You can buy covers for the matress/box springs and your pillows, yes they will go into your pillows also. You want ones that zip tight with the zipper lock, they can live for 2 years without food or air. And they can thrive in sespools so flushing them alive can cause a city wide epidemic. When my old apt had them we had to put EVERYTHING into bags and leave them in the apt while they used a combo of cedar spray and extreme heat to kill them while we lived in a hotel for 3 days. Then we had to wash all the linens and dry them in the dryer for 2 or 3 cycles to make sure they were dead v.v. And they most definitely feed on blood.