How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House - Choice Between Chemicals And Home Remedies

Imagine this scenario: after a longer vacation you come home, pick up your pets from the kennel, unpack your bags and march to bed to rest from the long drive. But you can not sleep because you are tormented by small pinpricks and constant itching. Obviously, it is all due to millions of hungry fleas in your house. How did this happen? Most probably is that the fleas have been waiting for you to come back from your vacation. Fleas are parasites which feed on the host. Your blood is their food. But they prefer the blood of animals/pets over the blood of the humans. The older fleas can last a couple of moths without food, but young fleas can last only couple of days. That capacity to live without food is just on of their many adjustments to the environment which enables them to feed on blood, breed and move around their hosts.

Although they infest pets most frequently, that is not the only way. They can be found in your yard, garden and everywhere outside.  So how to get rid of fleas in your house? This is the question that at some point everyone ask themselves, especially pet owners. In this article we will explore how to get rid of fleas in your house using the chemicals or the natural way using home remedies. You choose between these two main choices according to what you believe is more appropriate for you, your family, your pets and your home.

If you are interested in applying chemicals on how to get rid of fleas in your house, the chemicals can be divided into a couple of main categories.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Insect Growth Regulators (IGRs) - keep flea eggs from hatching by mimicking flea hormones. IGRs may or may not affect pupae, and they have no effect on adult fleas. Some of them are topical -- pets absorb them through their skin, and fleas ingest them with the hosts' blood. One particular IGR, methoprene, is frequently applied as a spray. The World Health Organization(WHO) has also approved methoprene for usage in controlling mosquito larvae in malaria-prone areas.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Insect Development Inhibitors – stop young fleas in their evolution by disrupting the formation of their exoskeletons. Lufenuron, also known as Program, is a chitin synthesis inhibitor.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Pesticides – pesticides kill adult fleas. Imidacloprid, sold under the brand name Advantage, is an example of a topical pesticide.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Repellents - repellents such as DEET dishearten fleas from entering a certain area.

Always maintain you family and your pets away when you are applying chemicals, and always make sure no one comes near the are until it completely dries off. Other types of flea methods are either topical or oral medication for pets. When applying some approaches, you will have to let fleas bite your pet if you want them to work properly. Generally, you can buy most of the treatments for fleas from your veterinarian.

Although some people only trust chemicals to get rid the fleas in their home, using home remedies is a good alternative. After all, fleas existed long before chemicals were developed and people yet seem to know how to get rid of fleas.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Flea Collars – flea collars can only assist in keeping fleas away from the pet, but if the pet is already infected it will not do much good.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Soap– good old ordinary soap is great for killing fleas. You can wash your pet once or twice with pet shampoo to get rid it of the fleas. The soap suds act with the water to drown the fleas, others will be washed off by the flow of the water and if outside will often drown in the puddles created. Dry your dog, comb it thoroughly to eliminate the eggs.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Essential Oils – this can be done by adding several drops of essential oils into your pet`s bath such as lavender oil or tea tree oil. Never apply pure essential oil directly to the skin, whether it is yours or your dog`s, you always have to mix it with something. Also, do not apply this approach to cats as they are unable to metabolize essential oils.

• How To Get Rid Of Fleas In Your House Using Borax – borax is oftentimes applied as a cleansing agent. Spread borax anywhere you think you have fleas, leave it like that for a day and then vacuum the spread area. You can buy borax in a grocery store for no more than $10.