I have fleas in my nose! What do I wash my face with? Or do to my nostrils? I have washed my hair with Dawn and also with dog shampoo?
By Kristy from Milwaukee, WI
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I've never had a flea infestation as bad as you're describing. But if they're going up your nose, and if there is any possibility you've ingested even a part of a flea, you need to be concerned about tapeworms. Please do a search online for information, and if you have questions or concerns, call your family doctor. If you explain that you're fighting fleas at your house and are concerned about tapeworms, they should understand.
We've had fleas in our house twice. The first time, it was approaching the holidays and we were expecting guests, so we bombed the house and treated the cats. I don't like heavy use of chemicals like that, but it helped. The second time (maybe 5 or 6 years later), we had just taken in a stray kitten and he came with fleas. I got a spray for fleas and used it on all the areas the cats use, along with getting them treated (had to treat them for tapeworms, too). If you go that route, check the packaging labels, you want something specifically for fleas. I've also heard very good things about diatomaceous earth. You could do a search for that, too, for more information. It's not toxic for people, but will kill bugs. Be careful if you ever decide to use it outside, it will also harm beneficial insects (like bees).
Best of luck getting some relief and the fleas under control. It's an icky feeling. Please read up on tapeworms, and take it seriously. If they've gone up your nose, there is a possibility you've ingested one (or even part of one). You want to get that taken care of.
So totally took me about 5 yrs of research to pin point this problem.... started with what was called staph stepped to mrsa... got to weak to go to work... lost mental capabilities... and couldn't gain weight... went through all the detox programs I could find, did the candida diets .... got for digestive progress, but really just about that. After finding adolescent tape worms in wounds and teeth infections, I chased roundworms and tape worms ... learned to be more hygienic, becuase I always thought I was invisible before and never considered. Well one day after years of being clean and really trying to put an end to the poor enviroment, I awoke in the work truck .. very new and never had any animals in it ever. And this has been seen on this forum before, but I had a knot in my nose for 2 yrs minimum probably longer, it would bother me when it would get cold..or when i smoked to hard and coughed a lot... thought it was a knot of worms... well turned out the knot was a fortress of flea worms around the flea...so wierd, i had tried to pull on it before I did a single dose of bayer tapeworm treatment..so hard to talk myself into the whole im not perfect complex, having multiple lifeforms gaining a benifit off my face, ruining my teeth and rotting huge holes in my face... im just upset about the taboo of being sick which in return keeps these things from being known and shared... fleas kill
So totally took me about 5 yrs of research to pin point this problem.... started with what was called staph stepped to mrsa... got to weak to go to work... lost mental capabilities... and couldn't gain weight... went through all the detox programs I could find, did the candida diets .... got for digestive progress, but really just about that. After finding adolescent tape worms in wounds and teeth infections, I chased roundworms and tape worms ... learned to be more hygienic, becuase I always thought I was invisible before and never considered. Well one day after years of being clean and really trying to put an end to the poor enviroment, I awoke in the work truck .. very new and never had any animals in it ever. And this has been seen on this forum before, but I had a knot in my nose for 2 yrs minimum probably longer, it would bother me when it would get cold..or when i smoked to hard and coughed a lot... thought it was a knot of worms... well turned out the knot was a fortress of flea worms around the flea...so wierd, i had tried to pull on it before I did a single dose of bayer tapeworm treatment..so hard to talk myself into the whole im not perfect complex, having multiple lifeforms gaining a benifit off my face, ruining my teeth and rotting huge holes in my face... im just upset about the taboo of being sick which in return keeps these things from being known and shared... fleas kill
If the fleas are that bad then you need a professional exterminator immediately and definitely call your doctors office with worries that you might have ingested even one! You don't need to swallow them in order to ingest them! If they are in your nose you could have sucked them in while breathing and then they go down your sinus' and in to your stomach :-o
I would go to a doctor.
Fleas keep coming to me my feet and legs. I take shower then fleas keep coming back.
Sounds odd but I use a lint roller and use it often and seems to help alot on places u can't see like bedding,sofas,clothing and I also vacuum everyday and use a good spray ..hope this helps
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I have a dog and fleas live on him. Can fleas live in a person's hair? If so how do you get rid of them?
By Gariela from Prishtina
Go to your vet and get a package of Advantage flee treatment and use as directed. If you are not sure how to use it ask the receptionist who gives it to you to show you how. If you do not have a vet then your dog is probably not getting his shots and checkups as he should. This is all part of pet care that needs to be taken care of.
See past posts, easy kill with dry Borax in carpets. Leave for 2 weeks before you vacuum. No fleas for at least a year and a half.
No, fleas do not live in a humans hair. On the rare occasion one might get on your scalp simply get in the shower and wash your hair and they will fall off and drown. Please do take care of your poochies fleas and get rid of the fleas in your house/yard.
Fleas do not live on your pet. They feed on your pet, and sometimes you. They prefer your pet because their body temperature is higher, but any port in a storm. They live outside, and when they leave your pet indoors, your carpet and furniture.
Walmart has a flea product that just came on the market and is cheaper than the others from the vets. Vets flea stuff is usually about 12 to l5 dollars a month and will fix the dogs problem. Use Talstar bag or liquid and dawn dish soap for the yard, in the house you can use permetrium 38percent 4 tablespoons to gallon of water and only have to do it maybe 2 times in 4 days that is to catch the eggs that hatch. This is the cheapest way to keep and get rid of fleas. I use advantagell and I have 9 dogs and 9 cats but still do the yard and house.
I have used baking soda, straight vinegar,lice tx,dog flea & tick shampoo,dawn, & a bit comb. I still feel them crawling in my head! What else can I do ? I've had my house exterminated & vacume every day since!
It is probably a mite of some kind, dust mites maybe.
I hated the crawly sensation, kept thinking the cats who scratched continuously gave me fleas. A Dawn bath, leaving it on bout 3-5 mins to kill the stronger ones/I put in there carry cage/. Never showed any dead fleas. Used many times before, always killed fleas on them.
My poor cats, if they were experiencing more than ten times me, omg. I killed them on me, long hot shower with long shampoo lather. They had first started crawling on my legs. Then my hair when they slept by my head.
I have done all the things you say you have done and I have the same problem I have the eggs in my hair and up my nose doctor can't seem to give me the help I need they start questioning my mental health
Yes, fleas can infest the hair of humans.Verified by the exterminator that was here today. I am treating my hair for them at this very minute. Ive been to the doctor twice & dermatologist once. I have the worst flea infestation the exterminator has ever seen, & I have no pets. I keep myself & apartment extremely clean.They were coming through the vent from the downstairs neighbor! 68 days of sheer misery!
I had a major sand flea infestation due to a leaky pipe. Omg this is the worst parasite ever!!! They get on you and burrow in your skin to lay eggs. They live in your hair as well. I put salt and baking soda everywhere in my house and left it down for 2 months. For my hair, I used rid and comb your hair 2 to 3 times a day. Use the rid every 4th day to break the cycle of the egg. One was in my nose as well laid eggs there. I am now deworming myself with albendozole in case of a tapeworm. I have treated my yard with bug chemicals every 4th day. I also sprayed cedar oil on my house. I'm finally rid of these horrible parasites. Took 3 month of hell and 60 bites or more. Had to dig out 2, they are the females. Good luck, but I guarantee the only way to rid thm in your house is the baking soda and salt. But until you treat the outside environment, they will come back over and over.
Did you manage to get rid of your fleas in the hair? I have had an infestation for 5 months in the house from previous tenants dogs and they have been living in my hair for just over 2 months. My doctor does not believe me & has described me as delusional. The hospital have perscribed psychotic drugs. No one will help with just ridding these fleas from my hair. I have tried all the natural methods, plus lice and scabies treatments. Any advice would be so welcome.
I just stayed up all night getting flea eggs or tapeworm eggs and a couple tiny looking worms up my nasal cavity. I bagged them all. One egg looking thing jumped. Freaked me out. I bagged it quick. I been getting eggs in my mouth. I've been dealing with this for at least two months or so. Threeeee Drs treating me like a head case. I'm sick of Drs. They don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. Unless you have a very good Dr. I am making calls today. They can attach to your organs, esophagus, etc.. burrow up your nose.. nest. I have even read stuff that they can kill you. I'm freaking out and at my wits end. I literally can't believe I'm going thru this and Drs won't take me serious. I take the earth powder too. It can kill tapeworms in your intestines.. poop em out. But they don't kill the eggs. And it's not gonna work for your nose. And I even bagged all the eggs Ive found n one Dr looked under the microscope and literally told me theres no eggs no parasites no worms.. I been picking the shit out of my mouth n teeth.. the eggs. He's stupid. I said then what is it then? They're all over my bed. He didn't have an answer. Dumb AF. I went to the vet for my cat. She said yes these are tapeworms "eggs" but they can be hard to detect. Um.. not true. I called n left a msg for that Dr. Told him he was wrong. Etc.. he had the nerve to call my psych to make an appt with her. I have read other people's stories too and they all said they need psychiatric help n sh*t like that. Fkrs
Have had fleas for 6 months now. The larva are now in my sinuses and nose. 2 weeks ago I bought a bunch of Nexgard and ate the chews myself to get about 3mg/kg dose. Also use a saline rinse every day.
Infestation is starting to go away but I have to wait for the whole lifecycle to run its course.
The larva crawl all over my face and they love my ipad and case leaving gross smears all over the screen.
This has been an insane ride. I have been blowing out huge black scabs from my nose that are dead fleas covered in blood. 4-5 or more a day. Winter has been very warm so even though its January and 30F outside the fleas are still alive in my house and my sinuses.
Nexgard said a bad infestation may take up,to 2 months to get rid of.
hiya. me too! so im not going mad! im a 55 year old builder in the uk. midway through treating a flea invest in the family home, i noticed my usual dusty nasal clearout after work was getting worse. mucas, dark black chods which didnt seem like dirt and varying bits. to investigate i photographed and enlarged. OMG! it was like a scene from the MIB headquarters. lots of pupa, but even some half developed into foetal fleas and some decaying complete ones. plus some others beyond my recognition. i was convinced i was the host ( no sign on our two dogs regularly treated ) and repeat breakouts always seemed to be in the room i was banished too.
self treatment consists of a bicarb & saltnasal wash twice a day, plus inhaling a proper insecticide (with cyphen.... & pralleth.....). four days in now and does seem to be reducing, although i doubt anyone with the title 'dr' would recommend it!
was your treatment successful? hope your clear and well. keep finding references to tapeworm? any tip?
i did manage to ascertain how they got there, but i can't tell you publicly as not any entirely legal recreation. which is most defiantly over, as is the ability of the particular 'retailer' to eat comfortably!!
my sympathies are with you, and your post very helpful not least to my sanity. many thanks, any comments gratefully received.
We have had a flea infestation ever since a friend visited the house and sat on the carpet. We believe he brought them from either his cat or dog. We are looking for ways to get the fleas off of us. We know that the environment must be treated (and are currently working on it), but we are having troubles finding relief from the biting and disruptive nights. Any information on human treatment and environment treatment would be very helpful!
Kiki Bob
My oldest stepson did the same thing to us! His water and gas was shut off so he come over our house to bathe and cook. And boy oh boy, did we ever get infested. I know he carried them over on his person because I would see them jumping off him! I tried Avon Skin So Soft oil, it cooled the skin off, but didn't really take away the itch, I took garlic caps, Benadryl caps, anti-itch cream (Benadryl in cream form), I showered in room temp water (luke warm to cool) instead of hot water (the heat makes them itch more).
It's been about 10 yrs ago when that happened to us and if I remember correctly I think the Benadryl cream worked the best. The garlic helped DH, but didn't do a thing for me. The Skin So Soft helped the youngest stepson who lived with us, but didn't help myself or DH (other than to cool off the bite). I think it just all depends on the person's chemical make-up in what will help and what won't. I've also heard of people using calamine lotion, preparation H, honey, and apple cider vinegar (all separately, not together, LOL).
Using the vinegar you can either dab it on with a cotton ball or dilute a cup of it in half a tub of water and bath in it. It did help a little, but didn't last for long. And no you won't walk around stinking like vinegar. The smell evaporates quickly. As for the home environment. I used Sevin dust first and when that didn't work I bought some other kind of powder (can't recall what it was though). It kind of helped some, but we were still having problems so I boarded the 2 birds at a pet store for a few weeks and bombed the heck out of the house.
That seemed to take care of the problem. Any time you vacuum after having a bug problem, if you have a bagged system, you want to make sure you throw out the bag every time you vacuum. Plus it's a good idea to bomb twice. We only did it the one time and less than a month later we were back with the same problem, infestation. They're like rabbits they are! They multiply a lot and they multiply fast. I think every 10 days a new batch hatches. So we bombed again, it got rid of them and then just to be sure, we waited 10 days and bombed again. Wah lah, fleas gone! (11/04/2008)
By anna
We've had this problem in the past and I can help. Both my youngest son and I are extremely allergic to the little buggers so I had to come up with a nontoxic anti-bug formula for my (then) 10 year old son and me to use. So after doing a bit of research, I made up a bug repellent that has no chemicals in it that works:
In a 6 or 8 ounce bottle put in about an ounce of rubbing alcohol and to this add about half a bottle of citronella oil and about a teaspoon of eucalyptus oil then mix the oils well so they mix in with the alcohol. Add this essential oil and alcohol mixture to a 6 to 8 ounce bottle of non scented hand or body lotion and shake until it's all mixed up. Now just rub this lotion wherever the fleas like to bite you, but never on your face.
You can buy these essential oils at most health food stores or online. Make sure they are pure "essential oil" and not "scents".
Yes, you will smell, but it does work! The secret ingredient is the eucalyptus oil. It gives the citronella oil a bit more of a "kick". You can put this on your legs and ankles to keep the fleas from jumping up on you. I did this for my son when he was 10 years old and it really helped stop the fleas from biting him. But here's a bit of a warning. If you are going to take a bath or shower or go swimming, do "not" put this "bug lotion" on until at least half an hour after you've bathed or showered or gone swimming. I don't know why, but if you put it on right after your shower when your pores are open it can make your skin feel like it's burning. But as long as you haven't just gotten out of the shower or bath you'll have no problem. I would also not use this bug lotion on anyone under 3 years old because their skin is so tender.
Also when applying this to children, apply it to their legs first then wait about 15 minutes before applying it to other parts of the body. This will let you know if your child is sensitive to it or has allergies. One more important tip: NEVER put this bug lotion on your face!
One more thing that works for younger children and adults is pure soybean oil. This is hard to find. Sometimes you can find pure hydrogenated soybean oil next to the Crisco and shortening. I don't know why the fleas hate the soybean oil, but they do. Also, in a pinch you can also try using Vick's VapoRub (because it has eucalyptus oil in it) just rub a very thin coating on your ankles or where ever the fleas are biting you.
Sometimes I would also spray a coating of eucalyptus oil around the base of my bed to keep the fleas from jumping up while I was sleeping. If you can't find any eucalyptus spray you can make your own, just add a bit of eucalyptus essential oil to a well-marked spray bottle of rubbing alcohol and shake vigorously, then spray around the base of your furniture or bedding.
Another thing you can do is spray Listerine on you and your bedding and around the furniture you usually sit on and on to the base of your mattress before going to bed. Also look carefully at your bedding and brush off any fleas. I like to take the top sheets and blankets off then take them outside for a good shaking before getting into bed. Also, make sure that every time you hop into bed be sure to brush off your ankles and feet with your hands.
This way you won't carry them into your bedding and get bit all night long. The Listerine works great for mosquitoes, too. Just make sure it's the "amber" colored original one and not the orange or blue one. The Listerine also works because of the eucalyptus oil that's in it. It's not as strong as the above bug lotion, but you can also spray it on your pants legs or directly on your skin when you don't want to use the bug lotion or as an added precaution.
Please send me a note here on ThriftyFun and let me know how this works for you. Believe me I know how much of a bummer these nasty critters can be!
Here's the only sure way to get rid of fleas in the home:
If you have pets: Go to your vet and buy several months of Advantage flea liquid to apply to you pet's neck and while you're there buy enough flea carpet spray to totally cover your carpet. Do NOT buy a flea spray at Walmart etc. You need the kind that kills the flea's eggs, too. Buy this only from the vet. Otherwise, you will need to do this again in 2 weeks when the flea eggs hatch and probably again in another 2 weeks, for the stubborn ones. Ask your vet, "Does this spray kill the eggs too?".
Here's the deal:
This may sound like the ultimate Toxic Adventure. And it is, but believe me, it's the only sure way to get rid of fleas once and for all.
Do NOT use a flea fogger. These foggers, fog everywhere. If you use a fogger, you will need to put your toothbrushes in your fridge. Do this if your are spraying near the bathroom, anyway. And, with a fogger, you'd have to take all boxed food outside and place your dishes and pots and pans in the oven or lock them in your car outside. (not a bad idea, anyway) Remember, the foggers fog "everything". Your opened boxes of cereal, etc., will be totally toxic after fogging, so don't use a fogger. Plus, with a fogger, you'd have to do this all over again in 2 weeks when the flea eggs hatch. Only buy the spray from the vet that kills the fleas and their eggs, too.
Nontoxic Flea Powder:
Mix equal parts of: baking soda, borax, and salt. Mix together well, then put in a shaker container (like for Parmesan cheese). Sprinkle this mixture everywhere, all over your carpets, and wood floors, and furniture. Next sweep it into the rug, wood floor cracks and upholstery as deeply as you can. Leave this on the floors and carpets for 2 or 3 weeks then vacuum it up (with a flea collar inside your vacuum). Then do the same thing again.
You'll have to do this 2 times for sure and possibly 3 times. This formula works because the borax and salts dehydrate the fleas and their shells, which kills them. It's not the best thing for carpets because it the salts are slightly abrasive and can make the carpets wear out faster.
If you live in a very humid area like Florida and don't have air conditioning, then the salt can attract and absorb moisture from the air, so if you live in a humid climate without air-conditioning just use the borax all by itself. It's not nearly as effective, but it's an option. Don't worry if you have air-conditioning because it gets rid of excess humidity.
They sell this very same formula at most vets, but you'll have to pay a pretty penny for it. The salt and baking soda are usually sold 2 or 3 for $1 at most dollar stores. The borax can be hard to find. They don't sell it at my Walmart, but I've found it at several grocery stores in the laundry isle. It's called: "20 mule Team Borax" and it's sold as a laundry additive. (11/04/2008)
By Cyinda
Mycodex Plus environmental control aerosol household spray, I got it from the vet, around $20. I would of paid $100. It worked like a charm kills everything up to 210 days eggs everything!
Vacuum well. I took the whole vacuum outside treated all the animals with the vet kind of 3 month treatment and viola gone. Thank God they eat me alive. The only thing that kills the itch for me was Stingeze. Good luck. I also washed everything in hot water. (11/04/2008)
By Bonnie
I put a small bowl of Dawn blue dish washing liquid under a night light. I also sprayed the furniture and carpet with a mixture of Dawn and water. (11/06/2008)
You can buy Sevin dust (it comes in different strengths) and lightly dust the carpet. Any plastic bottle (like Maxell House or Folgers Instant Coffee jars) with a plastic lid (drill a few holes in top) works great to lightly sprinkle.
Another thing is a dinner plate with dishwashing liquid and water with a tealight candle in center in room you think you have them in. They go to the light and drown. Course the room has to have lights off.
We have cats and dogs and have used this on several occasions with great success. (11/06/2008)
By cajunangel
I forgot to mention use Avon's Skin So Soft bath oil in your bath or maybe put it in a spray bottle and spray it on your legs, maybe dilute it if it is too oily. If it is bad use anti mosquito spray on your legs and body and spray the mattress with it under the sheets and all the furniture.
(04/17/2009)
By Robyn Fed
