Mattress protectors for bug in bed can protect you and your family from their bites. Find out how to choose a cover that works!
A good mattress protector is almost a necessity these days. The news is full of stories of their outbreaks in department stores, hotels and homes. One way to deter the pest and protect your family from their bites is to purchase a special mattress encasement cover.

The National Pest Management Association (NPMA) verifies that this insect are on the rise, with incidents in the United States up 500 percent over the last year. Infestations have been reported in world class hotels, multi-family housing, apartments, and hospitals.

This pest like to live in the beds of their hosts and attack their victims during the night. These tiny, bloodthirsty and relentless pests are gifted hitchhikers and they enter homes via hitching rides in the crevices of luggage, shoes and even clothing.

They also like to hide in cracks and crevices like mattress seams, openings in box springs, pillows or sheets. It is impossible to believe how quickly this pests can spread from one bed to another. They are extremely difficult to dislodge and hard to exterminate in buildings where there are large quantities of beds, like a dormitory or apartment buildings. While these type of insect do not transmit diseases, they do leave bites that can cause painful irritation and itching.
Protect Your Bed With A special Mattress Protector

The Mattress Protector

A bed bug mattress protector is an encasement that will seal off your mattress completely and are usually impermeable to dust mites, bed bugs, mold and bacteria. They help to keep existing pest trap within the encasement and prevent new ones from burrowing into the mattress where they reproduce, live and feed on their host.

These mattress covers should be left on the bed for at least twelve to eighteen months, because bed bugs can survive for up to a year and a half without feeding.

How To Choose A Cover That Prevents this type of insect

When looking for a bed bug mattress cover, it is important to find one that will cover and encase the entire mattress, with bed bug proof zipper technology so that it can offer the ultimate impenetrable protection from these pests.

Also make sure to purchase a bed bug mattress cover made from quality materials. A good bed bug proof protector should be coated with polyurethane membrane with hypoallergenic, waterproof and breathable surface. A quality bed bug mattress protector will not only protect you and your family from bed bugs bites, but also extend the life of your mattress.

Similarly, these encasements should also be use for your pillows as well.

For these mattress protector to be effective, you will also need to:

isolate the bed away from the wall to prevent bed bugs from crawling from the wall onto the bed
do not let any clothing or items hang off the bed and touch the floor, and
apply double-sided duct tape around each leg of the bed or at the bottom of the bed frame to act as sticky barrier from the crawling bugs

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