Help! Our little dog brought home some uninvited guest...Fleas.?

Question

Anyone with tips or ideas how to get rid of these pesky things until I can call a professional to come in. They are in every room, I have a toddler so I need some safe solutions. I have already bought Frontline and fleas shampoo for our dog, but need a remedy for our home. Thanks in advance!!

Answer 1

Oh! You have my sympathy. This is a maddening problem, indeed.

You don't need an exterminator, but you will have to tackle this problem immediately. The flea reproduction cycle is about two weeks. You have fleas already in your house at every stage of the life cycle - some are pregnant, some are dropping eggs into your carpet, some are newborn and some are dying off. You need to make sure you kill the existing fleas, then make sure to get the newly born fleas before they can reproduce. So you need to get flea bombs, and set them off right away. Vacate the premises for four hours, then come home and open all windows, and vacate the premises for another two hours to allow it to air out. Go in and wipe down surfaces to which your toddler is likely to be exposed, and vacuum. In 14 days, you need to bomb one more time -- this will get any fleas born within that two week window before they can drop new eggs, and your problem will be over. Before I understood this process, I was bombing every 3-4 weeks all summer and it was driving me mad.

Next year, start the Frontline on your dog two months before you did this year.

Good luck.

Answer 2

you can always some kind of bug killing chemical and once it dries your toddler can go in again. If you have some one to watch your child spray everysingle room then...go take a walk or run some arrons dosent matter as long as your out of the house. But id call an exterminator cause fleas realy suck