Bed bugs can be killed with hot steam, and we know cases of successful removal of these parasites even with banal household steam cleaners. Nothing is surprising in this because bed bugs are the same living creatures as most other insects, so under the influence of boiling water and steam, they simply die. Some professionals use their steam generators during the procedure. They never work with a steam generator alone, but they very often use it as an additional tool for killing bedbugs.
In what cases does steam help to destroy bedbugs?
We know numerous situations in which people have completely killed bed bugs with hot steam alone. Such a result could be obtained mostly under a successful combination of circumstances:
- There were few bedbugs in the apartment;
- Insects did not have time to settle in really hard-to-reach places, but were only on the mattresses of the beds;
- The apartment was reliably isolated from neighboring premises, and the bugs themselves did not reach the apartment again.
Very often, people who are trying to destroy bedbugs on their own have high hopes for hot steam. This is understandable: they think that hot steam is not toxic, which means it is not as dangerous as chemical insecticides. In general, this is true, but practice shows that it is very hard to kill all bedbugs with hot steam without the use of insecticides. The vast majority of people who try to do this cannot get the bugs out with steam, and sooner or later they can appear again. Why does this happen, and why does the steam sometimes fail to remove parasites?
If there are a lot of insects in the house, and they hide in places where they cannot be reached by a jet of steam, then the chances of their complete extermination are also very small. However, hot steam is quite useful as an auxiliary tool for the destruction of bedbugs:
- It allows you to kill bedbugs in a matter of minutes with a jet from the steam generator. This result is not achieved even by professional insecticides – from contact with them, the bugs die in about half an hour or an hour;
- Steam kills bedbug eggs, which is what insecticide cannot do. Theoretically, if all the eggs are processed with steam, then after such decolonization, not a single bug will survive in the apartment;
- It is convenient to treat surfaces that absorb liquid with steam (floors, baseboards, wooden furniture, etc.). They will dry in a few hours after processing and will not smell, which is especially important when destroying bed bugs.
Good luck!
