How to avoid bringing fleas home on your clothes
Fleas can easily latch onto clothes in classrooms or relatives' homes, creating a high risk that you will accidentally transfer them back to your own house. Because visitors can suffer dozens of bites in just a few hours, this threat of infestation forces parents to guiltily keep their children away from family visits.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Trapping the bug and giving it to administrationDid this help you?
- 2Putting in a work order to spray the roomDid this help you?
- 3Relying on a partner who has previous experience dealing with flea infestationsDid this help you?
- 4keeping him away from their houseDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My dilemma is that my toddler REALLY wants to go see his great grandparents but he gets bitten over 30 times within a couple of hours...”source ↗
“Is there a way to try preventing them from getting on him in the first place? Or a way to make sure I don't accidentally transfer them back to my house?”source ↗
“I feel so guilty keeping him away from their house but I don't know of any other options :(”source ↗
Where this came up
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