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True story: taking low doses of ivermectin for a few weeks will end the reproductive cycle of bedbugs, since the eggs produced are sterile/never hatch. It won't stop the feeding in the meantime , however.



You weren't joking:

> There were significant reductions in C. lectularius population size and fecundity in insects that fed on blood obtained from human study subjects up to 96 hours after they have consumed a single oral dose of ivermectin.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6901371/


Umm, works for scabies too, also an insect infection https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drugs/ivermectin/ Interesting.


As they can survive a long time even without food, it may not be a solution even in theory.




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