can cockroach pesticides make you really sick?

Question

we are overrun with cockroaches and have spent well over 200 dollars on bug bombs to sprays. I wake up and my stomach hurts and I have a bad headache

Answer 1

Heck yeah they can! They're poisonous to humans as well, we just need higher doses to be toxic. Get yourself to a doctor after finding out what they sprayed!! Odds are you've either used a class of pesticides called organophosphorus pesticides or pyrethroids (end in -thrin usually).

Here is a website about pesticide poisoning... (you might even call poison control, they'd have better info than your doctor most likely)

http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/pesticides/ec2505.htm

Here is a good website on how to get rid of cockroaches more effectively without poisoning yourself....

http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7467.html

Answer 2

Considering it practically takes a SLEDGEHAMMER to kill the darn things- it wouldn't surprise me. I've had MY share of fights with them- & nothing's EVER really worked -short of hand-to-roach combat!!! ... HOWEVER; I HAVE discoverd an interesting thing; Cockroaches & Spiders will NOT share the same living space. You'll have either ONE- or the other. If you can STAND a few spiders prowling around (looking for cockroaches for dinner)- you might consider introducing a few from a friend or neighbor- who doesn't like spiders- but doesn't HAVE cockroaches!!! :)

Answer 3

They're organophospates and yes, of course they'll make you sick. Pesticides are nerve poisons.