“Raid” against fleas: rules of use and consumer opinion

1. Description of the drug Reid
2. Preparing for disinfestation
3. Precautionary measures
4. Instructions for use Raid against fleas
5. Pros and cons of Raid in the fight against fleas
6. Possible health effects

Raid is a new generation insecticide, the active ingredient of which is cypermethrin (belongs to the class of pyrethroids). The product instantly kills mature individuals and their larvae. You can learn how to use Flea Raid in an apartment from this material.

Description of the drug Reid

The product is available in a 350 ml can. It is enough to treat an apartment of up to 50 m². Two or three bottles are enough to disinfect a private home.

The toxic substance enters the parasite's body through contact (through the chitinous layer) and intestinal (through food) routes.

Cypermethrin affects nerve cells, resulting in paralysis and then painful death. The product has a prolonged effect (the effect of use lasts up to 20 days).

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0 Zhenya 07/30/2017 01:29 Last year there was a hot and dry summer, and there were fleas in the basement of the house. The husband picked up the necessary documents there and apparently “brought” them to the apartment on his clothes. We didn’t notice them right away, only after my son-in-law began to develop red spots and itching on his legs. At first they poisoned them with dichlorvos and washed the floor with special products, but they still appeared from somewhere. Then we decided to call disinfection specialists, although after treating the apartment we had to leave for a day to visit relatives. Quote

Preparing for disinfestation

Before disinsection of the apartment with the drug, wet cleaning is done. Thoroughly wash floors and wipe surfaces with disinfectants. Carpets are beaten and then vacuumed.

If there are pets (cats, dogs) living in the house, the first thing to do is remove parasites from them. For this purpose, special means for animals are used. It is strictly forbidden to use Raid spray to treat an apartment, as it will cause serious harm to the health of your pet.

The TV and computer are covered with a plastic bag. Cabinet drawers are completely emptied. Bed linen is washed at high temperature, then ironed with an iron or steam generator.

Furniture is moved away from the wall. Mattresses are removed from the bed, decorative items (carpets, paintings) are removed from the wall. Food and utensils are isolated.

The cracks and ventilation are closed so that fleas do not migrate to neighbors and then return again.

Prevention

After treating the room for fleas, place sprigs of wormwood, chamomile, pine needles, peppermint, and cloves of garlic around the house. Don't forget to place a few twigs under your pet's bedding.

Maintain order in the house, clean in a timely manner, and seal cracks and cracks in the floor and walls.

Advice! When washing floors, add to the water for prevention:

• essential oils;
• vinegar;
• decoctions or infusions of wormwood, tansy, pine needles.

Essential oils
After cleaning, place fragrant herbs in the room. Fleas have difficulty hearing and seeing; their sense of smell and touch serve as their orientation mechanism, so they will not be able to live in rooms with strong odors.

Check your pets regularly for fleas. If bloodsuckers are found, immediately take measures to destroy them.

If fleas come from the basement, you will have to use the services of exterminators to treat it.

Precautionary measures

By taking precautions, you can prevent unpleasant health consequences:

• First, check the integrity of the bottle.
• During the period of disinsection, pregnant women, children, and pets (including birds, aquarium fish) are removed from the apartment. There remains a person who carries out disinfestation.
• If it is impossible to take the aquarium out of the apartment, then it is covered with protective glass to reduce the risk of the product getting into the water.
• The treatment is done using rubber gloves and a respirator. Clothes are worn with long sleeves, preferably made of cotton fabric.
• The product is not recommended for use by pregnant and lactating women, persons under 18 years of age, and people with allergies.
• The aerosol is not sprayed into the air near sources of ignition.
• The product is stored in a place inaccessible to children.
• During manipulations, you should not drink, smoke, or eat.
• The insecticide is not sprayed on dishes, children's toys, or bedding (they are hidden in bags and taken out of the apartment).

It is prohibited to tamper with the integrity of the cylinder as it is under pressure. The used bottle is disposed of with household waste.

Washing floors against fleas

Everyone who has ever resisted a flea infestation recommends thoroughly washing floors with special compounds.
But, in addition to the floor, you will need to walk through other places where insects may be concentrated.

Feeding on blood, fleas reproduce at an incredible rate and are extremely dangerous.

It is believed that wormwood and tansy repel insects for a long time. For anti-flea infusion you need to take:

• wormwood – 2 tbsp. spoons;
• tansy - 1 tbsp. spoon;
• eucalyptus leaves - 1 tbsp. spoon.

Pour a glass of boiling water over the plant mixture and leave in a cool, dark place for ten hours. Pour the resulting infusion into a spray bottle and spray around the apartment, not forgetting the carpets and baseboards.

You can thoroughly rinse the floor with a strong salt solution, after scattering dry salt over the entire surface. There is no need to remove salt from the cracks.

Instead of salt, you can use vinegar: a liter per bucket of water. In addition to floors and baseboards, it is recommended to walk along the walls (1 m from the floor).

Flea remedies based on celandine, which we talked about earlier, have a good effect.

If natural ingredients do not help, we move on to chemistry. We dilute all preparations strictly according to the instructions and wash the floors:

• anti-flea shampoo;
• diluted “Neostomazan”. After two hours, rinse with clean water;
• "Butox";

Knowledgeable people recommend Frontline spray for periodic treatment of floors, furniture and walls.

And finally, the insecticide “Dichlorvos”, familiar from Soviet times (against crawling insects): five cylinders for a one-room apartment.

Feeding on blood, fleas reproduce at an incredible rate and are extremely dangerous.

Flea remedies based on celandine, which we talked about earlier, have a good effect.

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It is believed that wormwood and tansy repel fleas for a long time

NOTE! To quickly get rid of fleas, there are only three effective options:

• Calling a pest control service (expensive);
• Purchase of an electronic repeller (1390 rubles);
• Chemicals (doubtful effect).

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If natural ingredients don’t help, move on to chemistry

Instructions for use Raid against fleas

The bottle is held in a vertical position and sprayed at a distance of thirty centimeters from the surfaces. Particular care is taken to treat baseboards, doorways, windows, closet shelves, animal bedding, hard-to-reach places, cracks in walls and floors. If possible, disinfest the basement.

Furniture and surfaces are treated at a height of one meter from the floor (pests are able to jump to such a distance). During spraying, windows and doors are closed so that the substance is distributed on the surface in an even layer and concentrated in the room. When windows and doors are open, the product will evaporate and there will be no effect of disinfestation.

After disinsection, the apartment is left for at least two hours (more if possible). Wash your hands and face thoroughly with soap and rinse your mouth.

After a while, the room is ventilated for an hour. After this, wet cleaning is done. Surfaces are wiped with a soda-soap solution. To prepare it, dissolve half a piece of laundry soap in 1 liter of water and add 15 g of soda.

To preserve the disinfestation properties of the drug, floors are washed no less than after 20 days. Cleaning is carried out using a vacuum cleaner.

Danger of insects

Earth flea bites are far from harmless. On the contrary, they pose a great danger to humans. First of all, it is severe itching and allergic reactions. Even anaphylactic shock cannot be ruled out. Bite wounds can fester and eczema forms in their place. Infection is also possible .

In addition, fleas carry dangerous, fatal diseases . These are typhus, plague, hepatitis, encephalitis, salmonellosis. Fleas are also carriers of helminths: cucumber tapeworm, nematodes, and toxocara. Added to this is sleep disturbance due to fear of bites, the inability to invite guests, and, as a result, extreme stress.

In case of bites, you should never
scratch them to avoid infection. First, the wounds should be washed with soap and water.
Then treat with an antiseptic, for example Chlorhexidine. To eliminate swelling and itching, use antigestamines and ointments. In particularly serious cases, you should consult a doctor. For animals, flea bites are no less dangerous. Small dogs or kittens can even die from parasite bites. Animals scratch itchy areas and can cause infection.

Pros and cons of Raid in the fight against fleas

Reid flea remedy has pros and cons.

The advantages include:

• affordable price (300-350 rubles);
• affects various types of insects;
• has a prolonged effect;
• is a fourth generation insecticide;
• ease of use (the composition is not diluted, but used in finished form);
• pleasant smell (lavender, orange, spring freshness).

The disadvantages of the drug are:

• Repeated treatment after 10-14 days.
• The product does not affect flea eggs.
• With a large population of pests, the drug is ineffective.
• Raid leaves whitish streaks on hard surfaces.
• Despite the fragrances included in the composition, the drug also has a pronounced chemical smell.

After weighing all the pros and cons, we can conclude that it is advisable to use Raid against fleas.

Advantages of the product

• Proven high effectiveness against fleas (many experiments and studies have been conducted).
• The drug begins to act as soon as it hits insects. “Raid,” upon contact with the body of an insect, penetrates its body, infects it, and the infected flea poisons its relatives.
• Affordable price.
• Simple and easy to use.
• Safe.
• The effect of the product is long-lasting (after use, the drug continues to repel fleas until they disappear completely).
• Nice smell.

Why do fleas appear?

Some people tend to believe that only pets can be the cause of jumping critters in their home. This is a stereotype and it is not true. It is also impossible to get rid of fleas in an apartment by treating only the animal; the entire apartment must be treated.

As a rule, fleas begin to appear in the warm season. From late spring to early autumn, fleas find shelter in private houses and basements of multi-story buildings, from where they then move into apartments. There are a lot of them in abandoned premises.

If we talk about the appearance of fleas in the house, there are several main points:

• fleas can appear from the entrances of high-rise buildings;
• they can run to you from neighbors;
• uninvited guests may arrive to you covered in the fur of your pets;
• if renovation work is taking place in the basement or the same fleas are being poisoned there, they may well migrate from there to the apartments;
• fleas can be brought into the home by mice and rats.

Basements are usually very humid. It is moisture that is the main reason for the appearance of fleas; they really love it when it is warm and damp. Therefore, if the basement is heated and there is a lot of moisture in it, fleas will definitely appear there, it’s only a matter of time.

Utility services must ensure that basements are not cluttered, that water does not leak from pipes, they should all do this, but, unfortunately, they do not always do this, which is why fleas and other insects breed.

Fleas are very small and nimble; their size and mobility allow them to penetrate the narrowest crevices. It is not at all necessary that fleas have to bite someone; they can wait a certain time, hiding behind baseboards and in other secluded places. And as soon as the “master” appears, they will immediately saddle him.

Excessive humidity in apartment bathrooms can also cause fleas to appear. Attracted by moisture and warmth, they will definitely want to settle there, and if it is also dirty, this place will become a real paradise for them.

But, of course, the main reason for the appearance of fleas in your apartment is your beloved pets. Therefore, it is better to wear collars on animals that like to walk outside.