When washing bedding, is tide and bleach enough to kill fleas and their eggs?

Question

I have a little bit of a flea problem, I have been spraying down my carpets and furniture with antiflea stuff and I am getting ready to wash my dog and sheets. Do I need to get more than just tide and bleach to get rid of everything on them... (My dog is spoiled and I let him sleep in my bed.)

Answer 1

Ya, it will kill anything in your bedding, but it is the rest that becomes the problem...here is some more info.

You need something like FrontlinePlus...good source and cheaper than the vets is petshed.com...I use it so I know it works. A flea comb with a cup of hot water & a little dish liquid to dip the comb in when you comb your dog/cat. LOTs of vac bags and vac everyday and remove the bag and tie it in a shopping bag and take out of the house. This will work and you should see improvements within two months. DON'T use sprays, powders, house bombs, flea collars and over the counter products. They are dangerous and are full of pesticides and can harm you and your pet! To let you know as I was given a paper from the vets...cycle of the flea...They hatch from a cocoon like a butterfly...in one week they are an adult....as a adult they lay a egg every hour of their lives up to 1-2 years they live. The eggs hatch into a larva in about two weeks...they spend three weeks as a larva and then they wrap themselves into a cocoon. In the cocoon stage you can't kill them unless you plan on burning down your house...fire is the only way to kill them in this stage. What makes them hatch from a cocoon is vibration, heat, and all sorts of things. They need a host to feed on within one week or they will die. ( problem being is the cocoons can take up to five months to hatch! and they all hatch at different rates!) WOW that is a lot of fleas! FrontlinePlus uses two ways to kill the fleas...they first have an ingredient that paralyzes the flea so it can't feed and it dies...it does this for two weeks. The following two weeks it just inhibits the flea eggs of the fleas that feed on them and eggs don't hatch. This is why it takes a few months, but it does work. BTW...flea baths don't work either and will make it so the FrontlinePlus won't work.

Answer 2

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When washing bedding, is tide and bleach enough to kill fleas and their eggs?
I have a little bit of a flea problem, I have been spraying down my carpets and furniture with antiflea stuff and I am getting ready to wash my dog and sheets. Do I need to get more than just tide and bleach to get rid of everything on them... (My dog is spoiled and I let him sleep in my bed.)

Answer 3

Flea Eggs On Bed

Answer 4

Head and shoulders will not kill your kitten, but it also won't kill flea eggs. (it's more effective for eradicating ringworm) Bathing with any shampoo with kill some of the fleas, but you won't do enough damage to the flea population to rid your kitten of them. You need to use advantage, which you can get by visiting your vet. I don't recommend flea collars for kittens, as these allow the chemicals to seep into the kittens skin, and can cause medical problems. Speak to your vet, advantage is very effective, and not overly expensive! Advantage will kill the flea cycle, eggs and all. So your kitten will have quick relief. Remember to put a flea collar in your vacuum cleaner, and give your house a good vacuuming to kill fleas in the carpet, and prevent re-infestation. If you see cream coloured wiggly things that look simular to a grain of lice around your cats anus, she has tape worms, and need to see the vet. Fleas carry tape worm eggs in them, and when a cat ingests a flea the tape worm infestation begins. Tape worms survive on the food your cat eats-so they rob your kitten of valuable nutrients that it needs for growth. Tape worms rarely cause health problems in adult animals, but I'd be concerned about a ktten being infested. Go to the vets, bring a small fresh stool sample. (empty the litter, and wait for a fresh sample to show up) Remember to wash your hands every time you have handled your kitten. hope that helps! Enjoy your kitten :O) Teej.

Answer 5

Yes, normal washing with any detergent will kill fleas and their eggs. And you are doing it correctly by dousing you whole house with a flea killer. If any eggs or fleas are still alive they will re-infest your house.

Answer 6

you didn't say if the bedding was white or colored.
use hot water,tide&bleach.if the bedding is colored switch to
bleach for colors.if the fleas&eggs are in the bedding they may also be in the matress&pillows.

Answer 7

wash them on a really high temp wash 60 degrees a couple of times

Answer 8

Washing in regular detergent and hot water should do it. Also get some Frontline or Adavntage on your dog. Getting them out of the environment is important but you need to stop the infestation on the dog too and these are the only products that really cut it.

Answer 9

Yes, common laundry detergent is enough.

But... its not just in the bedding.

Its in your carpet... and any upholstered furniture you pet gets on.

And its in your LAWN.

Inside your house, your vacuum cleaner is your #1 weapon against fleas. Vacuum thouroughly and then dispose of the bag at least once a week. Don't wait for the bag to get full.

For the lawn... mix 1 cup dish soap (Dawn... Ivory... Stuf you use for hand washing dishes) And 1 can of cola (NOT DIET!) and (optionally) 1 cup of "tea" made by soaking chewing tobacco in water overnight.
Pour the mix in a hoze-end garden sprayer and spay the lawn.
The mix will kill the flea eggs in your lawn.

Answer 10

Make sure you wash it in hot water and then tide and bleach and make sure you use the good stuff name brand stuff . good luck .