Fleas (Fleas in bed)

Washing really does miracles with drowning the persistent fleas, since once they find themselves cozy in your sheets and clothing pieces, there's no helping the biting nightmare.

The first thing you should do after noticing the first signs of the flea presence in your house and biting marks on your skin,  is to gather and roll in a bundle, in case you don't plan or can't wash them immediately, all the potentially infested things as sheets, blankets, clothes, even plush toys, cushions and rugs lying on the floor. You should push them into the washing machine and press 60 degrees temperature (if possible), but you should make sure that the washing will go through at least one hot cycle. A useful tip would be to let your washed things dry for at least 30 minutes (in a dryer if possible). Fleas will most certainly fail to survive two hot cycles.

However, beware that sometimes, washing just the sheets and clothes won't eliminate the fleas in their entirety. Some of the fleas might have nested and lied eggs in your matress, so you might have to deal with it as well in order to complete the process of elimination.

The immediate action you should take is to vacuum-clean the sheets, matress and the pillows. Even the rugs should be vacuumed at least once per day. By doing this, you will eliminate the fleas nesting in your bed or couch, along with their eggs, which will successfully interrupt their life cycle. After every vacuuming, you should dispose of the vacuum bags so it won't come to further infestation since the flea eggs can easily hatch inside of the vacuum bag and continue with the infestation.

There is the potential exterminating recipe and it requires that you insert a quarter piece of a flea collar into a vacuum cleaning bag, whereas the rest  of the pieces you should deep freeze for later use. This method helps kill the fleas when vacuumed, since the simple vacuuming can't do them much harm. Vacuuming vibrations produce a placebo effect for hatchlings to emerge prematurely. This is important since when in this stage, they are pretty much invincible. But once they hatch, they become vulnerable and you can easily eliminate them using this method.

Warning: If the fumes trigger breathing problems in your condition, like allergic or asthmatic reaction, then avoid this step!

When dealing with this method, you should be aware that this step should be followed only as a last resort. In case the infestation is so bad and there is absolutely no other way with dealing with fleas that are comfortably nested in your bed, or rather both bedding and matress, then the flea bombs are the best solution you can get. The bad side of this method is that flea bombs contain toxic chemicals and may take up to several hours for the effect to take place. In case you really have no other way but to use the bombs to eliminate the fleas, the area affected or the entire home must be vacated in order to avoid exposure to the toxins.

Additional information about the flea bombs, their specifications and price can be found on Amazon:

Flea bombs