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Why You Should Not Stow Your Backpack Anywhere

By Helen Price


Are you an avid backpacker? Have you just come from a sixty-day backpacking trip across Asia, traversing the mainland on overnight buses and trains, biking your way around Angkor's many temples and eating fresh seafood in Vietnam? Most individuals would enthuse about your life, and true enough, nothing beats the exhilaration of waking up in a new place each time.

Then again, after going home, you realise that you have carted with you far more than you have bargained for. Along with the tonnes of pictures and countless memories, you happen to have bed bugs as well. And this is true for just about any traveller. Inns, dormitories, hostels, sleeper buses, and trains all pose the risk of exposure to these pesky pests, which cling to clothes and backpacks and stay there well after you've come home.

Bed bugs, just like all other pests, are a nuisance to daily life, causing itch and irritation to the skin. Thankfully though, the problem on bed bugs is readily solved with effective pest control. Pest management professionals can ably get rid of bed bugs and prevent them from breeding by looking at infected spots of your home and surrounding areas and disinfecting their breeding grounds. Pest Control In Singapore requires a highly technical process, not the least because it involves chemicals not anybody could administer. This means that once you discover an infestation, do not take it upon yourself to eradicate them, spraying random chemicals that are not made for bed bug eradication to begin with.

As soon as you get rid of them, you have to assure that you at least reduce their recurrence, particularly from any of your planned travels later on. To efficiently do this, you need to take a little more caution as to where you place your belongings when out and about. Bed bugs cling to cloth, and the last thing you need to do is stow your backpack and clothing on the floor or just about any random corner of your hostel. Keep them in your backpack instead, or maybe hang them where they are less likely exposed.

Right after you get home, avoid stowing your backpack and its contents on your couches, carpets, and bed; place it on the laundry for washing. Separately wash all your soiled clothes from your travel (do not mix them with your other laundry). Wash everything else you brought with you in transit, including those you ended up not using anyway. Other cloth materials in your backpack, like pouches, also need washing because they are as vulnerable as any clothing article you have brought with you.




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