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I have a baby about 4-5 week old. She has been doing well eating greens and crickets. I live in a garden apt. complex and sometime between last night and this morning my upstairs neighbors must have bombed for fleas. My apartment reeks (of course they left their apt.) the baby is laying there, not moving, sometimes tilting her little head. I put her outside for fresh air, she is still laying there, I have air conditioners going windows opened a large fan blowing fresh air in my apartment. I have older dragons also who are not showing any distress as yet (will they). What should I do, even with all the fresh air my apartment still smells of insecticide, my eyes burn. I am worried for the other dragons. Is she going to die!! Any help would be appreciated.

About the only thing you can do is get her out of the apartment asap...

If you've got a reptarium, grab it, and a mist bottle, and head down to the local park if it's fairly sunny...

If you can smell the fumes and it's making your eyes sting, it's only going to make your dragon worse.

Good luck!
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they will continue to inhale the insecticides and build up on their blood.

I would contact your vet or an emergency clinic for the baby. But I do not think their is much you can do that is feasible. but try to protect the older ones.

and ask them in the future to warn you..... so you can get things out too...
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I would deffinitely get your dragons and yourself out of there till the fumes die down. I would also contact your landlord and file a formal complaint. If this insecticide causes your eyes to sting and burn, it certainly isn't good for you or anybody else in that complex. I am not sure how the fumes got into your appartment, all I can really think is because of open windows. The air currents blew it right into your apartment from their windows, or the complex has a shared ventilation system. In either cause I would most deffinitely complain to your landlord, in paper. Contact your own doctor to make sure you are not at risk of being sick from the fumes. If any of your animals die I would deffinitely demand that person to pay for your loss.

From what I recall of the Tenant/Landlord Act (in Canada anyway) using a roach bomb or flea bomb, or whatever she used in her apartment that obviously can and is effecting the health of other tenants, is a violation to the act. The landlord could lawfully have her pay for any and all damages caused to the premeses and even have her evicted. I certainly would complain to the Landlord should that happen to me. Fleas can be controled without killing half the animal population of the complex and making the tenants unable to stay in their own apartments.