Sentences with phrase «kill immature heartworms»

This may kill immature heartworms that have not yet reached the heart as well as most larval heartworms circulating in the pet's blood.

This is the reason that heartworm preventatives can be given once per month... they kill the immature heartworm that is migrating through the skin.

Preventatives kill the immature Heartworm larvae before they molt to the adult stage.

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It is an effective heartworm preventive, killing the immature form of the heartworm (Dirofilaria immitis).

Heartworm preventatives work by killing the immature (larval) stages of the heartworm Heartworm preventatives work by killing the immature (larval) stages of the heartworm heartworm parasite.

In both cases, they work by killing the immature (larval) stages of the heartworm parasite.

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.

Waiting six months before the heartworm treatment is often done to be sure that any immature heartworms now present will be mature enough to be killed at treatment time.

Ivermectin does not kill adult heartworms (just the immature ones) though, as said, it cuts their life expectancy.

Drugs are available to kill both mature and immature heartworms in dogs.

There are dozens of flea control products on the market that fall into many categories: with / without heartworm and intestinal parasite prevention, with / without tick control, prescription and over-the-counter, topical and oral, products that kill adult fleas and those that block the development of immature fleas, those that are greatly affected by bathing and others that aren't, some that are very safe for one species and toxic to other types of pets.