Nobody likes a cockroach ... except
another cockroach, and another and another. That’s the trouble: our houses and
apartments have everything cockroaches need to survive and multiply quickly.
Cockroaches are so good at breeding that if one pregnant female gets into your
home, she could be the cause of 100,000 new cockroaches within a year under
ideal conditions!
Anybody, no matter how neat and
clean they keep their home, can have cockroaches. The reason is simple. It’s very
easy for our homes to meet the basic needs of cockroaches for food, water,
warmth and dark hiding places to live and breed in.
You should not feel ashamed about
getting cockroaches in your home. They can arrive in a grocery bag or a case of
beverages you just brought home from the store. Or they may enter your
apartment from the one next door to you, since apartment buildings have lots of
"highways" for cockroaches to travel on. For example, they may crawl
along heating ducts or water pipes. And they can fit into tiny cracks and gaps
in floors, walls and doorways.
You can get cock-roaches so easily
... but getting rid of them can seem so hard. This booklet is about controlling
cockroaches in ways ( that are the least toxic and most effective in the long term.
Protecting Your Health
Health
Concerns about Cockroaches
Cockroaches may be able to transmit
disease to people. But it’s not known for sure whether they actually do. For
example, cockroaches can carry disease-causing bacteria that are the same ones which
cause food poisoning. Cockroaches have these bacteria because they eat almost
anything they find, such as food that has gone bad. They can also leave
bacteria behind as they crawl around your kitchen or bathroom.
If you are allergic to house dust
you may also be allergic to cockroaches. Bits and pieces of cockroach bodies,
as well as their feces (which look like specks of black pepper) can become part
of the dust in your home. Allergic reactions to cockroaches happen more often
to people who have asthma. Children’s health especially can be affected as
asthma is more common in them than adults.
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