How Heat Treatment Kills Bed Bugs

How Heat Treatment Works to Kill Bed Bugs

To kill bed bugs with heat, you need to raise the temperature in the rooms where the bed bugs are hanging out.  It is not necessary to heat your entire house because bed bugs are usually found within 1 to 2 meters of where humans sit or sleep.  There is nowhere for them to hide in your bathroom or kitchen and then be able to reach you when you are sitting or sleeping within the short period of time they are active during the night – usually just before dawn.

The high temperatures cook the adult bed bugs and make the eggs nonviable.  It is a bit of a time and temperature ratio when determining how long to heat your room.  It is generally accepted that all life stages of a bed bug cease at 45C if sustained for a minimum of 15 minutes.  We recommend that you sustain this temperature for at least 4 hours to penetrate deep into the dressers, the bed frame and closet.  Research has been done that sustaining a temperature of above 40C for 24 hours can also be effective over the period of four or more hours and kill all stages of bed bugs.

When using heat to kill bed bugs, there is no need to find the nests, use any pesticides, traps or diatomaceous earth. So save your money.

Sleep tight.  Adrienne