Precautions after possible exposure?
We stayed at a hotel Friday night and upon arriving home Saturday afternoon, my daughter said her arm was itchy. Sure enough, five or so little bites of some sort, but based on the location, appearance, and hotel stay, I’m guessing bed bugs. I slept in the same bed with her and don’t have any bites that I can tell, though I know some people don’t have a reaction.
The problem is that A. I can’t examine the mattress/bedding at the hotel for evidence of bed bugs (or whatever bit her) because we are now several hours away and the bites were not apparent while we were still there and B. When the bites were discovered we’d already brought our suitcase in and thrown some laundry in with clothes in hampers. The stuff was in the house several hours before we saw the bites. So we ran bedding and clothes in the dryer, vacuumed the rug the suitcase had been sitting on, and put the suitcase in a garbage bag and put it out in our detached garage for now (will probably just throw it away tbh). How many alarm bells should I be ringing right now and what else should I be doing?