22% humidity: it was miteyman who said it in msg 5949

[Guest guest]

He said,

" Another possibility for the entire environment - I forget who has

been suggesting drying out the environment with dehumidification.

It seems to be working well for us. You might consider spraying

windex on clothing (to avoid spreading mites as you move them to

microwave), then one by one putting in microwave. Then once the

area is clear, and all bags/boxes/closets/drawers open and clothing

treated, put a dehumidifer in and run it full time " forever "

(meaning months). I got two new dehumidifiers to join our existing

one. The new ones are Delonghi 65 pint with pump from Costco. Good

things about it: 1) you can turn it on " Turbo " and it just keeps on

going - our bedroom is down now to 22% humidity. and 2) it has pump

that can send the extracted water pretty far away to drain in a tub

or sink.

" Anyway, this seems to have been pretty effective at our house

(following Cedarcide treatments which seemed pretty helpful but I

think the dehumidification is more so).

" That way, you can dry out all the affected area at once. But make

sure everything is open so it can be dried, and don't expect it to

happen all at once! It can take a long time but it SEEMS to be

working for us after about a month. Almost no bites or crawling. "

thx again, miteyman, I'm still doing this but need ano dehumidifier

katiejill (livingwithcritters)