Air mattress and boiling infested clothes and bedding

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Like Myrtle says, take that article of clothing that you feel bites from, and then put it in a big pot on the stove and boil it. Boiling it, will kill the mites AND the eggs. You can buy a huge tamales pot from Walmart for about $10. Also, you can buy an Ozark air mattress, twin size, in the camping section at walmart for about $10. Put your regular bed away, or dump it, until this infestation is gone. I can very easily put the twin size air mattress in the shower and hose it down, in less than 3 minutes, front, back and sides and top and bottom. This bed helped me so much. And like Myrtle says, you can also soak your clothes in the washing machine. Try to get the temp up to 130 degrees. Try to soak for 2 hours. I also do the rinse cycle in the 130 degree water. Test the temp with a candy thermometer. I find that I don't need so much

detergent, bleach, or borax if I do this 2 hour hot soak. Mel Mel myrtle_maui <myrtle_maui@...> wrote: Because you are pregnant and have a young child, the pesticide soundstoo dangerous. I have used Best Yet Insect Spray from Cedarcide withgood results, both in my environment and on my skin. Since you haveonly had the problem for 7 days, you have a good chance of getting ridof it quickly, as long as you act as soon as

possible. I have notcompletely gotten rid of my problem yet, because my initialinfestation dragged on too long while I used flea poison on the mites.My skin is deeply infested and I'm still trying to kill off theparasites inside my skin. I am not going nuts anymore however. Haveyou figured out how the mites got into your home? Were there birds onthe roof or something? Aya!You have to do something about your mattress. If it is infested,which it probably is by now, you should either dump it and get an airmattress, or seal it up tightly with heavy-guage painter's plastic,with every crack taped with duct tape. Otherwise you will continuallybe re-infested by the bugs in your mattress.Your cotton clothing, sheets and towels have to be soaked for longperiods of time to get the bugs out. The mites lay their eggs in thecotton and it's very hard to get them out, even in the washer anddryer. Some people soak their

clothes overnight in plain water, but Isoak mine in the washing machine, with detergent, borax, vinegar andbleach for a MINIMUM of one hour. My washer will stop mid-cycle if Ileave the lid open, so I don't know if this would work for you. Ifpossible, switch to polyester, nylon, or acrylic clothing, thesmoother the fabric the better. If your towels aren't properlysanitized, you will re-infest yourselves with your towels. Don't usetowels more than once. You can buy micro-fiber kitchen towels and usethose as bath towels, or you can dry yourself with a hairdryer. Orelse buy small car-washing towels and use those because they take upless space in the washer. Same problem with cotton sheets, you willre-infect yourself if there are eggs in the sheets -- if possible,switch to the "satin" (polyester) sheets.If you put on an article of clothing, and feel crawling, remove thearticle of clothing immediately and put on

something else. Sometimesit takes an hour or so for the crawling to start, because the eggs arehatching.Good luck. It sounds like you may have caught this early enough toget rid of it quickly -- please let us know how you're doing.myrtle>> We have discovered birdmites 7 days ago in our house. They got into > our bed, close,bodies,everywhere... I washed all the close and put it > in plastic bags. We shower and dress into clean close and they are > still there!!!! I think I'm going to have nervous break down!! I'm > also 33 weeks pregnant and have 3 year old son. Is there someone out > there who acctualy had them and got rid of them for good??? Would > cedarcide help???? My father in law recomended malathion(highly > toxic!)...I

woul try anything at this point! Please help!!!!!!>