On any given night, thousands of microscopic creatures known as “bed bugs” can be moving in and out of your bed and onto your sheets. These tiny insects live by feeding on human blood, although most people do not know they have been bitten by a bed bug until it is too late.
Bed bugs enjoy warm surfaces, making your bed the optimal place to hide. When crawling on the ceiling and walls during the night hours, these insects can easily fall into your bed without your knowledge. While bed bugs cannot easily climb onto beds that are placed on a metal frame, these bed bugs are somewhat clever. House pets can easily transport bed bugs to the surface of the bed. Once the bed bugs have reached the top of the bed, they simply wait until the humans have entered the bed to begin feeding; Bed bugs prefer human blood to that of pets.
Of course, the main problem with bed bugs is that you cannot see these creatures. Most humans have no idea that a bed bug has bitten them until it is long gone. When you wake up with itchy skin, you may have been the target of a bed bug feeding frenzy.
The most effective way to get rid of bed bugs is to use pesticides. Only pesticides are not designed for indoor use. Alternatively, specially trained bed bug hunting dogs can be used to search for and destroy bed bugs, but this is not entirely practical either.
If you don’t want to spray your bed with pesticides (and you can’t find a bed bug sniffing canine), you may want to look in bamboo sheets. Bamboo sheets naturally repel bed bugs without the use of chemicals or other foreign substances.
Bamboo plants naturally repel insects. Therefore, bamboo leaves naturally repel insects as well. By purchasing bamboo sheets, bed bugs can be eradicated from your bedroom in no time. With that said, be careful not to buy bamboo sheets that are mixed with other materials.
As bamboo sheets have become increasingly popular, many sheet manufacturers are trying to capitalize on this popularity. However, any manufacturer that mixes bamboo with another material does not offer consumers all the benefits of bamboo.
Bamboo sheets made from 100% bamboo can repel bed bugs. Sheets that are not made from pure bamboo do not contain the same bed bug repellent properties. Therefore, bamboo sheets are only effective against bed bugs if they are completely natural.
Bed bugs can be scary things, but you don’t have to go to bed at night for fear of being bitten by a bed bug. Instead, buy a metal bed frame, keep your pets out of your bed, and invest in some 100% natural bamboo sheets.