Fleas everywhere! GAAAAAHHHH!!!!!

[MrsChemist]

I've been battling them for a few weeks now. I am waiting on a new vacuum cleaner and I have recently acquired a professional flea removal kit thingy.
I intend to unleash the fury. The fury made worse by seeing one actually in the process of eating my son's face. HIS FACE!!!!!
Anyway, my flea spray in the flea kit says it can't be used on bedding (duvets, pillows etc. not mattress) but they are in there, hiding in the duvet. In case the flea bombs I have don't wipe them out of the duvet, is there anything I can use on the duvet? Or should I just ignore the advice and spray the duvet anyway?

I went away for 5 weeks in the summer, when got back house was infested, really horrid.

I feel for you.

Call the council - its the only way. Cost me £60 and not seen once since.

I had previously spent over £300 trying to get rid of them.

Oh god, me too - the cats both died and the little feckers have just been eating us alive for the past fortnight. I've tried sprays and am considering calling the council out now they are not so backed up with wasps nests. I think we need flea bombs you can't buy without a licence. If I have one more sodding bite on my ankle I'll scream and they are just so icky!

call the council and get the place nuked.

wash duvets, bed-linen etc on the highest wash they can take.

I washed all my DD's teddys - took 8 loads

luckily was summer and pegged them all on the line

We had them, and I totally got rid of them with spray (I sprayed matresses, carpets,in the morning then aired the house all day.

Washed and tumbled dried all bedding, new flea collars, advantage drops on cats.

Fleas gone. Job done.

Thanks for the replies
Last time I had this problem, just flea treating the cat did the job. They are slowly going but if they aren't gone 2 weeks after I bomb the bastards, I'll call the council

Frontline everything. The cat, the carpet, the sofa, the curtains.

Pay particular attention the edges i.e. the edge of the room, under the sofa, down the back of the sofa. Especially when you are vacuuming

Put Stronghold on the cats - far better than Frontline, and then it will break the cycle to get rid of the fleas

Agree that Frontline is crap.

We've just had a flea problem despite using Frontline on the cat every month

We're now trying Stronghold on the cat and sprayed the house with a spray from the vets called RIP Fleas

Really? I haven't had to use any lately but Frontline has always done the job great.

I use the one from the vets you only have to put on every 6 months and I never see fleas.

The vet has told me that fleas are becoming resistant to frontline and to move onto stronghold, which is also a wormer.

had this had this. Two years ago problem was so bad, DS at 2 was so badly bitten we took him to gp and he referred us to hosp paediatrician just to make sure because they were so bad. I'm a pro now!

Cats are advantaged or frontlined religiously every four weeks. IF they get bad we use one of two sprays, Indorex Spray by Virbac or Acclaim by Vet-Kem both from the vets. I blast the house in a morning. I hoover everything and everywhere and then spray each room and carpet etc as I go, including mattresses etc. I Wash all human bedding immediately and seal any I cant in black bin liners. Vets say after this wash cat bedding or sleeping places twice a week if poss and respray anything that's needed. If I can't wash a place where they sleep i use old towells in those spots for a couple of weeks and hot wash every other day (60 degrees kills pretty much everything including MRSA according to a microbiologist friend). Do that and it'll work. Cats still get occasional outbreaks, intrigued by stronghold recomendations ... but DS has never suffered since. If the cats scratch spring or autumn I do my blast and it seems to work well.

Good luck. I hate blardy fleas.

We used a steam cleaner on our entire house and then hoovered up afterwards and we have never had our fleas come back. We steamed all of our bedding too before putting it in the wash and that seemed to do the trick. It can be a far longer process than other chemical ways of treating fleas but you can get in every nook and cranny and there were no chemicals used so it was safe around our at the time 1 month old DS.

If you can put the duvets etc. in a freezer for 24 hours and then wash them on a high temperature. Freezing is a conservation trick that saves fabrics from infestation but you may not know anyone with a large enough freezer! We had fleas and I sprayed the mattresses and opened all the bedroom windows for 12 hours.

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