Sentences with phrase «monthly heartworm prevention medicines»
It (and chemically similar products) are commonly used in monthly heartworm prevention medicines for dogs.
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When you adopt a dog from the County Shelter, FOTAS pays for the antibiotics and the first 6 months of Heartguard — that's money in your pocket because you need to give your dog the monthly heartworm prevention medicine anyway; and
«Dogs are infected with heartworms by mosquitoes, but it takes a long time for heartworm larvae to mature into adult, reproducing worms that can strangle the heart,» says Jennifer Miller, President of FOTAS, «so heartworm disease in a healthy, young dog is treatable with a course of antibiotics, which weakens any maturing worms, followed by monthly heartworm prevention medicine, like Heartguard, which every dog in the South should be on anyway.»
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Perhaps the biggest contribution of the discovery of avermectins in veterinary medicine is the prevention of heartworm disease, which is nearly 100 % preventable with monthly micro-doses of these compounds available in any number of commercial products.