Cockroach Facts
Cockroaches are always associated with filth. Why aren’t our feelings about ants and spiders and beetles the same? Well, for one reason, cockroaches are known to carry Salmonella and E.coli bacterial pathogens and the other aforementioned little fellows don’t.
Put a cockroach under a magnifying glass and you’ll see they are covered with hairs and spines. All these things hanging off their bodies pick up bad stuff as they make their way through drains and sewers. If they have just emerged from one of these sewer lines and have somehow found their way into a kitchen you’ve got instant contamination. We often hear about outbreaks of food borne diseases and many such outbreaks can be traced back to
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The lowly cockroach also does a great job of irritating people with allergies, in fact, it is now commonly belived that people can have asthma from cockroaches. As cockroaches shed their outer skin during molting the skin which occurs six to twelve times during their lifetime, the molted skin breaks down and floats in the air. Put enough cockroaches in a room and you’ll have an appreciable amount of cockroach stuff floating in the air you are breathing. People with allergies are quickly affected. This is an especially well known problem in low income housing where incidences of childhood asthma cases far exceed other socio-economic neighborhoods.
Comments
Ms. MeMe
25 Oct 2008, 17:28
25 Oct 2008, 17:28
I saw my very 1st roach in 2 years. I live in an apartmnet complex so i'm
pretty sure that it wasn't because of my non cleaning skills that led it to
my house because i am very tidy. I had roaches before and I don't EVER want
them again! Should I call an exterminator or just wait and see if that was
the only one?
Ask the Exterminator
26 Oct 2008, 01:13
26 Oct 2008, 01:13
Put out some glue monitor traps in the area where you saw the cockroach.
Glue traps can be purchased at most home improvement stores and grocery
stores. Very inexpensive and effective. No need to call in the heavy
hitters unless you start to see more activity.