Sentences with phrase «number of worms»

A large number of worms dying at once can cause the death of the patient.

In both kittens and adult cats with small numbers of worms, there may be no clinical signs of infection.

Since the heartworm can live so long, this can lead to an increasing number of worms in an animal as a pet becomes infected over and over each mosquito season.

Very active dogs may experience symptoms with lower numbers of worms than couch - potato dogs.

Each mosquito season put animals at risk for developing the disease or growing numbers of worms in already infected animals.

(This is possibly due to the fact that adult cats do not carry a large number of worms).

Also, the small number of worms that cats get «fooled» the veterinary world for years.

However, because most infected cats have a low number of worms this does not occur often.

Over time the infection becomes worse with larger numbers of worms infecting the heart and reproducing, making this a downward cycle for your pets health.

A heavily parasitized very small animal may suffer a worm impaction when a large number of worms die and try to pass out at the same time.

If a roundworm problem isn't caught and diagnosed early enough, the sheer number of worms which are in the puppy's digestive system can cause more serious health problems such as anemia or pneumonia.

Large numbers of worms cause the heart to work harder pumping blood through the clogged arteries.

Rescued dogs also carry a higher number of worms because of the environments they have been living in or because they have been stray for such a long time, drinking from mud puddles and other unclean water sources.

In puppies, large numbers of worms usually must be present before eggs are shed into the stool.

There's a good number of Worms games out there, so we think it's safe to say that you already know what to expect from this one.

Very small dogs can have problems with very small numbers of worms, simply because they don't have much room for the worms to get clogged up in.

Because heartworms may live for five to seven years in the dog, each mosquito season can lead to an ever - increasing number of worms in unprotected dogs.

A large number of worms in a dog may trigger a condition call Caval syndrome.

A low number of worms or female - only infections may not produce sufficient antigen to be accurately detected.

An extremely heavily parasitized very small animal may suffer a worm impaction when a large number of worms die and try to pass at the same time.

The sudden death of a large number of worms in the bloodstream can lead to shock so, if the patient is old enough for a heartworm infection, it is important to verify that the patient is heartworm negative.

Heather was found to have a particularly helpful role in keeping carbon locked in as dead plant litter, and in reducing the numbers of worms below ground which would otherwise break down the plant material more quickly.

The researchers found that removing the chemical messenger serotonin from a population of worms drastically reduced the number of worms that displayed unique roaming patterns, or individuality.

Is there one or more quadrant that seems to have a large number of worms?

As the infection progresses and the number of worms increases, symptoms can become more apparent.

Once the number of worms exceeds a certain number based on the size and activity level of the dog, however, the adult worms move to the heart and symptoms begin to occur.

The number of worms directly affects the severity of the disease.

The magnitude of the damage depends upon the number of worms present, and the amount of damage the parasite caused before effective treatment.

The adult worms reproduce and in doing so cause the animal's heart to enlarge to accommodate the increasing number of worms.

The severity of hookworm effects depends on the number of worms, as well as your cat's overall health and age.

The severity of the disease actually depends on a lot of factors: the number of worms living inside the dog; the period as to how long the dog has been infected; and the dog's reaction to the disease.

«It's not uniform throughout the population, and the number of worms is correlated with the severity of disease.»

If a large number of worms are present they can literally fill up the right atrium and caudal vena cava.

Little went on to say that because «disease severity is linked, in part, to the number of worms present in a dog,» if one or two worms escape a preventive rather than the 25 to 30 worms that may infest an un-medicated dog, «that may be a success in terms of disease prevention.»

As is usually the case, it depends on the number of worms present, how long the disease has been occurring, and how the immune system is reacting.

Large numbers of worms can cause intestinal problems including vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal pain and weight loss.

The signs of heartworm depend on the number of worms and on the size of the dog.

Like for cats, the heartworm test is a little complicated, as ferrets only have low worm burdens, meaning they have a small number of worms, generally one to two.

Therefore, the quality and quantity of life for dogs treated for heartworms depends upon the number of worms present and the amount of damage already present at the time of treatment.

Depending upon the dog's overall health and the number of worms present, the process of treating heartworms can be a very serious and even life - threatening.

There are a large number of these worms and assorted freeloaders listed below, I'll list them roughly in the order with which I run into them in practice.

Most worms should be dead and dissolved by four to five weeks, but this is variable with the number of worms and the action of the dog's own defense system.

HOWEVER, they are also more likely to suffer illness with a small number of worms, for the same reason.