The treatment is called Immiticide; it is a series of 3
deep muscle injections done over a few weeks.
During the treatment, the doctor may prescribe an antibiotic like doxycycline and an NSAID for pain, since the patient's back may be sore after
the deep muscle injections.
Then, the pet has to undergo adult heartworm treatment, which is more expensive and dangerous, which involves
deep muscle injections of an arsenic - based drug that kills the adult heartworms.
Not exact matches
Melarsomine has to be injected
deep into the
muscles of the back and the
injections can be quite painful.
DIROBAN should be administered by
deep intramuscular
injection in the lumbar (epaxial)
muscles (L3 — L5) ONLY.
The patient receives an intramuscular
injection deep in the lower back
muscles.