Curing Flea Bites

Video Transcript

"How do you treat a flea bite? Most flea bites will go away on their own without any problem. It's not usually something that has to be necessarily worried about, but there are things you can do to help them go away or if the flea bite is particularly bad there are things you can help - use to treat that. There are things as simple as like hydrocortisone salves, that's just like any other kind of hydrocortisone salve that you would use on yourself that's going to help soothe the itching and the burning of the bite. You can use - there's various homeopathic remedies you can use on the animal that you can buy - that use natural methods to soothe the burning and the pain. This is also a hydrocortisone sprays...those work as well. You can use medicated shampoos to help increase the oils in the skin and soothe the itching and the burning, so that we're looking to do here is just kind of soothe the animal, the bite will heal on its own in most cases. You can also introduce lipoderm or other fish oils into the animal's diet, either through a fluid you put on the food or through pills you can give the animal. Those can help as well by increasing the oils in the skin and the coat, and of course if the flea bite gets too bad and does become like an open sore or does end up being something like flea dermatitis, which is when the animal has a particularly bad reaction to the flea bite, you do need to seek out a veterinarian, veterinarian care, they can prescribe certain steroids and antihistamine blocks, things like that, to help soothe the animal and stop the flea bite from getting any worse."