Sentences with phrase «monthly oral preventatives»

Monthly oral preventatives are introduced via veterinary clinics, paving the way for longer - lasting doses.

Prevention of heartworm disease involves once a year heartworm testing and a monthly oral preventative medication.

Not exact matches

We have monthly oral heartworm preventatives in combination with intestinal wormers, and we have oral preventatives in combination with intestinal wormers that also can inhibit the hatching of flea eggs.

There are many brands of oral monthly preventatives, two types of topical monthly preventatives, and an injectable medication which is given every six months.

Administering monthly oral or topical heartworm preventative medication year - round is your pet's best defense against heartworm disease and annual tests verify that the medication is working.

There are many FDA - approved preventative products out there, which can be given monthly as a topical liquid or as an oral tablet.

However, a recent Harris Poll found that of the dog owners surveyed who provide a monthly oral heartworm disease preventative to their dogs, nearly one quarter (23 percent) say their dogs do not always eat the entire tablet.

More importantly, dog owners are freed up from the worry of remembering to give oral monthly heartworm preventatives on time.

The active ingredient, moxidectin, is in the same drug family as the monthly oral heartworm preventatives we are already familiar with: Heartgard, Interceptor, and Sentinel.

Flea control measures include: bathing, dipping, collars, Sentinel («flea birth control» - an oral tablet that acts by sterilizing fleas), Capstar (oral tablet offers rapid elimination of adult fleas, usually within 30 minutes), Comfortis (month - long chewable tablet that kills fleas and prevents reinfestations), Advantage topical (kills fleas up to thirty days with monthly application), Frontline topical (kills fleas and ticks), Revolution topical (heartworm preventative and kills fleas and ticks as well), Vectra topical (works by killing adult fleas, preventing development of immature flea stages, and repelling ticks and mosquitoes), Trifexis (monthly chewable tablet for dogs that kills fleas, prevents heartworm disease, and treats / controls adult hookworm, roundworm and whipworm infections), and - very important - treating the environment with carpet powders, foggers, or sprays.

→ Heartworm prevention also protect against intestinal parasitism on a monthly basis; this is another important reason to give your dog oral heartworm preventative, as our dogs are continuously exposed to intestinal parasites in the environment and from other dogs.

Sentinel is a prescription chewable monthly oral combination heartworm / intestinal worm / flea preventative.

If monthly topical treatments aren't you're thing, consider the oral preventative, Bravecto.