Sand
Fleas-Preventive Measures
Sand fleas are
too dangerous of all the breeds of fleas and
are found mostly in north pacific regions.
The worst about sand fleas is that they stick
to the flesh of the water animals and start
feeding on it gradually. It can not even be
spotted out because of the sand color and
also it gets too much embedded into the scales
and skin folds that it’s really too
difficult to find them out. Sand fleas most
commonly attack different species of sea fishes
such as starfish, flying fish, small fish,
sunfish, swordfish, and whales too. The maximum
size of the sand flea can be double of the
size of a grain and not more than that. You
can easily locate the area affected by the
sand fleas on the body of the host as the
skin gets whitened by the eating away of the
slime.
You might be wondering why, what’s the
reason behind considering a grain sized sand
flea the dangerous of its kind? It is because
by eating away the upper layer of the skin
they create openings into the body of the
animal and creep inside through them. The
most prone regions to the attack of the sand
fleas of the animal body include eyes, dorsal
fins, or anus. Sand fleas begin with eating
away the lining membrane of the skin and slowly
enter inside the body and once they are in
to the body, animal is considered to be dead
already since they eat away even the smallest
chink of scrape of the animal’s body.
Sand fleas are not only dangerous to the sea
animals but to humans as well so you need
to be careful while having fun at beach. You
never know when you’ll get attacked
by the flea bite and no home remedies for
fleas can be helpful in this case. Certainly
beach games, swimming, and sunning yourself
are a real fun but you need to be very careful
about sand fleas.
Consider the following points
while going on beach trip:-
1) Try not to go to beach just after
it has rained since there will be abundance
of sand fleas at that time. Cool whether makes
them come out of their hidings. So, go to
beach when it has dried up.
2) Avoid going early in the morning
3) Use insect repellent on your body
and make sure that the one you are using has
best quality lest it will not be of any effect.
4) Use towel or some other spreading
when sitting on the sand.
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