Heat treatment for bed bugs is not a Do It Yourself project …

Although heat treatments can be effective for bed bugs, this is not a treatment method you can do yourself.

A Lexington, Kentucky woman recently set her home on fire while trying to treat her home with heat to kill bed bugs.

WKYT reports,

Carol says theyve called exterminators in before to no avail. So frustrated, Carol says her mother took action, but it sparked an unexpected problem that required firefighters to the rescue.

We found the fire in the bedroom, and then upon investigation we found that the occupant was trying to get rid of bed bugs by heating the room up to 95 degrees, says Lexington Fire Department Major Shaun Brown.

Fire officials says a camping grill was used to heat the room, essentially trying to create a sauna like feel.

An idea Carol says came from advice on the internet, but one that clearly backfired.

Unfortunately, Carols mother was trying to use a camping grill to heat the home and as delorac pointed out when she drew our attention to this story in the forums:

using an outdoor grill inside in an enclosed space poses a real risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. So she could have died in two different ways had she been unlucky.

Although Carol and her mother had received some professional treatments for bed bugs, eliminating bed bugs requires knowledge, skill, and usually multiple treatments. People with bed bugs are desperate to eliminate them. Nothing underscores that fact more than when the news reports stories of people who take their lives in their hands while trying to get rid of bed bugs.

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