How to quickly get fleas or other bugs out of items you can't wash in hot water: leave them in the back seat of your car in 90° weather for the day. Fleas don't like that much more than dogs or babies
How to quickly get fleas or other bugs out of items you can't wash in hot water: leave them in the back seat of your car in 90° weather for the day. Fleas don't like that much more than dogs or babies
Anyway my patient had bedbugs how'd y'all's weekend go?
(Works best for fleas since they're usually a summer pest, when that 90° weather is avaliable, but works for other things if the opportunity arises.
I wouldn't want to invite bedbugs into my car even if the temp should crest the ~125°F needed to kill the eggs. I'd go to a laundromat and throw it in the dryer and run it several times
apparently it's practically impossible for me to catch bedbugs from a patient as a nurse. I can't do my shoes in the dryer like that. I also couldn't have done my leather jacket like that when my roomates caught me some fleas. Hot car is a fab solution in certain specific situations.
seal it in a plastic bag?
I dunno, I feel like I might be weeding out the fleas that can't handle the heat, and creating super fleas that will continue their lineage.
Bedbugs can handle 90°F just fine. You need to sustain at least 125°F for at least four hours to really desiccate them.
90 degrees outside the car? The inside of that car is gonna BAKE. And 2 hours before and after high noon ain't shit. cook those hoes.
125°F for four hours is needed to kill the eggs too.
Putting the items in the oven at 200f for a few hours should do the trick.