Very tiny worm looking things from where kitten lays.

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Originally Posted by cheylink

Thats a heavy treatment for a 3 month old, keep an eye on her for any reactions, not to scare you.................
If you are referring to the Advantage flea stuff the tube was very small (not sure if this makes a difference). The doctor also asked how old she was before doing anything. I would say the tube was a little smaller than your average pen cap. I will keep an eye on her though thanks for the headsup.

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Right now fleas can't survive on your cat. Now is the time to vaccuum your house (and change the vaccuum bag outside) and do all your laundry.

If I were you, I'd clean the apartment now, and, on Sept. 26, treat your cat with Advantage and absolutely avoid taking any fleas or flea eggs with you when you leave your apartment. This means doing all of your laundry, and, if you take any furniture, spray it with flea spray and vaccuum it. (And make sure the furniture goes a long time between being sprayed and your kitten being anywhere near it.)

I'd missed that your cat is only 3 months old. I'm sure your vet used a very small dose (very small tube size). The fact that you only have one cat helps -- I can't Advantage my two cats on the same day because they are sensitive to it. (Well, Athena is sensitive to it. She starts drooling if a treated cat gets near her, and hisses and trys very hard to keep the treated cat away from her.)

Other posters probably know more about how good Advantage alone is at getting rid of fleas in the entire house. But with your young cat, you certainly don't want any other poisions anywhere near her.
 

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We apply Revolution once per month. Each cat gets one small tube. When Mika was much smaller she got a whole tube also but it was a milder dosage. My understanding (and I could be wrong) is that monthly applications will kill off most fleas that bite your kitty so eventually your place should be flea-free. If you don't want to wait that long and don't want kitty to have to deal with the occasional bite, then I would suggest washing any pillow covers and bedding in hot soapy water and getting something to treat any carpeting in your home. Over-the-counter remedies seldom work and can be dangerous to the cat.
 

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Originally Posted by cheylink

Thats a heavy treatment for a 3 month old, keep an eye on her for any reactions, not to scare you.................
No not if it was a kitten dose. They do make Advantage for kittens.

I would suggest buying a flea collar, cutting it into tiny pieces and putting it in your vacuum, then vacuum everything. The flea collar with obviously kill the fleas you pick up. I think what they mean buy applying flea meds to the cat will get rid of the ones in the house is that assuming your house isn't infested with them, then they will eventually jump back onto the cat and be killed.

Oh and I forgot to ask what that thing in the originaly picture was? Did you take one with you to show the vet? Flea dirt as far as I know is tiny and sort of flaky. That looks like a worm itself. But tapeworms are white...so what is it?
 

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Originally Posted by Jen

Oh and I forgot to ask what that thing in the originaly picture was? Did you take one with you to show the vet? Flea dirt as far as I know is tiny and sort of flaky. That looks like a worm itself. But tapeworms are white...so what is it?
Flea dirt looks exactly like the picture at the beginning of this thread. It's tiny brown spots that turn red when wet, but if you look very, very closely, you'll see the shapes found in that picture. Just think of what larger fecal matter looks like, and scale it waaaay down. Some chunks are nearly spherical. If you line those spherical chunks up and have them come out all at once, they will often look like a cylinder, and often that cylinder will curl up into an rounded shape. A coin or pencil or somesuch for scale might have been helpful in the original picture.
 
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Well I have spent a good portion of today doing laundry hoping to rid any fleas they may have had. My question is what do I do to clean the carpet? After some research most people dont recommend using anything you can buy at Petco or Petsmart as it is bad for the cats. So what the heck do you do? Obviously it wont be on the cat as she had Advantage applied to her at the vet last night but im concerned about fleas that may still be alive in the carpet.
Thanks again,
James

P.S. if it makes a difference as I mentioned before I am only in this small apartment for another month as I am here just for job training out of state. So im not looking to do anything costly.
 

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Originally Posted by Enuja

Flea dirt looks exactly like the picture at the beginning of this thread. It's tiny brown spots that turn red when wet, but if you look very, very closely, you'll see the shapes found in that picture. Just think of what larger fecal matter looks like, and scale it waaaay down. Some chunks are nearly spherical. If you line those spherical chunks up and have them come out all at once, they will often look like a cylinder, and often that cylinder will curl up into an rounded shape. A coin or pencil or somesuch for scale might have been helpful in the original picture.
ohh ok i see. I thought whatever was in the picture was a lot bigger then it actually is. So if it is just zoomed in to make it huge then I can see it as flea dirt. I was picturing something maybe like a half inch long or so.
 
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Sorry I didnt put something else in the picture to scale the flea dirt. Its just I tried that and then it instantly would not focus on the flea dirt. Thats why I tried to emphasize that these things are VERY small.
 

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I'm no expert...but that looked like flea larvae to me. The flecks were flea dirt and the wormy things looked like flea larvae. I recommend Frontline Plus. It is the best stuff I have ever found. It treats the environment as well, because it is absorbed into the sebaceous glands. When the cat sheds or scratches, dead skin cells flake off and that is what the flea larvae feed on. Since the skin cells now contain frontline plus (which includes a growth inhibitor and a "birth control" for fleas), it won't grow into a full fledged flea. Any fleas i the environment will die when they come into contact with the treated cat. Our house was completely infested with fleas when we moved in. They were in the beds, furniture, everywhere. I was picking fleas out of my daughters hair every night. We sprayed the house and the yard, bathed everyone...nothing worked. We ordered the frontline plus online (no prescription needed and way cheaper than the vets office) and within 2 weeks no more fleas. I live in southern Alabama now, have 4 dogs, 3 cats and 3 birds...and no problems with fleas. I don't even treat once a month. Just when we notice fleas on the dogs.

I've never used the advantage, but I won't use anything but Frontline plus.
 

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Well guess what!!!!?? I just discovered at 6 am this morning that Maia and I had a flea infestation from our vet visit 5 days ago!!! I was getting bit up and noticed she was itching more..............We both did a Dawn bath and now I want to get something from the vet!! After all, thats where they came from!
 

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YThese describe what I have found in my carpet...still have no idea what they are. Found some dead (3) and a few alive 4 in a years time./..
 

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Hello,  Sadly i had a white Duvet on my bed and I found little tiny black / brown worm looking things on it too.

I took a sample to vet and looked at pictures online.

THEY  are flea LARVAE

those that say they are flea dirt feces or eggs are wrong.

They are Flea Larvae. 

Go to Google or  Yahoo and  search them  you can see pictures.

I did cause i was creeped out by the worms in my bed.

Also be careful with using advantage and house flea spray.  My cat well one of them had a bad reaction to it.

So be careful
 
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