How do you feel about people having their home sprayed inside for insects each month?
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December 10th, 2010
I have friends with small children who have someone come in each month and spray for spiders. Do you think this odorless insecticide can get into the bloodstream and cause cancers in the family and why?
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That is scary and not healthy. Anytime you put chemicals into the home or air you risk getting them into your body. There were two children who died here from outside spray for termites and the business that sprayed it is being sued.
First of all, spiders aren’t insects :>)
Second of all, why are they spraying? House spiders are harmless.
Lastly, you would have to know exactly what they are spraying in order to evaluate its toxicity. But it is probably more dangerous than the spiders. :>)
What is being sprayed? Whatever Terminix sprays for scorpions. Spiders aren’t insects. Wow! I learned something new! Are they rodents?
@Summum that is just terrible !! I imagine the business owner will say they spray all the time and no one else died from it. Awful
It was all in the news and the business knew there was a problem with it and the sprayer was new on the job.
What do you mean, “the business knew there was a problem with it?” Had they never sprayed before without anyone becoming ill or dying?”
They sent out a new employee that was not familiar with the spray and he did it wrong which caused the girls to pass on.
omg He may have mixed it incorrectly?
They are still under investigation.
@crisw Not all “house” spiders are harmless. There are wolf spiders here that get into our home, and I have been bitten twice.
But still, spraying that often is unnecessary, and definitely toxic.
I think somewhere down the road, bugs(or spiders) in the house may be the least of their problems….
It seems like a wasteful expense and a health risk. I’d be much more worried about the chemicals than about the spiders, and I am scared to death of spiders!
A spider bite is, the vast majority of the time, easily treatable. For example: “The jumping spider is probably the most common biting spider in the United States,[46] the main species being Phidippus audax.[47] Bites from a jumping spider are usually painful, itchy and cause redness and significant swelling.[46]
The spiders of most concern in the United States, however, are brown recluse spiders and black widow spiders. Most recluse spider bites are minor with little or no necrosis. However, a small number of bites produce severe dermonecrotic lesions, and, sometimes, severe systemic symptoms, including organ damage. Rarely the bite may also produce the systemic condition with occasional fatalities.
Black widow spider bites may cause muscle cramps, but no one in the United States has died from a black widow spider bite in over 10 years.[46]” (Source)
@Aster Spiders, like scorpions, are arachnids. They have eight legs and two body segments, while insects have six legs and three body segments.
Unless your friends don’t live in the US and instead live someplace where bites from dangerous, venomous spiders are common, they are being paranoid and overreacting. :)
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