Comments on: One Good Reason to Buy an Organic Mattress – Bed Bugs Can’t Survive in Them

By: Autumn W Williams

Autumn W Williams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:15:13 +0000

read more information on these types of things. I like a more healthy home environment for my life.

By: bugbuster

bugbuster — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:27:29 +0000

Please post more information supporting this conclusion. There is no reference I can find that says anything about bed bugs not being able to survive in wool. Also, vacuuming, although good hygiene practice, is not a solution to bed bug infestation. This page offers tips for protecting your home from bed bugs: http://www.bedbuginfo.com/home-bed-bug-prevention-tips.php.

By: David Cain

David Cain — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:14:57 +0000

Hi,

Sorry I think you have accidentally confused dust mites and bed bugs.

Dust mites are the ones that live inside mattress and feed on human skin cells. They can be associated with an allergic reaction that resembles bites. They are microscopic and most of the images you will see are either artists impressions or scanning electron micrographs.

Bed bugs however are larger, as others have said adults can be up to the size of an apple pip. They differ from dust mites in that they actually bite people and live on human blood. The bites can be particularly nasty and if not correctly and professionally treated than can be an issue for a long time. There has been a lot of media attention about bed bugs and how they have come back from near extinction just 6 or 7 years ago to become a major problem in most major cities. One of the best things people can do is to learn the facts about them and how they can either detect them quickly or avoid them in the first place. There are some great websites out there such as:

http://www.bedbugger.com
http://www.bedbugbeware.com
http://www.bedbugcentral.com

I have no personal experience of organic mattress for dust mite problems but a simple and cost effective solution can be mattress encasements that allow the material to breath but contains even the microscopic dust mites. They are certain good for the purpose they were designed.

Hope that helps.

David

By: Clark Kent

Clark Kent — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:24:02 +0000

Damn I got good eyes. These “microscopic” bedbugs look from 1-5mm to me or like a small apple seed.

What a crock!

By: EffeCi

EffeCi — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:49:06 +0000

The entire text is an unbeliavable amount of bullshit, and I can easily guess that who wrote it knows less than zero about bedbgus biology and behaviour.
Moreover, bedbugs are entirely regardless of what material the mattresses are made of, simply because they usually don’t live IN them.
A “Organic Mattress” will became a “Infested Organic Matress” in a week or two, exactly like every other mattress.

Franco Casini
Ph.D. in Agricultural Scienze, Entomologist and PCO
Milano – Italy

By: nobugs

nobugs — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:19:06 +0000

I have a captive audience of people with bed bugs and entomologists who I’m sure would LOVE to test one of these Organic Mattresses to see if they deter bed bugs. I have never seen any data like this.

http://bedbugger.com/

By: John Slimmer

John Slimmer — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:54:15 +0000

I, too, have found nothing in Google from a credible source (university or unbiased research organization) that supports the claim that wool kills, prevents or dissuades bed bugs. I’d like to see the source for that claim, also.

http://www.ehso.com/bedbugs.php

By: Doug Sharpton

Doug Sharpton — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:33:57 +0000

please send me the data that supports your statement that bedbugs cannot survive in wool mattresses