What if there are fleas at home?

Fleas are completely abnormal arthropods, and most species can absorb the blood of many kinds of animals. they often hide in damp and dark places such as rat holes, chicken nests, pig pens, bed boards, and Kang mats. In addition to biting people and causing itching, they can also spread diseases such as plague, endemic typhus and tsutsugamushi disease. Fleas found in the home should be quickly eliminated. Let's take a look at what to do with fleas at home.

What if there are fleas at home?

1. Thoroughly clean the home environment with a vacuum cleaner, especially where pets often sleep. After vacuuming, wrap the garbage bags in the vacuum cleaner with plastic bags and throw them out of the house. Usually, the vacuum cleaner can remove 50% of the flea eggs.

2. Use adult insecticides such as carpet powder and sprays to kill fleas remaining in the environment. Be careful to use sprays at invisible dead corners, such as under furniture, and consider other conditions at home when choosing products.

3. In order to prevent flea eggs and larvae from growing into adults, flea-killing sprays containing ingredients to control the growth of larvae are needed. Many products have both functions, which can not only kill the residual adults, but also prevent the growth of larvae.

4. The bedding in the pet nest should be cleaned every Monday, and the place near the pet nest should also be sprayed with spray for environmental treatment. At the same time, don't forget to deal with cars, pet suitcases, or other places where pets often go.

What kinds of fleas do you have?

1. Rat fleas: rat fleas breed and breed among floating soil, grain and other things under the rat nest, and reproduce most in spring and summer. the main hosts are rodents, but they are not single-minded, jumping to rats to suck blood, and then to people to suck blood. therefore, it is a vector to spread plague and poses a great threat to human health.

2. Human flea: human flea is a kind of flea most closely related to human beings, which mainly breeds in human housing and animal habitat, especially in places with poor clean and sanitary conditions, which breeds most in summer. In addition to parasitic human body, but also parasitic on dogs, cats, pigs, wolves, bears, foxes, badgers and so on, especially dogs.

3. Cat flea: the adult buccal bar of cat flea generally has 8 thorns, long head type, sharp angle between forehead and cheek, the most prosperous in summer, the female can lay eggs after sucking blood, and can lay more than 1000 eggs in her lifetime, which is mainly parasitic on cats. It is also parasitic on rabbits and dogs in Fujian, and can bite human beings at the same time.

4. Dog fleas: dog fleas are mainly parasitic on dogs and can also bite people, but they are rare in dogs in Northeast China, Inner Mongolia and other places. Dogs infected with fleas often cause dogs to scratch, lick their hair and bite places bitten by fleas, resulting in local baldness or redness and swelling, and in severe cases, allergic dermatitis.

How to stop itching when bitten by fleas?

1. After being bitten by a flea, you can spray Liushen antipruritic dew first, and then wipe the acetic acid fluorine relaxed cream.

2. If you are bitten by a flea, you can wipe it with a little edible alkali noodle water, which can also quickly stop itching.

3, fresh purslane stems and leaves a little, rub the affected area after rubbing water in the hand, which has the effect of relieving itching and detumescence.

4. Immediately change all the clothes on the body and soak the clothes in the water. The water had better not pass the clothes, and the fleas are most afraid of the water, so that they can drown the fleas and avoid being bitten again.

5. The place where you are bitten can be smeared with Lijun essential oil to relieve itching and scar. Smear is repeated every other day, and the swelling can be reduced in three days and the scar can be eliminated in a week.

6. The formic acid secreted in the flea's mouthparts during flea bites can cause muscle itching. Soap contains sodium salt of higher fatty acids, which is alkaline after hydrolysis, which can quickly eliminate pain and itching.

7, rinse the bitten area with clean water, do not wipe dry, then dip a little washing powder on the bitten area can immediately stop itching and detumescence, and rinse off the washing powder after the redness and swelling disappear.

8. Use sliced garlic to rub repeatedly at the place bitten by fleas for one minute, which has obvious analgesic, anti-itching and anti-inflammatory effect, even if the bitten area has become a large bag or inflamed ulceration can also be wiped with garlic.

9. After being bitten by a flea, you can immediately apply 1 to 2 drops of chloramphenicol eye drops to relieve pain and itching, chloramphenicol eye drops have anti-inflammatory effect, and mild infection can also reduce inflammation.