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President’s Prescription: Bed bugs – WAFF-TV: News …

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Bed bugs infest as many as one in 10 households, and while infestations peak during the summer, many homes may still have a bed bug problem in the winter. Here with the signs of infestation and prevention tips is Dr. Tedd Mitchell.

Bed bugs, those critters your mother warned you about at night are real, and infestation is on the rise. Some people have severe reactions to bed bug bites, but many have no reaction at all. Since bed bugs only come out to bite after dark, they may go undetected for long periods of time, eventually infesting other furniture, clothing and multiple apartments within a complex. Here are some tips for detecting and preventing bed bugs in your home.

Check your bed frequently. Look for the small reddish-brown bugs with a flashlight at night. Newly hatched bugs are smaller than a stitch hole and may not be seen with the naked eye. However, adult bed bugs can grow to the size of an apple seed.

Travel smart. According to a study by the University of Kentucky, nearly 100 percent of hotels and motels will have a problem with bed bugs at one time or another. Check for bed bugs before you take your clothes out of your luggage and go to sleep. When you get home after a trip, wash all of your laundry from traveling immediately with warm water, and do not mix it with the rest of your laundry.

Remove clutter. Experts believe that the majority of infestations originate because the home is messy. It is important to wash laundry and not let it pile up on the floor, put on fresh bedding regularly and remove barriers from upholstered furniture that may leave it unused for long periods of time.

Winter is not the prime season for bed bugs, but it is a great time to take steps to prevent future infestations in the warmer months. Resolve to remove clutter and clean furniture and bedding now. If you suspect you have a problem, call an expert immediately or the infestation may get worse. For maintaining good health, I'm Dr. Tedd Mitchell.

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Assured Environments Attends the 2015 Global Bed Bug Summit in Denver, Colorado

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NEW YORK, Jan. 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- From January 7-9, 2015, Assured Environments, the NYC/New Jersey area's most in-demand pest management company, will attend and participate in the Global Bed Bug Summit held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Denver, Colorado. This annual event provides pest management industry professionals with up-to-the-minute information regarding the legal, business, technical and customer-related aspects of eliminating bed bug infestations in commercial and residential buildings.

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Vice President of Operations for Assured Environments Mr. Andrew Feldstein presented a lecture at the summit on the topic of "Regional Differences in Bed Bug Service Models." He was accompanied by a panel of experts and Faye Golden of Cook's Pest Control. With bed bug infestation rates varying significantly among U.S. regions, Mr. Feldstein emphasized how these regions differ when implementing specific service models, protocols, business and training philosophies concerning elimination of bed bugs. Following the presentation Mr. Feldstein and Ms. Golden initiated an informative and thought-provoking discussion panel on how pest management companies can better address the widespread bed bug problem in the U.S.

Since 2000, Andrew Feldstein has been the Vice President of Operations for Assured Environments. Mr. Feldstein has nearly 15 years experience working in the pest management industry and previously worked as the NYC Branch Manager for Rentokil, Inc, a pest management company in Great Britain. In addition to holding the position of VP for Operations at Assured Environments, Mr. Feldstein is also the current president of the Plainview-Old Bethpage Soccer Club.

Vice President of Sales at Assured Environments Mr. Michael Bohan provided this statement: "Assured Environments is proud to have Mr. Feldstein address the Global Bed Bug Summit in Denver this year. As an expert in his field, Mr. Feldstein's lecture is sure to deliver detailed information about how different regions of the U.S. approach bed bug infestations as well as offer insights into the latest methods the pest management industry can capitalize on to provide the best customer service possible."

For more information about Assured Environments and the services they offer, visit http://www.assuredenvironments.com

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Bed bug warriors gather in Denver summit

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Rose Eckert-Jantzie of ZappBug places a suitcase into the ZappBug Oven 2 on display at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. The portable heat treatment enclosure heats the suitcase and its belongings to 120 degrees. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)

"Don't let the bedbugs bite" carries a much different meaning for about 450 people who gathered in Denver on Thursday and Friday for a conference dedicated to fighting the loathsome pests.

Bedbugs, a bane to humans for millennia, had mostly faded from public concern in the United States in recent decades, until they returned with a vengeance around 2000.

A lot of the institutional knowledge to detect and treat the bugs had vanished, and conferences offer a way to share the latest research and treatment methods, said National Pest Management Association vice president Jim Fredericks.

The Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel hosted the Global Bed Bug Summit in December 2013 and again this year, not because the problem is any worse in Colorado, but because of the state's central location, he said.

Bedbugs, whose bites can trigger itching and skin irritation, aren't disease transmitters like mosquitoes. They focus on humans, making cross-species disease transmission rare. And when they do bite, they tend to feast on the one or two occupants in a bed.

When the blood they ingest contains HIV, hepatitis or other viruses, they metabolize the pathogens in some way that hinders transmission, noted Stphane Perron, an environmental health scientist with the Montreal Public Health Department.

The larger and still underappreciated danger from bedbugs comes in the mental toll they take on those suffering infestations, or who believe they are, Perron said.

Bedbugs hit humans in the most intimate of settings, their beds, and when they are most vulnerable, while asleep, making them harder to escape than, say, mosquitoes or ants.

A Montreal study of people in vulnerable populations, like the ill and elderly, found those facing bedbugs infestations were five times more likely to suffer anxiety and sleep deprivation.

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Woman allows bed bugs to feed on her for 5 years, makes game-changing discovery

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia Regine Gries has been bitten by more than 1,000 bedbugs each week for the last five years and she allowed it to happen.

In fact, Gries welcomed the 180,000 bites.

Now her literal blood sacrifice has paid off.

She and her husband Gerhard, both biologist at Simon Fraiser University in Vancouver British Columbia, say they have figured out how to attract and repel the bloodsucking parasites.

It turns out bed bugs communicate by odor. The researchers have been able to identify that histamine effectively repelled the creepy creatures.

They also discovered five odors that attract bedbugs and could be used to draw them into death traps.

Thats where Regine Gries blood comes back into the story. She sacrificed her own skin night after night as part of the experimentation process to feed the bugs they were using in their research.

But her blood, sweat and probably tears may all have been worth it for people plagued by the beasts.

A Victoria British Columbia company, Contech Enterprises, is now developing what is being called the first affordable bait and trap for detecting and monitoring infestations.

Contech expects it to be commercially available next year.

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