So you had a bed bug problem and it has been resolved or maybe you haven’t had a bed bug problem but don’t want to take any chances.  A very good method of preventing and keeping your bed bug problem in check in your bedroom is to use a proven mattress encasement.  These mattress encasement’s come in various shapes and sizes to fit any type of bedding.  Make sure you get a high quality encasement that will last for years.  After all you are going to have your bed for that long.  What a good mattress encasement does is to totally enclose your bedding so that if it has been infested the bed bugs have no where to go and die off.  Also if you are trying to prevent an infestation of bed bugs this encasement will give them no where to hid in your mattress or bed spring.