If you don’t breathe all over a hotel bed before getting under the covers, you are buggin’!
Although huffing and puffing on a mattress might seem like an odd way to start a vacation, it’s how this bedbug-phobic flight attendant is able to breathe a sigh of relief before hitting the sheets.
“The first thing we do in every hotel room we come to is check for bedbugs,” Hannah, a Chicago-based cabin crew guru, explained in a trendy TikTok how-to.
“Men are attracted to your carbon dioxide that you exhale,” said the brunette, a registered nurse and young flight attendant. top tips for attracting wild bloodsuckers to her over 50,000 virtual viewers.Â
“So,” Hannah continued, “I turned corners [of the mattress] and start breathing in bed.â€
And she’s not just blowing hot air.
Experts claim that the carbon dioxide that humans emit from our breath, combined with our body warmth, attracts bedbugs.
It has also been determined that “CO2 is an effective alternative to conventional fumigation for eliminating bed bugs hiding in infested household items such as clothing, shoes, books, electronics, couches, and so on,” by Rutgers University entomologists.
And most people would do just about anything to eliminate the pesky pests from their daily lives — especially in big cities like Paris and the Big Apple, where nuisances are known to run rampant.Â
An American Airlines passenger’s cloudy first class cruise from NYC to Detroit was recently ruined after they spotted a blood bug crawling on their leg while at 30,000 feet.
“I put it on the cocktail napkin to show off [flight attendant] who immediately informed the captain using the phone/intercom, – the publication shared on Reddit, adding a photo of the pest as proof. “Hopefully they didn’t get into my backpack or my checked bag.â€
But Hannah’s tricks take things far beyond hope.
To make sure neither she nor her online audience gets laid with the little devils while on the move, the travel pro says, “you have to pull back all the sheets and check the corners to see if there’s a bug “. € €
“The other thing you can also do is put a bar of soap at the end of your bed,” she continued. “Spin takes the bugs out.â€
And while it may sound funny, Hannah insists a nasty bug bite is no laughing matter.
“Chimaks are not a joke”, she warned. “Whenever they bite you, they are painful, they are red, they are big, they will cause swelling.â€
“So make sure you check for bedbugs.â€
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