How to Get Rid of Things: Forum Tag: lice

How to Get Rid of Things: Forum Tag: lice - Recent Topics http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ How to Get Rid of Things: Forum Tag: lice - Recent Topics en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:15:39 +0000 roseyblue on "body lice" http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/body-lice#post-2291 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:05:12 +0000 roseyblue 2291@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ To get rid of body lice first you MUST wash all bedding, clothing in hot water. use a carpet shampooer with attachments to clean sofas and other cloth surfaces you can't wash easily. NOW to get the bugs off your body all u need is vinegar. Take a washcloth and wet it with vinegar, apply to affected areas. You will see little white bumps with hole in the middle. As you rub the vinegar over the areas little white long things will come off. They kinda look like long pieces of skin, usually in a circle. After using the vinegar the area will turn red. then slowly go away. You can buy spray for mattress cleaning of bugs, or use a shampooer. Cak1 on "Black Specks, Bites" http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/black-specks-bites#post-2053 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:41:48 +0000 Cak1 2053@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ About 1 month ago my wife started complaining that she was finding little black bugs in our towels and in our bathroom. Next, she started feeling bites all over. We initially thought it was fleas since we have a dog. We put flea foggers in every room of the house and treated the dog with a frontline type product. We then began vacuuming daily and washing all laundry in hot water. None of these things helped. Now my wife has bites on her scalp and is finding these little black specks all over the house and in our clothes and towels. This is taking over our lives, it feels like there are bugs on our skin and in our hair. We do not even invite anyone to our home because it feels "dirty". Does anyone have any type of advice? We live in Illinois. moo on "possible booklice" http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/possible-booklice#post-1816 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:53:46 +0000 moo 1816@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ Hello, I say possible, I mean they could be something else, but as I've found them mainly in books, and paper and anything papery related, then I'm going to presume that is what they are. Tiny little whitish/brown things. Relatively fast for their size I guess. I first found them inside one of my binders. I thought I would sit and organise my printed out knitting patterns, and hole punch them and place them into my binder in the right sections, and when I opened into the middle of the binder I saw probably about 20 tiny brown dots, at first I thought they were specks of dust or something, but when I poked at one it moved. I do have a habit of buying second hand books. And my teddy making book that was stored next to the binder also had some in, as did my second hand knitting book, and boxes of photos, cardboard boxes etc, hence why I'm thinking they are book lice. I live in an old town house, so my bedroom is essentially the attic, though there is a small square door in my ceiling that I assume leads to a small attic (I've lived here 5 years and never been up). I've binned the binder, books, went through everything in my room (almost) and have either frozen anything I wanted to keep for 24hrs, or have binned it. I have a mountain of bin bags sat at the back door waiting to be taken away at the weekend. I've sprayed Raid for cockroaches and ants, as it was the only bug spray I could find that had pyrethum in it. So far I've sprayed a can and half in my room. I'm going to work my way down the stairs, as my daughter has a tonne of books, I checked a handful and only found one bug, so I'm being hopeful that her room isn't as bad. It's been a very distressing time, as I've had to throw memories, and gifts as well as art work, but it has meant I've had a huge clear out, just wish it was under better circumstances. I'm also washing any laundry that was in the laundry basket that was near items that had bugs on. So far apart from the one in a book in my daughters room, I have only seen them in mine, ofc they are tiny so I may have missed them but now I find myself staring at everything looking for movement or something that stands out as wrong. It's driving me crazy! I've checked my books on a shelf that is about 6ft up and out of the 6 I checked none seem to be infected. And my dvd's that are underneath but in a cupboard on the floor also seem to be bug free. I can only assume I brought them in with an infected book, or picked them up from somewhere after visiting, we recently stayed some place and I took books and paper with me, they could have hitched a lift back, but I have no way of knowing where exactly they came from. I don't have a bedroom door, but I have sprayed all around the banister and stair case, to hopefully create a raid barrier to stop them going down stairs, though as I've had them this long, if they've wanted to go downstairs, I'm sure they would have. Plus, having to carry infected material down the stairs probably didn't help. They were mainly at this side of my room, which is where my knitting book and binder where. But it is underneath the window. I did have a giant cardboard box under the window too that my chair came in and couldn't get rid of, a month or so ago I moved it to the other side of the room, and I think that is how they spread over there, but again this is just me guessing. Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to explain what I've found and what I have done so far. I've also vacuumed the majority of my bedroom, I can't quite get under the bed until I have some muscles here to help me at the weekend - king sized bed, no where to move it and I'm a pint sized person. I know to freeze things I want to keep for 24hrs to kill the possible eggs, I've sprayed raid around my room, so much that 2 days later the residual is giving me a tender throat! I think I may be going over the top with the raid! I can only do so much freezing and washing at a time. But is there anything else I can do to help with this? Oh, my environment, well, to me my room appears dry and damp free, though there is some wall paper peeling under a corner, but I looked there and saw nothing, and sprayed too just in case. In my room behind some partition board I have a water tank. In summer my room is absolutely boiling hot so I always try to leave a window open even when it rains but I place a towel on the sill to help soak up any rain water so it doesn't do damage, in the winter it's freezing cold. I've never had this problem before - or at least, I've never noticed this problem before. Also, I've placed all infected items in bags outsize, should I spray some more raid around the wall and door frame so they don't try coming back inside. Or should I presume that because they are bagged up with food (books and paper)that they'll be as happy as me at an all you can eat chinese buffet? rme on "Biting, white insects" http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/biting-white-insects#post-1608 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:54:50 +0000 rme 1608@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ For over a year now I've had a problem with tiny white insects biting. I moved to an apartment in October of 2007 and the day after, the two cats started getting bitten by something I couldn't see. The smaller cat started to lose her hair in patches. The vet said insect bite but cou;d find nothing. I started to get bitten a few days after moving in. Just a few bites, one every so often. In spring I put plants out onto the balcony and these rice-grain-shaped, pale-yellow/off-white bugs started killing everything. Summer planting was a wash. When I took the plants out, the bugs bit me. Once the plants were gone from the balcony, they moved indoors. At first it was the area near the balcony door that I got bitten in the most. By Winter 2008 they had infested the couch further in, and I couldn't sit on it without being bitten constantly. They seemed to mostly bite around the rib cage. I was spraying constantly with a 0.25% permethrins spray, but got no relief. I lost use of the livingroom. To stand in one place or sit on a chair (wooden) for 10 minutes was to get bitten. The superintendent of the building got the pest control company in, who looked at a sample of a bug on black paper, and said that without looking at it under a microscope, he'd say that it was a spider mite. So they sprayed for spider mites and told me not to wash the floor s for 6 weeks. After two weeks the biting was intolerable and was happening in the dining room. The pest control company said that that was very strange because the "Dragnet" that they sprayed was supposed to be at full effect at two weeks. It would run out at 6 weeks. At 5 weeks I started bleaching the floors, which would provide a few minutes of rest. I had no time to eat, or do much else but clean. I lost weight and became panicky. Again I had the pest control man come. he suggested another spray with Dragnet. I was convinced these were not spider mites. Finally, the bugs invaded my bedrrom. I got no sleep. The floors were constantly bleached. Although the mattress was still in plastic and I was sleeping naked in a dust-mite-proof mattress cover, 10 minutes after lying down, the bites would start. Sudden, sharp little bites, especially in the warm areas of my body. I was getting bitten all around my face and in my hair I could feel things crawling. I left a message for the landlord describing the situation, and fled to my fathers. They followed me there. I left most of my clothes behind and went to the Y' They came with me. I went to a rooming house with nothing but my makeup and the clothes on my back. They came with me. I showered thoroughly, and my mother drove me to a new apartment that I had just gotten. They came with me. I shaved my head and got much relief from the biting there. But I was being bitten all over, especially my torso. Now I bleach the floors and coutners once daily, shower twice daily. I have no soft furnishings, only a couple of emergency mylar blanketsd to sleep between, and some few clothes that I boil each day for an hour. A fry pan and a hone. I get bitten less, but winter will come and I have to get rid of these so i can get a coat and boots. Look like a body louse from what I've seen under a 'scope, but bite cats, bite inthe shower, infest balconies. Atypical body louse? I was never homeless until I encountered these in the last apartment. So maybe an import? Please, sonmeone, anyone...I'm losing the will to live. U. Of Guelph doesn't do DNA analysis for the general public. I have some good samples that I know are bugs. Can anyone help me? I'm spreading these things around but only my mother gets small bites. Estrogen? No-one else seems to get bitten so far. Help! junglecreaturee on "head lice?" http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/topic/head-lice#post-189 Sat, 24 May 2008 02:45:00 +0000 junglecreaturee 189@http://www.getridofthings.com/forums/ i really want to share a great home lice remedy, however, i just joined this site recently to spread the word and i don't know how to mail the writers, so i will share it here: a great home remedy for killing head lice AND eggs. this will work with any hair type, fine, thick, wavy, straight, or even dreadlocks. it should be kid-friendly if you're super carefull. <> you first get a fairly large bucket of vinigar. i suggest you put it in a bathtub. be super careful with this. now, pour a large amount of cayenne pepper with the vinigar, just enough to fill the whole bucket. dunk your head in the bucket. again, be SUPER careful NOT to get in in your eyes or face. another tip, dont breath in deeply. soak your head in the bucket so you know the vinigar worked through your hair. keep it qwick so you won't feel too uncomfortable with all the vinigar fumes. then dunk the bucket out onto your head, away from your face, into the tub. try puring it out backwards away from your face. do not do this over a sink, you need alot of room. then with the vinigar and cayenne pepper solution in your hair, qwickly put a plastic grocery bag over your head tightly. the bag helps keeps the fumes of the vinigar in with the bugs. put a towle over your sholders just in case the bag leeks. WARNING: it shouldn't hurt, but it might sting just a bit. but i garentee it won't sting that bad. try to do this procedure about a half an hour before you go to bed so you can sleep with it in and have it in your hair for a while. if you can't sleep with it in, keep it on as long as possible. after you wake up, or kept the bag on for a while, be careful while taking the bag off, its fumes will get to you. then, wash your hair with shaving cream. you dont need a special brand, just the white, foam kind. it can be a cheep brand, just not a gel shaving cream. lice hate dirty hair. shaving cream will keep them from staying in your hair because it appears dirty. it kills stray eggs that might have stayed. just to be safe (and if you dont want your hair to small so bad) if you can get your hands on it, coconut oil supposively keeps lice away, and gets rid of the vinigar smell. ;) hairspray and hairgell also keep lice away. so after you shower, add some hirspray and/or hairgell, again, just to be safe. ;) if you're house is infested, i don't have any remedys for that, so the best thing i've read is to vaccume, lice spray, vaccume, wash sheets, wash cloths, vaccume and vaccume. i really hope this works for you like it worked with my little brother.