[Yorkiemom1]

Originally Posted by Cindy_17

Fleas are crazy bad this WINTER . I went through this just a few weeks ago. Be oh so careful with your baby and sprays etc. inside the house, she is very young. Dawn dish washing liquid works very well, but it is also very drying for their skin, use a good conditioner. With her being so young and tiny when you soap her up wrap her in a warm towel for the 5 mins the vet told you to keep her soaped, they can get sick with sore throats etc.

Treat your yard and hit it hard, and in 3-4 weeks hit it again. It is extremely important to treat your yard! As far as inside the house vacuum everything, floors, couch, chairs under furniture etc, then empty the canister or bag and get it out of your house. Wash everything that you can, bedding, blankets, pillows, etc. I also shampooed the carpet in the bedrooms. This is almost a daily process until they are gone.

I feel for you, I am just coming through it and it seemed like it happened over night and it was an invasion of the fleas . BTW Front Line is useless anymore, I had just put Front Line on mine right before the fleas showed up. Apparently fleas are no longer responding to it, at least not SC fleas I HATE fleas, have never had a problem before and flipped out when I seen them. Just please be very, very careful with such a young baby, they are sensitive to so many things and my husbands brother treated his small poodles bed with flea spray and it killed her (YEARS AGO).

Good luck! Others will likely share more advice that will be helpful too!

I am going thru this right now...never had this issue with fleas until that last flood we had....I have NO idea what in the world happened, but OMG!!! I am indunated with fleas! I now have 4 dogs loosing hair, from crap I have put on them....I THINK it was these damn "herbal flea collars"....I am spraying my home and my yard every 3 weeks to catch the flea cycle as it progresses, I am also now using a different flea/heartworm med .....they have only gotten two doses of the med so it is still a "work in progress"....I will let you know if it works....you can read up on it.....it is "HFT EZYBONES".