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How to get rid of FLEAS!!!!!?

ok, so im at the end of my tether now. i have done literally everything and the list is provided below so as not to have repeat suggestions. so the issue is...FLEAS!!! no matter what i do i can not get rid of them, they are in my bed and on my two dogs. i feel very bad for them just as much as i feel irritated with the situation. i have tried : spot on (using "front line"suggested by the vet) taken the dogs to the vets and had shot for them sprayed with insecticides (both manual spray and anti flea bombs) i have tried bathing the dogs for 15 min intervals at a time (tho i would rather not do that more than once every two weeks) i vacuumed every day i have taken my bed Sheets...covers...pillows...mattress and put them all out in the sun every day for 5 days (as i was told sun light will kill them) now please bear in mind many of these things i did together as i am aware that you can not treat the dog and not the house and vise virsa only...they are still here, i am being bitten and so is my partner, the dogs are dealing but it cant be comfortable for them. i just don't know what to do any more. any assistance or advice would be very much and greatly appreciated. thank you in advance.

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You need to consistently use the Frontline every 30 days, you need to continue to treat your house & your vehicle every day by vacuuming, get a good safe household spray such as knockout from your vet.Once you have a large infestation it will take up to 6 months sometimes longer of vigilant treatment of pets & house ot break the cycle. ****make sure you are applying the Frontline correctly...part the hair so you can see the skin and apply it directly on to the skin..also the fleas do not need to bite the pet in order to die, they only need to come in contact with the treated hair/skin. Frontline also kills the eggs. *******
Oh what a DRAG! I'd add Capstar to the list - kills everything on the dogs quickly and is effective and gentle. With frontline, the fleas must bite to die. So biting continues to a while as the eggs hatch and the new ones feed. That much bathing could lessen the effectiveness of the topical. :( Do you have a cat? Is the cat treated? So you have a yard? If yes, mow it short. Have you treated your car? Clean up your house (if that applies). Wash all dog bedding regularly. Keep dogs off your bed for now. Anyway, you're doing it and it should be slowing down. If none of this helps, time to call in a pro.
Fleas can live every where in the home including furniture. I had a flea problem many years ago and I had to remove the bed and chairs and all my belongings and take them to a Pest Control Place like Ehrlich (in my area that controls bugs). What they had was a place where you put all your items in and they blast every thing to kill the fleas, but it costs a little more. It kills all the fleas in side your chairs, sofa, and all of your books shoes, clothing, any thing that comes in contact with fleas. Also you must treat the outside of your home also, every area of the home because if not you will not remove the fleas. it can take up to 3 months to kill all the fleas and you need a professional to do that and they will have to come every month to exterminate . Now your pets can stay there but you need to clean every area that you can. Now also you can use baby powder on the floors, inside the furniture, chairs, carpets but you need to use quite a bit. Fleas cannot breathe in the powder, so use that also. What else I use is a sprinkle of garlic powder on my dogs food, about 1/8tsp of garlic powder (not garlic salt or fresh garlic) Garlic repels fleas as they cannot stand the taste of the dog and they will not stay on the dog. Now it takes a few days to 2 weeks to get rid of the fleas on the dog but it works. I have used garlic powder any kind will do, I use Wal-mart brand for 50cents and it lasts almost a month. I have used it for 11 years and have not had 1 flea on my dogs and I have 6. Now my fleas when I had them came from a cat, and when I had the exterminator, they took care of the fleas and they never came back because I used the garlic on the cats food too. Garlic is harmful providing you use about 1/8 teaspoon per feeding. But you need to treat every thing in your home to rid it of the fleas. Start using the Garlic also and good luck
anti-flea shampoo's help ask your vet but and also my vet says tablets that kill fleas are better than front line, that's why i use comfortis tablets.
buy yourself a good kennel dip happy jack or purina and if you or your neighbors have cats it's truley a uphill battle cat flees are the worst and when your dog gets them good luck i'm not sure anymore if you can get all i tell you but i use to have 140 dogs in the south and i used this combination in a 55 gallon drum to keeps flees ticks and the mange off my dogs purina kennel dip blue stone and copperous if u happen to have long haired dogs shave them and apply your next treatment of what your useing it may be that their hair prevents full penatration to the skin another problem you have is that your home is infested with flees and now you deflee your dogs but they are still in your home and reinfest your dogs bring in orkin or some other pest removable company do it together home and dog the problem is that getting rid of one and not the other defeats the purpose
Try sprinkling diatomaceous earth in your house - on the carpet and into the floorboards. It's sold as "D-Earth" at Petco, and will dry up the fleas for months to come. I suspect they are hiding in crevices and places you can't get to - in addition perhaps coming in from the yard? If you live in a warm climate, it is possible that your dogs are just hauling more in, each time they go out there. If that is a possibility. you need to treat the yard with Merit which you can get at Home Depot - it's granule and you put them in a spreader - just make sure to water it in. It occurs to me that there might also be something else biting you - could it be bedbugs? Bedbugs are very hard to kill, and come in on new clothing, bedding, from luggage after a trip - it could be many things- and they are getting more and more common. It may be time to consult a pest control specialist, just in case. A couple other things - do make sure that you are changing the bag in your vacuum often, and that it is a HEPA filter vac. You can actually be redistributing the fleas and eggs (which hatch a few weeks after you've done all this) while you think you're cleaning them up. The BEST place for a crappy flea collar from Walmart is in your vacuum cleaner bag - that'll kill them in the bag, without hurting anyone else. If you sit down and map out what you've been doing, and take into consideration the fact that flea eggs hatch later, and may be hitching a ride back into the house, you should be able to get them finally - but do make sure it's fleas. And WASH all your bedding - fleas don't like sun, but if it killed them, they wouldn't be all over the lawn - and in the hot summertime, that's just where they are.
Okay, we had a similiar situation with our dachshunds. First, to get them immediate relief, ask your vet for Capstar. It is an oral pill that works for 24 hours. If given at the same time each day it will give them some relief from the itching. It seems to work better than Frontline or K-9 Advantix/Advantage. We found out that our yard was infested with fleas. No matter what we did to the house, the dogs would pick them up in the yard and carry them in. We found an insecticide for the yard that has Pyrethin in it. It is a granule based insecticide. Scatter it with a seeder or you can try doing it by hand. We then doused it with the house to make the granules melt into the grass and soil. We kept the dogs out of the yard for 24 hours to give it time to dry adequately. Of course I am assuming that you live somewhere it is warm right now. I can't imagine where else they could be getting the fleas. Oh, and the thing about sunlight, that is completely not true. You need to actually wash all the linens. I suggest putting a waterproof (makes it fleaproof) cover on your mattress. I've never heard the sunlight thing, but fleas don't mind sun at all.
put skin so soft on the dog its from the company avon i tried it and the fleas were jumping off