Do silk sleep sheets repel bedbugs?

Adriane&Salvador

I have seen references such as "I'm packing silk just in case of bedbugs..." but am confused.. Is the silk somehow a repellant or is it impenetrable for bugs? Getting ready for our trip and wondering...

vistet

Repel, no - but the fabric is tighter wowen and it is harder to get traction on silk . Not zapped but slipping (hopefully) .Slipping is also the food (skin particles) for unwanted bedmates. Silk is also generally more translucent than for example cotton. , which makes it quicker to kill mites by hanging them out in the sun.

seventies'hippy

I think you'll have to be in a very poor/rundown establishment to come across any actual bedbugs. There might be the odd flea jumping around though,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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wonderwomanusa

Nah, I ran into bedbugs in a fairly decent "businessman's hotel" in Bhopal; a big surprise! Yech!

guerik

And I've stayed in 40rs rooms with no bug problems at all - very hard to predict where they'll be I think, unless you're at the Taj

Can you actually spot bedbugs when you're checking the room out or do they only come out at night/when there's someone in the bed?

tsargood

Yes , you can spot them, look under the mattress in the stitching around the seems, you can see clusters of them if they are there, also tiny blood stains on the walls around the bed or on the sheets are tell tale signs. Silk sleeping bags help but you must air them in the sun regularly.

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Casey

I didn't come across any bedbugs (cockroaches once, but no bedbugs). I have heard that if you leave the light on the bedbugs will leave you alone. I don't know if it is true. I have also heard that the nylon or silk of a sleeping bag will keep them away. Just don't let your foot hang over the edge.

gregornot

Namaste,

This is mt personal account of a mediation center that got infected.

I stayed at a mediation center that got infected with bed bugs, which olny could happen as some one brought them in and the quickly spread thru a couple residential quarters. Some folks get bite and nothing happens for others, it was an extremely painful experience that continued through out their stay, they were always getting bitten and we transfered the person to a different sleeping quarters. They are very difficult to get rid of #1 they can go a wear between blood meals, the can flatten then selfs into the smallness places, they can move up to 8 feet in a day. Only extreme heat(over 120 F) or extreme cold(way) below freezing. We tried putting the person's bedding thru a couple dryer cycles but that did not stop. the only know solution was/is to have a bed bug free bed with bed bug free sleeping beeding then you get four can and fill them 1/2 way or more and then putting the legs into the can/containers of water to prevent them from crawling up the legs. There were threatened lawsuits over folks getting bitten. As were observing the Five precepts not we could kill them.

The wooden bed frames were heavily covered with silicon where any crack were located. As no one can enter the mediation hall unless you have taken a course or starting one. We removed all the pillows from the hall and placed them in the back of a pick truck,the weather was supposed to be cold but it ending raining for three straight days. So good bye pillows hello landfill. Then we put notices in the course expectation email tell folk about the problem.

In the end we had to have professional pest controllers come in between courses and spray the living quarters, servers quarters, teachers quarters and the dahama hall for several time in between courses, we tore out floor rugs in some of the sleeping quarters and finally got rid of them'

The standart pratice between courses was always to completely clean, vacuum, dust, wash all the bedding so it was not that we were slackers rather some unknown person(s) brought the bed bugs in as the centers has people from all corners of the world.

When new quarters were built all beds had silicone in any cracks.

So in the ending we got rid of them, Since then I have occasional read of bed bus in 5 star hotel's and other places.

I am itching all over just thinking of the nine month battle that we had with the bed bugs. So it is going to be this threads responsibility when I dream tonight "Bed Bug on a plane"

All of the above is true, except the part about my dreams, but we will have to see about about my dreams .Perhaps it will be a tag team match of"Bed Bugs vs Snakes on a Plane""

futher info can be found here from a google search with ugly photos

still itching in my mind,
gregor

They crept into the night, none of the mercenary snakes felt the new passagers riding on their backs, as the snakes slowly began crossing the runway to the baggage compartment

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Pheta Ande

Bed Bugs are definitly making a come back.
Several New York and Boston Hotels had infestations a few months back. They even had TV shows about this!
Last winter I was stayiong at a well known establishment and I found bed bugs in my bed.This place is very clean and not run down in any sence of the word. Apparently cleanliness has very little to do with the whole issue. Someone I know whole house became infested because she stayed for a weekend in a place that had bed bugs.

I have never run into any in India!!

Nick-H

Thanks for the photos and the report, Gregor.

Ye Gods! And I think I have a hard time with mosquitoes and ants ...

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capt_mahajan

Do silk sleep sheets repel bedbugs?

probably not, but they have more fun.

LuAnnandJawahar

Yes probably the beg bugs LOVE the silk sheets...such a luxury for them. They don't care about the standard of the hotel. It can happen in any establishment. The only hotel in India where we've run across them is Bentlys in Mumbai. They aren't common so don't freak out......

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