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Rats, mice, household pests, insects, houseflies are very irritating and causes severe damage to your private property. Their presence can be easily traced with their facets on our food items, clothing and books. There are several steps for the complete removal of these deadly pests but the best one is to take professional help. There are many health care solution providers in India, which work in the field of pest control too. There help will be best suited in order to 100% proof your home against all kinds of insects/pests. However home remedies can also very effective if used in an efficient manner.

Now we will talk in detail about various kinds of pests and their effects on your health and family hygiene. Also, we will suggest some preventive methods to protect you from them:

• Spoilage of food due to Insects, Pests and Rodents :

The presence of insects and pests and their excreta in foods (specially fruits, vegetable and cereals) may cause consumable loss in the nutritional quality, worsening of flavors and acceleration of decay of the eatable (due to creation of higher temperatures and moisture levels) resulting in the release of the enzymes. The webbing, cumulating of food particles with each other and holes in the cereals will be caused by the effect of insects/ pest.

Remedy: Keep your food below 5 degree centigrade/Freeze them. Threat of pests/insects will be removed.

• Selective study of some of the common household pests and prevention:

Housefly – Common houseflies carry diseases on their legs and on the small hairs of their bodies. Transmission of disease happens only when they touch the food that we are going to eat. Houseflies use their saliva to dilute the food before eating, which performs the transfer of bacteria to the food. Some of the diseases associated with flies are Typhoid, Cholera & Dysentery.

Remedy:Fog Fumes - It is an easy to use insecticide which contain very low toxicity levels for humans. These are typically sprayed in spaces that are very difficult to reach.

Cockroach – Cockroaches can generally consume anything from edible items to faecal matter. They then vomit on our food items/ eat them and the disease causing bacteria is transferred to the food which in-turn reaches to us. Diseases caused by cockroaches are Coli, Salmonella and Diarrhea.

Remedy: Cockroach killer gel

• a> This gel will interrupt the insect’s biological functioning and results in its death.

Rats – They carry many kinds of bacteria which can cause diseases like Rabies, Rat-Bite Fever and LCMV (reduction in sensitivity of lymphs)

Remedy: Prevention against rats can include general household tricks like sealing of all the cavities, disinfection of the complete house and anti rodent treatment bait. Chemical methods are rat killing tablets and electromagnetic sound generators for mouse repulsion.

Conclusion: As we all know according to an old saying - 'Prevention is always better than the cure'. But if there is no other way out and urgent need arises, then you can use all the medicinal methods explained above and get rid of all your unwelcomed guests.

Priya Rajput is a content writer. She has her keen interest in writing about distinct apparels varying from ethnic to traditional to street-wears.