Domestic fleas can not be counted among the desired and useful inhabitants of the home!
They attack people, bite and cause a lot of trouble.
Delay with their destruction is not worth it, because these parasites multiply with awesome speed.
How to fight?
- If the house has pets, you need first thing to bring the parasites from them. To do this, use any suitable means for this: drops, collars, shampoos. To protect the animal from fleas for a long period, it is worth using a collar. Its validity period can last 1 or 2 months.
- Having dealt with your beloved pet, go to the preparation of the apartment. It is best to do a full general cleaning, eliminating dust and pollution from all corners. This procedure will make the subsequent treatment with anti-flea drugs more effective.
- If chemicals are chosen to expel parasites, it is necessary to protect themselves and pets from poisoning. To do this, food must be removed in lockable containers, closed in cabinets and canisters. Cover the aquarium and turn off the compressor forcing air.
- Clothes and bedding should be dry-cleaned or washed by yourself.. Take out blankets, pillows, mattresses and blankets on the street and warm up or freeze depending on the season. Carpets and carpets very thoroughly vacuumed.
- Furniture push to the center of the room, remove tapestries, carpets, paintings, panels and other decorations from walls.
- Selected Insecticide process all possible flea habitats, paying special attention to the nooks. Be sure to go over the upholstery of furniture, carpets, spray the joints of wallpaper, the gap in the floor, baseboards, door jambs and window sills.
- Leave the apartment for a while, tightly closing all the windows. When he returned, thoroughly ventilate the premises so that the product would completely erode and not harm the household.
- Before returning items to the field, carry out wet cleaning. To ensure that the insecticide is washed off, dissolve any soap in water and add soda ash or baking soda. Only such a tool can remove all traces of chemicals.
- After 15-19 days, you will have to repeat all the processing steps again., as most modern insecticides do not possess ovicidal properties. Consequently, the laid eggs will turn first into larvae, and then into adult parasites. To get rid of the new generation of bloodsuckers and need to re-operation of destruction.
Methods
There are a lot of ways to eliminate unwanted roommates.
Chemical
It consists in the use of chemicals that destroy pests. The most efficient and fast way. Dust, aerosols, emulsion concentrates and crayons are used against bloodsuckers.
Professional call
The most effective method of getting rid of fleas.
Employees of special services use the most powerful toolswhich are guaranteed to destroy insects of all stages.
However, this method is the most expensive in financial terms.
Physical
Is concluded in application of very high or low temperatures.
Such agents as freezing of the premises, steam or mist treatment, scalding with boiling water are used against parasites. Boiling water can only be used with a small number of parasites and knowing where they live.
House freezing is possible only in winter. Hot or cold mist treatment is recognized as the most effective physical method.
Use of folk remedies
The safest, but also the least productive method. It is more aimed at the expulsion of fleas from the house, and not at their destruction. To do this, apply plants with odor unpleasant for parasites: sagebrush, wild rosemary, garlic, calamus, tansy, citrus. Naturally, these funds do not affect the eggs at all.
You can kill fleas only with pyrethrum powder (Dalmatian chamomile). It is scattered in the nooks and habitats of bloodsuckers and a positive result is expected for several weeks. The drug has a very low cost and absolute safety for others.
Read more about popular methods in the article.
Mist treatment
To use this method, you will need a generator. Hot mist can be generated from aqueous solutions of insecticides, its temperature reaches 65-75 °.
The smallest droplets of water penetrate everywhere and are guaranteed to reach the hidden dwellings of parasites.
Under the influence of high temperature, the work of toxic substances goes more intensively.
Cold Mist Generator works on the same principlehowever, it is devoid of equipment that heats the insecticide. Because of this, the water particles are slightly larger. They hang in the air for a long time, poisoning pests. In residential buildings, cold-mist generators are used. Hot steam is intended for non-residential premises.
Ground floor?
The ground floor is most susceptible to the attacks of fleas living in basements. To get rid of parasites and protect yourself in the future, will have to carefully seal all the holes and slotsleading into these damp rooms. A very frequent mesh can be attached to the vent.
It is also advisable to process all basements. insecticides to infer parasites. To do this, you can apply to the management company. Collective application will speed up the process.
A private house?
Earthen fleas that enter the house from adjacent sites are most often used here. Therefore, you need to get rid of them everywhere!
Mordant insects in the premises it is necessary to scatter dusts or powdersthat will prevent the penetration of new parasites inside. On earth sites it is necessary to clean any organic garbage in time, process planting with insecticides, it is desirable to spray the soil with karbofos or chlorofos.
How to get a cat flea out of the apartment?
The procedure is practically no different from getting rid of other types of fleas. Just in the first place from the parasites need to release the carrier of the scourge, that is, a cat. For this created a lot of different tools.
- Drops. They need to be applied to the skin of the withers, having parted the fur beforehand. Suitable drops such as Stronghold, Hartz, Leopard, Advantage;
- Shampoo. Use better only for animals who like to swim. Do not always completely relieve parasites, often have to be reused or combined with other means. The most effective shampoos are RolfClub, Mr. Kiss, Phytoelite, Barsik, Lugovoy;
- Collars. Not only guaranteed to eliminate fleas, but also protect the pet for a long period from re-attack;
- The sprays. Destroying parasites almost instantly, but harmful to the animal. In order not to poison your pet, you must carefully observe all safety measures. The most popular sprays are Hartz and Front Line.
After that, you can proceed to the treatment of the premises of any selected tool. Special attention should be paid to cat litter. (it is better to throw out and replace it with a new one) and the place where your pet lies most often.
If there is a child in the house?
The answer is simple: you need to choose the most safe means for people! The ideal solution would be pyrethrum powder.. Even if the baby finds it and tastes it, he will not suffer! Pyrethrum is poisonous only to insects, in the body of warm-blooded animals, it quickly decomposes under the action of enzymes and causes no harm.
Finding fleas in the house, do not be afraid or despair! Properly selected insecticide combined with perseverance and accuracy will help you quickly and without special costs to get rid of the invasion of parasites..
