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Flea Bombs?
Ok please don't think we are gross but we seem to have flea issue. Tomorrow my husband and I are taking the day off and are flea bombing the house. My question is do you wash all of your bed linens? I would assume so but unfortunately this is the second time we have had to bomb and washing ALL of the linens was so much work I wasn't sure if it is necessary and can't seem to find it online. We have two children 3 and 10 months. So I want to be sure everything is done right!
Re: Flea Bombs?
We flea bombed our basement 5 or 6 years ago after dog sitting for a friend and finding fleas on our indoor cats shortly after he left. If i remember correctly we elected not to bomb the entire house (only our basement where the cats liked to hang out) and brought in an exterminator who sprayed other areas of the house just to be safe as it wasn't a big infestation - just because I had the skeevies and wanted the peace of mind. I didn't want to bomb areas of our house where we spent alot of time unless a professional told us we had to.
Not that we kept bed linens or anything that gets much use down there, but I personally would wash everything just to be on the safe side, especially with babies in the house. Maybe call up a pest control company and see if they can give you some advice over the phone? When we had brought in the exterminator he told us that flea eggs can sit in the carpet for a very long time, and to vacuum ALOT for a while after we called him in to get eggs and any possible fleas up. I ran the vacuum a couple times a day for a few weeks and we never had a problem again.
I would wash them just to be on the safe side.
Once my dog stayed with my mom over the summer and my mom did not put frontline on her like she was supposed to. When we flea bombed our apartment, we gave my dog a capstar pill that killed all of the fleas on her and then put more frontline on her. You have to somehow treat the pet or the fleas will come back.
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