Here's a BBC news that reports on a study about bed bugs that is so confusing that I can't make out what is really being suggested. At the beginning, there is this: "bugs cannot survive in the warm, dry conditions found in an unmade bed" Unmade bed is bad for bugs, and good for you, atleast that's what the news seems to imply, which is quite strange. Another paragraph down we see this "The warm, damp conditions created in an occupied bed are ideal for the creatures, but they are less likely to thrive when moisture is in shorter supply." In other words, if you don't sleep on the bed, bugs won't survive.
Let's reduce this to the basics. Bed bugs need moisture and skin peelings to survive. So, if you could please keep your body properly scrubbed and your bed clean and dry, your own self and others at your home may suffer less from allergens emitted by these little bugs. Perhaps, there may be some things we can do with the design of houses and beds that'll help. And, that's what is being researched about. Here's the link to the original press release from Kingston University. I still can't understand it. You may.
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Dust mites are not bed bugs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug
So let me get this straight . . .
Bed bugs really prefer beds. So, if you keep your bed from being anything like a bed, the bed bugs won't like it.
OK, I guess that makes sense.