Serious allergic response to frass

[Dark Raptor]

Roaches also produce "defensive odours" and very often they are using their excrements as "biological weapon" when disturbed (I've noticed this in every specie I have). I think they can also cause allergies (I know 2 cases - one without direct contact with insects).

There was also my post with pictures of alergic reaction to Blaberus roaches:
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showpost.php?p=536534&postcount=10

 

[recluse]

I like Oldhag sneeze and blow snot when feeding and cleaning my Hissers and lobster's out. I wonder if this is in response to the roaches or the substrate. :?

 

[Cirith Ungol]

Triumph!

I went ahead and boldly cleaned out the container today, removing all the frass, old, almost half-roach-decomposed egg cartons, dead roaches and just stuff that gathered there over time, like some pieces of undigested food, moult skins and crusts of unidentifiable organic matter.

Prior I'd equipped myself with newly bought high tech stuff like a new papery breathing mask (opposed to the one I used earlier, which was a surgical mask!), thick and tough reusable rubber gloves and a "thingie" you can use to separate spagetty and water.

I had enlarged the holes in the "thingie" so that frass would fit through but no baby roaches. So with that I sifted through the frass, letting that drop into the toilet while keeping the roaches and other larger stuff inside the "thingie".

It still took about 1 hour to clean it all out since so much unwanted stuff ended up within the scrambling heap of roaches, but all in all it went quite well.

I think what did the trick though and had me not sneezing one single time was a magical pill I ate 6 hours earlier. A friend had given it to me and told me to give it a try (she's allergic to other stuff but said the pill could work in my case too, which obviously it did.)

So container cleaned, not one single sneezer, a few escapees which got either crushed by a titans fingers or got caught and... ermmm how do I best finish this sentence now? ... seems I ended it with a questionmark! :? Well anyway. All seems fine at the mo

Thanks for the hints, suggestions, comments and for reading

 

[Bloodletting]

I notice a reaction when I leave the tanks over a long period of time and everything is very dried out. There is a lot of dust when I finally clean out the tanks and that gets me going. I sneeze for like 10 minutes straight but not sure if it is from the frass or just the fine particles coming out. Dust, oatmeal, other food and debris......

 

[Tony]

Now I dont feel so alone with my cricket allergy..Michael Jacobi, you reading this??

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