture, remove carpets;
• thoroughly rinse and pour boiling water over the crib;
• steam the children's mattress;
• move the crib away from the walls;
• surround the crib with traps;
• change bed linen daily;
• do not allow bed linen to hang on the floor;
• put the child in thick pajamas with cuffs;
• put pieces of fabric in the crib with essential oils of orange, clove, lavender, eucalyptus applied to them, if the baby is not allergic to them;
• put fabric bracelets with the same impregnation on the child’s hands;
• periodically examine the sleeping child at night.

Strong-smelling herbs placed in the room, an aroma lamp with essential oils, or a spray of distilled water and essential oils sprayed before bed will help.

How dangerous are bedbugs?

There is no reliable information that bedbugs can carry any diseases. However, even without this they cause a lot of trouble. When bedbugs bite, they inject an anesthetic substance, so people often do not notice their attacks. After some time, a painful swelling appears at the site of the injury, which is very itchy. The situation is aggravated by the fact that bedbugs go out “hunting” every night, which deprives a person of restful sleep, making him irritable and aggressive.

suitable products

Price for extermination of bedbugs with guarantee:

• Apartments
• Houses and cottages
• Travel outside the Moscow Ring Road

Product description

The product is made in the form of an aerosol. It is a transparent liquid ranging from colorless to pale yellow. The spray has a pronounced alcohol smell. The product is available in 80 ml metal bottles. The bottle is equipped with a convenient spray. With its help, you can easily process any room size.

Thanks to the special shape of the atomizer, the aerosol is consumed economically and focusedly. This will allow you to easily process even the most difficult to reach places. These include ventilation pipes, areas behind heavy furniture that is difficult to move, and cracks in walls or baseboards. You will be able to see the effect after treating the room with the spray in a few days. There will be significantly fewer insects, and soon they will disappear altogether.