[SML] Bugs on a plane!!

[Dale Farmer]

Just like hotels, anything that is upholstered can get infested.   Call 
the airlines and let them know what happened.  They can track back and 
identify the seats you used and pull them out at the next maintainance 
stop for debugging.   You are at a hotel now?  Call the hotel management 
and explain the situation.  They should be happy to help you debug all 
your belongings, since it is in their best interests to keep you from 
bringing bugs into the hotel.

Also, when you get home, immediately put every single piece of clothing 
you brought with you (Including the clothes on your back when you walk 
in the door) through the washer and dryer on the hottest setting 
available.    Anything it is not practical to launder this way should be 
exposed to sustained high heat and/or toxic chemicals.  Don't forget to 
do this to the suitcase, shoes, and your laptop and bag.    Also a long 
hot shower with lots of soap and scrubbing.  While bedbugs feed on warm 
blooded mammals, they tend to leave their walking meal as soon as they 
are done, so you are unlikely to find one on your body.

Anything that cannot be immediately decontaminated should be bagged in 
plastic and the bags tightly sealed while waiting for treatment.   There 
are a number of websites out there with good information on eradicating 
bedbugs.  The most reliable method is heat for longer than
15 or so minutes, exactly as found in the hottest drying cycle of a 
laundry drying machine.

Things that are not going to react well to going through the dryer, but 
have ventilation slots that they could crawl inside though, wrap them in 
a black plastic bag that is well sealed, and leave it someplace in the 
bright sun for a couple hours on a hot summer day.   it needs to attain 
the lethal internal temperature needed to kill the bugs.

While bedbugs do not normally carry diseases, you may want to take a 
couple photos of the bite marks and show them to your doctor.  Bedbug 
bites are typically in sets of three in a line, if they are not mostly 
like that, may be something else.

   --Dale


On 7/25/2015 10:45 PM, Kristi R-C via Stagecraft wrote:
> Sounds like bed bugs. Call the airlines.
>
> Kristi R-C
>
>> On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Chip Wood via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>
>> Just got off a 3 hr plane and 3 hrs later connected to a 8 hr plane. About 1/2 way thru the 2nd flight I noticed itching.  At the hotel I found about 20-25 distinct 1/2" very red bite marks- arms, chest,belly, upper and (ahem) lower back. BTW, my wife who was just across the aisle from me on both flights was fine.
>>
>> Have any of you experienced travelers seen or heard of this? Almost certain to have occurred on one or the other flights.  I want to help avoid this for some other passenger.  But since I don't know which flight or what bit me I don't know how to put it to the 2 different airlines or airport
>>
>> Chip 1
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