When we were children our parents often sent us to bed with “I love you and don’t let the bedbugs bite”. Bedbugs are now a national epidemic and not necessarily the produce of an unclean environment. Instead they are passed on in people’s clothing and in luggage. Clothing & bed sheets have to be washed in how soapy water & dried in a hot dryer. Then the bed and whole area have to be scrubbed. May have to fumigate and call an exterminator. Article by Mary Jo Fulton, MS, RN and will be CONTINUED NEXT BLOG.