Best tube bandages according to redditors

Tubular Stretch Bandage?

Commercial name Surgifix

No need to wash it with hydrogen peroxide twice a day. If you really feel the need to clean it all that often you can use sterile saline or just soap and water honestly. The antibacterial ointment is okay.

If it isn't open or draining any fluid you don't really have to put a bandage on it, unless the rubbing of your pants opens it up, or it is painful without a dressing.

If you still feel the need to keep it bandaged, I suggest a 4x4 gauze (or two depending on the size) wrapped with something like kerlix around your thigh to keep it in place. Don't use an ace bandage or those stretchy wrap bandages because they will tighten throughout the day and can cut off circulation.

you could also keep the gauze in place with a piece of stockingette. Just cut some and it is like a little sleeve you can slip around your thigh over the gauze pads.

So many options! You should be able to pick this stuff up at any pharmacy, walmart, etc.

**2 mini ice packs inside tubular stockinettes (I forgot the name yesterday but they weren’t ordinary stockings) Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Medline-MSC9506YDH-Medigrip-Tubular-Bandages/dp/B009I383TK/ref=mp_s_a_1_11?keywords=tubular+stockinettes&qid=1569889682&s=gateway&sr=8-11

Put ice inside and tie it around your head

(Holy crap, this is a long answer!)

Yes. And the ClimpUps work even better if you lightly dust them on the insides (both compartments) with Cimexa.

Previously people used baby powder or DE (diatomaceous earth) to lightly brushed the insides of these with.

Since you hit on one of my key strategies (sleeping bag instead of free-range bedding), I'll tell you another. But I think ClimbUps are the way to go for you. (You have a serious infestation, no furry pets, and lots of floor space.)

The ClimbUps were/are not ideal for me because:

1. My bedroom is tiny and I kept banging into the traps with my foot and cracking them open
   
   
2. My fluffy border collie produces nonstop dog hair dust bunnies. Within a few days the traps were heaped with dog hair. The bugs may have been able to use the fur as a ladder in and out of the traps.
   
   
3. I had a very low volume of bugs to intercept. Even if I could see past the fluffs of fur, all I found in the traps were ants and other unidentified non-BBs. It wasn't as satisfying of a capture as I hoped it would be.
   
   So I created my own "smaller footprint" traps that sort of visually blend in with the slender metal legs of my bed.
   
   
4. Got 4 frosted glass votive candleholders made of thick, strong glass. They fit around my bed legs with about a 1/2 inch to spare all the way around.
   
   
5. Had some of this stretchy fishnet bandage tube stuff laying around, and made a sleeve for each votive: https://www.amazon.com/Retelast-Tubular-Elastic-Dressings-Restraint/dp/B00XNDAVUU/ref=pd_sim_328_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=WFQAFCFFW5X3FSG85VKB
   
   Made the sleeve large enough so that the BBs would have something to climb up the outside of the votive, with a little diving platform over the edge so they would drop down into the votive.
   
   
6. Dusted each votive lightly on the inside with DE (will redo them with Cimexa when I get it).
   
   
7. BF lifted up each bed leg so I could put them in place.
   
   I know the glass is somewhat "dangerous" on the floor, but I was more likely to cut my foot on the big plastic ones.
   
   I'm picky about how things look, and my fishnet votive traps blend in so well that I keep them there.
   
   The little ledge of fishnet on the inside helps keep the dog hair out.
   
   Technically my smooth, metal bed legs are a deterrent in and of themselves (because they can't climb super smooth vertical surfaces, but I wanted to also trap the mofos.
   
   If they couldn't get up the metal legs, they might have opted to climb up the walls and dive bomb me.
   
   So I keep the votives there as a preventative for any future ones that come into my life.
   
   I read (from "pirates") that if you have them once, you are more likely to get them again. I can't put my finger on what the logic could be, but I'm a believer.
   
   

It's supposed to look like a snake skin.
https://www.therpf.com/forums/attachments/img_1403-jpg.1025037/
I figured out a fairly inexpensive and reasonably close build using wound dressing:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00XNDAVUU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_C7LiDb86BBEG1
Any gray dye can be used to darken it. Once it's dry again, stretch it a little with your fingers and then flip it inside out. Looks just like snake skin.
Pretty close metal tassels can be found on Amazon, too. https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B06XQHLMZM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_r-LiDbE5W1050
I've seen people buying snake skin scarves and others just using a wide shoe lace. A little work can get nearly screen accurate though.
Good luck!