Bird Mite Infestation Forums Questions Bird Mites or Rat Mites

Viewing 2 reply threads
  • Author
    Posts
    • #2842
      Allisunra
      Participant

      We are infested for about three months now. They are getting worse daily after 3 pros supposedly treated for them. I am exhausted and feel like I am going crazy; my daughter moved out because of all this. I have lots of questions:

      Can Dawn dish soap provide temporary relief…especially for the dog who is also miserable? If they do not find the host (either a bird or mouse or such) will we never be able to eliminate the pests? Can we fog the house ourselves if this next exterminator does not cure the problem (honestly we are going broke hiring exterminators) and does Cedarcide work? If not, is there a chemical product that works? Thanks…I wish you had a contact phone number. Do I absolutely have to iron every article of clothing…too tired from no sleep…do mattresses have to be tossed?

      Thanks, Caren

    • #3738
      johndoe
      Participant

      Hi Karen

      I am bill we had a forum that was hosted by bird mites. Org there was about two to three hundred maybe a thousand people that we reflect it and we all shared all of our tips I’ve collected some of them here in this letter. I will try to find the Forum and see if it’s still available by asking the moderator. It was very helpful we would respond to each other quickly and help each other we had a lot of trouble with this because the doctors don’t really know what to do with it cuz they’re not doctors of bugs. Veterinarians are though

      We fought the same thing for quite a while we found many cures they were posted at a forum I’ll see if I can find the forum link so you can review it. In a nutshell it’s like an ant. It gets in things number one I cover the house in baking soda inside. Then clean out everything and throw out anything i don’t need.. then wash everything was one gallon of water one cup of borax and I cup Arm & Hammer powdered laundry soap, powder version only not liquid it doesn’t have the sodium carbonate in it. Sodium carbonate is the end of this bug I wash everything in it, clothes, the house the carpet everything. Same thing in the car , I cover with baking soda like it’s Carpet Fresh then throw out everything you don’t need in the car vacuuming out or blow it out with the leaf blower. Wash the seats with the same solution one gallon of water one cup of Arm & Hammer laundry soap it also helps to add the half a cup of borax. I use a pump sprayer from Ace Hardware made by Chapin it is the best pump sprayer to use cost $12.00 . I soak the seats and the carpeting in the car and then vacuum it out with a wet vac I do all of it. In the vents I put baking soda then blow it out. This will stop the bug, to get them off of my body. i Use three tablespoons of borax and three tablespoons of Arm & Hammer powdered laundry soap powdered version only. Mix them in 32 oz of water and put it in an old shampoo bottle with a rubber band on it to Mark it. Wash my hair with a normal shampoo I like mane and tail and body shampoo. While the foam and lather is all over me I pour that bottle of the Arm and Hammer laundry soap and borax over your head it is painless if i have an open cut it will feel like soap in a cut it will heal all the cuts. And it will stop the bugs. I Leave it on 3 to 8 minutes in the shower. Then rinse it off well. The next step is very important take one tablespoon of coconut oil and put it in 32 oz of warm water above 77 degrees because coconut oil is a solid at 76°. I pour that over my head and everywhere all over my body. Leave it on as long as i can it , the water and oil soaks into skin and makes a a resistance to the bug biting me, it doesn’t stop them 100% but it does stop them at least 95%. Also it’s Smothers them ,and Smothers any baby hatchlings that are going to be hatching. I Repeat this as needed. If they get in the ears I go to the ear doctor and tell them that i have an ear infection and they will give i neomycin ear drops and it will cure it. If they get in myi nose take a teaspoon of borax and put it in a cup of water and stir it. Dip my finger in the water and place your finger in your nose and put the solution in there it will not burn it does not sting it does not smell borax is an element one of the hundred and twenty-seven elements. it’s like a salt it will take them out of my nose fast. If they get in my eyes and they won’t leave, I close my eyes take Betadine wipe it on my eyes while they’re closed leave it on for five minutes with my eyes closed then rinse well.

      I found if I do these steps will be completely off of my body.

      Sleeping was very hard they seem to not be able to be beat in the bed I got a piece of Dollar Store plastic and I spread it on the floor. Then I took a Windex bottle and put a tablespoon of coconut oil in warm water and sprayed it on the plastic which left and oil residue the bug could not travel onto the plastic I could sleep all night without them bother me an air mattress is good also. The air mattress can be sprayed with the coconut oil easily and they can’t navigate walking on the oil they get stuck and they can’t bite you. They can be on the ceiling because they’re an arachnoid. That’s why when I throw the baking soda over the house I throw it at the ceiling too. That stops them from being able to travel they can not navigate all that baking soda it’s too much for them and it dries them out and kills them. I put baking soda all over my floor and I walked around and it for 3 days. My feet cracked because I was walking barefoot I had 50 splits in my feet from drying out my feet from walking the baking soda. Imagine what would happen to a bug that had to walk and baking soda for 3 days. It dries it out and kills them. It was no problem for my feet I just put some Vaseline on my feet and two plastic bags and pulled my socks up over the bags and put them in my shoes and within a day and a half all the cracks were healed. And I never walked Barefoot in baking soda ever again. But I did put 2 tablespoons of baking soda in my shoes which resisted the bugs from getting in there. If I wore socks in the shoes the baking soda never bothered my feet ever. If the bug was in my shoes I would take the shoes and put a half a cup of Arm & Hammer powder laundry soap in each shoe or boot put it in a plastic bag a contractor bag and then Shake the bag Up and down so it would cover the boots inside and out with the Arm & Hammer powder laundry soap dry somehow it kills them dead and you don’t even have to wash your shoes which is a lot of work. For outside in the yard i can take 20 cups of Arm & Hammer powder laundry soap put it on the ground and take a leave blower and blow it over my yard it stopped them for me in the yard for many many months. I had a big trouble in the yard also

      God bless you Karen Jesus is the Healer pray hard I prayed every day so many times that he would help me and he did praise the Lord

      Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers them of them all

      Email me anytime at doe 1769 at yahoo.com

    • #3739
      johndoe
      Participant

      Hi Karen and no you don’t have to iron all your clothes do you just wash them in Arm and Hammer laundry soap let him soak while in the washer it’ll take care of them. I boiled my clothes for a long while but after awhile it was no longer necessary to boil them just washed them in Arm and Hammer laundry soap 1 cup / wash load let it soak maybe two to five hours. Then put the clothes in plastic bags. And don’t leave them around and don’t have a lot of clothes. I used to like to walk in take my clothes off put them in a 5 gallon bucket wash them right in the shower that way I knew the bugs were going to get fluffed all over the house if I pick them up out in the yard or pick them up at other peoples houses. My house I would keep totally clean and loaded with baking soda which I would sweep up every 3 or 4 days. It works very well. God bless you call anytime on that email I’ll see it

Viewing 2 reply threads
  • You must be logged in to reply to this topic.

Subscribe for up-to-the-minute info when we get it...

* indicates required

Bird Mite Product categories

Helpful Resources

Treatment Protocols

Find a qualified exterminator

Frequently asked questions

Infestation tips & strategies

Share your story

Help support birdmites.org with a donation

 
 

Click or tap to donate

Recommended Treatment Provider

We recommend you use a licensed professional to address a bird mite problem. Don’t wait or the problem will get much worse and more expensive to treat. We have a list of pest control companies that are specifically qualified to treat bird mites.

  • They come to your house for no charge and give a free estimate.
  • Even if you decide not to use them, you get free professional advice.
  • Most pest control companies have never dealt with bird mites before. You need to use a bird mite specialist.

Follow this link to find a Qualified Local Exterminator near you.

Keep in mind that if bird mites are not treated correctly, even if the correct chemicals are used, they can become resistant to those chemicals. Don’t use a pest control company unless they have extensive experience treating bird mites.

Also, many of our readers have followed up with (or used outright) natural solutions and pesticide-free, such as on our Treatments Protocols page Follow this link to that page.

Natural and DIY Solutions

In addition to local exterminators, we offer a list of other natural, non-pesticide and/or do-it-yourself products that we have found helpful on our Treatments Protocol page.  Follow this link to the Treatments Protocols page.

Pin It on Pinterest