Anyone who owns a pet has been faced with a flea problem at one time or another. This situation is made worse by living in a home that has carpets in most of the rooms. These parasitic insects attach themselves to dogs and cats and eventually end up in your home making it imperative that you know how to get rid of fleas in carpet.
The primary task is to rid your pet of these insects and their eggs and larva. Getting a good flea shampoo from the vet or using dawn liquid dish soap will accomplish this goal. If their living area is not treated at the same time they will become re-infested when they enter the area they normally live in. When a flea bites a pet it causes them to itch and they naturally scratch and chew at the bite location.
When bitten your pet can start chewing and scratching compulsively. This can create hot spots, hair loss or flea allergies that will make them sick. Another danger is that a flea may carry tape worms and if they are accidentally swallowed can infect your pet.
Vacuuming is the most effective way of controlling this problem. When you vacuum it removes the adult insects from the pile of your carpets. It is important to move all furniture and vacuum under it to remove eggs and larva too. You may also find that the larva are hiding behind the baseboards in your home so it is advised that you treat any hard surface floors also. You will want to consider repeating this process every two days to keep re-infestation at a minimum.
There are simple and inexpensive ways to kill these pests quickly when you discover the problem. Using table salt or diatomaceous earth directly on the carpets and leaving it there for forty eight hours before vacuuming it up works very well. Another method uses a mixture of Borax detergent and hot water in a steam carpet cleaner. Putting salt or dry Borax in the vacuum bag will kill any fleas that have been picked up while cleaning.
Wash any rugs, carpets or blankets in hot water to remove all traces of flea infestation. You may also want to wash all of their toys because there may be eggs attached to them that will hatch. Steam cleaning your carpets is also a very effective method of eradicating this insect population. Treating your yard and other outside areas can be done with sprays or with dry chemicals that can be purchased at any hardware or pet store.
Some experts suggest that by removing humidity from your home with dehumidifiers. Because these creatures thrive in humidity over fifty percent lowering it for two days will stop eggs from hatching and kill larva and the entire flea population in your home. It has the effect of freezing them to death.
When you have the problem under control the best way to keep it that way is to continue to put borax or salt into the vacuum bag when you clean and as an extra measure use eucalyptus oil or apple cider vinegar in a spray bottle weekly on the carpet and pet bedding areas.
The primary task is to rid your pet of these insects and their eggs and larva. Getting a good flea shampoo from the vet or using dawn liquid dish soap will accomplish this goal. If their living area is not treated at the same time they will become re-infested when they enter the area they normally live in. When a flea bites a pet it causes them to itch and they naturally scratch and chew at the bite location.
When bitten your pet can start chewing and scratching compulsively. This can create hot spots, hair loss or flea allergies that will make them sick. Another danger is that a flea may carry tape worms and if they are accidentally swallowed can infect your pet.
Vacuuming is the most effective way of controlling this problem. When you vacuum it removes the adult insects from the pile of your carpets. It is important to move all furniture and vacuum under it to remove eggs and larva too. You may also find that the larva are hiding behind the baseboards in your home so it is advised that you treat any hard surface floors also. You will want to consider repeating this process every two days to keep re-infestation at a minimum.
There are simple and inexpensive ways to kill these pests quickly when you discover the problem. Using table salt or diatomaceous earth directly on the carpets and leaving it there for forty eight hours before vacuuming it up works very well. Another method uses a mixture of Borax detergent and hot water in a steam carpet cleaner. Putting salt or dry Borax in the vacuum bag will kill any fleas that have been picked up while cleaning.
Wash any rugs, carpets or blankets in hot water to remove all traces of flea infestation. You may also want to wash all of their toys because there may be eggs attached to them that will hatch. Steam cleaning your carpets is also a very effective method of eradicating this insect population. Treating your yard and other outside areas can be done with sprays or with dry chemicals that can be purchased at any hardware or pet store.
Some experts suggest that by removing humidity from your home with dehumidifiers. Because these creatures thrive in humidity over fifty percent lowering it for two days will stop eggs from hatching and kill larva and the entire flea population in your home. It has the effect of freezing them to death.
When you have the problem under control the best way to keep it that way is to continue to put borax or salt into the vacuum bag when you clean and as an extra measure use eucalyptus oil or apple cider vinegar in a spray bottle weekly on the carpet and pet bedding areas.
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