Baby due in a few weeks, flea infestation!!!!!

[Gabrielle22]

😡 let me just start off stating how livid I am. My husband and I have a huskey, we take care of him, bath him ALL the time, keep flea treatments on him ect. We haven't had any problems with fleas at all!
My parents went on vacation about a month ago, they begged us to babysit their dog. They told us that they had treated him for fleas but when he got here, he was ate up! The poor guy was missing hair off his back from scratching so much. We kept him for 5 days. A couple days after he left, we have gradually become infested! My poor son is are up. We have to keep bug spray on us, IN OUR OWN HOME! We vaccumed and shampooed all the carpets. We sprayed hot shot flea killer on the carpet and all of the furniture, we washed all of the bed linen, and any cloth toys, pillows or blankets laying around. Once the carpet dried, we put table salt on the carpet TWICE. We also put mothballs around the house. No kidding, we were clean for 1 day! They are back! And just as bad as before. Idk what else to do! Our dog stays outside (because of this) but I am stumped. A newborn baby can't stay here! This is disgusting! I guess I'm just looking for a miracle answer here lol

 

[RinnaRoo]

Number one, you need your parents to help you in some way. I had a flea problem in 2010 when my son was a newborn. It was horrid the worst ever. Vacuum every single day and dump the bin outside! Treat the lawn too. Put out a white or clear bowl with hot water and a drop of thick dish soap. The fleas are attracted to the light and they will hop in and can't get out. If you've got AC keep it on. Treat and vacuum every single day for like a month. It won't be clear in one day.
Good luck.

 

[Gnomer]

I had this issue with my cat a couple of months ago. Fleas EVERYWHERE. what do you treat your dog with? We had to wait a week to put flea stuff on the cat, but when we could I changed brands. I was hoovering, doing the dish of water, washing everything I could wash, using absurd amount of household flea treatments.
In the end, the only thing that worked was changing the cats flea treatment. Within a day of him getting the new stuff on, there was a noticeable difference to the amount of fleas in the house. After a couple of days I washed everything again, hoovered, give the house a proper going over. And no more fleas!
I used to use frontline flea treatment on my cat (although he has small dog dosage), but apparently someone brought in frontline resistant fleas. He's a house cat and doesn't go out, or near other cats. Anyway, we switched to advocate, and that worked a treat.

 

[leahtaba]

I don't know we're you are but if you can get hold of 'virbac indorex household spray' off amazon then get some, it is the only thing that worked for us and the amazon reviews usually reflect this!

I would also go the vets and get a different flea treatment for your dog as fleas have become immune to some of them.

 

[Pixie19]

We had a flea infestation when i was pregnant with my first. The infestation was disgusting, we walked in our house and within seconds our legs were covered in hundreds of fleas!! We got a flea spray called 'Indorex' after reading great reviews about it online, we sprayed the whole house then went shopping, came back a few hours later and there was no infestation anymore!! Its amazing stuff and lasts for a year! We sprayed it around our new house when we moved in to clear a spider infestation and for months later we would get flies coming in that would randomly drop dead.
I definately recommend it, I'm in the UK and we ordered it online for £9.99 there's more than enough in one can to spray a big 3 bedroom house.

 

[leahtaba]

We had a flea infestation when i was pregnant with my first. The infestation was disgusting, we walked in our house and within seconds our legs were covered in hundreds of fleas!! We got a flea spray called 'Indorex' after reading great reviews about it online, we sprayed the whole house then went shopping, came back a few hours later and there was no infestation anymore!! Its amazing stuff and lasts for a year! We sprayed it around our new house when we moved in to clear a spider infestation and for months later we would get flies coming in that would randomly drop dead.
I definately recommend it, I'm in the UK and we ordered it online for £9.99 there's more than enough in one can to spray a big 3 bedroom house.

that's the stuff I was on about as well! it really does do the trick x

 

[Kittycat155]

Many of the higher quality meds can be applied sooner then monthly. I would call vet and ask. I have done this with Advantage and Frontline in past when a new cat came in and spread the fleas. If you have cats treat them to with higher quality meds. I know they look expensive but really are not considering 1 dose and your good and need not do wash/vacuum like a nut

 

[CharlieKeys]

When we moved into our new house in May, there was somehow fleas in it! We managed to kill them off with hoovering three times a day, and putting salt along the door frames upstairs - it was mainly my daughter they were biting! We even put salt under her bed. By mid June they has totally disappeared *fingers crossed*

 

[cncem]

What kind of flea treatment are you using? A chemical called permethrin (used for lice) works really well, as well as a chemical called phenothrin (comes in flea drops which you apply to the dog), which is what I used for my dog about two weeks ago and no flease. Just have your husband apply it to your dog, you don't want to come in contact with it, after 24 hours your dog will be safe to touch. The permethrin comes in bombs and foggers too, you would just have to set the fogger and leave the house for a little while. I hope you get it under control, and I agree your parents should help you at least buy the treatment. Good luck!

 

[Gabrielle22]

We are using VetGuard that you apply every month, and a flea color. I will definitely be buying the indorex. I was wondering about the bombing for your house...but, would that be dangerous to all the baby's things? Also, what do you use to treat your yard? Shew, this is a total headache. Never again will I be watching that dog -_-
Thanks everyone!

 

[shx]

Indorex worked an absolute treat for us too! We tried so many different carpet sprays etc and this worked for first time!

 

[Brightxeyes]

The main pain is making sure the husky is treated with some seriously good stuff as husky fur is an absolute nightmare!

I've not got many tips to be honest but good luck!

Get your parents to do the same with THEIR home because if they visit and have any on them, it's just going to spread again isn't it?!

 

[CastawayBride]

Dunno if you are in the US but we switched to this, 6 month supply for dogs 60-150 pds only puts us back 30 bucks (well for 1 dog we have 2). It works good no issues with fleas, ever. Before I had them on pet armor, it can be found at Target, Walmart etc. I am now getting the Adams Pentagon at Costco.

https://www.adamsfleacontrol.com/products/pentagon-flea-and-tick-spot-on-for-dogs

I think bombing the house would be best and then a GOOD air out. Like all weekend. I would consult your pediatrician on baby things, maybe they can be bagged in trash bags for say a week, with no air, and suffocate them....

 

[Claire788]

I haven't read all the posts above so apologies if I'm repeating.

Bring the dog in!!!! Fleas are looking for a permanent host... It's a one way ticket getting on an animal, they won't voluntarily jump off.

We had an infestation with the cats one year and the vet said it was an epic fail to keep the cats out of the house. Treat the dog (frontline and program injection we did) and keep him shut in each room for a while.

Awful using him as bait, but I promise it will work xx

 

[Katerz]

Another vote for indorex.

We had an infestation when LO was a few weeks old so the entire house got sprayed, cats got treated an we left the house for a few hours whilst the indorex did it's thing.

Never had a problem since

 

[cupcaker]

I feel so sorry for you, like me, you are clean decent people with a pretty nasty, "grubby" sounding problem.... YET it is SO easy to happen, it's awful.

I had this a few months before my son was born (via my two cats though). Me and my partner were bitten a lot, and I was mortified about going to give birth with scabs around my ankles. Fortunately we got the problem under control in time for the baby.

My cats were just not responding to the flea treatments particularly well (Frontline) . After a google search, I saw countless posts from people compaining that they felt Frontline "no longer worked" or that fleas were getting resiliant to it. Irritiatingly this is an expensive product and my local vet used to promote it. We were also informed by the vet that it was a particuarly "bad year" for fleas due to a warmer Winter or something or other! So firstly I swapped the cats onto a different medication, which went down very well. It was a meatier, smellier product somehow, by a company called Advantage. I felt like it had more kick just from putting it on. This was a brand that cropped up in the posts I found from people complaining about Frontline...plus Advantage was cheaper.

I also second a PP with the use of indorex, a spray for carpets etc we got from amazon. We also bought a fairly generic flea powder from amazon too and put that all round skirting boards etc before hoovering up. As you will know it's a hard problem to crack because of the "cycle"..you kill the adult fleas with sprays etc but eggs and larvae are in the carpet ready to start again so it can take a while, but I think Indorex is meant to target all stages. Hoovering a lot is again, one of the best things to do albeit timeconsuming and not what you fancy when pregnant.

I've never heard of treating your lawn/yard so I'm not sure how that goes.Our cats though were different because they go literally all over, we can't stop where they go.

Good luck, I truely sympathise with this problem. I even downloaded Ebooks on my kindle about fleas because I was so pissed off with the damn things. The biting drove me truly insane!

 

[StarBrites]

In the same boat right now with our 3 cats! They don't even go outside. I've been trying to battle this flea problem for a month or so now. Being in my third trimester with no energy it's been hard to keep up on the vacuuming everyday, plus I can't get under everything. It's so frustrating! I've been using diatomaceous earth on the floors, couch, beds & on the cats, and Adams Flea & Tick carpet spray, and ecoSMART home spray. We just ordered an insect growth regulator from Amazon, you mix it with a gallon of water and spray it on everything, it stops the eggs from hatching, since everything else we use doesn't work on eggs we keep getting new fleas. We used Frontline and Capstar on the cats but it's not doing anything so when we get the money we'll try Advantage. It's gotten a bit better but we haven't even been able to set up our nursery because we want to get rid of the fleas first. It's so exhausting.