Fleas can be very irritating, nasty and disruptive pests to have
in a person's home. Fleas are the parasites, usually 2 to 3 mm long that pierce
the skin of the humans or pets to feed on blood. The larvae of flea feed on the
organic matter stick to the unhygienic beddings or carpets, hence maintain
proper hygiene can slow down the life cycle of fleas.
If you have small bug
bites and itchy areas and pets that keep on scratching themselves constantly,
then it is quite an indication that your house is having flea infestation.
There are several ways through which fleas can get in to a home and there are
many methods to get rid of flea. Let us explore some of the effective methods
of flea control in home.
Flea infestations require multi-faceted plan of treatment
that includes:
Finding out the source of flea.
The first step of flea control in home is to find out where they
came from. The most common source of flea is pets that have been outside.
Control the flea infestation in your pets by using anti-flea products such as
flea shampoos, flea collars, flea dips, flea powders and sprays and flea pills.
Flea pills or oral medications for pets such as Program and Sentinel have an
action of stopping the breaking of the flea egg to prevent emerging of larva.
6 Steps to Controlling Fleas in Your Home
Once you have controlled the source of infestation, it is
time to clean up your house from fleas. The flea eggs, larva and pupa reside on
the carpets, living areas and beddings, hence it is important to do flea
control in the entire house to ensure complete eradication.
The 6 steps
include:
- Washing: The first step involves washing all pillows, pillow cases, blankets, rugs and other things that are likely to be exposed with hot water and laundry detergent. Throw away pet beds as they may be highly infected with flea.
- Vacuuming: To completely eradicate the flea from your home, it is important to daily vacuum the thick carpets and other living areas. Vacuuming will help get rid of eggs, larvae, pupae and adults and collect them in a flea collar to kill them.
- Flea Sprays: Flea sprays such as Flea Stopper flea powder are used in the infested areas to dehydrate and kill fleas in their stages of life cycle.
- Liquid treatments: You can successfully do flea control in home by using a residual insecticide concentrate that helps in controlling adult flea, and an insect growth inhibitor (IGR) that helps in preventing the development of larvae. Some of the recommended IGRs are Martin's IGR, NyGuard IGR and Precor IGR.
- Flea Stoppers: Flea Stoppers Carpet powder is directly sprayed in to the carpet areas which helps in killing fleas.
- Natural ways: Some of the natural powders that can be used for flea control in home are rosemary, pennyroyal, rue, eucalyptus and wormwood. These are sprayed in areas where you cannot do effective vacuuming.
Flea control in home is a long process but effective
management can help in eradicating the problem.
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