The following suggestions should be considered when traveling to avoid being bitten by bed bugs and to prevent bringing bed bugs back home with you:
1. Before booking your hotel, check traveler reviews on popular bed bug reporting websites.
2. Pack belongings in snap and seal storage bags and consider protecting your mattresses and box springs with bed bug-proof encasements.
3. Before leaving home, spray your luggage inside and out with a bed bug control luggage spray.
4. When checking in, inspect the room. Remove linens and check the mattress, particularly seams and welts, for live bugs, shed exoskeletons and black or rusty fecal stains. Use a flashlight to look behind the headboard, picture frames, in drawers, along baseboards. If you see signs of bed bugs, ask for another room or go to a different hotel.
5. While at the hotel, keep your suitcase and possessions off the bed, floor and upholstered furniture. Store suitcases on luggage racks or tables and keep them closed. Don't lay clothing on the bed. Hang purses in the closet.
If you suspect bed bugs or develop itchy red welts from bed bug bites, notify the hotel management immediately and ask for another room in a different part of the building or check into a different hotel. It might be wise to trap bed bugs in a pill bottle or sealed plastic bag to show the manager of the hotel or motel as proof of the problem. Also, call the attorneys at The Citron Law Firm.
Our Florida bed bed bite lawyers are happy to assist in the evaluation of your bed bug bite claim. Please schedule an appointment today.
For a free consultation regarding your bed bug bite case, please contact The Citron Law toll free at 877-550-4LAW.
