Can you get bed bugs by using a washing machine that was used by someone with bedbugs?

Answer 1

In theory, yes. The hot water is not sufficient to kill bed bugs, so if any remain in the clothing after the spin cycle but are left behind when clothes are removed, the next user could acquire them. The second user would have to super-dry their clothes (high heat, 40 minutes after completely dry) to kill the newly acquired bedbugs.

In practice, no, it is extremely unlikely that any bugs would remain in the machine after multiple rinses and spin cycle.

Answer 2

Extremely low to impossible - Because the way most people first unwittingly introduce a bedbug problem into their own home is by bringing something like second hand furniture or luggage into their home from elsewhere when a female bedbug has laid her eggs inside, such as from where they stayed somewhere when on holiday. The eggs the bedbug laid therein will be stuck to a hard surface on which it remains until the nymph hatches. Only after hatching will the newly born bedbug nymphs detect a sleeping person from his or her breath and it will make for there for its first meal, and then set up its home close to where the person sleeps and so possibly initialise an infestation of that bed many weeks later.

Also in the very unlikely event that somebody's dirty sheets in a launderette did have live bedbugs hiding in them, and the bedbug not moving when the bedding is put into the washing machine, when the machine starts up and the washing cycles happen any live bedbugs in there are almost totally certain to be killed by the water, detergent and/or heat during the wash.

So the only conceivable way this might happen would be if somebody's dirty sheets from an infested bed, prior to their dirty sheets being washed were in close proximity to your bedding removed from tumble dryer after it had already been washed and before you took it home because a live bedbug moved across into yours from theirs. But the chances of this happening are extremely unlikely.

Answer 3

It is very unlikely that bedbugs would survive in the washing machine. Especially after a hot water cycle. To be sure, take some rubbing alcohol and thoroughly wipe down the inside of your washer and dry any clothes immediately.

Answer 4

yes bed bugs can be transmitted through the dryers. It is important to dry your clothes at high temperature for a period of at least 30 minutes. Otherwise you risk infestation!

Answer 5

No they do not live In washers or dryers because the heat will kill them and the soap and the cold or hot water is to much to handle. They are mostly on beds

Answer 6

Yes