How do I get rid of Fleas without Dangerous Chemicals?

Question

I have a toddler and wouldn't want to use chemicals around him.

I forgot to mention that I don't have a pet. I live in an apartment and the people down the hall have cats.

Answer 1

This is a neat trick that should help get rid of them. Get a couple of aluminum pie pans. When you are ready to go to bed, fill them halfway with water and drop in a teaspoon or so of dish soap. Don't make it bubbly. Put the pans out on the floor of the rooms you see the fleas in. Shine a desk lamp or some other lamp onto the surface of the water. The fleas are attracted to the shiny surface of the water and will jump in. The soap makes the water too dense for them to jump back out. They will drown. It sounds wierd but it does work. Google it and you will see lots of people talking about doing this. We had a LOT of fleas last year and it did help. Good Luck!

Answer 2

Flea Busters Flea Rx. This treatment is a powder that is brushed into carpets. You then vacuum up the excess (surface) powder. It contains a borate base (also known as borax) that acts as a dessicant to create too dry an environment for fleas to exist. Yet, it's not harmful to humans or pets like a flea poison (spray).

Take a look at the link below to see the Flea Busters web site. Also, you can do a search on borax to learn about potential hazards.

Answer 3

Many years ago we bought a home, where the previous owners ran a dog grooming business. The fleas were taking over. Now, mind you this was about 15 years ago, but I tried everything on the market at that time and some home spun remedies to boot. But, in the end we had to use a flea bomb (all people and animals had to leave the house for the day) and then had to use a follow up bomb 30 days later to kill any eggs. That did the trick! We always kept our dogs and cats on flea preventative and we were flea free from then on.

Answer 4

The best thing to do is to wash your carpets, every last inch, and then vacuum regularly, once a day for awhile, to suck up the adult fleas and their eggs and larvae. Also take down all your curtains and wash them and your clothes, bedding, and stuffed toys in hot water to kill them. Then you can try and prevent them by bringing in Eucalyptus plants, fleas don't like the smell of Eucalyptus for some reason. Treating fleas is a total pain in the butt but it's necessary. Fleas can spread disease and you have to be very aggressive when you treat them. Oh, and don't use borax on your carpet if you have a baby, it can actually make them pretty sick. Good luck.

Answer 5

*Bathe and comb your pet regularly. Use mild soap, not insecticides. If fleas are found on the comb, dip the comb in a glass of soapy water.

* Citrus is a natural flea deterrent. Pour a cup of boiling water over a sliced lemon. Include the lemon skin, scored to release more citrus oil. Let this mixture soak overnight, and sponge on your dog to kill fleas instantly.

*Add brewer's yeast and garlic, or apple cider vinegar, to your pets' food. However, it is not advisable to use raw garlic as a food supplement for cats.

* Cedar shampoo, cedar oil and cedar-filled sleeping mats are commercially available. Cedar repells many insects including fleas.

*Fleas in the carpet? The carpet should be thoroughly vacuumed especially in low traffic areas, under furniture, etc. Put flea powder in the vacuum cleaner bag to kill any fleas that you vacuum up, and put the bag in an outdoor garbage bin.

*Trap fleas in your home using a wide, shallow pan half-filled with soapy water. Place it on the floor and shine a lamp over the water. Fleas will jump to the heat of the lamp and land in the water. The detergent breaks the surface tension, preventing the flea from bouncing out.

Answer 6

Get 20 mule team borax, I had a problem with some fleas, I sprinkled it on, left it set for a while vacuumed it up and repeated the process 10 days later, carpet and dog are just fine.

Answer 7

There is only one product that I know of that kills fleas without pesticides and you can buy it at your local pet store. It brand is called Natural Chemistry. It doesn't use the typical pesticides that could be harmful to a pet or your children.

Answer 8

shake table salt onto the carpet every night for two weeks and vacumn in the morning Also Cynthia O suggestion is very good The salt kills the fleas but it takes two weeks to get all that hatch out in stages

Answer 9

There's really no way to do it without powerful insecticides. Those products are safe to use in your home if you take the proper precautions as stated on the labels.