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Microfilariae can not develop into adult heartworms in our dogs without first developing into the infective stage within a mosquito.

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However, there are also high chances that without treatment the affected dog will continue to get infested with more heartworms, and in the meantime, inevitably, irreversible damage to the heart and blood vessels will occur.

While treatment is available for heartworm infection in dogs, prevention is much safer and without side effects.

However, starting prevention without testing can be harmful, because once the heartworms reach a certain point in development, the killing off of the microfilaria in combination with juvenile or adult heartworm in the system can be damaging to your dog's cardiovascular system.

Heartworms that are still in their early larval stage (younger than 6 - 7 months), can be killed using heartworm prevention without causing harm to your dog's cardiovascular system because they are too small to cause blockages.

In the 1988 experiment by Atwell, dogs who went off heartworm preventive for four months and then restarted with ivermectin had 95 % fewer adult heartworms than dogs who went without ivermectin, though it should be noted that some heartworms were still able to establish infection.

She and her staff had never taken in so many animals without medical histories, and they soon discovered that many of the dogs were heartworm - positive and hadn't been spayed or neutered.

Without heartworm protection, even indoor cats hiding under the bed or dogs in states...

2 2 Current Canine Guidelines for the Diagnosis, Prevention, and Management of Heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis) Infection in Dogs (revised January, 2012) perform well without refrigeration using an antigen - specific antibody labeled with colloidal gold.

In addition, never start a dog on any type of heartworm preventative who is above the age of one year old without first having him / her tested.