The task of controlling pests in Dubai is a huge challenge. Protection from pests can prevent health issues and expensive property damages caused by harmful insects. Pest management or pest control usually refers to the eradication of roaches, spiders, or fleas. Actually, pest management deals with the safety of our health, food, and property. To ensure the general public’s safety, it is essential to have a pest control system.
UAE’s Food and Pest Control Departments have warned residents to stay away from companies that are not approved. Residents have been urged not to conduct pest control by themselves or use chemicals sold by individuals.
The campaigns launched by the departments focus on the illegal use of pesticides, especially Aluminum Phosphide, for controlling bed bugs. Pest control firms have used poor-quality chemicals in homes in the UAE, leading to the death of many people who inhaled poisonous fumes.
Chemical pesticides do not only harm people and animals directly, but they also harm the environment over time.
Last year in UAE, 45 pest control companies were fined for using banned pesticides in homes during inspections. Most of the pest control firms were found spraying the homes with banned chemicals that are deadly if handled improperly.
In compliance with international conventions and standards set by the European Union and international organizations, the UAE ministry annually updates its list of banned and controlled pesticides. To ensure the quality of pesticides, the Ministry carefully evaluates and analyses imported pesticides before releasing them to the market.
The following reasons explain why pest management is important and why every homeowner should use it:
1. Allergy-reducing measures:
Humans can develop skin allergies, asthma, and other respiratory problems due to pests. Mosquitoes and bed bugs, for instance, are known to cause rashes. Some people are also allergic to certain allergens carried by pests. At least 7% of the population is allergic to cockroaches. Cockroaches are also one of the leading causes of asthma among children.
2. Protecting furniture, carpets, and clothes from damage and deterioration:
Burrowing insects commonly damage wooden and fabric components of furniture. Carpet bugs, cockroaches, silverfish, and moths are also attracted to fabric, using it as a food resource. It would be best to control pests to prevent expensive repair and replacement of furniture, carpets, and clothing.
3. Food supply maintenance:
Food supply is important to the survival of the world’s population and, on a macroeconomic level, it affects the economy and most industries. In the absence of proper pest control services, nearly 20% of our food supply will be wasted by rodents.
Rodents eat millions of dollars worth of food every year. When controlling the threat, food supplies can remain at manageable and useful levels. On the home front, pest control measures can prevent food waste and contamination.
In addition to consuming food, pests also leave behind undesirable organic matter such as dead skin, body parts, feces, and urine, all of which can negatively impact the quality of our food. It is also important to keep your business premises pest-free these days. Our commercial pest control experts in Dubai can provide you with pest elimination services for your commercial or business facility.
4. Preventing diseases and other health risks:
Pests can have varieties of diseases and health problems that can cause leprosy, skin infections, urinary tract infections, Lyme disease, intestinal infections, dysentery, dengue, malaria, and food poisoning. The bacteria and viruses they carry can also be harmful to human and animal health.
In spite of the fact that many of these diseases are treatable, they can cause serious health problems in children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems, many of whom may require hospitalization. Medications can cost millions of dollars because of this occurrence.
5. Home and structure protection:
Every year in Dubai, people are fed-up with repairing the damages caused by termite infestations. Termites consume wood and wood products such as plywood and paper. After consuming wood components of the home, termites eat beams, floors, and walls from the inside, making the structure brittle and vulnerable to collapse, posing a risk to residents.
It can be difficult to deal with termites in older homes and structures that haven’t been treated. It requires constant vigilance and the assistance of pest control agencies in areas where termites are known pests.
Conclusion:
It is essential for you to protect your home from unwanted pests, such as cockroaches, ants, rats, mice, spiders, fleas, and bed bugs. Moreover, pests pose health risks to family members and pets.
In addition, seasonal outbreaks of some pests should be addressed. Spring is breeding season for most pests, so intensive measures must be taken at this time. Staying away from infectious pests will keep you healthy and happy. So, protection from pest issues is necessary all year round.
If you have any problem caused by the pests, always remember Dubai at Star Al Madina Pest Control for residential pest control services. We will identify the problem and administer the appropriate treatment by our professionally trained technicians.
