You need to do the following:

1. All of your clothes, your bags, your briefcase, literally everything you brought into that room must be cleaned. Most bedbug infestations employ the “suitcase vector” to move from hotel to home.

2. Honestly contemplate buying a new wardrobe and charging the hotel. If they object, you could suggest they pay for a new mattress, bedding, towels and a thorough house cleaning for your home should you happen to find yourself the proud host of a bedbug infestation due to their shabby housekeeping.

3. Contact a doctor to see if you need to take some antibiotics. Read the following for the morbidity of bedbug bites:

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Extract:

“Mortality/Morbidity: Bedbug bites can create considerable anxiety and localized and occasionally systemic reactions. Sometimes, if the bite reactions are intensely pruritic, scratching with excoriations may be complicated by impetigo.

* Bedbugs may be a vector for hepatitis B and, in endemic areas, for American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease).

* Anaphylactoid reactions are well described. One case of an anaphylactoid reaction occurred in a 41-year-old businessman in a first-class urban hotel in America.”

4. Put that hotel on your list of places to never visit again.

5. Try to relax. You can deal with this mess best if you approach it the same way you approach any problem – from the beginning. Get out, get clean, get even.