Does acetone kill louse eggs?

Jungle Jim said:
If it is fleas, I recommend a flea bomb (available in all good pet stores I believe). Place in cabin, light blue touch paper and retire for an hour.
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I don't remember any problems with fleas when I had a cat decades ago. But I understand that they deposit their eggs in any sheltered corner and the flea-killer treatments do not affect those. So you have to wait a couple of weeks (IIRC) and then treat the newly emerged fleas quickly before more eggs get laid...

Mike.
 
One also has to remember that flea eggs can be dormant for well over a year. The stuff I alluded is actually active for up to twelve months after application so can get the blighters when they start hatching out.
 
Nits are a minor problem

The eradication of fleas is a nightmare.....

Most off the shelf remedies smoke bombs etc only treat one stage of the little buggers lives.....

If you want to exterminate them for good sprinkle all soft furnishings and all flat surfaces and any cracks or crevices etc with BORAX salts.

Use a stiff hard brush to make sure the salt powder is distributed everywhere. Leave for at least a couple of days then hoover.

Trust me I have experienced a full on flea attack and tried everything!

THIS IS THE ONLY SINGLE TREATMENT AND LONG TERM CURE FOR FLEAS as it works to kill them in all the development stages from eggs, larva, pupa to Adult.

If you have been bitten or can see little black jumpy things then you have all four stages in action......

TOP TIP Get some bike clips or sellotape your trouser legs up tight!:disgust:
 
If your French visitors brought their own sleeping bags it is more likely to be bed bugs than fleas. Most travel hostels have had to ban people using their own bags as bed bugs are becoming more common and the beds keep being reinfested.
 
vyv_cox said:
I would be very wary of applying any chemicals to a bed, where the occupant could be inhaling the remaining fumes for hours on end. Acetone would at least evaporate fairly readily but International thinners stinks for days on a cloth. Vacuum cleaner sounds like the best quick remedy.
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Good morning, thanks to all responders. and you VC in particular for the safety warning!

The Int'l thinners idea is a non-starter now.

I attacked all my crevices with a brass wire brush, and generous sloshes of 'alcool á brulee' (French meths, vile stuff), put all the bedding out in the sun, and roughed it up, so fingers crossed!

Thanks again for all suggestions, humourous or otherwise!

Time to get out in the sun, it's going to hiss down in a day or two, LD
 
That's probably a good start but the trick now is to repeat the treatment on a weekly basis until several weeks after the last itch. Then you can probably reduce to fortnightly for a year to deal with the long dormancy period of some eggs as has been mentioned above. That way you have a good chance of dealing with all the blighters whatever life stage they are at just now.

PS If questions start being asked about your consumption of 'alcool á brulee' you could use the most powerful vacuum cleaner you can lay your hands on. In any case that would allow you to get to all the places the beasties might have fallen / crawled / jumped to as well as just the bedding.
 
So,apart from being a home to assorted boring worms,both dry and wet rot and other fungi ,the need for constant replacement fastenings and recaulking plus interminable painting and varnishing.we can add fleas and lice to the attractions of wooden boats.
Sounds to me like a wood burner is the only permanent solution . :):):).
Thank the lord for the man who invented glassfibre.
 
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oldgit said:
So,apart from being a home to assorted boring worms,both dry and wet rot and other fungi ,the need for constant replacement fastenings and recaulking plus interminable painting and varnishing.we can add fleas and lice to the attractions of wooden boats.
Sounds to me like a wood burner is the only permanent solution . :):):).
Thank the lord for the man who invented glassfibre.
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Ahhh. But could you do a TransAt in a GRP boat???
 
oldgit said:
So,apart from being a home to assorted boring worms,both dry and wet rot and other fungi ,the need for constant replacement fastenings and recaulking plus interminable painting and varnishing.we can add fleas and lice to the attractions of wooden boats.
Sounds to me like a wood burner is the only permanent solution . :):):).
Thank the lord for the man who invented glassfibre.
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Not to mention the man who comes up with a way to re-cycle glassfibre that is even slightly as ecological as a wood-burner!

Mike.
 
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