Worried about a flea problem

merlotandjamo

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So about a month ago I moved apartments.  Right around the time I got the keys to the new place I noticed fleas on both of my adult cats. I gave them flea baths and then flea drops and took them straight to the new place in case there were still fleas in the old place. I flea bombed and sprayed the old place and moved some stuff like my couches and furniture to the new place afterwards. A week later I went back to get the rest of my stuff and the old place was INFESTED with fleas, if you took once step in there you could feel them all over your body, and I was covered in over 100 flea bites. I headed to the store and bought EVERY flea removal product they had and went back to the old place and tried to contain the problem so i could finish moving. I put the powder and sprayed down my car just in case. All the spray and powder barely made a dent in the apartment so I started to slowly spray everything down and get it out of the apartment and into the car after i checked to make sure there where no fleas on anything. I took all of my clothes, blankets, towels, and curtains that were still in there and put them in the dryer and bagged and sealed them before putting them in my car. I let everything sit in my car over night then moved it all into the new apartment. I sprayed down everything I could in the new apartment just in case. During this whole ordeal one of my cats had 4 kittens in the new place (they were never in the old place) and as I was holding one I saw a flea. After tons of googling we washed all 4 of them with dawn soap and picked the deeds fleas off of them, then gave the 2 adult cats flea baths and did the same. A couple days later I saw 1 flea on 1 of the kittens so I bathed them in dawn again but did not find any dead fleas besides the one. I have been paranoid ever since, constantly feel itchy (no bites so I assume I am just paranoid) but I saw a tiny bug in the litter about a week ago so I discarded all the litter sealed the bag tight, threw it out and scrubbed the litter box with hot water and dawn and refilled with new litter. I also vacuumed the entire apartment especially where I keep the litter. I've noticed one of the adult cats and one of the kittens itching quite a bit lately and today I saw a BUNCH of little bugs in the litter and I am starting to feel like I am never going to get rid of them and it is the most uncomfortable, terrible situation to live in. I was hoping for any advice or tips to permanently get rid of them because they are literally started to ruin my life and I am terrified what all the chemicals in the sprays will do to my cats.
 
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Also I forgot to mention that I constantly and obsessively check all 6 of them for fleas and have not seen any on any of them since the last one on 1 of the kittens.
 
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