u/General-Yam9533

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for some advice because I'm struggling to assess the risk and I’m losing my effing mind?!

On Saturday evening I bought a second hand wooden bed frame and brought it to my apartment. It stayed disassembled in my living room overnight.
On Sunday morning I assembled it in my bedroom, put my mattress and bedding on it, and within about 30 to 60 minutes I spotted a bed bug crawling on my pillow. About 5 minutes later I found a second one on the bed frame itself.

After inspecting the frame, I found several black spots around screw holes and joints that looked suspiciously like bed bug fecal stains.

I immediately:
• Disassembled the bed frame and moved it to my balcony
• Washed all bedding and the clothes I had worn the night before at 60°C
• Vacuumed the bedroom twice and the hallway once
• Steam cleaned the baseboards in the bedroom and the area in the living room where the frame had been stored
• Steam cleaned the seams of my mattress and topper
The frame is still outside and I won't be using it again.

Some additional context:
• The frame spent only one night in the living room disassembled
• It spent about an hour assembled in the bedroom before I found the bugs
• There were some open moving boxes and bags in the living room because I recently moved
• Since removing the frame (yesterday) I haven't seen any more bed bugs
• I've slept on a mat on the bedroom floor and haven't noticed any bites so far

I'm planning to dispose of the mattress, topper and frame, and buy a new metal bed frame and mattress this week.

My questions:
Based on this timeline, how concerned should I be about the rest of the apartment?

How likely is it that bed bugs spread into the moving boxes during the single night the frame was in the living room?

Would you consider this a high risk exposure that warrants professional treatment already, or would monitoring be reasonable at this stage?

If you've dealt with bed bugs before, what would you do next in my situation?

Thanks in advance!!

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