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Establishing a sleeping habit for your new pet dog should be dealt with from the beginning, particularly when you have a pup that will grow into 150 lbs in a few more months. Sure, they appear to be snuggly in bed and it’s great to have the company. But you will not want your dog to be sleeping on the bed with you all the time.

For one thing, dogs may be the cause of your mattress immediately becoming susceptible to bed bugs and other allergens. Because dogs shed hair and has been to many areas on foot, indoors and outdoors, naturally, they carry a substantial amount of dirt when they climb on bed with you. 

Made of high density foam material, the mattress topper is two inches thick. As it is a memory foam, it easily contours to your body’s shape, offering better support. The mattress also promotes air flow as you lie in bed. Materials are hypoallergenic and anti-microbial, so you are protected against molds and and bed bugs. Priced between $399.99-799.99

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Here’s a mattress cleaning system that will clean your mattress getting rid of those nasty bed bugs out there.

Hygienitech’s® Mattress Cleaning System is based on a powerful, specially engineered portable cleaning device that generates incredible suction and high frequency pulsating waves, combined with a germ killing UV-C light* to pulverize and extract the dust mites and other harmful debris that have accumulated in the mattress.

The older the mattress is, the worse the contamination. And it doesn’t matter how often you change the sheets or even if you’ve tried vacuuming the mattress yourself, there could be millions of dust mites along with other harmful bacteria and contaminants deeply embedded.

Those tiny creeping bugs are hardly seen by the bare eye yet they attack unsuspecting victims so aggressively. Although they are not carriers of deadly diseases, finding them on your mattresses can be discomforting. So, how do you get rid of bed bugs?

First, it’s good to understand that getting rid of bed bugs is a process and must require patience. The most effective way of dealing with these pest is seeking the help of a professional pest control agency. They have the right tools, chemicals and equipment to handle this. So, you may also require a budget set aside.

This is an indication of how bad bed bug infestation is in some parts of New York City. New York Shitty took photos of an assortment of mattresses disposed on the street side one night, and in just one night - we should stress. Some of these mattresses are covered in plastic and carton, perhaps because it has been infested with those pesky bed bugs.Says New York Shitty:

Business leader Mattress Discounters recently gave fifteen new mattresses to the homeless institution, Focus House. The shelter has to contend with intermittent bed bug infestation that instead of helping the homeless find refuge and avoid sleeping in the streets, they end up getting bitten by the pests in the comforts of the shelter.

The shelter has been established to help the homeless become productive citizens. Normally, people don’t have a lot of sympathy for them but  hopefully, this gesture by the mattress company will inspire others to do the same.

If you would like to donate anything, you can go to Focal House’s parent organization www.fishcarson.org.

I don’t mean to spoil your day but I just discovered this website whose advocacy is to increase awareness, provide a support group or be the information portal regarding bed bugs. The site has all kinds of stories and updates, including even successful bed bug stories (yes, there is such a thing!). They also have a gallery of photos of people who have been bitten by those pesky buggers, such as this:

Visit Bed Bugger to participate, read up or gather information.

This is good news to hoteliers and people who enjoy staying at hotels.  If the bed in which you lie on, and from which all other people lie on, is from Mattress Safe® — it has just been recently accredited to be bed bug resistant:

A “Bite Test” and a “Penetration and Escape Test” were performed on Mattress Safe’s “Ultimate” Zippered Encasement by a certified entomologist to 1.) determine whether the bed bugs can actively feed through the fabric of the encasement and 2.) to discover whether the mattress encasement can be used as part of a bed bug exclusion or inclusion process.

This formed part of a press release that the National Pest Management Association had for Halloween. But I’m sharing the more important points, since even when Halloween has passed, these tips are applicable in your households all year round:

While these pests can provide their fair share of scares, NPMA recommends tips for homeowners to limit their trick-or-treaters to neighborhood children, and not the local pests, this Halloween:

1. Keep an eye out for tiny blood spots left behind by bed bugs. They can be found throughout the house, and are not just limited to bedrooms.

We’ve really got to learn to appreciate what we have, for other people not only lack the right mattress to sleep comfortably; they only have bed nets smelling with insecticide to be able to sleep without worry. And what they worry about isn’t just bed bugs but disease causing insects.

The Global Fund says insecticide-treated bed nets are one of the most cost-effective ways to prevent malaria transmission.

Recently published studies show a combination of bed nets and treatment can reduce malaria transmission by as much as 90 percent in areas with high coverage rates.