Flea Eggs 2 :-)

[Clutterfreak]

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 :-)


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[Clutterfreak]

Oh, I forgot. As before, fuck you Jewish chemists :-)

Fuck you indeed. You're a bunch of Bozos and you know it.

[Clutterfreak]

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.