Complete instructions for eliminating household fleas in an apartment

Features of flea control

Fleas, both jumping on the floor and hiding in the pet’s bedding, directly on his fur, multiply unusually actively. Authoritative sources advise, in addition to treating animals, to use floor cleaning products for fleas. This way, parasites will not be able to move around the house, hide on the floor or in the cracks between the boards.

Otherwise, after successfully curing a dog or cat of fleas, the insects will “suddenly” appear again: all this time they have been hiding in secluded corners, waiting for the right moment for the next attack. How to clean the floor from fleas will become clear later.

Where can you find parasites in an apartment?

Fleas live on the body of animals (cats, dogs, birds), but where to look for eggs and individuals that are in the larval stage.

Due to the fact that the flea lays eggs on the fur of pets, and soon the eggs begin to fall off, ending up on surfaces in the room, it is necessary to carry out complete disinfection of the premises.

Knowing what flea larvae look like, they can easily be found in secluded corners:

The larvae choose places where there is food, sometimes they are found in flower vases, flower pots, containers for storing vegetables, under the trash can.

Advantages and disadvantages of using essential oils

Essential oils for fleas The main advantages of using the oil include the natural composition of the drug, which fills the room with a pleasant aroma.
You don't need significant financial outlays to purchase it. It can be used not only as an effective remedy to help get rid of fleas, but in the future to improve your health. The pleasant smell cannot be compared with insecticides. The use of special masks and gloves is not required; preparing the solution is quite simple. Main disadvantages:

• oils will not help get rid of insect eggs, so after a few days you will need to repeat the procedure for cleaning the apartment;
• may cause allergic reactions such as sneezing, headache and watery eyes;
• cannot be used in rooms where children of the first year of life live.

Essential oils will help you quickly get rid of blood-sucking fleas. They will fill the room with the fragrance of herbs and citrus fruits, restore peace of mind and calm the nervous system, which suffers quite a lot when pests are present at home. Don’t be afraid to experiment by combining oils; they will give your home a unique and unique aroma that you will want to return to again and again.

How to deal with genital fleas: methods and means

So what should you do if fleas are jumping on the floor and are visible to the naked eye? How to poison flea colonies of the species Pulex irritans and others in the house? First you need an effective strategy:

• cleaning up accumulations of old things;
• treatment of floors, including the slightest cracks and cavities, baseboards;
• treatment of animals and people.

For a long time it was believed that “animal” bloodsuckers are almost harmless to humans. As it turns out, this is not the case. Flea bites lead to the appearance of ulcers, wounds, and if the animal was infected, serious diseases. Fleas, like cockroaches, actively spread infections and choose dirty places with access to food and cracks in the floors as their habitat. Therefore, at the first stage, a thorough cleaning is carried out using a vacuum cleaner, detergents, and then a chemical attack using insecticides.

And deciding what to wash the floors with to get rid of fleas is not difficult at all. Pet stores have a sufficient range of products for this - powders and ampoules with liquid chemicals intended for washing floors infested with fleas. Among the tested methods are Dichlorvos and its analogues, whiteness. It is very important to treat literally all surfaces that are favorite places for insects to accumulate in a private home, including (upholstered) furniture, carpets or floor coverings. This will be universal advice on how to get rid of underground fleas, their nests and young animals.

General cleaning of the premises against fleas

The main way to combat parasites is to clean the apartment. This measure is also preventive, allowing you to avoid the appearance of fleas in your home. General cleaning is especially important for those who permanently live in a private home or move to a country house during the warm season.

If fleas were noticed only in one place, then you can get by with local cleaning of a specific area of ​​the room, but if the parasites have spread throughout the house, then the entire area will have to be treated.

First, you need to wash all textiles and interior items in the house, and select a deep wash cycle, which requires a high temperature regime. Particular attention is paid to the bedding or rug where the cat rests. Ideally, they should be replaced with new ones, because it is very difficult to completely clean a cat’s “bed.”

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You also need to wash bed linen, bedspreads, blankets, blankets and, of course, clothes and shoes that were in use at the time of infection with parasites.

To carry out general cleaning of fleas in the house you will need:

• rags,
• mop,
• disinfectant,
• bucket with water,
• vacuum cleaner,
• personal protective equipment (gloves, respiratory mask).

Today there are a huge number of anti-flea drugs on the market. When using them, it is very important to observe the dosage and strictly follow the instructions for use. It should be noted that cleaning alone will not be enough, since adult individuals are destroyed instantly, but their larvae are unusually tenacious.

While the room is being treated, the cat must be moved to a safe place to avoid poisoning by toxic substances, wearing an anti-flea collar. Other pets should also be isolated. If there is an aquarium in the house, it is taken to a safe place. All products must be removed.

The most powerful weapon against insects is a vacuum cleaner. With its help, you need to thoroughly clean all hard-to-reach places where insects could theoretically be hiding. Particular attention is paid to areas where the sun's rays do not fall - bookcases, places under baseboards, cabinet furniture joints.

For best results, place a piece of mothballs in a dust bag. Fleas cannot tolerate its smell, so you can count on 100% destruction of parasites.

The vacuum cleaner also collects dust from upholstered furniture, toys, carpets, paths and other fleecy surfaces. How to treat mattresses and pillows? A steam generator will best cope with this task.

Then you can move on to wet cleaning using an antiparasitic drug. It is necessary to wash the baseboards, shelves (half a meter above the floor), wallpaper joints, cracks, and small holes.

After the cleaning is completed, you need to close all the windows and leave the apartment for at least 2 hours. Upon returning home, ventilate the room and wipe tables, especially kitchen tables, and other most frequently used surfaces with a damp, clean cloth. The apartment should not be cleaned for several days. Don't forget to treat the cat itself as a carrier of fleas.

Review of the best flea remedies

The industry produces insecticides in various forms:

• concentrate for preparing the solution;
• powder;
• aerosol.

Everyone decides for themselves how to treat their home against fleas. In case of severe infection, you will have to use several products at once in different forms, different in composition and duration of action. It’s cheaper to treat an apartment yourself; you just need to know what products are best to use.

Aerosols

Combat Sprays Insecticidal agents in aerosol form are most in demand, as they do not require preliminary dilution, have good penetrating ability and allow you to treat a large area indoors. The most effective are considered:

• Raptor is a complex aerosol preparation from the Russian manufacturer Raptor (Moscow) containing piperonyl butoxide, cypermethrin, tetramethrin. All components enhance each other’s effects and prevent the emergence of resistant offspring. One bottle of the product is enough to treat 40 m2 of surfaces of various textures. Treating a room against fleas with Raptor destroys adult insects and their larvae. The microencapsulated form of the insecticide remains even after the solution dries, which means that the insects hatched from the eggs will die over time. The product has a prolonged effect (2-3 weeks), which allows you to get rid of the entire flea population in one treatment.
• Dichlorvos is an effective drug that differs in composition from that previously produced. Now they produce aerosol products with various prefixes - Super, Neo, Eco, etc. Dichlorvos Super and Neo contain two insecticides - cypermethrin and permethrin. Dichlorvos Eco has a pleasant lavender aroma, while Neo is odorless. After treating the room for fleas, you need to close it and leave it for several hours. Insects begin to die after 1-2 hours. Severe infestations may require re-treatment after 7-10 days.
• Raid - the product contains cypermethrin, which quickly and effectively destroys adult insects and larvae. The drug is produced with various fragrances - the aroma of citrus, lavender, spring freshness. The disadvantage of Reid is that it leaves marks on the furniture after drying. But they can be easily removed with a soap and soda solution. It destroys not only one type of insect, it affects all flying, crawling synanthropic and alien arthropods.
• Combat - the cylinder is equipped with a flexible nozzle that allows you to thoroughly treat hard-to-reach places in the apartment. Two active ingredients - cyphenothrin and imiprotrin belong to the group of pyrethroids and have a prolonged effect.

Concentrate for preparing the solution

Types of preparation Get Concentrated preparations are used for professional disinfestation of premises. From one bottle you can get a large amount of working solution. Convenient for treating surfaces with high absorption capacity.

• Chlorpirimak is a concentrated drug based on chlorpyrifos. To obtain a solution, dilute 5 g of concentrate in 1 liter of water. The resulting solution can be used to treat floors, baseboards, tiled and stone wall coverings, and soak textiles in it.
• Get - contains chlorpyrifos enclosed in a microcapsule. Has a prolonged effect. Does not form stains on furniture surfaces and fabrics. Has no smell.
• Biorin is an emulsion containing deltamethrin. The product is professional grade. Therefore, it is not available for free sale. Instantly kills fleas and other synanthropic insects. Very toxic and requires compliance with safety measures and the use of personal protective equipment.

Important!

To protect the skin, mucous membranes and respiratory tract, you need to wear clothing that completely covers the body, safety glasses and a respirator. Even those products that belong to hazard class 3-4 can cause poisoning if the dosage is violated or there is an individual tendency to allergic reactions.

Powder

To treat a room against fleas, you can use insecticides in the form of powders. They scatter in places in the apartment inaccessible to animals and children, having a long-term effect on insects.

• Peretrum is a powder prepared from dried Dalmatian chamomile flowers. It can be used to prevent infection and prevent re-infection. You can sprinkle the powder on things in the closet if there are fleas in the linen. The disadvantage of this product is instability in the light and short duration of action.
• Domovoy , Phenaxin , Clean House , Fas-Double are powders with various pyrethrins, which are similar in effectiveness and mode of action to the previous drug. Treating your home with insecticidal powders can kill the entire flea population in one application.

After the chemical treatment of the apartment has been carried out, you need to wash with a soap and soda solution only those places where the residents will touch with their hands. It is not recommended to do wet cleaning for 2-3 days, and let the product last as long as possible in secluded places.

If there is a small child in the apartment, then his crib and pieces of furniture in his room can be treated with a solution of cat flea drops. The product is non-aggressive and effective.

To treat animal bedding or children's toys against fleas, you can prepare a decoction of tansy, wormwood, lavender, orange peels, pomegranate, etc. After completing wet cleaning, rinse all surfaces additionally with water to which essential oils of geranium, tea tree, cloves, and lavender have been added. . This measure will not only eliminate unpleasant odors, but also repel blood-sucking insects.

How quickly do fleas die after treatment?

The answers to all questions related to the timing of death of insects after baiting lie in the area of ​​the life activity characteristics of each species.

• The total lifespan of indoor fleas ranges from 2 months to 1.5 years on average.
• Every day, a female flea lays from 5 to 20 eggs in different places in the apartment.
• The larva stays in the egg for up to 2 weeks.
• After hatching from the egg, the larva transforms into an adult in 5-30 days, depending on temperature conditions.
• A flea can go without food for up to 40 days.

How quickly fleas die after treatment depends on their stage of development.

• Adults that immediately come into contact with the drug die in the first 30 minutes to an hour
  after treatment.
• In the next 2-7 hours
  , insects die, which are affected by the insecticide gradually settling and spreading throughout the house.
• The larvae die within 4 hours to 1 day.
• Within 2 weeks after treatment, new flea larvae will hatch from the eggs laid before the procedure. If SES specialists used drugs with prolonged action, then this reproduction cycle will stop after 14-20 days.
• They will stop biting you within 1-3 days
  after treatment.

If the treatment was carried out by an experienced and qualified SES, then the complete disappearance of fleas can be achieved on average in 2-3 weeks
.

Where do they come from?

There are several ways for fleas to enter a person’s home. More often than others - on carriers - rodents, birds or pets, if they are in contact with the outside world, they go outside. There are also paradoxical cases when insects that jump quite high entered apartments through the entrance or an open window. Well, “on horseback” is the most common way. Out of nowhere, suddenly, insects (fleas) appear on the floor. To do this, you need a carrier, old furniture brought from the dacha or a similar method.

Signs of a flea infestation

It can be quite difficult to detect parasites immediately after infection, especially if there are pets in the apartment. These are fairly small insects that grow up to 2-6 mm. They move very quickly and jump long distances. It is almost impossible to notice crawling insects in open spaces.

Most often, the first signs are the consequences after bites. If we talk about animals, it is very easy for their behavior to understand that they need help. The bites are quite painful for them, the pet does not behave calmly, and cannot sleep normally at night. After a bite, severe itching appears, so the animal scratches constantly.

Not only pets, but also people suffer from bites. Since the bites begin to itch very much, this symptom becomes the first sign. Often fleas attack the legs, the affected areas turn red, and in case of an allergic reaction, bumps may appear.

Often these parasites live close to a possible food source. It is necessary to inspect the animal's bedding, as well as the places where they spend a lot of time. Where fleas live, small black grains appear, which are a product of the vital activity of insects. The same grains can be seen on the skin of animals. You can place sheets of white paper or a white cloth on the carpet and observe that when infected, small black dots will be visible on the surface that move.

They hide in hard-to-reach, dark places. Favorable environment, places with high humidity levels. Females do not choose special places to lay eggs; they can leave them throughout the room where they move. One female can lay up to 10 eggs daily. It takes 7-10 days to transition from the egg stage to the larval stage. Next, they go through the nymph stage of development and degenerate into adults.

It should be understood that the fight against these blood-sucking insects includes a set of actions. It will be necessary to treat the animals, carry out disinfestation and take preventive measures that minimize the likelihood of re-infections.

What threat do fleas pose in an apartment?

Blood-sucking animals pose a considerable danger to both humans and animals, because they carry many pathogens of serious diseases. Some of them can even be life-threatening. Including genital fleas, they are carriers of worms and other parasites.

Important! If a person has been bitten by fleas for several days, it would be useful to take a deworming course.

Some people are allergic to bloodsucker bites. It all depends on the individual sensitivity of the skin. After bites, red spots and microscopic wounds appear. Next, severe itching begins, during which a person scratches the skin to the point of wounds, thereby opening the way to various infections. The temperature rises, and symptoms of other pathologies begin to appear. In advanced cases, a person may need long-term treatment with strong antibacterial drugs.

Genital fleas are carriers of serious diseases. Namely:

• Typhus;
• Bubonic plague;
• Encephalitis;
• Hepatitis;
• Tularemia;
• Salmonellosis;
• Anthrax;
• Fever and many others.

In the past, in European countries, it was fleas and rats that spread the plague, from which thirty percent of the population of the states died out. The reason for the rapid proliferation of parasites in those days was terrible unsanitary conditions.

Signs of appearance in the house

There are not many of them, but the signs are quite characteristic, they are difficult to misinterpret. A cat or dog begins to scratch in a specific way, the animal becomes nervous and behaves restlessly. People develop small, itchy sores or sores (sometimes painful).

When the flea population reaches a critical limit, they begin to actively move along the floor, carpeting, and upholstered furniture. Around the same time, they become noticeable on the pet’s skin and on the floor. Any of these signs requires immediate intervention.

The best drugs according to professionals

If you know how to treat a room for fleas, then you can perform the procedure yourself. Today, stores offer a large number of drugs, among which the following are considered the most convenient to use and effective:

• Fipronil. If you do not know how to treat an apartment for fleas of a cat or dog, while protecting the animal itself, use this drug;
• Pyrethrin or Pyrethrum. Using the drug, you disinfest your apartment against fleas using a natural remedy. But the process will be tedious and lengthy;
• Permethrin. A synthetic analogue of the previous powder. Sometimes professional flea control in an apartment is carried out using this substance;
• Benzyl benzoate. A universal substance. The drug is also effective in sanitizing an apartment against fleas and in the treatment of lice;
• Dichlorvos or good analogues Diazinon, Karbofos. The products are unsafe for home residents and have an average degree of effectiveness. Therefore, treating premises against fleas with drugs of this class is extremely rare. They are more appropriate to use when exterminating pests in the basement or pantry.

A one hundred percent guarantee of the destruction of insects can only be provided by sanitary treatment of premises against fleas using combined preparations. They contain several heavy insecticides - they kill adults, larvae and eggs. When using them, special equipment is required. Therefore, only professionals use them. You can find out how much it costs to treat your home against fleas by calling our company.

About 23.7% of Russians prefer folk remedies. With regular and continuous use, relatively good results are possible. But if you know how to treat your house against animal fleas, but they regularly appear again, then you need to change the insecticide. It’s better to seek the help of a specialist.

Which drug should I choose?

On store shelves today you can find preparations for treating apartments against fleas in various forms of release:

• these can be concentrated solutions of insecticides that require dilution in water (often they are also called emulsion concentrates);
• ready-to-spray aerosols in cylinders;
• as well as dusts and pencils (all kinds of insecticidal powders are called dusts).

Of these, concentrates are the most versatile and effective - these products, for the most part, actually kill insects outright and are quite inexpensive - one bottle of such a concentrate is usually enough to treat a large area. It should be noted, however, that some of these drugs are quite toxic and are not always odorless. If you want there to be virtually no odor in the room after treating your apartment for fleas, you can pay attention to concentrates of microencapsulated insecticides.

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Aerosols in cans are convenient for quickly treating residential or office premises against fleas. They do not require preparation or dilution, sometimes have a pleasant smell (due to fragrances) and often give good results. But in general they are also the most expensive.

Insecticidal dusts and pencils can be used to combat flea larvae - adult parasites do not feed on anything other than blood, and therefore dusts do not enter their body. The exception is contact agents, but their effectiveness is still lower than that of aerosol preparations and spray solutions obtained from concentrates.

Treating an apartment against fleas with folk remedies

Folk remedies are best used in combination with chemical flea treatment. Let's look at some of them.

• Herbal mixtures and infusions. Their action is associated with a specific odor that parasites cannot tolerate. The herb of wormwood, tansy or eucalyptus should be poured with boiling water, left for 12 hours, and then the room should be treated against fleas with the infusion.
• Fresh Caucasian chamomile. The stems and leaves of the plant need to be spread around the perimeter of the room, and it needs to be changed once every few weeks. This is a fairly simple, effortless and time-consuming treatment for fleas in an apartment.
• Pine sawdust. Pine sawdust is commonly used to fill animal bedding. Not exactly an apartment treatment, but still somehow repels fleas.
• Baking soda and salt. In order to treat an apartment for fleas, you need to mix two hundred grams of these food products and sprinkle the carpets and upholstered furniture with this powder, and after 12 hours vacuum thoroughly. You will need to repeat the procedure several times.
• Wormwood, calamus and pine shavings repel fleas indoors.
• Brewer's yeast and garlic. The ingredients need to be mixed and treated with the mixture on the floor and carpet, then left for 10 hours and also vacuumed.
• Peppermint and citruses. Mint is scattered throughout the apartment, and citrus fruits can be placed in dressers, crevices, and in the hood. In this way, people not only treat their apartments for fleas, but this recipe also helps get rid of clothes moths.

Disinsection at home

You can, of course, turn to professional exterminators to get rid of the unwanted neighborhood, but there is also a less expensive way to relieve the flea siege. There are not many main directions for fighting insects:

1. The animals themselves, which are to be treated with chemicals, shampoo, drops.
2. Everything that is in contact with the floor - linoleum, carpet, rugs.
3. Furniture, accumulations of old things in which insects create nests.

All vectors will have to be acted upon simultaneously so that fleas do not get a chance to hide, wait out the threat, or hide in a crack in the floor or under the baseboard.

Pet treatment

There is a huge selection of drugs that can rid your pets of dog, cat and other types of fleas. The drugs are presented in different forms; they can be purchased in the form of drops, tablets, shampoos or collars.

If we talk about the most effective drugs, then these include drops and tablets. They can be used at the stage of severe infection, and they remain effective for a month, which provides protection against repeated infections. The active substances enter the blood, which provides a detrimental effect on fleas and eliminates attacks.

But shampoos and collars are considered preventive measures. The fact is that they work as repellent drugs that can minimize the chance of infection, but do not completely eliminate it.

Remember, to cure an animal, you will need to contact a veterinarian who will recommend an effective and safe drug. When choosing, the condition of the animal, weight, age, presence of diseases and other parameters are always taken into account. The most popular drugs include Bars, Kiltix, Advantix and others.

Anti-flea solutions for cleaning floors

This includes not only special formulations, but also any proven methods of getting rid of fleas on the floor. In pet stores you can find insect growth regulators (blockers), powders (Diatomite), and sprays. There are also industrial emulsions intended for removing parasites from cattle - oily, water-soluble liquids.

Finally, you can dilute zoo shampoo in warm water and wash the floor with this mixture. Laundry soap, cut with a knife and dissolved in a bucket of water, will also work. It all depends on the degree of damage to the home and floor by fleas. After cleaning, all waste, dry and liquid, must be destroyed so as not to give bloodsuckers a second chance to enter the house.

How to properly destroy parasites with aerosols

Getting rid of fleas using aerosols occurs in stages:

1. Carry out wet cleaning and clear the apartment of debris.
2. Move furniture away from the walls, carpets must be removed.
3. Spray the aerosol.
4. Leave the room for several hours or a day (this applies to both animals and people). How long it takes to completely destroy parasites depends on the power of the drug.
5. Ventilate the apartment, vacuum and wet clean.

Notes on the most common aerosols:

Preventive actions

When walking pets, it is necessary to protect them as much as possible using collars or other types of specialized equipment. Inspect animals regularly and if an infestation is detected, take immediate action to prevent insects from reproducing.

Carry out regular wet cleaning and wash animal bedding more often. When cleaning, use safe but effective traditional methods. When the reason that fleas appear in the house is in basements or attics, then the help of specialists is needed.

Folk remedies

Simple, but effective, and without side effects. Fleas do not like sharp, pungent odors or aromatic oils that clog their spiracles. Therefore, the following folk remedies are recommended for treating floors:

1. Collections of wormwood, cloves, celandine and tansy, which are available in pharmacies, are infused for 12 hours. You will need to take 2 tablespoons of each component. The finished mixture, settled and strained, is thoroughly sprayed onto the floor surface.
2. Sprinkle the mixture of salt and baking soda on the floors, carpets and surfaces. After a day, clean with a vacuum cleaner. Fleas, including adults and larvae, will also leave with the composition.
3. Peppermint, lavender, eucalyptus oil. It is permissible to use fresh bunches of plants, placing them on the floor in all problem areas.

When a child lives in the premises

Of course, if children live in the house, then first of all, complete safety should be ensured. If it is not possible to move with your children from the premises for several days in order to carry out all the necessary procedures, you can try other methods, for example, exposure to high and low temperatures.

Low temperatures can affect parasites in winter. To do this, open all windows for a sufficiently long time. You can also use steam generators that provide exposure to high temperatures. But here it is worth considering that not all surfaces can withstand such temperatures and may be damaged.

If the contamination is not severe, you can do a general cleaning, treat the animals and use safe folk remedies that are absolutely harmless to people.

How are residential premises treated?

Flea treatment is carried out using special means or traditional methods.

Larvae can be destroyed using the same means as adults. List of the most popular methods and means:

Some drugs destroy larvae, but are unable to fight adult fleas (dust).

The larvae can live in hard-to-reach places where it is impossible to pour powdered insecticide or reach it with an aerosol.

Fleas are destroyed by herbs (tansy, wormwood, thyme), but after several treatments the parasites get used to the herbal remedies, and they lose their effect.

How to use it correctly when processing apartments

The very first thing that needs to be done before treatment is to carry out general cleaning, during which we can get rid of a large number of flea offspring that are found in carpets, furniture, in dust behind cabinets and other places. Be sure to thoroughly vacuum, remove all dust, cobwebs and carry out wet cleaning.

Next, you can begin processing, which adheres to the following recommendations:

• Add 5 drops of the substance to 1 liter of water;
• Pour the prepared treatment solution into a spray bottle;
• Apply to surfaces, paying attention to hard-to-reach places, under the bed, cracks, corners, also furniture, carpets, walls.
• Since bloodsuckers attack people, and most often the bites occur on the legs, it can be applied to the legs;
• These products have no effect on egg laying, so the procedure is repeated periodically until complete removal.

You can also apply a few drops, for example, to a bedside lamp or candle.

Physiology of cats and essential oils

A cat is a pure predator, its digestive system is not designed for plant foods (unlike, for example, dogs), and this determines many of the vulnerabilities of its body. Cats don't digest sugar, they can't eat fat, and cats' livers and kidneys are very vulnerable. The cat's liver does not produce many enzymes that can metabolize the toxic components of essential oils.

The main danger to cats’ bodies are terpenes and their metabolization products. The cat’s liver is not able to remove them from the body, they accumulate and can cause poisoning of the animal over time. If you are interested in this topic, read Van Beusekom, CD, Fink-Gremmels, J., {amp}amp; Schrickx, J. A. (2014).

Note. It is not a fact that the increased toxicity of essential oils for cats is due to the lack of appropriate enzymes; studies have not been conducted to prove this, but the likelihood is high.

Security measures

Essential oils for fleas on dogs, cats and in apartments are used subject to safety rules:

• do not use in apartments in the presence of small children and pregnant women;
• before use, study the instructions, a small amount of the product is diluted in water, a strong concentration causes nausea, vomiting, headaches;
• essential oils for fleas are checked for intolerance to others, because Allergies are possible in humans and pets; treatment begins with small areas.

Why do fleas appear in the house?

Contrary to existing belief, bloodsuckers live in both clean and dirty areas. They get here from the street. They are brought into the house by cats and dogs, birds. Even if there are no pets living in the apartment, the presence of insects cannot be ruled out. After all, the person himself brings them into the house with dust and dirt. Therefore, if you do not have pets, and single bites are found on your body, treating your apartment for fleas is strictly necessary.

The procedure cannot be postponed because:

• harm the health of animals living in the apartment. Therefore, disinfection of fleas in an apartment is carried out with the preliminary destruction of insects from pets;
• in 83.9% of cases they cause the development of severe allergic reactions in children and people with sensitive skin;
• fleas can cause the development of concomitant infectious diseases. High-quality flea treatment for pets and living spaces is also needed to protect households from more serious diseases;
• insects reproduce extremely quickly. If a large population of pests is detected, it is worth finding out in advance how much it costs to disinfect an apartment against fleas using professional methods.

At the same time, bloodsuckers are able to adapt to an unfavorable habitat - they hibernate, from which they emerge as soon as the surrounding situation improves. Therefore, exterminators recommend taking a responsible decision on how to treat the premises for fleas if there are animals and small children in the apartment. If the product is chosen incorrectly, then in 1.5-2 months at most you will have pests again.