I have a daughter and found out at the salon that she has fleas. What can I treat her with to get rid of the fleas and their eggs all at once and what can I put in her hair daily, to keep them from jumping on her head? Please help, I may have them too.
By Brandy
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If it's fleas the solution is simple - get rid of the fleas in the house and bedding by:
* Correct applications of pesticides - Liquid Sevin works great and is easily applied. Find it at any big-box (WalMart, KMart, Target). You may need to buy a sprayer, too. Read the pesticide label carefully and follow all directions!
* Daily vacuuming (floors and carpets, beds and any upholstered furniture) and change the bag at least weekly even if not completely full to prevent fleas eggs hatching in the bag and coming back out of the bag to re-infest your home.
* Daily sweeping followed by floor mopping with hot bleach water - pay careful attention to base and skirting boards and any cracks.
* Washing the bedding, curtains, and sofa covers (including any sofa pillows that will fit in the washing machine) in hot water followed by drying at the hottest possible temp.
* Daily bathing and shampooing hair; keeps the little blighters from nesting and laying eggs.
Tip: lice eggs will not wash out of hair - if you can see little (as in tiny) white balls on the hair strands that won't very easily brush off, you have lice, not fleas.
* Laundering clothing in hottest possible temps after a single wearing
Fleas are not a joke, they carry disease and the eggs can live for years in soil, upholstery, clothing, and under floorboards. Cleanliness is only second to proper pesticide application to keep fleas at bay.
As said in the earlier post, lice are a much worse problem requiring a huge amount of effort and specialised chemical treatments to eradicate. Same work as above but much more urgent and a whole lot harder.
Ask a nurse or pharmacist which pest you are infested with and then follow his/her instructions to the letter.
** Special note: If you are using a laundromat may be another source of where your fleas or lice are coming from. A lot of the laundromats are running the machines on cold water only so you need to be sure that the machines run hot water before depending on them to effectively clean and dis-infest.
If you have pets in your home and are not keeping them treated for fleas, you won't stop infestation. The drops applied monthly I think work the best. You need to vacuum and mop then apply a residual bug spray in the house; these are in a gallon jug with pump sprayer and kill bugs up to a year.
Do you mean fleas, or do you mean head lice? Determine for sure which is it, and then go to your drug store for products that you can shampoo in that will get rid of the critters. You will also have to clean the house to get rid of the source of these. Head lice can linger in hats, scarves, bedding, etc. and these thing have to be either frozen or laundered in hot water. You can google for specifics on how to rid your home of these pests so you do not get re-infected. I am more familiar with treatment for head lice. Fleas are usually, I believe, caught from animals.
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