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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh - I was just planning a trip to one of my favorite thrifts but then saw this message. Will dry cleaning kill bed bugs? [/quote]

It is believed to, but I read an article recently saying that drycleaning in Perc. kills them, but that there haven't been any studies investigating whether newer, more environmentally friendly chemicals do as well or exactly what protocol needs to be followed to be effective.

Of course, you would really need to be careful how you handle anything you think might be infested before it gets cleaned. And I wish people dropping off infested and potentially infested stuff would use some drycleaner other than mine, because their buggy laundry is unlikely to be effectively quarantined before it gets treated even if "the drycleaner is cool with it"!

There should be a way to kill bedbugs in clothes in the dryer (read up on how hot it needs to be for how long), but of course, you'd have to keep things quarantined up to that point.

But yeah, bringing used items into your home is risky, especially if those items have been kept in the same place as a lot of other used items. And if the thrift store's workers live in homeless shelters or other infested homes themselves, that's another way bedbugs could have been brought into the shop.
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