How to avoid getting bitten and get a good nights sleep. 

 

Remember, these are just temporary solutions.  These methods do not help you get rid of bedbugs, they only help you avoid them.

 

Leave the lights on when you go to sleep. Bedbugs will think it's still daytime and will not come out for feeding. It sounds silly but it works; my family can attest to it. Just make sure your blanket don't drape off to the sides so they won't have a cover to crawl from the bottom half of your bed to where you are sleeping.

 

Sleep in the living room on the couch. Just hope you don't bring any bedbugs over from the bedroom and encounter a new host of problems.

 

Sleep in a dry tub. Pretty much the sure-fire way not to get bitten and at the same time it will greatly remind you that you need to exterminate bedbugs rather than avoid them.

 

If you have a sleeping bag from camp, line up your kitchen chairs to form a platform to lay your sleeping bag on to get sleep.

 

Buy a mattress and bedbox encasement cover.   Use them to seal up your bed.  This is to not let out any existing bedbugs you may have in your bed.  Now make sure your bed is not touching the walls, this will limit a bedbug's options at getting to you.   Next spray the legs of your bed with bedbug insecticide.  Throw your blanket, comforter, pillow casings and any other bedding items you use on your bed into a laundry machine and set it on hot wash.  When you put them in the dryer, use hot too.  If you do all this, you should be able to sleep well for at least a while.

 

These are just temporary solutions to help you rest but always try and eradicate the bedbugs for good, not avoid them.