The health unit is issuing a reminder not to bring any extra critters back from your March Break travels.
Bedbugs tend to hitch a ride on anything they can before coming home with you and wreaking havoc.
Some ways to protect yourself:
- Don’t put your luggage down on the floor or on the bed – put it in the bath tub, or on the luggage rack.
- Check the bed – mattress, zippers, seams, cushion tufts, and in behind and around the headboard.
- Check the furniture and walls, furniture frames and cushions using something with a hard corner or edge, like a credit card.
- Check in behind paintings, posters, mirrors, as well as around mouldings, trim, baseboards and window frames.
- Check cracks in plaster and peeling wallpaper.
- Take a close look at electrical outlets, light switches, phones and clocks, as well as all the carpeting rugs.
