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Conference moira::parenting_v3

Title:Parenting
Notice:READ 1.27 BEFORE WRITING
Moderator:CSC32::DUBOIS
Created:Wed May 30 1990
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1364
Total number of notes:23848

753.0. "HELP! FLEAS ATTACK SON!" by FSTTOO::STEVENS (Roberts' mom) Wed Mar 06 1991 16:03

    I received no response to this note, has anyone in the parenting 
    note file had this problem?
    
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Note 201.0                  HELP! FLEAS ATTACK CHILD!                 No replies
FSTVAX::STEVENS "Roberts' mom"                       22 lines  20-FEB-1991 12:00
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    I will be moving to Jacksonville, Fla. in June. I worry about my son
    because he seems to be ATTACKED instantly by fleas. In one day he 
    looks like he has chicken poxes. He also developes a lite red bumpy
    rash in a week to go alone with the many bites. Funny-I developed 
    this same red rash when I was 8 month pregnant with him and visiting
    family in Fla. Now every trip down, he has this reaction. It starts to 
    clear up as soon as we get out of Fla. Visits to other state do not
    affect him in any way.  
    
    Is there ANYTHING I can do to prevent this from happening? I plan 
    to see a Doctor immediately upon arriving in Jacksonville. Any 
    recommendations?
    
    I wouldn't subject my son to this if I had a choice! But my brother
    need me to be with him, so I am taking a L.O.A. from DEC. I of
    course want my husband and son to be with me for the time I must
    be there, I don't want to be separated from them, but it kills me 
    to seeing my little one suffer.  
    
    Has anyone living or visiting Fla. had this problem?
    
    	Mac
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753.1Allergy?CSC32::M_EVANSThu Mar 07 1991 09:526
    sounds like a flea allergy.  I believe that it can be controlled using
    a cortisone ointment, but see your doctor about it first.  The only
    thhing besides whatever treatment thhey can give him, might be to check
    the canine notesfile for flea control in the house.
    
    Meg
753.2Beats spraying chemicals all over the house ...SITBUL::FYFEThu Mar 07 1991 14:4611
    
    At night put out a dish of water with a small film of dish soap or 
    cooking oil. Put a lamp light right over it. Make sure the sides of the
    dish are shallow.
    
    The fleas, attracted by the light, will move towards the dish and 
    'jump in'. By morning you will see hundreds of fleas in the soup.
    
    Do this for a week and you should have no move fleas.
    
    Doug.
753.3IT WORKS!EXPRES::FENDELANDERFri Mar 08 1991 21:4616
    
    
    re:2
    
    	I'll vouch for that!! Someone told me to do that and I laughed.
    I get bad headaches from the smell of chemical flea controllers.
    Where I live it is very sandy all around my house. I also have cats.
    I started doing that with the dishsoap, and it really worked! 
    I also read that if you keep the grass around the house cut all the
    time it will help keep the fleas down. Don't really know if that
    works because what little grass we have the horse eats.
    
    
    	Good luck to you and your family!
    
    			Robin
753.4SUPER::WTHOMASSun Mar 10 1991 20:4614
    
    There is lots of information  in CANINE about controlling fleas, you
    might want to look there. As far as the soapywater/dish trick, yes it
    does work, I've tried it. One word of caution though, make sure that
    other household pets cannot drink the mixture, besides being upset by
    the soap, the animals (or small children for that matter) could ingest
    some of the fleas potentially carrying eggs and that equals worms in
    the animals (which of course means a trip to the vets).
    
    	I have also heard (although never tried) that putting salt on the
    rugs and around the animal bedding kills the fleas. You have to apply
    it at night and then vacumn in the morning.
    
    			Wendy
753.5Skin-so-soft, maybe?FSTTOO::STEVENSRoberts&#039; momWed Mar 13 1991 16:2613
    Thanks for the replies! I will try the dishsoap bowl method for inside 
    the house when we move down. There is so much sand in Florida, the
    yards are almost all sand and Robert love to play outside. I wonder if
    he will build up a resistance to the bites over time?  Maybe he is getting a
    reaction from the chemicals used in my parents home! I will be seeing 
    a doctor immediately, because in two days he will be already covered with
    bites. 
    
    Anyone know if Avons Skin-so-soft repels fleas?
    
    thanks,
    
    Mac
753.6Are you sure it's fleas?NRADM::TRIPPLWed Mar 20 1991 14:2922
    Funny you should ask..........!!!
    
    My inlaws, and her mother (80something years old) just got back from
    Jacksonville FL last night, after spending two weeks.  My husband's
    brother is in the Navy and is on a scheduled tour to Diego Garcia, in
    the Middle East.  As a fortunate occurance with the peace happening
    they granted him a 30 day leave to go home. (thank heavens for MAC
    Flights!)  My husband's brother, wife and two children; 5 & 3 are living 
    not far from the coast in a new development of duplexes.  Not one of them 
    have ever mentioned a problem like you described.  We visited with them 
    5 years ago, when they had a place right on the beach, and never had such 
    a problem.
    
    What is it that makes it you so sure it's Fleas???  I would almost
    wonder if it wasn't an allergic reaction to something, probably not
    alive!
    
    Is your relative also in the Military?  That whole city seems to be one
    big Navy base!
    
    Good Luck!
    Lyn
753.7I just ASSUMED fleas...FSTTOO::STEVENSRoberts&#039; momWed Apr 03 1991 11:3215
    I really don't know what it is. I just assumed fleas. My parents have 
    animals and a great back year that they spray for fleas and bugs. I 
    wonder if he is allergic to the spray?
    
    My family was military, but retired now. That would make a great notes
    file MILITARY BRATS. 
    
    Well I guess I will let the Doctors decide what is wrong with Robert. 
    I am sure it will happen again, it does every time, but we only visit
    for two weeks at a time so I am a bit more worried because we are going
    to be there a year. 
    
    thanks,
    
    Mac