How to get rid of fleas in the house.
These wingless, creepy insects called fleas can give you sleepless nights! Fleas love to survive on warm vertebrates and thus your dogs, rabbits, cats and in fact, even you can be their hosts. One reason for their overwhelming presence in your house is the fact that the eggs of fleas can get dropped anywhere inside your house. These eggs then turn into larvae and finally into fleas.
Home Remedies to Get Rid of Fleas
1. Flea Trap Remedy to Catch Fleas with Dish-washing Liquid
If you want to get rid of fleas, this seems the easiest way to catch and kill the monstrous fleas, yes a flea trap! If you give a bath to your dog with a dishwashing liquid, you’ll be able to kill the fleas on its body too. However, a flea trap will enable you to clean up your entire house of fleas.
2. Herbal Flea Spray to Get Rid of Fleas from Your House
If you have been thinking of a flea bomb loaded with chemicals to eliminate fleas from your house, you must reconsider once and give a try to this herbal spray instead. This homemade flea spray uses such ingredients as lemon juice and witch hazel. They are entirely safe for your pets and kids.
3. Salt Remedy to Get Rid of Fleas
Sprinkle fine salt over carpets or affected areas. This is supposed to work by swapping out the moisture from the fleas as they walk over it. They’ll chafe and bleed to death over time.
If the salt is sprinkled over the eggs, they’ll supposedly dry up and perish as well.
4. Boric Acid Remedy to Get Rid of Fleas
Boric acid, more or less, works like salt when it comes to eliminating fleas. It acts as a desiccant or a dehydrating agent which causes severe dehydration in fleas due to which they are killed. You need to sprinkle boric acid wherever you doubt there may be fleas, their larvae or eggs.
5. Use Diatomaceous Earth to Control Fleas
Now, what is this Diatomaceous Earth (DE)? It is the microscopic remains of fossilized algae, diatoms. It is a very fine powder, just like flour. Diatoms are the type of algae that can be found in freshwater as well as in saltwater. But how does this Diatomaceous Earth kill fleas?The cell walls of Diatom are made of silica which in turn is a component of glass. The exoskeleton or the hard shell of fleas or such other insects are vulnerable to the sharp edges of microscopic diatoms. The silica shards in DE cut through the hard shell of fleas and dry them out. This leads to a death of fleas as well as of their larvae.
6. Fogging
Fogging is very effective because even the hard-to-reach places will be cleared of fleas. This technique is often used by pest exterminators themselves too, but only for really bad infestations because of the inconvenience it puts you in. You might have to do this more than once too.
7. Use Rosemary for Flea Control
If your house is not badly infested by fleas but yes if it’s irritating due to even a mild flea infestation, you can use the herb rosemary for controlling such flea problem in your home.
8. Flea Spray for Flea Control
Flea sprays can be used on both pets and furniture (carpets, rugs, couch, bedding – your pet and yours, blankets, pillows). These sprays will kill most types of fleas, including their eggs, upon contact.
9. Flea Tablets
Flea tablets are pills fed to your dogs or cats. Any fleas that are biting your pets will start dropping like flies. Results are quick and extremely effective, often within 30 minutes.
10. Use Pennyroyal Herb to Repel Fleas
There are many varieties of the pennyroyal herb. European pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) and American pennyroyal (Hedeoma pulegiodes) have been traditionally used to deter fleas. However, pennyroyal which belongs to the mint family is dangerous for human and animal health.
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