Spring Break Travel Tips!

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So, this time of year is full of spring break travelers.  Are you one of them?  Here's a few tips to protect yourself from bed bugs:

• Thoroughly inspect your hotel room.  Look for evidence of actual bugs, fecal spots, skins, and eggs.  Most evidence will be found within a 5 foot radius of the bed.

• Check mattress seams and along piping, between mattress and box springs, behind headboard, along baseboards, night stands or other furniture near the bed, behind pictures on the wall above the bed, and in the curtain seams and folds.

• Inspect closets before hanging up clothes.

• Keep your belongings in your suitcase and keep it elevated on a luggage rack away from the bed and wall.

• Examine your luggage before leaving and again when you return home.

• Place clothing from your luggage immediately in the dryer at the highest setting for at least 15 minutes when you return home.

Have safe travels, and as the old saying goes, "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs bite!"


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