Does anyone know of any child friendly flea control for inside the home? The neighbor that moved in behind our house has a dog and since he's been there we started seeing a few fleas in the house. We no longer have our dog, but I have seen a few bites on our kids, mainly our oldest. We treated the backyard with Triad (or whatever it's called). But we still have a few in the house (that I've seen - like 5 in the past 1-2wks or so). We have a 4yr old & a 1yr old and the 1yr old puts everything in his mouth, so we need something child friendly for sure. Also, we only have carpets in the bedrooms (3) and a few area rugs, the rest is hardwood and tile. Thanks in advance!
Baking Soda. Put it on the carpet let it sit and vacuum it up. Check a test on the corner if you have a dark color. But baking soda works wonders.
I have an herbal flea spray for my cat and it is very pleasant smelling. Also, you can put pieces of a flea collar in your vacuum bag (out of reach of the kids).
not a vet, but advice from my vet:
if you have a bag vacuum - by a 7 inexpensive flea collars. place one flea collar in the vacuum bag. vacuum the whole house, including all edges, under furniture, etc.
toss the bag after each use. repeat each day for 1 week.
kid friendly because all of the medicine stays in the vacuum.
try a spray of tea tree and lavender it'll taste nasty and your kid won't put it in his mouth. Diatomacious (sp?) earth is good too, please check the toxicity although I'm pretty sure it's ok, I used it on my dog when my daughter was a baby
I got some things at the hardware store that were flea "traps". They were flat and came with a few sheets of this super sticky substance. There was a little night light attached. You plug them in at night, the fleas are attracted to the light and jump on the sticky stuff and can't get off. I had a few of them and my neighbor went and got some too. They actually really do attract fleas. You obviously wouldn't want them out when your child can get to them. I can't remember if they are non toxic, but there aren't any real chemicals to speak of. You might never get the sticky stuff off your kids if they grabbed it, but you use them at night anyway.
I don't remember what they're called and I haven't had fleas in a very long time, but ask your local hardware store for something along those lines.
Best wishes.
This is one I used when I lived in a house that had been separated into three apartments, and the owner had a dog with persistent fleas (which carried through into my house). It worked well because I knew the dog would be sending fleas my way on a constant basis, and this treatment is safe and can be left out with a baby in the house.
Put a nightlight close to the floor in as many rooms as you can, or at least the room where people seem to get the most bites. Under the nightlight, which you'll keep on day and night, place a flat metal pan (not glass) underneath the light, with a squirt of dishsoap and about an inch of water. Attracted to the nightlight, the fleas will jump at it, but soap keeps them from being able to stay on the top surface of the water, so they will drown.
The fleas do collect in there, but the pan can be rinsed out every few days--and you can keep track of how many fleas are there by the numbers that end up in the pan. When I first started it, within a week I'd killed hundreds, but after the first month I'd only get a few each day, and the pan was enough to keep the fleas from biting any of us.
Good luck!
