Felice
Active Member
- Time of past OR future Camino
- SJPP to Santiago Sept 2014
The standard response to what to do when you get bed bugs, is to wash and dry everything at 60 degrees.
But if you do that to your silk sleeping bag liner or your merino socks or t shirts or down sleeping bag, then I believe that the items would come back to you distinctly the worse for wear. The best way to decontaminate is not to wash them but to put them in a tumble dryer at high temp when all will be well.
So what do you do if you are staying at a small place in a village with no access to a dryer? Or if a hospitalera insists that everything goes through a hot wash cycle (including the rucksack) or you can't stay there, as happened to me?
But if you do that to your silk sleeping bag liner or your merino socks or t shirts or down sleeping bag, then I believe that the items would come back to you distinctly the worse for wear. The best way to decontaminate is not to wash them but to put them in a tumble dryer at high temp when all will be well.
So what do you do if you are staying at a small place in a village with no access to a dryer? Or if a hospitalera insists that everything goes through a hot wash cycle (including the rucksack) or you can't stay there, as happened to me?