A Possible Garlic Remedy?

My initial observation happened when I was making my bed, and I noticed about five bed bugs in my bed. This was strange, as bed bugs are resistant to mechanical stress by their exoskeleton. You simply can’t turn in bed while sleeping and just crush a few. They would just wriggle out from underneath you and continue feasting.

There’s no good evidence that garlic keeps bed bugs away.

I took into account what I had done the previous day. Was there anything different? The only difference to my usual routine was that I had ingested hot garlic water before I went to bed. This led me to question something and consider the tales in folklore.

We are all aware of garlic being a bane for vampires. The old stories might have been referring to blood-sucking parasites the ancestors had to live with. However, in this case you ingest a garlic tonic versus just keeping the cloves around.

There are some shortcomings. The bed bugs still come to eat you at night, and the rest of the population still has other feeding sources.