Sentences with phrase «by whipworm eggs»

Soil contaminated by whipworm eggs is contaminated for years.

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Whipworms are not seen in stools, and the eggs are too tiny to be seen by the naked eye, so the best way to find out if your little Rascal has them is by making a veterinary visit and having a stool sample analyzed.

Whipworm in cats is caused by the ingestion of water, food or flesh (mice, birds, etc.) contaminated with adult whipworms, whipworm larva, Whipworm in cats is caused by the ingestion of water, food or flesh (mice, birds, etc.) contaminated with adult whipworms, whipworm larva, whipworm larva, or eggs.

The thick - shelled, football - shaped eggs that are normally passed into the environment by the whipworms will be present in an infested cat and can be identified under a microscope.

Dogs can become infected with whipworms (Trichuris vulpis) by ingesting whipworm eggs from a contaminated environment.

Other intestinal parasites, such as roundworms, hookworms and whipworms, live in the soil and can be easily passed on to your dog if it ingests these eggs by licking his feet, eating dirt, etc..

Treatments are often spaced by several months because of the risk of reinfection since eggs from the source where your dog first got whipworms may remain active for five years.

When some of these infective whipworm eggs are eaten by your pet, the larva emerge in the pet's small intestine, later migrating farther down into its cecum and colon where they attach and begin to siphon blood.