Fleas - best way to treat human bed?

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Our dog brought fleas home about a fortnight ago. She's been treated, the house was hoovered and sprayed. We then went on holiday for a week so I was hoping to come home to a flea-free home (I literally backed out of the door, spraying).

But, I have long been a movable feast for biting insects. Midges, mosquitoes, and now fleas; they all ignore the other humans around me and make a beeline (no pun intended) for me.

The dog's bedding shows no sign of flea faeces; TBH neither does ours; but I'm being bitten all over, not just the ankles, so I don't think the problem is confined to the carpets.

How safe are the sprays to use in human bedding? Or is there anything else I can do (other than hoover mattress and wash bedding - already done)?

Am off to work so won't be back here until this evening, all suggestions gratefully received.

if you use a spot-on type treatment, the dog will actually clean up fleas. They will hop on him for a meal and be poisoned.

they are only biting you because there is no dog to feed on. You are not very nourishing to a dog flea so eventually they will die out.

Keep hoovering and hot-washing. a tumble drier will kill the eggs. I have only ever used bed-mite and moth sprays on human beds so I don't know about flea sprays. Possibly they are general purpose insecticides so miht work. The better flea treatments are available from a vet not a chemist.

You may find an antihistamine syrup (as sold for children with hayfever) reduces your reaction to the bites.

Feckers and they can lurk even if you have Indorexed the house to the gills and dog has full proper dose of insecticide & sterilisation meds.
You could use an insect repellent in bed each evening if you think that's where you're being bitten.

Thanks both! I think I'll go and have a chat with the vet tomorrow and see what they suggest. PigletJohn, are they syrups any different from the pills? Am using antihistamine tablets, but still itching like crazy. lljkk, great minds etc. - got home to find DH had bought me 'Jungle Formula' roll-on!

Thanks again.

I think the syrups and the tablets will be the same chemicals (there are at least two popular ones) n different form. we've used Priton and Piriteze, one of them is a later formula and you need it only once a day, I forget which.

the chemists own-brands tend to be the same formula, but usually not the latest one. Sometimes you will see they have the same Product Licence number in tiny print.

I sprayed my mattress and pillows with Indorex flea spray as I was being bitten during the night.

Touch wood I haven't had a single bite since.

It says on the tin that it can be used on soft furnishings and is harmless to humans. I bought it from Amazon at just under £10 a tin compared to £23 at my vets

You could try flea bombs. They are little tube things that look like a garden firework; you light them, shut the doors and windows and leave the house for a few hours.

I found (with a very severed cat flea infestation) that you come home to a hoovering/dusting job because everything is covered in a dusty ash layer, but you find hundreds of dead fleas over the next day or two.

Good luck! Ours was a long and frustrating battle to reclaim out home.

Indorex for the whole house mattresses everything