Pests: Don’t Let These Mini Annoyances Turn into a Massive Problem
Pests, they may be miniature but they can cause massive problems when they are allowed to run riot in your home. They can be massively annoying for your kids, they can be fatal for your pets and they can ruin your property. But, you can stop all of this from happening by simply refusing to allow pests in your home and your life and calling terminix Missouri — to do this, you’re going to have to take a stand against the pesky pest. For advice on how to do so, make sure to read on.
Protect your kids from lice, because having them ain’t nice
The pests that are most likely to impact your kids’ lives (in a very negative way) are head lice or, as they are otherwise known, nits. As you may remember from your own childhood, head lice or nits are a small pest that burrow into your hair and into your scalp, making that whole area extremely itchy and very uncomfortable. And, do you really want your own children to have to go through such a tiresome and intolerable experience? No, you don’t, so make sure you are looking out for head lice or nits at all times, especially if your children are still in education as schools are seemingly a hotbed for lice infestation.
When looking out for evidence of head lice infiltration in your children’s hair, remember the most obvious sign of all: them touching their head, feeling their hair and itching that area frequently. If you see any of this happen and happen more than usual, then make sure not to brush it off as being nothing. But, the itching of the head and scalp is not the only sign that you should be looking out for: make sure to look out for other signs of an infiltration that are far more unusual but just as concrete, such as your children itching different areas of their body due to an allergic reaction they have had to a lice bite and a change in their sleeping habits.
Once you see something that you believe to be a sign of a head lice infiltration, get to checking your children’s hair and scalp right away. But, when you do do this, make sure you know what you’re looking for. Make sure you know exactly what these lice look like, how they move and behave and where they hide (because they aren’t the biggest fans of light — information of which can be found here. And, once you do see evidence of pesky little lice running riot in your children’s hair, make sure to attack them right away with over-the-counter lice medications that are proven to work and a specifically made metal lice comb.
Protect your pets from pesky pests
Head lice or nits may prove to be very annoying and very uncomfortable for your children, but they will not fatally harm them (unless, of course, your child has an allergic reaction to a bite, at which point you would have to seek quick and professional medical assistance). But, pests, specifically ticks, can and do frequently prove fatal to pets if they are afforded the opportunity to breach their fur and infiltrate their skin. So, the need to protect your pets from pesky little pests is even greater!
First of all, you should make sure you are well versed in all the telltale signs that a tick, or a host of ticks, have embedded themselves in your pets fur and skin. These signs include actually seeing a tick running around your home or garden, especially in the areas that your pet plays or sleeps in; noticing that your pet has come down with fever-like symptoms practically out of nowhere; your pet losing all of his or her appetites, again seemingly out of nowhere; your pet losing breath easily, even after doing no physical activity, and them shivering profusely as they try to recapture their breath; and noticing unexplainable scabs frequently appearing on their skin. If you see any of these signs in regards to your pet then you should instantly jump to the conclusion that there is at least one tick that is bothering them. You must instantly jump to this conclusion as wasted time in a situation like this could be fatal for your pet.
After you have jumped to the conclusion that your pet has a tick, you must act accordingly and begin removing all of the ticks from them that you see and identify. And, yes, this means doing more than just giving your pet a good brushing with an old comb — doing so may result in you doing more harm than good as this could lead to the ticks burrowing themselves even deeper into your pet’s skin, and if this were to happen the chance of infection would practically double. So, don’t just give your pet a brushing and hope for the best from there on in, but at the same time don’t use your bare hands to deal with the situation as this could intensify the spreading of Lyme disease. No, what you should do is acquire a proven and clinical tick fighting medicine, apply this medicine to the areas of your pet’s skin that has been infiltrated by ticks and then just wait for all the ticks that are both fully formed and still forming to die. In next to no time, your pet will be tick free and happy again.
Protect your property or pests ter-might cost you a fortune
Pests can prove to be more than just unwanted and very annoying visitors in your home: they can actually destroy it. Well, destroy it may be a bit of an overstatement, but they can cause severe and sometimes irreversible damage to it. Do you really want a little pest such as a termite to cost you such damage?
If not, then make sure you are doing all can to protect your property from the plight that is the pesky pest. And, the first thing that you should be doing when seeking to do this is getting a professional pest control team to come into your home at quarterly intervals, especially if you have seen evidence of a pest, live in an area where pest growth is explicitly high or it is the summer months (pests love the summer months), in order to control and regulate the number of pests adopting your property as their new home. By doing so you would be able to be sure that you, your home and your family will never be hit with any unexpected pest problems.
If you do ever find that your property is hit with such problems, such as the wooden furniture in your home being hit with an infiltration of termites, then make sure you act quickly before irreversible damage occurs. Make sure you are limiting all wood to ground contact whilst you believe termites to still be at large in your home before your problems worsen, and make sure to spray Pro-Active C in any and all the areas you believe to be adorned by them. By doing so you might just save yourself from having to spend a fortune on fixing your furniture, or you may just save yourself from having to throw them out.
So, there you have it, reasons as to why you need to protect your home from little pests before they begin to make big problems within it, and ways in which to do so.
Just remember, nobody is going to fight the pests and bugs in your home if you don’t do it, so make sure you are doing it!
