Re: Flea Eggs 2 :-)

On 8/14/2022 1:57 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
> On 8/14/2022 1:54 PM, Clutterfreak wrote:
>> Some years back I posted a message here about this subject. I can't 
>> get to it now cause my news server only goes so far back in time.
>>
>> So here is the good news at last! Table salt. As available and as 
>> cheap as it is, as effective it certainly also is! :)
>>
>> But my floor is hard everywhere in the house, I don't know how 
>> effective it would be on carpeted floors. Somebody out there should 
>> try it.
>>
>> My entire house always begins to get full of fleas when last cold 
>> month has passed. I do not use any of the commercially available flea 
>> killers. Over the counter as well as vet prescribed ones. Years back I 
>> tried them, all made me and my cats very sick. Also, cats should not 
>> be bathed, it hurts them more than it helps them. So flea shampoo is 
>> out of the question, plus never solves the flea problem.
>>
>> So this time, when flea season began and got to its highest gear, I 
>> took my table salt shaker and splashed salt on all floors, all desks, 
>> all counters, top of microwave ovens, top of refrigerator and freezer, 
>> all appliances, all over my bed and on all cat beds and cat litter 
>> boxes, on my chairs and sofa, and on anything that has a more or less 
>> horizontal surface to it. And over anywhere in the house that my cats 
>> ever go. My salt shaker holds 7 ounces of salt, and I emptied it two 
>> times, so a bit more than a pound covered all areas.
>>
>> Then, as before, I continued using flea comb on my cats daily to at 
>> least catch and drown some of them directly from the cats, using a 
>> more fine comb that comes with good quality lice treatment for humans. 
>> Usual combs catch only some of the largest ones. The lice comb catches 
>> some of mid-sized ones as well. But combing never catches enough fleas 
>> to even make the cats comfortable enough.
>>
>> Then about two weeks after, I noticed floor fleas have reduced in 
>> number. Cats who only would run fast on the floor before letting too 
>> many fleas jump on them, now just walked on the floor! But still would 
>> not sit or sleep there.
>>
>> Two more weeks after that cats began sitting and resting on the floors 
>> :-)
>>
>> Now I can hardly see any of my cats scratching themselves. There are 
>> still a few fleas on them that flea combing cannot catch, but they 
>> don't interfere into their lives and sleep and general comfort during 
>> their sleep and waking hours.
>>
>> Very effective indeed.
>>
>> But a few notes to make sure:
>>
>> - I happened to be using Himalayan salt when I decided to try salt. I 
>> don't know for sure whether it was the salt itself or the extra stuff 
>> in Himalayan salt that did it (stuff that gives a pink color to it). 
>> So to be sure, use Himalayan salt instead of regular salt. It is a 
>> little more expensive.
>>
>> - As I mentioned above, I don't know how effective it is on carpeted 
>> floors. On hard floors as you walk around you are smashing the salt to 
>> a finer and finer degree. It could be that this step is necessary. If 
>> that is indeed the case, then you can make saturated salt water and 
>> spray it on the carpeted floor. When it dries, it should leave much 
>> smaller crystals of salt just about everywhere.
>>
>> - although you'd feel the presence of tiny particles in your bed, all 
>> you need to do to stop that annoying feeling is to ware something very 
>> light before going to bed. You won't feel them anymore.
>>
>> - every time you mop the floors or change the bed sheets and 
>> comforters and cat beds, you need to splash salt on those surfaces again.
>>
>> - I have no idea what the long term effect of having salt on those 
>> stuff is. I don't see any decaying in the material. So I guess will 
>> have to wait a few more months to see if it damaged anything.
>>
>> - when flea season is over you can safely resume a salt-free floor 
>> until the next flea season begin :)
>>
>> So here it is, the solution to a very nasty problem for those who have 
>> pets, especially multiple pets :-)
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Oh, I forgot. As before, fuck you Jewish chemists :-)
> 
> Fuck you indeed. You're a bunch of Bozos and you know it.
> 
> 
> 


It doesn't seem to be effective when humidity is high. Each tiny salt 
crystal absorbs it quite efficiently from air and turns into a spec of 
saltwater fluid, thus loses its sharp cornered gritty feature that kills 
young fleas and larva. Just a few days of high humidity in a row is 
enough for the fleas to come back!

Mopping the floors is ineffective against flea eggs, and actually 
exacerbates the problem. The eggs survive quite well in mop water and as 
you dump it, they get spread into the environment and town and the 
entire city. Plus, most of the eggs won't end up in the mop bucket, they 
basically just get moved around a bit and/or into tiny crevices. Nothing 
short of burning the eggs or using very strong and dangerous poison can 
kill them.

Similarly, vacuum cleaning is ineffective cause flea eggs have some sort 
of glue covering them that attaches them to whatever surface they're on 
and makes them quite resistant to get moved around or picked up by 
suction. It partially helps though, because it can happen that a vacuum 
cleaner pick up something else to which these eggs are attached, but 
this isn't enough at all. And you'd need to use a vacuum cleaner that 
uses replaceable bags because you'd have to burn the bag after 
vacuuming. Trashing the bag just spreads the eggs (which live intact for 
months and even years) in the surrounding area in the city.

A lot of people have fleas in their gardens cause sometime before they 
had dumped their mop water in there. Stray animals of all sizes, from 
mice and up, night and day, fall victims to them and turn into efficient 
factories, creating millions more of them. If you see stray cats or dogs 
scratching themselves, the entire area is already affected.

But using salt worked great while Texas was experiencing an unusually 
dry and hot series of months this summer (it was like Arizona). Salt 
alone completely stopped and controlled the fleas.

But it is humid again and fleas are back :-(

There are other natural particles that are cheap and could be used for 
this purpose, but I'm not sure at all if they are safe to live with 
constantly. They may end up working like asbestos for both cats and 
humans. Salt is very safe for health matters. If it wasn't, people like 
Japanese who have salty surfaces everywhere around them would have short 
lives, while it is the exact opposite that's happening in there. Salt 
may actually increase the lifespan.








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