FLEAS! please help!NOW!?

Question

okay we had this same problem last year. the fleas on my cat keep coming back even though we gave her drops. and the fleas are all over my clothes and i am terrified that they could be in my hair!!!!!!!! AHHH!!!! my parents don't think they need to call an exterminator but i'm not gonna stand for this!

Answer 1

Go to your vet and pick up a capstar pill and either some frontline or advantage. If your cat is heavily infested the capstar pill will help tremendiously. Its a pill thats given orally and will kill every living flea on your pet for up to 24 hrs. It helps to give your flea prevention a good starter boost. Also while at your vet ask about Knockout Area Treatment and Flea Busters Powder. The powder is if your have any carpet in your house it will kill all the fleas in the carpet then you just vaccume them up. The area treatment is a flea spray that you can spray on anything, furniture floors bedding, anywhere that will kill all the fleas. Both are very safe products even around small children and animals. Note all together these products may be expensive but the point is that they work. If your cat goes outside you may want to consider treating your yard as well.

Answer 2

With such a severe infestation of fleas, your vaccumn cleaner can be your best friend. Vaccumn everywhere. Carpets,linoleum, tile, wood. Every where. Then throw out the bag from the vac. You need to vaccumn every day at least for the next few days. What you are doing is picking up as much of the larval stage and eggs that are in the environment as you can. You have eggs and larva all over, all in various stages of developement. You need to break the life cycle. Treat the house. Treat under furniture, treat every where.Wash pet bedding, your bedding in hot water . Apply Frontline, Advantage, or Revolution. Don't buy OTC at pet stores, Please dont' by any Hartz products. They don't work. Even after all that, you may still have a few outbreaks, usually every 3 weeks as stages hatch. The best house treatment I have experience was called Siphotrol Area Premis Spray. Look for it. Its incredible. They have an 800 # to call if you have questions or problems.

Good Luck.

Answer 3

Fleas don't live on humans, they are not going to be in your hair.

You need to treat your animals the year round - fleas are not a seasonal thing as once believed. You also need to use proper treatment, for your animal AND your house - and by this I mean treatment from a vets, NOT a pet store. You don't need to call an exterminator in, you just need to get some Frontline, Advantage or Revolution for your cat and some proper spray for your house.

Chalice

Answer 4

Each flea can lay up to 200 eggs...yikes..

Fleas can be infected by tapeworms and if you or your cat ingests this flea, you can get tapeworms..

Really gross but true...just treated my cat for tapeworms...

Maybe this info will get them serious about treating your infestation.

Also you need to get a topical treatment such as Advantage or Frontline..stuff from the store doesn't work. You need to kill the flea life cycle. The adult, larvea and eggs. Advantage and frontline also helps protect against ticks and advantage against mosquitos.

You must use the topical once every month...even in colder winter months...we have such bad fleas this year because of the mild winters that most have had so it did not kill them off.

Answer 5

I tried the spray that the vet suggested and it did NOTHING. There is a brand of powder you can get at a pet store near you. It suggests leaving it on the floor 2-24 hours. I left it on the floor 24 hours (used a broom to get it deep in the carpet where they were the worst) excepting in my bedroom, where they weren't terrible, and viola, fleas gone. The cat also went through I think like 5 baths in 2 weeks, poor dear. I'd suggest the powder, washing all of your clothes/ bedding/ anything on the floor, and powder on the furniture, + a bath for kitty to make sure they are all gone. Also frontline or my favorite "Revolution" would be best to follow all this up.

Answer 6

Ask your vet for Advantage. It is guaranteed to work within an hour. It kills fleas and flea eggs. Make sure you get Advantage for Cats. because dogs and cats do not share the same fleas.

Answer 7

don't be stupid mate. you do not purchase fleas at flea markets. Flea markets are the place animals, and each each now and then human beings have fleas of their hair. those fleas run a marketplace each saturday for different fleas to purchase products of scalp and hair. think of earlier you ask

Answer 8

exterminate asap!!! the fleas probubally layed eggs in your carpets and things and will continue to come. Fleas will die when under water, so make a bath and get in, put your body under the water, and any fleas that are on you will float to the surface, you may need someone to scoop them out of the way. I suggest bathing your cat, she may not like it though, also put frontline on her.

Answer 9

bob martin flea coller on your cat and a good household flea spray for the house but make shore you do the hole of the house and wash all your clothes and the cats beding repeat spray the hole house 10 days later if you find they start to come back do it again six weeks later but you must change the cats coller every three to four months hope this helps we lived in a house the was infested and this worked good luck

Answer 10

Fleas live in carpets, curtains, cracks by wood floors. Get flea bomb's follow directions on can. Or go to the Vet they have this powder you put on carpets. It kills fleas as you sweep them up in the bag.