Will A Hot Hair Dryer Kill Bed Bugs?
Heat is the most common way to get rid of bed bugs. Suffering due to bed bugs gave rise to the hot hair dryer as a tool to kill bed bugs. The height of the problem gave rise to several new solutions. When victims lost their belief on sprays, aerosols or powders then they started trying out their own inventions. There was just an idea that heat was the most efficient way to kill bed bugs, and they tried everything that involved heat, including hair driers. Will a hot hair dryer kill bed bugs? People have been trying the heat method since centuries. Central heating in a house is the traditional way of maintaining constant heat to get rid of bed bugs. Traditions have always been the best guidepost for most things in life.
Advantages of heat treatment to get rid of bed bugs
Hot hair dryers are being used for killing bed bugs due to the advantages of heat treatment.
- It is a non-chemical method which clearly indicates it is free of side-effects.
- It is one those few low-cost solutions to this problem.
- It is do-it-yourself, so saves the exterminator’s fees.
In spite of the above logic, the question arises: will a hot hair dryer actually kill bed bugs? Yes, it is effective, if the hair dryer is exposed to bed bugs for about an hour at 113 degrees. The heat produced by a hot hair dryer is sufficient to kill bed bugs. It can generate up to 140 degrees of heat. This temperature is capable of burning human skin the moment it is exposed to it. Use a hair dryer for small areas to concentrate the effects on bed bugs. Once you have completely eradicated the infestation, there is a reduced chances of invasion of bed bugs.
Disadvantages of using the hair dryer
- One cannot completely eradicate the bed bug infestation with a hot hair dryer.
- It can only prevent them for a short period of time and only after a long exposure.
- It is not the most recommended way of killing bed bugs. If you have other options then go for them instead of a hair dryer.
It is a well-known fact that it is very hard to kill bed bugs. Things like borax or a hair dryer cannot solve the problem. You must contact an exterminator for a real solution. Will a hot hair dryer kill bed bugs? Maybe it can provide you short term relief.
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At what temperature does a bed bug thrive? Will exposure to low temp. kill them?
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i have bed bugs i have try many diffrent ways to kill them now i crank up my heater even my electric stove would that help get rid of them i i had the heat to the max for almost 2 days please help thanx
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I have bed bugs and will kill all of them soon!
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I have bed bugs and having trouble getting rid of them. Does anyone have any ways they would recommend that has worked for them?
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I have used a hair blow dryer to kill bed bugs. I tested the temperature and time it took to heat up to certain temperatures with a meat thermometer. We did have a pro pest control person come out and spray. But there were so many bugs left alive that I started to experiment on them myself. We’ve been fighting the bugs for two weeks now. Hopefully it will all end soon!
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What wattage of the blow dryer do I get. I can’t afford an exterminator as alot of people can’t
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These bugs r so irritating! Im really breaking out because of them! Someone help me!!!
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bed bugs will die off onley after being in a tempture of 115 or more for 2 hours or longer. I have used 100% rubbing alcohol
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I had bed bugs in my couch i got rid of couches does any one no if bed bugs might of spred through house? And how would i no if they did?
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Interesting. At other sites I found hundreds of victims and several professional exterminators who use steam to kill the bugs and eggs. Five seconds at >150F does the job. Seems like a hair dryer could do that too without the wet mess.
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I am just beginning my battle with the blood suckers! So far I’ve learned removing clutter removes their homes. I found a random bug here and there in the strangest of places i.e. in shoes. I contacted my local PCO and they sold me the spray they use themselves. Heat is great but I’m sure you’re not willing to spend hours hair drying your mattress. If you can afford to have a pro come in I would recommend that. If not(like myself) sticking with the sprays, DE, Seven powder, de-cluttering your home and vacuum daily has been extremely helpful to me. I have two cats and took them to a local cat hotel for the day while I sprayed, after giving them a flea and tick treatment, and once the pesticides dried they were able to come home and haven’t had any reactions to them. I’ve also been putting my linen in the dryer daily for 20 minutes or more. Double sided tape on the legs of your bed or base of your box spring is a good indicator of which direction they’re coming from. From what I’ve been reading and advised on by PC it’s a lot of hard work and dedication to kill bed bugs and keep them gone. Good luck and thanks for the other helpful advice.
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i had them in my COUCH years back/ to make a long story short now i finally understand why some people keep plastic on couches……..
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ommggg 1 mth into moving into my new bigger apt my bf was getting bit like crazy we had an exterminator come in we threw out all out bedroom furniture. i was sleeping in my living room for 4mths finaly saved enough money to buy a new bed and 2 days later my boyfriend got bit like crazy all over his left arm!!! i was amount to have a nervous break!! back to the couch i went then we started to get itchy on the couch. i no longer have any furnitiure in my house itss empty.thank god i covered my new matress in a bedbug cover as soon as i got it. the extermintor came again but i think ima go for a steam machine. im tryin to look for other methods because i have a medical condition.Im not getting bit just my boyfriend! hellpppp
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how did u rid them @Lugi Jen:
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how can prevent from getting any nore from my neighbors apartment
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@Jackie:
Hi, i will like to know if you got rid of your little gift with the products you bougth at lo
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@Robyn:I bought some Diatomaceous Earth on line (very inexpensive)and put it every where I could think of (generously),including around the legs of my furniture and bed.Be sure to where a mask.Then I let it set like that for weeks! While I waited for the delivery of the “D.E.” I packed up almost all our clothes and took them to the laundry mat. I also put the diatomaceous earth in our dressers etc…My husband hated it and thought I was crazy cuz he was not getting bit at all. It seemed to work for a while, quite a while actually. But now that it’s winter again and since we’ve turned our heaters back on I think the little buggers have woken back up.I have no money either, so I think I will try the D.E. again first.
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You can get bit by little tiny baby bed bugs and NOT BE ABLE TO SEE THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE SO SMALL!! I have battled them for almost two years now ever since I helped an ex-friend of mine clean up an old abandoned house and brought them home with with me. To answer one of the questions above, yes you can carry them around the house if they are on blankets, clothing, or even shoes!! You can buy a powder at Home Depot in the garden department that kills them..can’t remember the name but you can ask an associate to help you!! Some of you make it sound like it will be easy to get of on your own, but you are sadly mistaken because once I think I have them taken care of, the little suckers show up…again!!! Good luck!
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WAR!! Has been in my house for seven months now. Bedbugs vs. People. I have gotten bite almost everywhere on my body, yes even my butt. I have tried exterminators, and that did not work. All it did was left nasty stains on my wall, and frustration in my household. I tried rubbing alcohol on my entire body, and that did not work I still had bites in the morning. I tried throwing away all my stuff, and that did not work. However a expert team of bedbug removal insisted that I have a specialized dog come out and locate where they were coming at in my house. After the dog made it’s judgement they heated up the whole house to 135 degrees with huge heaters. This worked and I have not had any bedbug problems. Eventhough it was expensive it was totally worth it. It’s no fun having to share a house with bed pest. I hope everyone tries this technique because it helped us out so much. Good luck everyone.
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$$$$$$ We none have it and it seems like that is what it will take to get rid of them most people just end up moving I am so traumatized by this that I will as soon as I can and I will have no furniture just a air mattress and my clothes in storage containers !!!
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oh and spraying the lgs of couch and sofas and bedframe is what u do as well. spray every wall, corner and cracks. basically just spray all around the room and close off for few days with the heat up and then u should be fine. get everything out of the room when u spray and spray all furniture and nite stands and everything u think of, SPRAY….it does work for the cost of the product..i forget the name, but its in blue container and it has small hose ( looks like spray hose from water hose) and it attaches to product and for 16.00 does work, but u need a few of them..when i say spray everything, i mean EVERYTHING>>
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where do this bed bugs come from because my house is not dirty
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I am a licensed PC inspector and I am telling you that the only thing that kills all 3 stages of bedbugs is high heat. they die at about 130 degrees, but we use heat generators and high powered fans to distribute heat all through the home at 140 degrees for hours to kill them. It is a one time treatment that will get rid of your bedbug problem. hope this helps
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@BNM:how much does that treatment cost?
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I got sick when my son ended up with bed bugs. I told him to toss out his pillows and he washed all his bed linen again. then my husband and I turned the couch over and ran the vaccume over every part of it. Under the skirting and seams. I couldn’t believe how many bugs were there. So far so good, but will vaccume the couch again. you never know if you got them all. My son said he hasn’t been bitten since. We’ll see.
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Anybody know how hot a home dryer gets? I have dried everything in my closets and dressers and done the bedding several times. I have had an exterminator come in and treat. I have seen what i thought were bed bugs, but since the bug guys did not see any sign of the nasty critters, they suggested that i may also have carpet beetles which appearently look very similar.
BTW, I went to Wal-mart to get bed bug protectors for my pillows, and found a live bed bug in the folded up pillow bag.
I’m totally grossed out and am afraid of bringing more in or carrying them to other places.
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Hi I dnt have the money 4 heat treatments or things like that exterminators are expensive 95 dollars jst 2 come out 2 look at ur house I have 2 kids on albuterol a nebulizer n an inhaler bcuz I used the spray stuff everyone is talkin about……. I heard steam is the best way 2 go but seriously exterminators shuld have discounts 4 ppl on disability or something. I’m not proud 2 b writin on here but I’m not a scum either spotless ppl get them 2….I recomend the steam treatment….. ty
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@how much is the treatment cost thks.BNM:
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how much does it cost
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@Jackie: Did the bedbug foggers from lowes work
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I have tried alot of remedies best one that really works is pure straight clorox.
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i have had bed bugs twice in the past year and they are discusting. me and my daughter get bit and they welp up like a mosquito bite. we got rid of them the first time and then the other day i was cleaning my sons room and there we hundreds of them on the curtains…come to find out they came from the curtains brand new in walmart so i called walmart and they ended up refunding me my money and thats all, i hate them but they are kinda neat to watch in a plastic baggy. i had 3 live adults and there are like 7 new eggs, 2 of which have hatched
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@sue: They can come from anywhere. Hotels, used furniture, from your yard even, and you could get one from being somewhere where they have been by them hitching a ride on your clothes. Its awful and we have them and like everyone else, I am trying to find a solution to it. I have bites on my head, and the back of my neck! Extermitators say that it has literally become a plague.
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@BNM: I was wondering what something like that would cost? I am thinking that thats the way I will go if I can manage the cost. I have a large fish tank though and pets and thats going to be my problem with knowing what to do about them during a heat treatment like that. Especially my fish. Its not like I can easily pack them up.
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@BNM: Do the big name pest control companies like Orkin use this treatment? How much is something like this one time treatment? Also, what can you do until the pest controllers can schedule the appointment? Thanks so much.
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It sounds like you have them, they start out very tiny and the older ones will come out during the day occasionally. I spray bug bombs every 3 days or so, around my bed area. I have a light coating of diacomacious Earth you can find it at mills or places where they sell chicken feed. It’s good to kill mites , fleas, ticks, and for gardens, and bed bugs, use it carefully if you use it distribute it as finely as possible, they will just walk around it if it is in piles.. cover everything you can with a thin coat of it. it keeps them out of my clean clothes, and other linens. It can be put in cracks but I have yet to find the best way to do that.@fed up:
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@santy acevedo: @santy: To kill full size it needs to reach 115 degrees for 7 minutes and 113 for an hour to kill the eggs. So turning your heat up will not help.
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hello, I am on here because sleep is an issue with me. for the past week, my hubby, one of my daughters, and myself have been getting bit by this things. I have check all over the beds and seen no sign of them, so we decided to do a bleach and vingar treatment to the carpet. well when i got back home, we have wood paneling in our room, i was sitting on the bed and I noticed something in the crack of the panel and i got a piece of paper to see and it moved so I found out where they are hiding. I sprayed the panels with bug spray and it killed them but i think that i am going to wash my walls down with bleach and vingar and spray every panel and every crack on the floor and see if that works.
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Before I begin, I urge you all to brave it out and continue to sleep in the infested area(s) of your house!!! This is because the bugs will spread and search your ENTIRE home, looking for you!!! They’re attracted to carbon dioxide (which, as you all should know, is what we humans like to breath out) and can detect it from up to five feet away. It will find you, so you might as well try to keep it as contained as possible and protect your family from the annoyence as much as you can.
WHAT YOU ALL NEED:
A PROPANE HEATER that has NO safty shut off!!! Crank your heat up in your home and set up that propane heater in the room that’s infested. (It doesn’t have to be expensive to be effective)
ZIP LOCK BAGGIES for small items such as jewelery, watches, hair ties, and small accesseries that you want to have close at hand. You can also go the extra mile and buy some large bags for your clothes. (Brand name isn’t necessary, but they must lock)
A STEAM CLEANER with a high PSI, this way you’ve got some pressure behind that heat with low amount of moisture. This is ideal for your furntiure, floors, walls, and cilings. (Yes, you MUST get the cilings, too)
A HOT HAIR DRYER so that you can quickly heat any clothing and shoes that you and your company will wear both coming and going… Remember, YOU DON’T WANT TO SPREAD IT, expecally not to friends who visit you often… You’ll just keep getting them back. (Also ideal for purses, wallets, back packs, ect.)
A CLOTHING IRON is also an effective tool, expecally if it has a steam option! This will allow those who can not currently afford a mattress protector by giving them the daily option to run the iron over their bed and box springs as well as furniture! (This is only a temp. fix and shouldn’t never be relied soly upon)
THE DETERMINATION AND KNOWLEDGE AND KINDNESS to know that just because you’ve gotten rid of them DOES NOT give you an immunity to them!! A good way to prevent bed bugs from re-entering is to bite the bullet and spread the knowledge that you are infested! Then help those who have them by giving them helpful tips, mental support, and physical help! If you have a useable heater, then offer it up for your friends to use. (Try every trick you can think up, even if it doesn’t work)
A LARGE BEER because killing bed bugs is hard and stressful work.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE TREATMENT SUGGESTIONS SHOULD ALWAYS BE MONITORED!!! DO NOT LEAVE YOUR HOUSE UNGUARDED AROUND AN OPEN FLAME!!! Your house might burn down, and while that will kill the bed bugs 100% garenteed, it will also leave you homeless in the process.
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@BNM:
Dear BNM, Your an inspector ??? What kind ? What exactly is a PC inspector ? Personal Computer inspector ? You are giving BAD advice and stating wrong facts. Bed Bugs Die at 113 degrees Not “about 130″. They die relitively quickly, within 15 minutes however it is their eggs that are the hardest to kill off as they can withstand the heat for an hour. So, you need to have you home heated to a tempeture of at least 115 degrees for a recommended time of 3 hours. The heat must be constant and steady and well circulated within the home. You want to be sure and treat with heat at least 2 times and a third to be most effective. There is just to much wrong information being supplied by so called experts on threads like this. You can’t help people with mis-information.
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how do you use clorox fo this bedbug problem thanks for your suggestion.
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@bug hater: My husband brought them back from a trip he took to Florida. His sister had them now I am getting bite by them. I tried a small steamer and I thought it worked til I got bite on my shoulder. I set off a bomb in my room, and Im gonna do that for the next few weeks. I hate getting bit.
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In March 2012, I was sleeping and when I woke up, to my surprise… I had three welts on my hand. I thought they were mosquito bites and didn’t think much about it. Then a week later, my boyfriend came back from vacation and the next day when he woke up, he had a couple of welts on his leg and on his back. They were extremely itchy! This problem continued for about a month. Finally, we got sick of this and contacted an exterminator with a bed bug sniffing dog. Don’t fall for this scam! It is extremely expensive and all the dog did was find the problem that we had all along. We asked the exterminator what exact treatments their company would do to kill the bed bugs. We declined the service, they wanted to charge $1000 buck for this service! We thought it was a little too steep a price for the service. So… we went to Kmart and purchased a steam cleaner for 69 bucks and I also purchased a mattress protector with a zipper. We also borrowed a kerosene blower 125 btu… it is currently blowing 120 degrees. We are currently heating our apartment and its been almost three hours. We are hoping this works. I also laundered all the pillows and blankets with hot water. I also boiled watered and put bleach in it. I mopped the whole apartment with it. We will keep you guys updated on how this whole situation goes. It is definitely frustrating and it is embarrassing to go out in public with these ugly itchy welts. It feels itchy just thinking about it.
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@Char: Could you please give me the name of that spray you have been using cause I am having some problem with these bed bugs and and I’m trying to get rid of them please help
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