Comments on: Home Flea Control

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:34:38 +0000

I dont have any pets. I visited a friend who does and carried them home in my clothing, Ive had my coat dry cleaned to hopefully remove them. Within a week of visiting my friend my living room is infested. I read where fleas dont like to be in high traffic areas. Well in my household of 4 this is the most common used space. If you sit on the couch they bite. Playing board games in the floor with my kids I was picking fleas off all of us, even my son’s face! In the morning brushing my daughters hair I find fleas in it and dried blood. I vacuum 3 times a day. We have sprayed. Im seeing an increase in the number of fleas. Any suggestions for a pet free home??

By: Jim Mangan

Jim Mangan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 01:27:06 +0000

Take some garlique or a garlic 1000mg Supplemental pills at the vitamin section of your pharmacy it helps big time. It is odorless so ya wont go around knockin people out like ya just fini shed off a big Italian cold cut Sammich. it helps keep the fleas from biting, make it a daily thing. Also Trader Joes, has it for dogs and cats for them to take.

By: Veronica Armstrong

Veronica Armstrong — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:40:21 +0000

Frontline and Advantage don’t work. I have tried them both. Now my house is infested too, and my dog is digging so bad she is losing her hair and bleeding.

By: fuzzetiger

fuzzetiger — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:23:13 +0000

I’ve had great sucess by first vacuuming to get the little critters moving, then using a permithrim( an adulticide) spray and a then a spray with an insect growth inhibiitor which will interupt the egg, larvea and pupae stages. The chemical for this needs to be either methoprene or pyripoxyfen. Without the egg, larva killer it is a lot harder to get rid of these pests, Make sure you always read the active ingredients. Somoe sprays have both but I haven’t been able to find one lately.
I also wash everything in as hot of water as possible and dry on high.
what I can’t wash on hot, I either microwave or hang outside and spray. You need to spray under furniture beds, etc.. anywhere they like to hide away from traffic and is dark. Both sides of throw rugs, between mattresses and along baseboards. I don’t bother spraying vinyl or wood floors, just go along the baseboards, and vacuum and wash the floors..you will dee fleas for about 2 to 3 more weeks, but just vacuum and it will activate the spray and should take care of them. If you still see ‘em after 4 weeks retreat. I learned this from a home extestion agent and it had never failed me so far. i think bombs are useless because they only get exposed areas and don’t have the IGR(insect grwoth regulator). Oh yeah, whereever your dog or cat sleeps I would spray a few times, letting it dry in between.
The most important thing is to be careful, make sure you air out your rooms and the carpet is dry before reentering. Also I don’t know if it makes any difference but when we caome in from a walk I use some puppy flea spray an his feet before bringing him back in the house. Not the week after flea treating hime tho, might too much. Really hope this helps some of you, fleas are nasty things. Good Luck everyone!

By: ramona

ramona — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:20:29 +0000

We can’t get on top of our flea problem. We had both the groomer give both the dog and the cat a flea bath and we bombed the house and sprayed the car and vacuumed everythin. The next day we applied Bio-Spot to both pets.

Two weeks later the fleas were back with a vengence. We took the pets back to the groomer, who gave them a heavy duty flea bath. I tore the house apart, moving furniture, washing everything that fit in the washer, and threw away several pillows, replaced cardboard storage boxes with plastic ones and vacuumed the hardwood, the baseboards, the carpets, under the furniture cushions, took apart the sleeper sofa and vacuumed every part. Everything was sprayed with flea spray with IGR. I re-fogged the basement and the garage and sprayed the cars. This time we treated the pets with Frontline.

We watched the pets carefully and after a few days saw only dead fleas on them. That was about 2 1/2 weeks ago and the pets are scratching like crazy and I’m starting to see flea dirt and the dog is covered again. The cat has started sleeping in strange spots (she does this when she’s got fleas).

The only animal who goes outside is the dog. I thought that Frontline would continue to kill fleas for a month? I thought the spray and the foggers would kill fleas for at least a couple of months? I thought that the whole purpose of the IGR was to keep eggs from hatching and from adult fleas from being able to lay viable eggs? I thought that the various chemicals I have innudated my house and pets with would also act on any new fleas that might be introduced from the outside?

What am I missing?

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:29:44 +0000

How awful. I hope you have found some relief for your mother. Is there anyother place you could move her to?

By: Janet

Janet — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:15:26 +0000

Yes.
It’s a good idea to treat your yard, because the dogs are out there all the time.

But what I can’t figure out about what your vet is saying is…

if your already using the flea treatment on them , it is supposed to work by if a flea gets on them, it is supposed to kill the flea when the flea bites them/works on the nervous system. SO what is the point of using the flea treatment then?
If they are just going to bring them in the house over and over. It is SUPPOSED to kill the fleas before they get loose in your house. I mean we can’t go around spraying all the parks neighbors yards etc. SO we use the flea treament on our dogs instead. I think the bottom line is that the flea treatments just DON”T work a lot of the time.

By: eaten alive

eaten alive — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:03:42 +0000

I had to get rid of my two dogs.. I tried everything from home remedies to chemicals on them nothing worked.. Im pretty sure that one of my dogs were on the verge me insanity because of it.. I couldn’t see them suffer so reluctantly i choose to surrender them.. I have bombed and vaccumed daily for 3 weeks straight.. Applying carpet sprays and everything else anyone has suggested.. And again vaccuming.. But there little effers are eating my children alive literally it has gotten so bad i have them staying some where else.. Any suggestions with what else i can do i call an extermination company but the cost is completely out of my budget.. I need my kids to be cake to come home anyone with any ideas???!!! Please help

By: jo

jo — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 19:37:24 +0000

hi i too am 8months pregnant and i live in a fle infested house, i have a 9year old who is covered in flea bites and a four year old who hassent had one!! i myself am covered but not as bad as my daughter!!
the problem started about 2months ago nand has been driving me to dispair, we have one cat which frontline has not worked on!!! i have moved house three weeks ago and hoped the problem was at the old house! unfortunatly its come with us and we now actually see the fleas crawling on us! they must be in the furniture ect, i took the cat to the vet last week and got advocate for him and he has a fle collar on and afdter using various diy products which dont work i got the proffessionals in 3days ago.They blitzed my home and told me not to vacume for 2weeks so that newly hatching fleas will inhale the stuff on the carpet they told me i shouldent be bitten again after their visit, how wrong iv been bitten about the same amount as in the last 3weeks and iv found fleas in my daughters bed still!! im in complete dispair and dont know what to do next, judging by others posts the problem does not just disapear even if u get rid of the pet because the fleas just feed off the humans instead!!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:10:56 +0000

I am going crazy with this flea stuff. I am 8 months pregnant and also have a 3 yr old son. My husband and my son aren’t getting bit as bad as me & we don’t see them that often, but with all the bites on me I know they are here. I am at my wits end cuz we have bombed twice, I vacuum as much as I can, I have carpet scrubbed and washed everything. I have no idea what else to do & really don’t want to bring a baby home to this?!