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• What you need

If your pet is constantly scratching, shedding patches of hair, or developing a lot of scales or hot spots, they probably have a serious flea problem. If fleas are on your pet, they are also in your home and in your yard - possibly even above you. Luckily, you can take steps like using synthetic chemicals and natural products to get rid of fleas and still protect your pet. Please continue to read the following steps to see how.

Steps

Part 1 of 3: Pet Treatment

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   Start with a thorough bath. Bathe your dog or cat with a gentle bath oil or natural citrus dish soap. You can use a common flea repellant. Fleas do not attach to the fur, so they will fall into the water and drown.
   • Bathing alone is not enough to get rid of fleas. The fleas in the environment will jump back on the pet after the coat is dry. It is important that you apply the medication to your pet after bathing.
   • After you bathe your pet, brush her with a flea brush. You will need to use a flea brush every time you handle a pet with a flea.
   • Have your pet brush the fur or cut it short before using other treatments. This will allow the flea killer to touch the skin where the fleas live and may help combing more effectively.
   • Ask your veterinarian about a suitable spray or powder for your pet.

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   Treat all of your pets with both oral and topical medications. Oral medications such as Program and Sentinel can be used in conjunction with topical medications such as Frontline.
   • Make sure to take the correct dosage for your pet, as they can have serious reactions if overdose. Never give a cat's flea repellant to cats, as the cat's nervous system can only tolerate the feline type.
   • Take a flea repellant on the same day that you treat your home and yard for optimum effect.

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   Wash your pet's bed and linens. Washing will significantly reduce the number of flea eggs and larvae on it and make flea repellant more effective.
   • The washing process will not kill fleas, but some eggs can be eliminated through the rinsing process. On the other hand, an average drying process of about 30 minutes will kill the eggs and the number of fleas left on the fabric.
   • Do all of the above at once, remove everything and wrap them up well. Wrap clean items in a clean cloth or in a sealed garbage bag until 12 hours after handling your home and pets to prevent fleas from crawling into the clean items.

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   Let your pet roam freely around the house after you have handled the fleas in the house and on your pet. Fleas will smell their prey and jump into the pet's fur, but they will be quickly destroyed as soon as they bite the animal's skin.

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   Try to keep pets indoors as much as possible for 30 days. If your pet is forced to go out, keep them away from tall grass, fallen leaves, gravel areas, and sandy beaches.
   • If you have a dog and need to take it for a walk, try to walk on the curb for the first month. While fleas can be poisoned when they jump onto cats and dogs, while trying to get rid of this annoying infection you probably don't want your pet to catch a new flea while trying to kill it. old fleas.
   • If possible, keep pets indoors during the winter months, especially cats. Isolation for your pet also saves you money, as after eliminating the spread of the flea, you will not need to reprocess it unless you discover more fleas again.

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   Continue treating your pet with an anti-flea medicine every 30 days. If your pet is only indoors, you can stop the anti-flea medicine after 4 months of use. But if your pet often goes out, you need to continue treating them. advertisement

Part 2 of 3: Chemical Treatment of Houses, Yard and Human Fleas

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   Use a mosquito repellent containing DEET to spray your socks, ankles and bottom of your pants every day Prevent flea bites.
   • If you have treated a pet, the fleas will be destroyed when they come into contact with the pet's blood. But you have not been treated with anti-flea medicine, so your blood is still their delicacy. Fleas need only one blood feed to lay eggs, so you need to stop feeding them.
   • After 30 days, you may no longer have to worry about applying DEET repellent to your ankles. If you can't see the fleas jumping around, you can rest easy. But if you still see a flea or a bite in the ankle, you must continue to spray the mosquito repellent.

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   Thoroughly clean the floor. Clean both carpeted and smooth surfaces.
   • Vacuum all carpets and cushions. Put an entire flea collar (chopped up) into the vacuum cleaner bag. Vacuuming not only helps to absorb fleas, eggs and larvae, but the vibrations of the vacuum cleaner also make fleas come out of the cocoon. Since insecticides cannot kill fleas in the pupal stage, getting them exposed is a good opportunity for you to kill more fleas. Dispose of trash bags in the trash outdoors after completing your job. Then keep turning on the vacuum cleaner and spraying with anti-flea repellant on the vacuum cleaner's nozzle.
   • Wipe the smooth surface. Use a cleaning agent like Pine-Sol or undiluted apple cider vinegar to keep fleas out of the crevices so they get more visible when you spray or spray your home.

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   Buy a spray or nebulizer, carefully read the instructions, and pay attention to buy enough medication to spray all rooms in the house. Make sure the product kills even flea eggs, so look for active ingredients like methoprene, fenoxycarb or pyriproxyfen.
   • Spray on carpets, furniture, baseboards, along walls and where your pet sleeps. Pay attention to follow the instructions on the spray bottle.
   • Don't ignore door edges, nooks, crevices, and underneath furniture and under mattresses. Flea larvae love to hide in dark places, even if your pet doesn't get under the closet because they are too big to fit.
   • When using a nebulizer, you will still need a sprayer to spray where the mist sprayer cannot reach.

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   Treat your yard if your pets are out in the yard more than 5% of the time.
   • Remove any debris such as fallen leaves, grass chips or organic matter before handling the yard. Also, cut the lawn before spraying.
   • Be sure to spray in shady or semi-midnight areas, including inside your dog's house, around tree stumps, groves, bushes, or under tables or under gates.

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   After the first treatment, spray it again two weeks later. Some fleas in your home may be in a cocoon or in a pupa stage that the insecticide cannot handle. Spray a second time to make sure you get rid of any fleas still in your cocoon when you first spray it.
   • You should also ask your veterinarian to recommend environmental protection products that are effective for up to 6-12 months. When the cocoon hatches, the larvae will be exposed to chemicals and destroyed, you just need to reapply every 6-12 months if necessary.
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Part 3 of 3: Using Natural Treatments to Eliminate Fleas

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   Keep your home as cold as possible when you are not at home. Fleas cannot grow well in cold environments. Keeping your home cool when you are not at home will force the fleas to "migrate" to your pet, and there they will die.
   • Buy an electronic thermostat that can lower the temperature or turn off the heater while you go to work or sleep.
   • Keep windows open when you get out of the house if possible.

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   Cover your furniture after handling your home. This is to prevent fleas from hiding inside mattresses, under pillows or under blankets.

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   Apply lemon or orange to the pet's fur. Squeeze out an orange or lemon juice and rub the skin over the pet's fur. Your pet will smell good and also not be poisoned by licking water or citrus oil on the fur.
   • Note that concentrated citrus peel oil is toxic to pets, so use only citrus juice - never essential oils.

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   Use natural predators in the yard. You can buy the "useful nematode" species at pet stores or garden stores that specialize in organic lawn care. Useful nematodes feed on the flea larvae, preventing the next batch of fleas from entering your home. Don't worry - they're not worms that can cause helminths in pets.

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   Use apple cider vinegar. Mix 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in about 1 liter of water and place it in your dog's drinking bowl. When your dog drinks the water, the apple cider vinegar will get into his body and make his blood taste uncomfortable for the flea. After you run out of 2-3 bowls of water, you should see results starting; But it will work when vinegar gets into your dog's body.
   • There is no scientific evidence to support this approach, although some people have been lucky to use it.
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Advice

• For dogs with thick and / or curly hair, it is better to take oral medicine because topical can hardly reach the dog's skin.
• Please work with your veterinarian if the flea infection is severe. Your veterinarian will give you detailed instructions and recommend the best products to treat your pet as well as your home and yard.
• Apply a lot of menthol alcohol to your ankles before going inside. This prevents fleas from biting your legs and feet.

Warning

• Some dog products contain permethrin, which can cause seizures and death in cats. Dog products for dogs only.
• If your pet experiences seizures from an overdose of the flea repellant, contact your doctor right away.
• If the pet's gums are pale, the pet appears lethargic and cold, they may have lost a lot of blood from the flea, or had fallen into a dangerous condition called parasitic anemia. This is especially dangerous for young pets, puppies or kittens, and requires the care of a veterinarian as soon as possible.
• Do not take Frontline or other products containing fipronil as fleas appear to have developed resistance to this chemical.
• Use an oral medication such as Capstar (containing Nitenpyram) to kill adult fleas on your pet within 30 minutes of taking it. Then you can use the pet's topical medicine.

What you need

• Natural citrus-based bath or dish soap
• Flea killer
• Home and yard insecticides or sprays
• Sprays or powders
• Flea comb
• Oral and topical flea killers
• Clean cloth and / or garbage bag
• Mosquito repellent contains DEET
• Vacuum cleaner and trash bag
• A flea collar
• Mop and household cleaner
• Flea spray or spray
• Canvas furniture
• Yeast
• Garlic (for dogs, not cats)
• Lemon or orange juice has been squeezed out
• Nematodes are useful
• Apple cider vinegar