How do you get rid of fleas and treat flea bites?

My wife has an indoor/outdoor cat and the weather just got warm. Our youngest daughter just got eaten up last night: she's got bad bumps on one leg and her butt. We've changed all the bedding and vacuumed the whole house. I don't want to use an insecticide on the carpet: my daughter is developmentally delayed and still crawls and puts things in her mouth. We've been alternating Benadryl and Neosporin on the bites, and have bathed her three times today. Is this the best way to treat the bites?

First of all I understand the floor thing but you may have to figure out a way for her to play on the floor on a blanket for a while. Here's the thing on fleas cause I've been there and I have two kids. First if the cat is going to keep going outside get Frontline. Don't get anything cheaper because it won't work I promise. Then you will need to bomb the house, because what fleas do is they live in your mattress and your carpet especially and wait for a warm body to land so they can eat. Get at least two flea bombs, remove or seal up in the cabinets all the food and dishes. Strip the bedding and wash it all. Make sure all the little one's clothing is taken out of the house too. Then while the bombing is being done inside you need to use a spray on the windows and door jams because you would be amazed at how they will jump out the windows, wait and then jump back in. Otherwise I would seriously consider either getting rid of the cat or make it indoor only because if you think fleas are bad wait till it brings home ring worm. Good luck!

Buy an Organic soap base(vegan) Add peppermint and tea tree essential oil> Folloe a soap receipe you can get all over the internet. This will stp the itching and dter the fleas>>also good on animals for same reason

Use a black Flag bomb or two. Get sulfur candles (work as well but hard to find). Stuff all cracks,leave the house closed up for 24 hrs after either treatment. Take your cat with you to the vet. when you return immediately put all the clothes you took with you in the washing machine including the tennis shoes your wore out.

I've been raising children now for 25 years and the most effective thing that takes the itch out of any bite is toothpaste. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it really works. Flea bites, ant bites, mosquito bites, any kind of insect bite. Try it. Now as for the fleas, put seven dust around your house on the outside, it kills fleas and prevents them from entering your house. Wouldn't hurt to get a flea collar on that cat.

a friend gave me a piece of banana tree stalk and told me to put it around the house.It got rid if the fleas.