Bed Bugs in Oklahoma are a nightmare for homeowners, renters, and business owners. At Healthy Homes, we offer a people and pet-friendly affordable treatment and guarantee for bed bugs. Bed bugs are a common household pest that feeds on the blood of humans. Bed Bugs can be found and cause problems around the world. Here in Oklahoma, we have a big problem with them, and it seems to be getting worse. Bed Bugs are small, only around ¼ of an inch in length. Their color can range from reddish to brown to a lighter tan color. They are about the same size as an apple seed but can be much smaller when young.

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They like to feed on people while sitting or sleeping and prefer to feed at night or in the dark. Unfortunately, they are experts in finding hiding spots which can make it challenging to find them. They are tenacious creatures that will not leave your home on their own. These uninvited houseguests will hide in electronics, furniture, walls, mattresses, and flooring until they are exterminated. Call Healthy Homes Exterminating and get a free inspection and estimate.

Do Bed Bugs Spread Diseases?

Bed Bugs in Oklahoma are not known to spread any blood-born illnesses or diseases. However, bed Bug bites can cause skin irritations, itching, and allergic reactions. An allergic reaction could cause your immune system to be lowered, which could cause other problems later. In addition, knowing you have Bed Bugs can drastically affect your sleep and health. I know I would not be able to sleep knowing a bug was sucking my blood in my bed at night. The CDC has said that Bed Bugs do not cause diseases.

How Do You Get Bed Bugs?

Bed Bugs in Oklahoma are pretty common, and their numbers seem to increase. They can be found in apartments, discarded mattresses, furniture, hotels, motels, schools, businesses, hospitals, nursing homes, movie theatres, and more. Essentially, bed bugs can find a hospitable home anywhere there is bedding, fabric, furniture, or flooring.

Bed Bugs don’t care who you are or how clean you are. How clean you or your home are has nothing to do with getting Bed Bugs. Bed Bugs get in your luggage, clothing, bags, and shoes. Then, they can hitch a ride with someone and get off to infect another place. At Healthy Homes, we know what a formidable opponent they are, and that’s why each residence or commercial building gets a custom treatment designed for your problem, and of course, we guarantee our treatments.

What are Common Signs Of Bed Bugs?

While adult bed bugs are large enough to be physically spotted, most people don’t notice them until they find small itchy red bites on their bodies. Bed bugs bite at nighttime when people are sleeping and leave behind large, itchy skin bumps. Most bumps will go away after a few hours, but some people have allergic reactions or digestive unrest due to multiple bug bites.

Bed Bug stains on mattress — Bed Bug fecal matter on a mattress

Another common sign that bed bugs may be in your home is small blood stains on your bedding. These occur when the bed bugs are crushed while you sleep at night. In addition, bed bug droppings are dark reddish-brown and can be seen smashed into bedding or furniture. Some people also notice a musty odor in the bedroom or notice small bed bug skins or shells left behind on their bedding, furniture, or clothes.

If you have any reason to suspect bed bugs in your home, you must call Healthy Homes Exterminating right away. The longer you wait, the more infested your home will be.

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How Can I Kill Bed Bugs?

Healthy Homes uses only the best chemicals and dust to eliminate your problem. A third-party tester has proved the chemical we use to be active and working over 90% after 12 months. So after we treat your home and kill your bed bugs, the chemicals will continue to stick around for months, killing and protecting your home.

Picture of a woman's back with bed bug bites on it — Bed Bug bites

We don’t offer heat treatments because of the risk to your home and belongings. Heat treatments stop killing the minute the heat is turned off, and if some bugs have hidden in the walls or other places that the heat can not get to 120 degrees, you get to go thru it all again. In addition, the cost of heat treatments is crazy-expensive. We prefer to avoid the risk and offer a guaranteed bed bug control solution that works without the added risk. Healthy Homes only utilizes high-end chemicals and products that safely and efficiently treat your home for bed bugs.

The chemical treatment is usually half or less than half of the cost of heat treatments. The chemicals we use are labeled to be used on furniture and bedding, so as you can imagine, it’s not that harsh of a chemical. In addition, the chemicals are people and pet-friendly as long as both are gone during the treatment.

Can You Treat Bed Bugs Yourself?

Please don’t try to treat Bed Bugs in Oklahoma yourself. All the home remedies I have ever run into have turned out to be a disaster for the occupants. You could buy chemicals and try them yourself, but it may affect your treatment later if you fail, as most do. For example, spraying with a repellent and I am spraying with a non-repellent could mess up the results. You don’t want to apply chemicals and then have a heat treatment because some chemicals could react to the heat and create a dangerous problem. I hate telling someone not to try, but it has always been a mess when people do. If someone asked me can I treat Termites myself, I would say yes, and I could recommend an excellent product and how to treat it, but that’s not the case with bed bugs.

How Do I Prepare For A Bed Bug Treatment?

Home and business preparation is essential to eliminating Bed Bugs in Oklahoma. The home or business owner needs to declutter messy rooms by picking up any clutter on the floors that could provide hiding places for the bugs. Before or after treatment, install bed bug encasements on all bed mattresses and box springs. If you need help installing the encasements, please let us know. All bedding and linens near the beds should be washed, dried, or at least dried on high. Clothing in drawers near the bed should be washed and dried too. It is best to put the bedding, linens, and clothes in tied-off plastic bags till they are washed and dried. Then throw the plastic bags away outside.

I know some companies say you don’t need to use mattress encasements or wash bedding and clothing if you use their services and my reply to that is Yuck! Even OSU recommends these steps for heat and chemical treatments. Bed bug encasements not only kill bed bugs but also protect your mattresses from future attacks and prolong the life of your mattress. Vacuuming carpets and rugs before we treat them also helps. After cleaning, take the vacuum container or bag out of the house to dump it or throw it away. If you have any questions, please call us at 918-855-9332

Can You Prevent Getting Bed Bugs?

I don’t think anyone can prevent bed bugs in Oklahoma, but there are ways to reduce your chances of getting them. For example, bed bug encasements on your mattresses and box springs can stop bed bugs from getting inside your mattress. In addition, occupants should always wash all clothing, bedding, or other fabric materials after traveling. When you buy anything second-hand, it should be shaken firmly outdoors and immediately placed in the washing machine to reduce the chances of infestation.

Have bed bugs? Give us a call, and we can send someone to evaluate your problem and provide an estimate to rid you of the problem. We will set up a time to come out and exterminate them.

How Can I Identify Bed Bugs?

brownish insects with flat, oval-shaped bodies
They have six legs
Short golden hair
Two antennae
Young bed bugs can be as small as a pinhead or sometimes not detectable by the naked eye.
Adult bed bugs can be as big as an apple seed.
They feed on the blood of mammals, including humans.
Bed bugs are small, wingless insects and like to live in mattresses. They feed on bed occupants at night.
These bugs don’t fly but can move quickly over floors, walls, and ceilings.
Sometimes the first sign of a bed bug infestation is the appearance of small brownish or reddish spots on bed linens and mattresses (droppings and blood spots)
Heavy infestations may result in an odor like a musty or sweetish smell.
Bed bugs feed on skin exposed while sleeping or sitting(face, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, etc.)