17 surprising ways you can bring bed bugs into your home

Your home is your castle, and there's nothing worse than having unwanted guests on your turfespecially the insect kind. A bed bug infestation, in particular, is bad news because the insects flattened bodies allow them to fit into the smallest of spacesroughly the width of a credit card, according to WebMD. That means there are many ways that you can bring bed bugs into your home. Here are 17 of them.Secondhand furniture is a common way for bed bugs to spread.Bringing home secondhand furniture is a risk because if the items are infested, the bed bugs will spread through your home, according to the EPA. And, despite their name, bed bugs don't only reside in beds. They can hide between cushions on sofas and in the seams of chairs and couches, according to the EPA.Secondhand clothing poses a bed bug risk.Thrift shoppers, take note: Bed bugs can reside in used clothing. Put any secondhand garments in the dryer on a medium or high setting for one cycle once you bring them home, according to Scientific American. This will zap the bugs.Hospitals can be havens for bed bugs.If you think hospitals are gross, here's another reason to be squicked out: According to a survey by the National Pest Management Association, more than a third of US pest-management companies responded to bed bug infestations in hospitals in 2012.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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