Bed bugs & CPAP

Donna 1946 wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 11, 2020 10:07 pm

So, I have a CPAP and bedbugs. We have had professional treatment 3 time and will get 1 more next week. I am beginning to suspect the cpap, given the site where I am finding evidence of them. I live in Brooklyn and it is December, thus it will not be warm or cold enough to put the cpap outdoors. My son puts his clothes in the freezer after he comes over here, and I am wondering if I could put the cpap in the freezer and if so, how long will it need to be in there?

The good news:

• Electronic devices that have been infested with Bedbugs, can be treated with cold temperatures. Put your electronics into a sealed bag, and put the bag into your freezer for a few days. You need to ensure the device all the way to the core achieves a temperature of 0°F.

The bad news:

• You can't use this technique on CPAP devices, or any electronic device with LCD displays. Long exposures to such frigid temperatures will damages LCD displays.

https://www.bedbugs.umn.edu/bed-bug-con ... s/freezing

Having said that, the only way I can think of to treat a bedbug infestation, in a CPAP device is with an Ozone device. Pick up a cheap ozone device, and treat it. Recognize, for regular cleaning of CPAP devices Ozone is not recommended, they are unnecessary and harmful for both you and your machines. But for a one/two application that's not enough exposure to harm your CPAP and if you use the Ozone device in the garage or outside, and stay well during treatment you'll be fine too.

From what I understand, home freezers don't get cold enough, and you risk escaping bed bugs crawling into your food.

Heat works.

My daughter's roommate brought them into their shared apartment the first year of medical school. The roommate knew her home was infested and didn't say anything when my daughter started complaining of strange, itchy bites that turned out to be bed bugs. When the girls went home on Christmas break, her roommate brought back stuffed animals loaded with eggs, and the infestation that was controlled started up again. It took months of misery and multiple applications of pesticide to get them under control. It was a horror show.

Heat KILLS bedbugs at all stages. My daughter treated all of her items by sealing them in black plastic trash bags and leaving them in her car as soon as the weather got warm. In Las Vegas, warm is well over 100 F and that makes temperatures inside a car well over 130 F. Since that's difficult to do in most of the US in December, you can buy a heating unit about the size of a suitcase and put things in there like this one: https://www.amazon.com/ZappBug-CECOMINO ... 221&sr=8-5.

I'm not sure how the electric components of a CPAP will do in heat, but it's worth a try. You certainly don't want to treat your CPAP unit with pesticides and then breathe that in all night.

ephraimh wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 08, 2017 9:58 am

We have them.

I've been told that they are very fond of CPAPs.

Some MORON must have told you that!

SDBud wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 22, 2020 1:50 am

Some MORON must have told you that!

Bed bugs feed only on blood and must have regular blood meals to survive and develop. They are hitch hikers so you brought them into your home from somewhere. It wasn't your CPAP machine that they were looking for.

Yes, they like to nibble some tasty tushie.