What increases my risk for a hypertensive crisis? Failure to take your blood pressure medicine as directed by your doctor. Hypertension caused by pregnancy (preeclampsia, eclampsia) Thyroid disease, kidney or adrenal disease, heart disease, or stroke. Cocaine or amphetamine use. Cigarette smoking or alcohol abuse.
Fill shallow bowls of water with dish detergent. The water and dish detergent mixture is like a toxic swimming pool for fleas. When they jump into the mixture, they die. Place the water and detergent mixture in a very shallow bowl, low enough to the ground so that the fleas accidentally hop into it. An old frisbee does the job quite well.
Another way to use vinegar to kill fleas is to wash your pet using DAWNÂ® dishsoap and, while working up the lather, adding a stream of vinegar and alternating it with a stream of plain warm water while massaging the pet. Let the soap and vinegar solution stay on the pet for at least 10 minutes. Then wash off as usual.ome pet owners have also had great success in killing fleas by adding a few drops of vinegar to their petâs daily drinking water. This remedy makes the petsâ blood and skin too unpalatable or acidic for fleas, as a result of which they get repelled.