Specific question about fucking fleas!!!!

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Background: We diligently treated our cats with the monthly spot-on stuff. No fleas, but one very skittish cat, who flinched whenever we approached and disappeared for 24 hours after every application. We switched to flea collars: fucking fleas!!

I have: resumed spot-on stuff (Frontline Plus), smoke bombed all rooms, flea sprayed everything several times, hoovered everything every other day for just over three weeks. I have read a LOT online and now know more about the lifecycle of fleas than I ever wanted to have to know. Currently seeing far fewer fleas BUT one of the cats is still covered in eggs. I cannot understand this - everything I'm reading online says you can expect to see fleas still, because they all need to hatch out from their various stages and either come into contact with insecticide or bite the cat in order to die. But why am I seeing flea eggs still?

That's the specific question I can't find an answer to - if my cat is treated, and the house is treated, how are the fuckers still managing to lay new eggs?! Which part isn't working?!!!?!

I'm losing my mind over this. It's fucking horrible, my children have flea bites, I have tendon pain because my stupid hands don't work properly and hoovering eight times a minute is making them hurt, and I fully understand you came expect to see some fleas but why eggs? Why is this poor cat still shedding a snowstorm of eggs at this stage. I've cried twice today and I don't know what else I can do.

My uncle's cat loved being washed.

Could they be tapeworm eggs?

You need to get advocate from the vet and also hoover every day. Frontline didn’t work

OP, people keep on telling you that you need to take your cat to the vet for help with this. Please do heed their advice. Vets are very good at knowing what treatments work for the local area. Fleas do develop immunity to some treatments but this is localised, so what works for one person might not work on the other side of the country. If it helps, Frontline stopped working for us several years ago. We then went on to Advantage, bought direct from the vet. That was fine but the vet has since put us on Nex Guard which they say is the dog's bollocks ... it treats all the worms they're likely to meet, as well as fleas, mites, ticks and lice! It's a spot-on thing, my cat dislikes them (I think the vapour when you open them stings his eyes?) but he gets over it very quickly. If your cat is very sensitive to this sort of thing, then bring that up with the vet!

Please don't rely on over-the-counter things or treatments you can buy off the shelf in places like B&M, they just don't work.

Everyone on the thread who is struggling with fleas, you need the vet strength flea treatment on the. cat or else you are wasting your time hoovering and spraying indorex. If the cat has been treated with something like bravecto then the cat breaks the cycle of fleas.

I sympathise with those with cats that hate the application and going to the vets. One of ours is a nightmare for both but in order not to have a flea outbreak I take him for vet check ups, spend a fortune on the treatment and feel guilty as I wrap the poor frightened beast in a towel to apply the spot on. It’s shit but not as shit as fleas.

You need to find a better treatment - frontline won't kill active fleas, you need something stronger. Advantage is good and you don't need a prescription.

We use credelio tablets- they were a game-changer for us.