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Question #1
Q. I am still dealing with ants in my house. What should have been only 2 treatments this year from this company has turned into 6 additional treatments. Every time he comes out he sprays my house! Should I be concern about the safety of my kids? Smyrna, GA
A. Yes, you should be concerned about the amount of treatments inside your home. What should have been 2 pesticide applications has turned into 6. This is dramatically increasing the chances of pesticide poisoning for you and your children. Also, if a professional can’t eliminate your ants, you should question his knowledge and training. Unfortunately, you don’t have to be well trained to apply toxic materials in an individual’s home. Moving on to your safely. Your children probably spend most of their time on the floor, where the applications been applied around your living area. This will increase their exposure to pesticides, especially the high amount of pesticides being used in your house with the 6 previous applications. The pesticides affect your children in exactly the same way they targets pests. Pesticides work by leaving a residue of micro encapsulated beads. The more applications made the more beads that are left behind on a surface. These beads are made to stay around for long periods of time. It is completely by chance that an ant will walk across the beads and pick it up and become affected. This strategy for pest elimination is a poorly planned process. The chances for getting rid of your ants are slim and the nasty side effect is you or your child can pick up the pesticide the same way an ant picks it up, by randomly going across the pesticide. There are several different ways a child can be exposed to pesticides.
Natural Mosquito Repellants in your Diet
There is truth into the saying, “You are what you eat.” In theory, if you eat a donut, your midsection might start to round out like a donut. If you eat oranges, your skin tone could start turning orange. Well, nature has provided for us natural alternatives for mosquito protection. Some of us would change our diets in a heartbeat to avoid those pesky blood suckers from making a meal of us. For the food consumers out there who don’t want to change their diet, there is another natural solution for you. Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide our body releases, so if you stop breathing, then mosquitoes stop feeding. Uh, it might work. I, myself, have never tried this technique; I find that breathing is more than a luxury. Dietary changes are a little bit easier to make. Here are some foods that are appealing to you, but not so appealing to mosquitoes.