Palmolive Mite treatment????

[Austin236]

Water and Palmolive, does this work? Ive heard a couple people tell me this works. Please chip in your 2 cents.

[snakesRkewl]

nope, wont kill the eggs which means reinfestation.

[slitheryz]

I've only heard it works on fleas for dogs, mites, you got me

[Austin236]

Well i have a coastal carpet i keep it at a friends house down the street so i don't get mites at home. I clean its 23qt tub every day and have only found a total of 4 mites since ive had it and have been betadine bathing regularly. What do you think about the technique im using?

[Austin236]

I've only heard it works on fleas for dogs, mites, you got me

See thats all i could find on the internet so i think the people i heard it from were misinformed.

[slitheryz]

See thats all i could find on the internet so i think the people i heard it from were misinformed.

Betadine baths work, you just have to keep doing it, and occasionally you gotta pluck them off too. Eeeew, but palmolive I wouldn't....

[Austin236]

Yeah it sounded fishy when i was told this so i thought i would share it and see what everyone else had to say about the topic.

[dr del]

Hi,

What's wrong with buying Provent-a-mite and repeating it in 30 days?


dr del

[Freakie_frog]

*bangs head on DESK*

Seems like I remember seeing a product that was made to treat snake mite..

[JLC]

Here's what I've heard about palmolive (or any liquid dish detergent). If you get a snake with mites, you put ONE DROP of the detergent into a tub of water and then put the snake into the water. If you just put a mite-infested snake in plain water, a bubble of air forms around each mite because of water tension. The detergent breaks that tension, so mites going into the water will drown. This may very well help relieve your snake of many of the mites infesting it at that moment and help it to feel better for the time being. HOWEVER, there's no guarantee that all the mites will drown, and this treatment does nothing about any eggs the mites have lain.

So...palmolive = safe, immediate relief from biting mites.
Provent-a-Mite = safe, permanent solution to a mite problem.