Immediate relief until professional help arrives:

• wash all bedding (sheets, blankets, & pillow cases). The water temp doesn’t matter but must be in the dryer on HIGH heat for at least 1-2 hours depending on how hot the dryer gets. If your dryer doesn't get very hot, laundromats tend to have dryers that get hotter than most homes.
• Remove any bedbugs seen on surfaces by picking them off and flushing them or vacuum with crevice tool around the sides of mattresses’, box springs, couches, (especially seems or folds) and around all accessible baseboards. Empty vacuum into a plastic bag, tie it in a tight knot and throw away outside.

Note removing the surface bedbugs does provide some immediate relief; but it doesn't get rid of all of them, they hide and lay eggs in every crack and crevice they can find.

 Prep List to be Done Before your Bed Bug Treatment:

Clothes & Bedding:

Have a box of large trash bags ready.

IF laundry is clean is doesn’t need to be washed but ALL laundry clean or dirty most go in the dryer on HIGH heat for a least 1-2 hours. 

• Remove ALL bedding from beds… Sheets, blankets, pillow cases, etc. and bag
• Remove ALL clothes from dressers, closets, and off floors and bag
• Remove and bag all stuffed animals.

*Bagged items -  all washable/dry-able bedding and clothes in a clean trash bag leaving room to tie the bag in a knot, preventing any escape holes and not allowing bedbugs from crawling out. You can label clean/dirty and which room they came from to keep them organized.

• When they come out of the dryer, use a new bag to but clothes in until after the first treatment. (don’t reuse bags in case a bedbug fell off clothes and sitting in the bag.)
• This will be repeated for the second treatment around 14 days later, so if you can keep clothes in bags to save efforts, you can.
• Move stored items from under bed.
• Put mattress and boxspring on sides next to bedframe.

Pictures & wall decorations: 

• Remove smaller or flimsy frames, so they can be treated easier without being damaged.
• When possible remove wand wash/dry window drapes, and re-hang for treatments.

Nicknacks:

• Declutter tops of dressers and nightstands.

Other Living spaces suck as Living rooms & Basements:

• When possible, pull furniture from the walls around 12 inches.
• Have things picked up off the floor, coffee tables and end tables.

***Make sure all pets and children are in either removed from the home or at least in separate rooms with a door shut during treatments.  Caged and aquatic pets need to be covered with a blanket before treatments.