is washing clothes and bedding at 60 degrees hot enough to kill fleas?

greggy209

Mojisola wrote: »

You won't get rid of fleas by washing at 90 degrees because the eggs, the larvae and most of the adult fleas won't be in your clothes - http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/parasites/f/FAQ_fleacycle.htm and http://vetmedicine.about.com/od/parasites/f/FAQ_fleacontrol.htm

thanks i just have a lot of them on me all the time and they get in my clothes, they burrow into my socks, sometimes i have about 10 inside my sock, they climb up my legs, they jump from my shoes to my shirt even

i know that they are mainly breeding in the carpet/crevices etc but adult fleas are all over our clothes

just wanted to know how to adequately kill the adult fleas on our clothes in the wash

greggy209

TeaCake wrote: »

I can recommend this stuff for helping deal with the problem as well.

http://www.vetuk.co.uk/flea-treatments-household-flea-sprays-c-3_419/vetkem-acclaim-household-flea-spray-400ml-can-p-16

Thats the cheapest ive found it, my vet charges £25 for it :eek:

thanks we're on our 3rd can already, it works well but there's so many fleas they're still everywhere

trudij

My mum has total sympathy with you ( Im not tasty, so it doesnt affect me so badly !!) if you have them that badly even after treatments is it worth talking to a professional pest controller?? they will have seen it all before, and its got to be cheaper in the long run with an infestation like you sound like you have ????

welshmoneylover

If the infestation is as bad as you claim, phone your local council's environmental health dept. They should either offer advice or come out and zap the blighters.

Advocate is the best flea treatment for cats.

matboo

i have scars on my ankles from a massive flee infestation, the only way is to treat the source!! Buy some flee tablets or the stuff you squirt on the skin.

Also I bought 5 tubs of flee power from the shop and covered every floor in the house with the powder and left it on for a week.

Make sure you treat the cats with flee stuff regularly, hoover daily as well. Flee eggs can be dormant for something like two years and hatch from vibration and warm weather.

greggy209

welshmoneylover wrote: »

If the infestation is as bad as you claim, phone your local council's environmental health dept. They should either offer advice or come out and zap the blighters.

Advocate is the best flea treatment for cats.

i would love to get the whole house professionally treated, i would also like to get rid of the cat, it's been nothing but trouble

unfortunately it's not up to me and my dad won't do either

can you get advocate from petshops or do you need a prescription? we had heard that frontline combo was the best?

manda1205

My sister had them really bad, she used quite a few cans of acclaim and still they were rife, she ended up calling council who came and did her whole house for £50, she had to stay out of the house for a few hours after but it did the trick. I know she washed all her bed linen on hot wash at the same time too, btu not all her clothes. Obviously she did treat the cat too, the vet recommended advantage to her.

greggy209

matboo wrote: »

i have scars on my ankles from a massive flee infestation, the only way is to treat the source!! Buy some flee tablets or the stuff you squirt on the skin.

Also I bought 5 tubs of flee power from the shop and covered every floor in the house with the powder and left it on for a week.

Make sure you treat the cats with flee stuff regularly, hoover daily as well. Flee eggs can be dormant for something like two years and hatch from vibration and warm weather.

i've got marked up ankles from the flea bites too too

HappyMJ

greggy209 wrote: »

i would love to get the whole house professionally treated, i would also like to get rid of the cat, it's been nothing but trouble

unfortunately it's not up to me and my dad won't do either

can you get advocate from petshops or do you need a prescription? we had heard that frontline combo was the best?

Getting rid of the cat will not get rid of the fleas. As there is no cat to be a host they will be more likely to bite you.

I thought my flea infestation was bad...maybe not after what you have said. When spraying the house you need to go out for the day and leave it to do it's work. Don't vaccuum for a few days. You should only need to spray twice two weeks apart. Something isn't being done right if that doesn't work.

Mrs_Arcanum

Brother had a similar problem with his cat and found some really cheap stuff did the trick (unfortunately I don't know what this was but the smell turned a house cat into a stop out cat for several weeks).