My cant had fleas, got treated, now there are fleas all over my house. What's the best way to get rid of them

Answer 1

you must first bomb the home.you also have to vacuum every day and empty bag or canister every day.also buy hand held spray cans to get under furniture.you may have to repeat this process a time or two.fleas lay eggs in large quantities.we had this problem once and it takes work to get rid of them but this process does work.

Answer 2

Firstly you must treat the cat. Advantage is a good product but should be got on prescription from your vet. Cats should not be treated with over the counter products. Take particular care not to use a product meant for dogs or any containing Permethrin as this is poisonous to cats. Remember you will need to treat your cat frequently as they easily become reinfected, particularly if they are hunters.
Advantage does interfere with the life cycle of the flea but, as another answerer has stated, they can remain dormant in carpets and soft furnishing for a long time. Wash any bedding that your cat sleeps on. Vacuum using a Dyson or similar powerful suction machine. The hatchling fleas are always on the lookout for a warm host to jump on. (Try wearing white trousers and see how the fleas jump onto your legs!). One trick that sometimes helps is to use an electric blanket spread on the floor.
Wait until the fleas have collected on the blanket then unplug and use a flea powder on them. DO NOT use a spray that could make the blanket damp and don't leave the blanket unattended.
Sprays and shampoos with insecticides can be used on carpets and furniture but make sure the cat is shut away safely otherwise they will go frantic and if you have any other pets, including fish, make sure they are out of the way.
I do wish you the best of luck although I am afraid that it can be a constant battle that you can only hope to keep on the top of and will never totally win. I think it's a small price to pay for having cats around.
PS. having laminate floors instead of carpets should make things easier.

Answer 3

You will need to find a powder safe to use around your pets, and people. You can usually find this in the pet section at Wal-Mart, and it isn't very expensive. Treat everything (floors, furniture, pets, pet bedding). Follow the directions on the powder. Usually you sprinkle it on, let it sit for an hour, and then vaccuum up.

You will also need to vaccuum several times a day. This helps to get rid of any new eggs, and newly hatched fleas. Cut up a piece of a cat or dog flea collar and put it in your vaccuum bag/cannister. This will help kill any fleas that are swept up.

Insect Bombs, as others have mentioned, do work well enough, but usually you have to vacate the area for several hours, and put out all your pilot lights.

To trap any remaining living fleas, set a small lamp on the floor at night with a dish of soapy water under it. The rest of the room has to be dark. If the lamp has a shade that is open at the top, put a heat resistent plate over the opening so that the light is concentrated downward. The light reflection off the water and the heat from the lamp will attract the fleas. It is important that the water in the dish have a little bit of soap added to it. Fleas are so tiny and fast that they can actually bounce off standing water. Adding the soap decreases the surface tention of the water, and the fleas then cannot bounce off of it.

You may also want to visit your local home store and find a pet/people friendly yard treatment to prevent any further infestations. Also, to protect your pet from further infestations, Frontline is the absolute best treatment. It is expensive, but cheaper to buy directly online, rather than from your local vet.

Answer 4

Get some flea stoppers or some borax and sprinkle it all over your carpet after you have vacuumed well. Brush it in with a broom. Let is sit for 24 hours. Then vacuum well. It will dehydrate the fleas and kill them. You will think your problem has gotten worse for the first few days to a week because the fleas will become very active trying to get out of the carpet. This will work. I promise you. I've given this advise to hundreds as a vet tech. It never fails. A proffesional exterminator will come in and spray your house but unless the spray hits the flea on the head it won't work. They will also charge you a fortune. Also put advantage, or frontline on your cat. Do NOT use hartz as it is potentially fatal to your cat and does not work. Also don't bother with other topical over the counter meds as they don't work. Spend the money for frontline or advantage. I also don't like revolution the vet will try to get you to use. It doesn't work as well and there really is no point in using heartwom preventative on a cat since microfilaria will not live in a cats bloodstream. It is an overkill. Also get some capstar pills for the cat. They will kill all the fleas on the cat in 30 minutes and will last for 24 hours. Check with your vet as to how often you can use it. After a couple of days of frontline or advantage the cat will be a walking flea killer. Hope this helps,

Answer 5

When you treat the cat you also need to treat the house, fleas eggs can be dormant in soft furnishings, carpets etc for quite some time. Maybe an exterminator would be the best option in this case to get the control of the situation back. There are products for the house as well as the animals.

Answer 6

A flea bomb and flea carpet and upholstery spray. Wash everything in the house in hot hot water, even your bedding. Treat where the cat sleeps and lays. PetSmart sells a variety of flea control stuff. I recommend Zodiac Brand. You will need to do the bomb, follow the directions on the package. Then wash everything and spray it down once a week for a month. Vaccum, and put part of a flea collar in the vac bag to kill any fleas you suck up. Discard of the vac bag. Make sure your cat is still getting the monthly flea and tick drops to prevent re-infestation and to kill any remaining ones on the cat.

Answer 7

Your vet should have an excellent and safe flea house solution that you spray on your carpets and furniture which is safe for you and your cat. Call them and ask about it. I forgot the name because it's been so many years but I had the same problem and it worked so well I haven't had to use it again. It would seem to me that the vet would mention this spray because when you're getting a pet treated for fleas it stands to reason the house is infested too, but they never do...

Answer 8

You need to treat your environment the bug bombs work real well but you will need to spray under your furniture first... beds ,couch stove. Don't forget under cushions as well if you don't the fleas will hide under there. I prefer the Zodiac brand products premise spray for pretreat and then the bombs you will need to retreat the house again in approx. 2 weeks for any eggs that may hatch after first time. I also treat my yard with Durasban and Diasinon also keep up with the kitty's flea prevention to prevent re infestation and to keep kitty healthy fleas can cause anemia and death in some circumstances. Hope this helps

Answer 9

Arm and Hammer puts out a great powder for killing fleas, and flea eggs. Get some of that and sprinkle it all over the carpet and furniture, then vacuum like there's no tomorrow! And keep vacuuming.

If you can't find that powder, use powdered laundry detergent. I don't like the idea of bombs because I don't want to risk that residue getting on stuf I want to use myself.

Also, make sure to wash everything that is washable. That should get any fleas that are hiding in your bedding, for instance.

Good luck!

Answer 10

Flea bomb your house. vaccum, throw away the bag immediately. Do this the first few times you vaccum. Make sure your cat has a flea resistant (sp?) oil, spray on. After flea bombing you house vaccum again and wipe down all stuff.

Cover your fish tanks, electronics and make sure you remove your animals from the premises. Let the house air out about 30 minutes after the inital 3-4 hour bombing. Good luck.

Answer 11

Use Bug Bombs, you can get them at Walmart, Kmart, Target, or your local vets. 3 or four should do it. Set one off in each room of the house and leave for a few hours until they are finished working.
Also make sure you clean all pet bedding and any stuffed animals that might be around the pet.
It might take two treatments (setting the bombs off twice) to kill them.
Also make sure you get the bug bombs that kill the eggs and nits too, as the eggs can hatch days later and you will have a mess of fleas again.