Have you recently booked a pest control service? Regular pest control ensures that your home is protected against various kinds of pests. But every time you have a pest control service done, do you take the necessary measures to protect your overall health? Here are some quick tips that may help!
Before Pest Control
- Cover all edible food items thoroughly. If you have opened cereal packets for example, lock them in air tight containers, or better still, put them in the fridge! Avoid keeping any food, especially daily requirements like freshly boiled milk outside on the day of the pest control too.
- Cover your seating / sleeping furniture pieces with cloth. Unlike the earlier days, today’s pest control service providers use a more sophisticated technique. These new techniques don’t lead to severe odours. However it is still beneficial to cover the places you ideally sleep on or sit on.
- Keep the house locked for a few hours after the service is done. It will help ensure that the medicine or treatment works better. This will also help prevent too much exposure to the medicine, for you and your family.
After the Pest Control
- Once the pest control is done, the first thing you should do is clean the house. Depending on the type and severity of the treatment done at home (white ant treatment, simple pest control, etc) you can opt to either have a basic cleaning undertaken or otherwise.
- Ensure you wash edible fruits and vegetables thoroughly before eating them. Even if you took the effort to lock other food items in air tight containers, check it once for any unfamiliar smells before you consume it.
- Remove all the cloth coverings that was put on the furniture and wash them too. Avoid folding and keeping them in the linen cupboard without first washing them!
