What to do if your child is bitten by fleas

Fleas are small animals that are very annoying. In the past, when living conditions were scarce, people who did not take a bath for many days would have fleas on their bodies. Now that living conditions are better, fleas mostly appear on animals, but if you are not clean, you will also have them on your body. Many parents want to know what to do if their children are bitten by fleas? Let’s hear what the experts say.

Symptoms of flea bites:

After a person is bitten by a flea, a maculae of varying sizes will appear at the bite site, which is higher than the skin and is generally 0.5 cm in size. For those with skin allergies, the maculae will be larger in size and dark red in color, with an obvious red dot in the center (the mark of the flea bite's mouthparts). The itching is unbearable and lasts for several days.

Teach you how to kill fleas effectively?

1. Change all your clothes immediately and soak them in water (it is best to cover the clothes because fleas are most afraid of water. This will drown the fleas and prevent them from being bitten again)

2. You can apply Liwei essential oil to the bitten area to relieve itching and remove scars. How to use Liwei essential oil: Open the bottle cap, dip a small amount of essential oil on the cotton swab and apply it evenly on the wound. Apply it every other day. The swelling will be gone in three days and the scar will be gone in a week.

3. Netizens share: First spray Liushen anti-itching floral water, and then apply fluocinolone acetate cream.

How to kill fleas

1. For ordinary households, the main measure to eliminate fleas is to continuously use some high-efficiency and low-toxic insecticides while cleaning the pet's body surface. Ordinary families should be sober enough when buying and using pesticides. First of all, they should control the amount used and stop when necessary, and try not to use them when possible. The second thing is to leave the scene immediately after spraying the pesticide. After 2 hours, open the doors and windows to ventilate the room thoroughly before entering. Furthermore, infants, toddlers and children whose brains are not yet fully developed must not be exposed to pesticides to avoid adverse effects on their brain development and physical health. Also, be careful to avoid contaminating food and cooking utensils when using pesticides in the kitchen. Since most insecticide aerosols are flammable, do not use them in the kitchen where open flames are used to avoid causing a fire.

2. Traditional Chinese medicine for flea control: Soak 20 grams of Stemona bulbs in half a pound of alcohol for 24 hours and then spray it to quickly kill fleas. (Non-toxic, odorless)

3. Among the pyrethroid insecticides, chlorflucythrinate (Kung Fu) and cypermethrin (Kaisolin) have extremely strong contact and stomach poison effects, and they act quickly and last long, and can quickly reduce the free flea index on the ground. It is easy to use and can be directly diluted with water to fully exert its efficacy. It has good dispersion, is safe for animals, has no irritating odor, and has no corrosive or destructive effect on the surface of objects. Cypermethrin also has a certain ovicidal effect.

4. Among organophosphorus insecticides, chlorpyrifos (Lorsban) is a drug with better control effect on sanitary pests. Use dilution of chlorpyrifos emulsifiable concentrate and spraying it has a higher contact killing effect on fleas. Although dichlorvos is highly toxic to humans and animals and is corrosive to the surfaces of copper and iron products, it can also be used appropriately for large-scale indoor flea control because of its rapid knockdown and strong fumigation effect, as well as its low price.

What should you do if your child is bitten by fleas? I believe that after reading the above article, you will have a certain understanding of this knowledge. I hope that after you find fleas on your child, you can use corresponding methods to remove them, so that your child will feel more comfortable and will not feel so uncomfortable. The most important thing is to change clothes frequently and wash your hands frequently. As long as you love cleanliness, it is unlikely that fleas will appear on your body.