Many people have come to believe that memory foam mattresses are the way to go in order to avoid an infestation of the dreaded bed bugs.
Memory foam early stage mattress bed bugs.
But memory foam pillows are designed differently.
The eggs hatch in 10 days producing nymphs or baby bed bugs.
To check whether your mattress is infested with bed bugs remove the comforter bedspread duvet and then carefully strip all sheets and remove a mattress protector if you use one.
The fact that the mattress is made of memory foam does not prevent bed bugs from being present on the walls of the bed mattress or sheets and reproducing there.
Membranes can make your cover impermeable to bed bugs.
The membrane not only makes the cover escape proof for the bed bugs but it also acts as a barrier between the sleeper and the memory foam which can reduce or eliminate allergy or skin reactions to the foam.
A zippered mattress cover should also have an interior polyurethane based membrane.
Bed bugs do not dig tunnels.
These nymphs feed on your blood and after every meal they shed their skin.
While many memory foam manufactures do make claims regarding the ability of the product to keep pests such as dust mites and bed bugs away the truth of the matter is.
However that might not be the case.
A lot of bed mattresses come with a design that bed bugs can easily pitch a tent and settle in.
Start looking for bed bugs slowly so that they don t fly off the sheets into the room.
But there are some high quality memory foam pillows that can be helpful.
We have mentioned that bed bugs can live on mattresses irrespective of the type.