Not exact matches
Pyrethroids are found in more than 3,500 products used inside homes and on crops, yards, and gardens -
including lice shampoos, indoor
foggers, flea sprays for pets and pesticides to fight ants, wasps, mosquitoes, aphids and spiders.
The first application should
include a Dursban ® / pyrethrin / PreCor ® (Insect Growth Regulator) combination of liquid spray that kills both fleas and roaches combined with
foggers.
There are many flea treatment options,
including non-toxic diatomaceous earth,
foggers and flea bombs, or treatments by a professional exterminator.
Foggers containing methoprene may or may not
include ingredients that also kill existing adult fleas.
Flea control measures
include: bathing, dipping, collars, Sentinel («flea birth control» - an oral tablet that acts by sterilizing fleas), Capstar (oral tablet offers rapid elimination of adult fleas, usually within 30 minutes), Comfortis (month - long chewable tablet that kills fleas and prevents reinfestations), Advantage topical (kills fleas up to thirty days with monthly application), Frontline topical (kills fleas and ticks), Revolution topical (heartworm preventative and kills fleas and ticks as well), Vectra topical (works by killing adult fleas, preventing development of immature flea stages, and repelling ticks and mosquitoes), Trifexis (monthly chewable tablet for dogs that kills fleas, prevents heartworm disease, and treats / controls adult hookworm, roundworm and whipworm infections), and - very important - treating the environment with carpet powders,
foggers, or sprays.
This may
include use of a professional exterminator, carpet shampoos sprays and
foggers.
Veterinarians have an arsenal of flea products to choose from,
including once - a-month treatments and pills and shampoos, sprays, and premise
foggers with growth regulators and genetically - engineered pyrethrin (daisy) ingredients.
Examples
include carpets and rugs, under beds, behind furniture, and other locations inaccessible to
foggers.
For treatment of the home, some options
include flea powders such as «Flea Busters» which is applied to the carpet or
foggers like «Vet Kem.»