Team:Aix-Marseille/Testimonies

Testimonies

After a large mediatization several people contacted us in order to better know our goals and encourage us to finalize our project. Our team saw a great opportunity to collect written testimonies of infested people. Indeed, testimonies are more precise, then allowed us to have better feedback. Therefore it gave us the ability to better know how people faced the bed bugs situation.

With the reading of these testimonies it brought to light flats were most affected areas than houses. This is why we decided to test our trap in flats. Moreover we discovered that people don't know how to react against this insect. Indeed, people tried to struggle by themselves. Afterwhile they used insecticides but most of feedbacks showed a bed bugs resurgence. Also we observed that this problem caused many psychological disorders such as phobia, sleep disorder and paranoïa. We were particularly sensitive to these testimonies.

Hence we decided to expose testimonies which have a relevant signification.

Medhi Y. testimony

Hello, To follow up on your email, here is my testimony. "We noticed bites on our body thinking it was not just mosquitoes. We have already started searching on the Internet, and we have already found these spades. So we inspected the room, and our greatest despair, we came across these famous bedbugs, which were around eclectic catches, in the rains and many other places. After a search on the internet, we treated the room and clothes with aerosols, and treated the literature with a karcher because we had seen that they were sensitive to high temperatures. We were scratching, it is also a psychological torture to regain his lit after dark ... in fact, to know size strolls in your search for a chair, your chair cool, it is unsustainable. We got to sleep in our living room, but this is not a viable situation in the long run. "

Romain R. testimony

The only effective method I found is: Vacuum first, then pass the vapocleane all over the complaints etc ... then put a layer of insecticides out of the room. But I noticed that by putting them on, they got used to the chemical. This chemical solution is therefore just there to encourage them to leave but does not really destroy them and moreover, it represents a danger for our health. Product very harmful to breathe.

Jean-Luc S. testimony

Hello I write in total despair. For eight months we have been infested by bed bugs (1st district). We rented a steam cleaner, bought a freezer and tumble dryer, changed our sheets, box springs, pillows, mattresses. We threw away all our books and clothes. One company made 7 passes, and our apartment is stuck with the remains of insecticide products. The children are stung and unhappy. We spent thousands of euros (I also took care of the disinsection of the entire building, which is not affected) The ARS does not point us to any solution, the city hall of Marseille has no interlocutor. Honestly it is despair. All we have left is your trap.