Drop in dcb and bugs!

[Ariana]

Hang in there!!! :hug:

Sounds like you are getting ahead of this issue and thank God you found it when you did!!

[laundrymom]

If be buying a 55 gal drum of alcohol and using a garden sprayer!!
Feel for you!!!!

[Lorna]

Because of bed bugs I provide all bad clothes and don't allow parent bring here any backpacks. I'm really afraid to get bed bugs here

Would that even stop them? Couldn't they be on jackets? Plus if you provide backup clothes than they still have to come back to you. Plus what about packages of diapers? Couldn't they be in those?

[BabyMonkeys]

If be buying a 55 gal drum of alcohol and using a garden sprayer!!
Feel for you!!!!

:: :: :: - Literally

Any updates on the satan bugs?

[daycarediva]

He thinks we are ok! happyface

He took flashlights and looked EVERYWHERE. He flipped beds, mattresses and boxsprings, comforters, etc, moved furniture, looked under it, he vacuumed with this special baggie attached and looked at that. Took forever. No signs of them at all.

He did say that he couldn't declare us 'free and clear' as they may have laid eggs somewhere.

He told us to go ahead with the alcohol spray, and to vacuum/steam again for sure. He is going to recheck in 2 weeks.

So.grossed.out. This is the first time that I have seriously considered quitting childcare altogether.

[ColorfulSunburst]

Would that even stop them? Couldn't they be on jackets? Plus if you provide backup clothes than they still have to come back to you. Plus what about packages of diapers? Couldn't they be in those?

it would not stop them but it reduces the likelihood that I will get them.

[Sugaree]

He thinks we are ok! happyface

He took flashlights and looked EVERYWHERE. He flipped beds, mattresses and boxsprings, comforters, etc, moved furniture, looked under it, he vacuumed with this special baggie attached and looked at that. Took forever. No signs of them at all.

He did say that he couldn't declare us 'free and clear' as they may have laid eggs somewhere.

He told us to go ahead with the alcohol spray, and to vacuum/steam again for sure. He is going to recheck in 2 weeks.

So.grossed.out. This is the first time that I have seriously considered quitting childcare altogether.

That's good to hear. I got bitten by bedbugs on vacation once. It was awful! And the steps that you have to go through to ensure they don't infest your house was even worse. Luckily, my laundry room is detached, so no suitcases went back into the house until the clothes could be run through the dryer. I think we kept the bags sealed for like six months until we needed them again. The vacation so wasn't worth all that.

[Ariana]

He thinks we are ok! happyface

He took flashlights and looked EVERYWHERE. He flipped beds, mattresses and boxsprings, comforters, etc, moved furniture, looked under it, he vacuumed with this special baggie attached and looked at that. Took forever. No signs of them at all.

He did say that he couldn't declare us 'free and clear' as they may have laid eggs somewhere.

He told us to go ahead with the alcohol spray, and to vacuum/steam again for sure. He is going to recheck in 2 weeks.

So.grossed.out. This is the first time that I have seriously considered quitting childcare altogether.

happyfacehappyface

I don't blame you for wanting to quit. I felt like that after a DCG got lice. I was lucky in that it didn't spread but that is no where as bad and as destructive as bed bugs