Dealing with pests when you are allergic to pesticides?

[Judy]

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Best do some more research on types of DE before following this advice! Food grade DE, the only kind recommended for use around animals (and people, for that matter,) is not the same as the DE used for pools. The pool type, I believe, contains a lot of silica, which can be quite harmful to people and animals.

 

[KDbeads]

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Depends on the type of silica (sand). If it's fractured silica and you are breathing it in for more than a few hours every single day you have and increased chance of ending up with black lung or mesothelioma after many years of exposure. If its regular angular silica (normal sand and beach sand) or rounded silica (also known to oil companies as frac sand and worth mega bucks) you have no problems.


Sorry, it's what I went to school for and hubby runs sand mines and builds sand plants. Better safe than sorry if you aren't sure what to get though!!


ETA CORRECTION!!! Silicosis not mesothelioma!!! Helps not to type when the commercials are on

 

[LynneP]

Yes be sure to use food-grade diatomaceous earth only...