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"We must react quickly": Cécile's advice to conquer bedbugs

2021-03-16T05:07:27.312Z


This inhabitant of Maisons-Alfort, in Val-de-Marne, is emerging from a fierce battle of several months against these crawling insects. Became in


She still regularly inspects her body and becomes stressed as soon as she discovers a new bite or a suspicious pimple.

Cécile's trauma is still very much alive.

While a study, commissioned by the start-up Badbugs, indicates that more than 1.3 million Ile-de-France residents have been victims of bedbugs since 2016, this 52-year-old ceramist remains very affected by the year of combat that she just led.

“It's an invisible adversary that gives you the impression that your home is your enemy,” says this resident of Maisons-Alfort (Val-de-Marne).

"It cost me almost € 4,000"

If Cécile has not seen any more pests in her home since September, she does not think she has finished: “It only takes one for hell to start again.

"She knows something about it, since she had to face three waves of infestation: a first in February 2020 with the arrival of a roommate, then a second at the end of March before her son finally brought some home without it. know at the beginning of the year ...

Steam, chemical, smoke, hairspray and five interventions by a sniffer dog .... Cécile has tried everything.

“It cost me nearly € 4,000, she confides, and that's not counting nearly € 1,000 of infested furniture that I had to throw away and the consumption of water and electricity for the children. some 80 95 degree machines that I had to do.

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"A physical and mental test"

This is not to mention either the psychological impact and its ups and downs: “It's a physical and mental ordeal.

My behavior is not at all the same ... For example, I will never dare to put my coat on a sofa or a bed when arriving at a friend's house.

The fear of being re-infested haunts me everywhere.

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But the main advice she wishes to pass on is "to react quickly, not to wait as soon as you are stung at night and find traces of blood on your sheets or mattress.

Watch the seams of your bedding, baseboards, curtains, floorboards, cracks ... All the rough edges near where you sleep, that's where they hide.

They love wicker, white wood, but not plastic or metal ”.

Maisons-Alfort (Val-de-Marne).

Cécile packs her clothes in plastic bags or crates to transport them to the dryer.

She washes them at 95 ° C as much as possible.

/ LP / Delphine Denuit  

Another essential recommendation in his eyes: "You have to be very rigorous, be aware that you are facing a plague and especially not underestimate it at the risk of being totally infested or re-infested like me.

"One trick among others to avoid dispersing pests throughout the house:" Centralize the laundry in plastic bags or crates to transport them to the washing machine and wash everything that can be at 95 degrees , because at 60 degrees, that's not always enough ”.

If this is not possible, “put your clothes bags in the freezer for a week at -25 degrees”.

Cécile bought three freezers to refrigerate her bags of clothes.

As for books and paintings, Cécile suggests swaddling them in transparent plastics to limit discomfort.

"Like a move ... except that we don't move"

Finally, in the event of chemical treatment, sleep in the premises, even if it is painful: “You must not, like me, desert your room, because these insects only come out to feed.

It is important to get them out and therefore to serve as bait for them as long as the products are in effect ... In short, it's like moving ... except that you don't move ”.

Cécile got rid of her bedding and opted for a metal bed rather than a wooden one, but has not yet taken the step to buy a mattress: "I always sleep in a duvet, I wait a little longer, in case... "

Source: leparis

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