Top de-fleaing tips please

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DDog has got flipping flea's and I can't get rid of them.

She has had them about 3 weeks now, been shampooed regularly, had flea ointment , flea powder and flea spray plus a new bed which has already been in a hot wash.

I've been round all skirting boards near her bed with spray...any other ideas about from nuking the house to get rid of the persistent buggers!

Indorex spray, steam cleaning if you can and apparently salt on the floor?

If you are bathing regularly you will be washing the spot on off. Which spot on have you used.
Spot one I would recommend Activyl. Advantix or advocate.
Tablets I tend to go for bravecto as it lasts three months.

I don't know if this actually works but try floating a nightlight in a bowl of water and turning all the lights out. Idea being that the fleas are attracted to the warmth of the light and then drown in the water.

They are a bugger to get rid of.

Apply a proper prescription flea treatment (Advocate, Stronghold etc.), repeat this at the recommended interval which is usually monthly, spray household with Indorex/Acclaim/RIP Flea at the recommended interval which is usually yearly, stop bathing dog as you'll be washing the spot-on off.

Over the counter stuff is pointless unless used in conjunction with the household spray, flea collars/powders/bombs a total waste of money in either case.

Great, visit to vet then to get stronger flea treatment?

Not sure if it's available in the UK but I use Nexgard (monthly chewable tablet) for our dogs.

I need good coverage for paralysis ticks so chose Nexgard over anything else.

If paralysis ticks aren't an issue then Comfortis is a good flea tablet.

You can get both from pet shops and the vets.

I feel your pain! The Hound of the Schulenbergs has an infestation atm, only discovered over the weekend.
I've bathed him, treated him, hot washed all his bedding (including Mrs Bunny, the big padded rabbit which ds1 used to lie on 15 years ago), all sofa covers and cushions and sprayed the entire house with Permaguard as I couldn't get Indorex. I'm also doing nightly combings with an old nit comb, which is a horrible revelation of exactly what goes in his fur.
I plan to spray again during the week and next weekend he'll have another bath and I'll hot wash all bedding again.
I did read something about spraying him with a weak solution of vinegar and lavendar oil as a flea deterrent, which is probably bollocks but I'm going to try it in conjunction with everything else as I'm desperate.
Good luck!

Hoover every day and get up everything you can off the floor it took us 6 weeks and numerous cans of staykill to kill the little pests

Spray your hoover with stay kill the little buggers breed in there, also rid out the shoe cupboard because they can hide in there, we used the rule of thumb if its on the floor or touched the floor it will have fleas on it.

Also get some lavender oil a few drops of that in the dogs wash bucket to finish the bath will see them off.

Vets for advocate

do you have dc in your house, please NEVER use Indorex, or any other spray flea killers. they have warnings on them about the allergies they cause.

Just flea comb and flea comb, hoover all the crevices like others suggest. normally the vibration of hoovering will activate any dormant eggs in the warm dark areas, like radiators/skirtings around fires so they can be hoovered and then dispose of bag! (although not sure how they might travel through all the pipework to get out again .

If you rid the ddog by combing, then they will soon die out, and attacking with the hoover.

The strength of these sprays all over your house (Staykill/indorex/guard) are horrendous for the animals. Fleas taking a lot of killing, and its no good for us or the ddogs either! definitely not with babies young dc or other young critters in the house.

If you have a proper infestation you will have to call the pest control gang out and leave the house whilst its fumigated! but i think in most cases you will be able to remove it pretty quickly with a determined attack