Health Professionals

Below are resources for reducing risk of bed bug transmission in the office, when making home visits and in shelters/group living facilities.

Bed bugs in the Workplace guidelines
It is becoming fairly commonplace to find bed bugs in public and private work places. Why? Bed bugs are small and they like to hide. Anyone could carry them into your building on their clothing, personal belongings and shoes. However there is no need to panic if you find them in your work place. Properly handled, the bed bugs can be eliminated with a minimum of
disruption to your operations.

Home visits guidelines
These guidelines are provided courtesy of the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging.

Prevention and Management of Bed Bugs in Shelters and Group Living Facilities (Cornell University )

Multi-lingual brochures: see Resources

UPDATE 6/21/2012: When suspecting items have bed bugs and eggs, it is now recommended items be washed in hot water and dried at the highest dryer setting for AN ADDITIONAL 30 minutes AFTER THE ITEM IS DRY to kill bed bugs.