Domestic parasites are insects that bite a person and feed on the products of his vital activity (keratinized skin particles, blood, etc.). These parasites bring a lot of trouble to people. Today, in apartments and houses, you can find a lot of insects that you definitely need to fight. So what kinds of house parasites are there?
Often these parasites are found in bed. They do not allow you to sleep normally, become the cause of the development of various diseases. Nocturnal, hidden way of life, small size, high adaptability to new conditions do not allow them to be detected at the initial stage. Often parasitic insects are localized near a person's bed, which is their main source of food. In addition, as practice shows, the ideal order and cleanliness do not affect their reproduction. So, what are the home parasites, how to get rid of them?
Dust mite
All doctors unanimously say that good sleep is the key to he alth and goodmoods. But often people do not even suspect what danger they may face in their own bed. After all, dust mites-parasites can live here. Most often they live in house dust.
This household parasite is impossible to the naked eye. Under the microscope, it looks like a small crab. This insect belongs to the arachnids. It is also called bed mites.
Features of bed mites
The body length of an adult reaches 0.5 mm, it is covered with a chitinous shell. Getting rid of this parasite is quite difficult. It clings tightly to the surface with its legs, at the end of which there are suction cups.
Often these parasites live in house dust. 1 gram can contain about 500 microscopic mites. Their ideal habitat is pillows, feather beds, mattresses, blankets, carpets. These insects do not bite. The main source of nutrition for them are keratinized parts of the human body, dandruff, sweat.
A dust mite gets into a house with a person. It can be brought on clothes after a trip on public transport or going to the hairdresser. While walking, dust mites can attach themselves to the fur of a pet.
Signs of presence
The bed mite does not bite, but feeds on microscopic particles of the human body left on bed linen. For human he alth, the danger is caused by tick excrement. He releases them up to 20 times a day. Minimal movement causes them to soar into the air. So they get into the lungs and to the surfacehuman body. These parasites can cause a serious disease that is difficult to treat - allergies. At the initial stage, this disease is often asymptomatic. After an allergy to a tick, it resembles a common cold, which can later develop into bronchial asthma.
Special medical tests are carried out to determine the presence of an allergy to a dust mite. You can fully recover from allergies only if all insects in the house are destroyed with the help of a quality dust mite remedy.
Tick waste products can provoke the development of the following pathologies:
- Asthma.
- Sore throat.
- Scabies.
- Allergic rash.
- Dry cough.
- Atopic dermatitis.
- Headache is frequent.
These insects can also carry infectious diseases, even plague, typhoid, tularemia.
Prevention of dust mites
The bed mite is found all over planet Earth. An unfavorable environment for this insect is the absence of accumulated dust and dry air. You can prevent the reproduction of this domestic parasite by following these recommendations:
- Change bed sheets every week.
- Wet cleaning in the house should be carried out using disinfectants.
- Pyjamas, towels and bedding must be ironed.
- Remove all feather pillows from home.
- Do not allow dust to accumulate near the bed. Spendoften wet cleaning.
- Upholstered furniture often needs to be vacuumed and cleaned.
- Wash carpets.
- Bedding should be periodically removed to fresh air.
- Artemisia and tansy flowers repel household parasites.
- Ventilate the room often.
Get rid of these parasites is quite difficult. A quality dust mite remedy can only be used by SES teams.
Fleas in the apartment
Domestic fleas are small insects. In the house, they often appear from the basement. You can bring them into the apartment even on shoes. Fleas are parasites that develop and live on the body of an animal. Under certain conditions, they can inhabit houses, change their owners and feed on human blood.
Fleas that can parasitize humans often breed:
- on dogs;
- cats;
- birds;
- rodents.
Insect description
Adult reaches 0.5 mm in length. The oral apparatus of the insect has a piercing-sucking structure, the body is flattened on the sides. It is almost impossible to beat an individual with cotton.
Immediately after domestic fleas enter the apartment, their presence is problematic to determine. Often, a person thinks about the presence of such a parasite when the insects have been in the house for a long time, have multiplied enough and began to actively attack. At the same time, the bites are painful, since the insect does not secrete "painkillers".
Fleas are localized in small cracks and cracks, beyondbaseboards and wallpaper, under carpets, floors, near pet beds and trash cans.
As soon as it gets dark outside, insects begin to actively search for a source of food. Accessible area for the parasite are the lower limbs of the body. They are the first to be attacked.
Fleas can jump to a height of up to 2 m. This allows them to easily sneak into bed and attack a sleeping person. Clothing does not interfere with this parasite, it can easily get to any part of the body. The parasite is dangerous because it carries helminth eggs and various infectious diseases:
- hepatitis;
- plague;
- anthrax;
- encephalitis;
- tularemia;
- brucellosis;
- trypanosomiasis.
Flea control
These parasites can actively multiply in homes where there are no pets. They come from the basement, attic, entrance, from neighbors. Methods for dealing with domestic blood-sucking parasites:
- Treat the pet, its bed and house.
- The room must be treated with insecticides - aerosols or concentrates.
- After processing, wet cleaning is carried out in the house with a special tool. Cleaning is done again after 3 days.
- In winter, parasites can be frozen. To do this, the room is left for several hours with open windows and doors at sub-zero temperatures.
These insects are characterized by high fecundity, so they can significantly increase their population in a minimum period of time. Thembites are painful, unpleasant.
Removing all pests from the house is quite simple. The main thing is to prevent their re-settlement. If there are pets in the house, it is advisable to wear special anti-flea collars on them.
Lice
Various types of lice can be safely attributed to domestic parasites. Clothes or linen lice can be brought from a hotel, shop, clothing market or guests. These insects often hide in poorly washed clothes.
The number of individuals is increasing rapidly enough. Insects like to hide in the folds of bed linen. At night, they bite through the skin of a sleeping person, leaving red spots. The bites of domestic parasites are quite itchy.
When bitten by an allergic person, a rash occurs on the body. It can develop into purulent formations - ulcers, boils and even pyoderma. These insects can carry typhus and relapsing fever, so it's important to know how to get rid of lice.
The parasite feeds on human blood, but it does not live on it. The size of an individual is 1-3 mm, the leg ends with a proboscis. It is to them that the louse clings to the surface. This parasite is quite easy to move from bedding to clothes.
So, how to remove lice?
- All bedding should be machine washed at 90°C. Boiling is ideal.
- Dry linen must be ironed. When doing this, use par.
- Mattress, pillow and duvet must be dry cleaned.
- Things thatcannot be washed, it is recommended to treat with special chemicals.
- Upholstered furniture and carpets should also be treated with insecticides.
Bed bug
This domestic parasite is bloodsucking. Often it can be found in apartments. Insects migrate from neighbors to neighbors, often moving to new places of residence in upholstered furniture or household appliances. This is where bed bugs often hide and lay their eggs. The accumulation of individuals can also be found:
- under the mattress;
- in furniture crevices;
- behind the carpet.
The insect has a flat body 4-8 mm long. The size of the bug may increase depending on the filling of the nutrient tract. At the same time, females are larger than males.
The surface of the body has characteristic notches that allow the individual to move quickly even on the ceiling. On the head there is a small proboscis, with which the insect pierces human skin. There are 2 canals in the jaw:
- to release enzymes along with saliva;
- swallowing blood.
Surprisingly, by comparing 2 identical individuals (in this case, one will be full and the other hungry), you can find that the body of the parasite not only increases, but also changes its color.
Hungry bugs climb onto the ceiling and from there fall onto a sleeping person. These insects feed only on human blood. In exceptional situations, they can "feast" on the blood of pets: dogs, cats, rodents, birds. Such food can onlysupport their livelihoods. In this case, the larvae do not develop, and adults do not reproduce.
The bedbug carries a high risk to the he alth of a person prone to allergies, like other blood-sucking parasites, so it is important to choose the right remedy for bedbugs in the apartment, which will help get rid of them for a long time.
Features of the bedbug diet
The bed bug is a selective parasite. Choosing a victim, he will give preference to more delicate skin - a child, after - a woman, and then a man. The place of food is open areas of the skin, without hair and clothing.
For normal life, the bug needs to drink blood once every ten days. He drinks about seven milliliters of blood. Trying to find a suitable area of skin with a blood vessel, the bug makes a series of bites. They become inflamed and itchy.
Bed bugs are not carriers of various diseases. But they are dangerous for people prone to allergies. Such bites can cause angioedema.
The process of metabolism in bedbugs can be suspended for a period of lack of nutrition. If the hunger strike lasts about a month, the insect enters a state of suspended animation. If necessary, it can last up to two years. At the same time, if eggs were formed in the body of the female, she can extract nutrients from them.
As soon as the bug smells a human body, its vitality returns and it immediately attacks. After the first flow of blood into the body, it returns to its former life.
Bed bugs multiply at an incredible ratespeed and lay eggs in the most secluded corners of the apartment and even in household appliances.
The way to deal with bedbugs
How to deal with home parasites correctly? Getting rid of bed bugs is quite difficult. It quickly adapts to adverse conditions. Therefore, you should not only choose the right remedy for bedbugs in the apartment, but also seek help from the specialists of the sanitary and epidemiological station. After all, often measures to eradicate these insects in apartment buildings only lead to the migration of individuals to a calmer area. After the bug can return to already mastered places.
You should take care of preventive measures that will prevent bed bugs from entering the house. But if the individual has already penetrated, then unfavorable conditions must be created for it. In this case, the bug will not be able to actively multiply and quickly leave this housing. So:
- It is necessary to regularly wet the floor, adding essential oils, ammonia, vinegar, etc. to the water
- In places where insects may live, bunches of plants can be decomposed: tansy, mint, wormwood.
If bugs are already present in your home, you should contact the experts. After all, it is possible to poison parasites at home, but they show resistance to various chemicals. The following methods adversely affect the body of a bed bug:
- Processing rooms with a steam generator. High temperature allows you to kill not only adults, but also their larvae.
- The premises are treated twice with strong insecticides with an interval of two weeks.
Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes can also be attributed to domestic parasites. Although these insects do not live in the house, they appear here quite often and can bring a lot of trouble.
Mosquitoes enter the house through open doors and windows. After the bites of these annoying insects, itchy pimples remain on the body. They often flow into allergic edema, to which children are especially prone. Mosquitoes can also carry infectious diseases when they bite. Therefore, you need to choose the right pest control product. Today in stores you can find special fumigators, aroma sticks, stickers, aerosols and creams that repel these insects.
Only females feed on blood.
Mosquitoes often live in large numbers in wetlands. Often they live in basements and storerooms, where there is coolness and humidity. From there, they enter apartments.
Cockroaches
Cockroaches are known to many who have ever lived in a hostel. Unwashed dishes, lack of hygiene, uncleaned leftover food - these are the main reasons for the reproduction and habitat of these harmful insects.
But sometimes cockroaches appear in houses where cleanliness is observed. They enter the house through:
- cellars;
- vent holes;
- lofts;
- slits in baseboards;
- from nearby catering establishments;
- from landfills.
These nasty insects can easily be brought back from a business trip.
As soon as the cockroach settled inhouse, he chooses a cozy place - the kitchen. It's warm, humid, and there's plenty of food. Most often in this room, insects hide behind baseboards and a gas stove, in the slots of the hood, in furniture.
They can also be found in living rooms. They often hide under mattresses, in closets, behind paintings and baseboards, under carpets and in household appliances.
Cockroaches are unpleasant to people not only because of the specific smell and unaesthetic appearance. They are also carriers of dangerous diseases, because they come into contact with waste products that have already disappeared. These insects can cause the development of tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis, polio, gastroenteritis.
Harmless at first glance, insects can bite painfully. Children often suffer from them.
Cockroach bites, excrement, dead shell particles can cause a serious allergic reaction.
You can fight these parasites with good chemicals:
- "Raptor";
- "Dichlorvos";
- "Dohlox";
- crayons;
- trap containers;
- ointments;
- creams.
Experts recommend paying attention to ultrasonic repellers. They have a negative effect on insects, but are not dangerous for humans.
In the fight against cockroaches, folk remedies based on boric acid can also help:
- 200g of borax powder is mixed with starch, vanilla and powdered sugar. This mixture is diluted to a doughy state with water.
- Boric acid is mixed withpre-cooked yolk. This mixture is rolled into balls of small diameter and laid out in places where insects often appear. Also, boric acid can be used to treat the sink and toilet. Drinking water from these containers will kill the insects.
Conclusion
Various parasitic insects can live in an apartment or house. They make life unbearable. Discomfort, pain, lack of sleep and constant stress - these are the consequences of living with such insects under one roof. In addition, do not forget that most of them are carriers of dangerous infectious diseases.
You can try to fight parasites on your own. Some of them can be quickly removed from their homes. And in the fight against some, you will have to use the services of SES specialists. They use high quality, concentrated insecticides that are guaranteed to kill pests in your home.
