To want to cry about these fleas

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Up until about a year and a half ago I had a cat sho's fleas appeared to be immune to Frontline, took me an age to get her de-flead. Cue the great flea infestation of 2012.

I had the whole flat fumigated by a professional TWICE before things started clearing up.

Unfortunately my cat got knocked over and sadly passed away in May 2012.

Now, I am very very allergic to flea bites and have noticed the last few months I have been getting that all too afmiliar feeling again.

I was sorting out junk in my old cupboard and must have disturbed some dormant fleas because I found one sitting proudly on my arm last night.

I am literally at my wits end, it seems to be never ending. I have bought some Acclaim which I hear is very good, any advice on how to use it?

Also, I have a lovely little hamster who is my baby and I do not want him being affected by the spraying.

Common sense tells me that he should NOT be in the room whilst spraying or for a few days later but what shoudl I do? Is he safe in another room? Is he safe to go back on sprayed carpets a few days later? Any advice would be most welcome.

Thanks guys

Yuck, I genuinely feel for you OP. We had an infestation when I was about 18. I remember coming in from a night out and dozens of them jumping on my legs. I hope you can get it sorted, it is awful. Have some and

We have three cars. I have never seen a flea. Once we had a few because I got some bites. I had missed an Advocate treatment. I sprayed the sitting room with the stuff in the pink tin from Pets4Homes (had been mentioned above), hoovered, moving everything and put the hoover bag straight into the dustbin. I think you have to keep the animals treated to be honest.

I have only spotted one so don't think it's a bad infestation (if I treat it now).

I have a huge cupboard full of junk and items from old house which I am almost certain is harbouring the eggs. I am going to have to dedicate this weekend to clearing it out :(

IME you have to make sure you treat with an IGR (Insect Growth Regulator) as this is the only thing that interrupts the transition between each stages of the lifecycle, and that's what you have to do to eradicate them for good.

Many flea treatments kill adult fleas and larvae but have little or no effect on eggs or pupae, and by the time those have hatched, the tiny residue left of the treatment is insufficient to destroy them. It's not that uncommon for eggs and pupae to remain dormant for up to two years if undisturbed.

I would recommend hot washing anything small enough to fit in the washing machine and vacuuming and spraying everything else. Make sure you get into crevices in skirting boards, cracks in floorboards, under cupboards, etc. It is a good idea to vacuum any areas you suspect of harbouring them on a weekly basis for a while, to encourage any dormant eggs/pupae to hatch. Eventually, they'll have all hatched, all been killed and problem over.

YY to treating the vacuum cleaner. Dispose of the contents outside and make sure you spray the contents and the vacuum cleaner with IGR too.

Good luck. I made the mistake of being lazy treating a cat many years ago and had to go through this. Never again. I really sympathise.

you poor thing, we had fleas two years ago from our cat it was a complete nightmare, my dd had a massive reaction to the flea bites and was quite ill so it was a big issue for us

I used bombs in every room they were pretty effective, but the vet told me you can not kill the fleas at a certain stage in their life cycle, and they can lay dormant for a long time in soft furnishings etc.

So she advised hoovering daily, and as someone suggested up thread put a chopped up flea collar in the hoover bag to kill the little bastards you hoover up, I also sprayed furniture, carpets curtains etc every few days with flea spray, if there was still evidence of fleas she said to bomb again after 2 weeks

Indorex sorted out fleamageddon here. It was only when we came back from holiday after the pets had been out of the house for two weeks that we discovered Frontline was utterly useless.