A flight attendant has revealed a bizarre trick to find out if your hotel room has bed bugs.
There are so many things that one needs to remember when they go traveling - from their luggage to a hotel door lock and now, these tips on how to make sure you don't have bed bugs.
While we may hope and pray that the places we stay have been cleaned thoroughly, sometimes you have to check for yourself whether your bed is infested with creepy crawlies.
One flight attendant, who is a newbie in the trade, has recently gone viral after she shared some bizarre tips on how to draw out bed bugs from the depths of your mattress.
“The first thing we do in every hotel room that we come to is check for bedbugs,” Hannah, a cabin crew guru based in Chicago, explained alongside her uncle in a TikTok video.
She stated that she and her uncle always deploy a handful of tricks to make sure they're safe when they sleep.
Hannah insisted the first thing you must do is check the corners of your bed, before grabbing yourself a bar of soap - yeah, that's right, a bar of soap.
"The other thing that you can also do is put a bar of soap at the end of your bed and then leave to go and do something and whenever you come back, the bar of soap [will have drawn] out the bedbugs," she continued.
And the third tip is perhaps the strangest of them all.
“Bedbugs are attracted to your carbon dioxide that you breathe out,” she explained. "So if you're sleeping at night, they're going to come out because they're attracted to that carbon dioxide."
She then revealed that sometimes she flips up the covers and "[starts] breathing on the bed."
The flight attendant finished her video with a stern warning stating: "Bedbugs are no joke and whenever they bite you, they are painful, they are red [and] they are big and cause swelling.
"So make sure you check for bedbugs," she concluded.
Have a look at the full video below:A handful of folks took to the comments to discuss the topic further.
"The way I’ve never once checked my bed," wrote one person to which Hannah responded: "Grace baby... next time we fly together I am checking for you."
Another added: "I’ve done this for 3 years in every hotel!!"
A third even left a tip of their own stating: "For the carbon dioxide, you can also put an Alka Seltzer in a cup of water and use that to see if they come out."
There we have it guys, for your next trip, make sure to grab yourselves a pack of Alka Seltzer and a bar of soap.
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