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a flea.

I found a flea on me. We don't have a pet, how do we get fleas? 


...does anyone know how to get read of fleas? I haven't seen a flea since I lived at home with my dog and I can't remember what my dad did to get rid of them. I just remember bathing the dog and having my acrylic nails being melted by flea shampoo. 

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Re: a flea.

  • can you get some flea fogger things? Set them up in the house and leave for a couple hours while they fumigate the area?

    Or you and your H can wear flea collars. ;)
  • I may get a flea collar for the day. I'm making H go to the store and get a fogger tonight. He wanted to call off work Wednesday for a mental health day, he now has a job. 

    I'm just going to lay in bed all day, I found the bugger in the living room. 
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  • It was probably just a random flea.  If you had fleas in your house you would know!
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  • I've seen 4 more on me. They really like my feet.

    Looks like I'm going to need a fogger, in the meantime I'm going to vacuum the crap out of our house. 
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  • I've seen 4 more on me. They really like my feet.

    Looks like I'm going to need a fogger, in the meantime I'm going to vacuum the crap out of our house. 
    Oh yeah, that's bad news.  If you're seeing multiple fleas at your feet, you probably have a small infestation.  That suuucks!  Fogger and lots of vacuuming should help!
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  • Diatomaceous earth

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  • Diatomaceous earth

    What is this?

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  • I've seen 4 more on me. They really like my feet.

    Looks like I'm going to need a fogger, in the meantime I'm going to vacuum the crap out of our house. 
    don't forget to get throw the bag away and/or dump the canister when you're done vacuuming. Yuck, fleas are a nightmare. GL with the fogger.
  • The cheapest way is to get a nightlight for each room and put a bowl of soapy water under the light for a little more than 2 weeks.  The foggers don't kill the eggs, just the live fleas so if they have laid eggs (which take 2 weeks to hatch) you will have the problem again.  The fleas will jump toward the light and drown in the water.  Empty and refill every day.
    Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.

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  • Diatomaceous earth
    What is this?
    I'm copying this description from Amazon:
    D.E. (Diatomaceous Earth) is a non-toxic, safe substance made up from fossils of freshwater organisms and crushed to a fine powder. The powder particles resemble bits of broken glass when observed thru a microscope. Deadly to any insect or larvae, D.E. scratches the insect's waxy outer shell causing death by dehydration. D.E is completely harmless to all animals, fish, birds or in food. This makes D.E. (Diatomaceous Earth) an excellent natural topical dusting powder for animals with fleas, ticks, lice and other external pests.

    It is supposed to be extremely absorbent and thus can be mildly irritating/drying to skin, but it is considered very safe. People buy food grade DE and sprinkle it on their carpet to take care of fleas and the eggs.

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