"Monthly preventatives" refers to medications or treatments that are given or applied to prevent or protect against certain health issues every month.
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Cats that live in colder areas, where mosquitoes are seasonal, should be
on monthly preventative for at least 6 months of the year.
Many diseases and conditions can be prevented easily through regular examinations, vaccinations,
monthly preventative treatments and diagnostic screenings.
While heartworm disease can be devastating for your pet, heartworms are easily preventable by keeping up
with monthly preventatives such as Heartguard Plus.
Stay on schedule with the recommended initial vaccines and while there, ask your vet about
monthly preventatives for fleas, heartworms, intestinal parasites, etc..
It is very important to be sure both your cats and dogs are
receiving monthly preventatives against heartworm disease, intestinal parasites, and fleas and ticks.
Normal
monthly preventative doses of Interceptor (0.5 mg / kg) or high doses of Heartgard (50 mcg / kg, approximately eight times the preventative dose) will eliminate most microfilariae immediately.
These are
once monthly preventatives that are applied to the skin between the shoulder blades, helping reduce the chance of flea bites and tapeworms.
Should I Feel Responsible For Causing Heartworms To Mutate And Become Resistant To
Monthly Preventatives When I Agree To Use The Slow Kill Treatment Method For My Dog?
Besides, if you take steps to keep your dog heartworm larva (microfilaria) free with
monthly preventatives during and after slow kill treatment, what you do will have no effect on how things develop in the rest of the dog population.
Spay / neuter surgery Rabies vaccine for kittens over 3 months of age 1st FVRCP vaccine 1st deworming Testing for Heartworm, FIV, and FLV ID Microchip Flea treatment including the use of
Advantage monthly preventative Ear cleaning, bathing, nail trimming, and other necessary grooming
It is nearly impossible to prevent mosquitoes from biting your pet, but it is absolutely POSSIBLE to prevent Heartworm disease
through monthly preventative.
Because preventatives kill microfilariae it is important to know if the dog has an adult heartworm load before
beginning monthly preventatives due to the risk of side effects and the potential for false negative microfilariae tests.
To avoid flea infestation have your entire house hold of dogs and begin the season free of fleas and be on one of the
following monthly preventatives purchased at the We no later than May 1st, 2011 and be given the preventative consistently for 6 consecutive months.
A dog will need to be re-tested in 6 month intervals until cleared by your veterinarian and will
require monthly preventatives for the rest of his life.
In fact, a national survey of 2,500 dog owners revealed that more than 80 percent would switch to twice - a-year heartworm protection if it cost no more than their
current monthly preventative.
Unfortunately, unlike dogs, there is no drug used to treat heartworm infection in cats, so a long - term plan of proper vet care and
maintaining monthly preventatives (like pills, topicals, or shots) is key.
Thankfully, with no more than a small blood sample and collection of a stool sample for inexpensive and non-invasive testing on a regular basis combined with
monthly preventative medications, we can prevent and detect these parasites and keep your loved pets and families safe and healthy.
It takes on average 90 days to fully treat a heartworm positive dog for heartworms and 75 % of the adult dogs entering the shelter test positive because the general public does not protect their animals from this disease
with monthly preventative.)
Giving them to your dog all year long and beginning giving them at 8 - 9 weeks of age (when the parasite is still in its L4 stage and most
susceptible monthly preventatives - see the graph above) is the best way to prevent heartworms or the possibility of resistance.
And our friends at Heartgard and Frontline, the premier choice in flea, tick and heartworm prevention, will provide you the opportunity to save your pet with coupons to prove how easy it is to keep your pet protected with their
simple monthly preventatives.
(ref) In 2017 There are many brands
of monthly preventative that will kill heartworms before they take up residence in your dog's heart; but only one, Advantage Multi ® (because it contains moxidectin), is FDA - approved for the elimination of the microfilaria that could conceivably allow the parasite larva to mutated and then transfer to another dog.
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