The collection of mouse droppings, nesting materials, and urine is best handled by a pest control company, which uses equipment, materials, and protective clothing designed specifically to remove and clean up mouse detritus. If you’ve just had or are intending to have rodent control in Greenville SC homes, here are useful tips on how to clean up after yourself and your property.
Put On Your Work Gloves
Always have a pair of rubber or plastic gloves on your hands. Dust masks can provide some protection against dust, mold, and insulation fibers, but they do not protect against the hantavirus itself. Following completion of cleaning, wash the gloves with disinfectant or soap and water, and then wash your hands after removing the gloves!
Upholstery and bedding should be shampooed or steam cleaned if you detect signs of mouse urine or droppings on your upholstery, bedding, or clothing. To get rid of the evidence of an infestation, shampoo it, steam it or wash it in hot water with detergent.
Seal It Properly
Dead rodents and nests should be soaked and then double bagged. While wearing gloves, spray the dead rodent(s) with your bleach solution and allow it to soak for 10 minutes before removing it. Seal the deceased rodent or nest in a bag, then seal that bag inside another bag to prevent it from escaping. Place the bag in a garbage can that has a lid.
Never Sweep Or Vacuum
Instead, spray and mop the floor. Sweeping and vacuuming stir up dust, which may include allergies and may be contaminated with pathogens such as the hantavirus. As an alternative, spray the contaminated area with a bleach solution and allow it to sit for 10 minutes.
Clean up any droppings or nest material using paper towels or rags. Place the cleaning materials in a bag and place them in an open trash can to prevent the contents from getting wet.
Clean Your Hands And Your Workspace
Disinfect your scrub gloves before removing them from your hands, and thoroughly wash your hands when you have completed cleaning. That entails cleaning them for at least 20 seconds in warm water and soap. Forcefully scrubbing your hands loosens bacteria, allowing them to be washed down the drain by the rinse water.
Make a good lather. It’s a preventative measure against germs. It’s something you’ve probably seen surgeons do on television before surgery. It’s now your turn to speak. After washing your hands, change your clothes and laundry your cleaning clothes as soon as possible to avoid the spread of germs in hot water and detergent.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Sweeping and vacuuming stir up dust that can carry allergens and pathogens such as hantavirus. Spray the area with a bleach solution instead and let it sit about ten minutes. Then wipe up the droppings and nesting material with paper towels or rags and bag them.
Put on rubber or plastic gloves before you touch anything. A dust mask helps with dust, mold and insulation fibers, but it does not protect you from hantavirus itself. Disinfect the gloves before taking them off, then wash your hands with warm water and soap for at least twenty seconds.
With gloves on, spray the dead rodent or nest with your bleach solution and let it soak for about ten minutes before you pick it up. Seal it in a bag, then seal that bag inside a second bag. Put the double-bagged waste in a garbage can with a lid.
Often, yes. If you find droppings or urine on bedding, clothing or upholstery, shampoo or steam clean it, or wash it in hot water with detergent. Change out of your cleaning clothes when you finish and launder them the same way so you are not spreading anything around the house.
A pest control company is the safer choice for anything beyond a few droppings, since they have the equipment, materials and protective clothing made for this work. It also matters because cleanup alone does not stop the problem. Exclusion work on the entry points is what keeps rodents from moving back in.