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how dangerous is a cat flea collar to humans?
so i bought a cat flea collar for my cat and i put it on him.. i then went to eat a yum yum without washing my hands as i completely forgot. it says on the back of the packet to wash your hands after handling the flea collar. will i be okay? what will happen?
California is doing legislation to ban it. Apparently a toddler petting the neck of a cat who wears a flea collar is getting an overdose of pesticides just from the one touch.
Flea collars only keep fleas away from the neck, they don’t keep fleas off the cat. If the collar gets wet, it can dump it’s entire pesticide load all at once, onto the skin of the neck of your cat, causing a toxic overload and doing liver damage (if not outright killing the cat). They don’t work, they’re dangerous. Take it off your cat and use Advantage, Frontline or Revolution, which protects the entire cat for 4-6 weeks.
You can google ‘California flea collar ban’ but here’s some of the research.
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These chemicals are highly hazardous to animals and humans, can damage the brain and nervous system, and cause cancer. The April 2009 paper Poison on Pets II details a first-of-its-kind study by NRDC showing that high levels of pesticide residue can remain on a dog’s or cat’s fur for weeks after a flea collar is put on an animal. Residue levels produced by some flea collars are so high that they pose a risk of cancer and damage to the neurological system of children up to 1,000 times higher than the EPA’s acceptable levels.
Children are particularly at risk from these pesticides because their neurological and metabolic systems are still developing. They are also more likely than adults to put their hands in their mouths after petting an animal, and so are more likely to ingest the hazardous residues. We found that residues from two pesticides used in flea collars—tetrachlorvinphos and propoxur, among the most dangerous pesticides still legally on the market—were high enough to pose a risk to both children and adults who play with their pets.
California has already determined that one of these pesticides, propoxur, causes cancer and that consumer warnings are required. NRDC is suing major manufacturers and retailers of flea collars with propoxur to make them comply with this requirement or pull the products from California shelves. However, California’s laws are not enough—the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should step in to ban these dangerous products nationwide. Retailers should help keep pets and families safe by pulling products that contain tetrachlorvinphos and propoxur from their shelves.
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