If this test is negative, the animal still might be infected, because up to 25 % of
dogs with heartworm disease don't have identifiable microfilariae in their blood.
As we have started to see cases of West Nile disease in our area over the past ten years, we have also started to see small numbers
of dogs with heartworm disease.
Dogs with heartworm disease can and should be treated, but the cost is significant; treating a dog can cost more than $ 1,000 and dogs need careful monitoring and cage confinement for a month or more.
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My Dog With Heartworm Disease?
A dog with heartworm disease needs special treatment to eliminate the heartworms living in their arteries, heart, and lungs.
It only takes one mosquito bite to infect
your dog with heartworm disease.
Prevention is much safer and easier than treating
a dog with heartworm disease; the treatment can be painful and dangerous, and heartworm disease itself can be fatal
In general, the prognosis for
dogs with heartworm disease is good.
Eventually,
dogs with heartworm disease will go into heart failure.
A: Studies have shown that if you use ivermectin, the common preventative, on a monthly basis in
a dog with heartworm disease, after about two years you'll kill off most of the dog's young heartworms.
And although treating
a dog with heartworm disease is possible, it is very expensive.