Sentences with phrase «oral heartworm disease»

However, a recent Harris Poll found that of the dog owners surveyed who provide a monthly oral heartworm disease preventative to their dogs, nearly one quarter (23 percent) say their dogs do not always eat the entire tablet.

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Prevention of heartworm disease involves once a year heartworm testing and a monthly oral preventative medication.

Administering monthly oral or topical heartworm preventative medication year - round is your pet's best defense against heartworm disease and annual tests verify that the medication is working.

Tri-Heart Plus Chewable Tablets is a once - a-month oral heartworm preventive for use in dogs to prevent canine heartworm disease and for the treatment and control of roundworms and hookworms.

Heartworm is a parasite that causes a serious disease which we treat through prevention with yearly topical or oral medication.

Tri-Heart ® Plus is an oral antiparasitic medication for use in dogs indicated for prevention of heartworm disease by eliminating the tissue stage of heartworm larvae (Dirofilarfa immitis) for a month (30 days) after infection and for the treatment and control of ascarids (Toxocara canis, Toxocara leonina) and hookworms (Ancylostoma caninum, Uncinaria stenocephala, Ancylostoma braziliense).

In addition to the control of fleas and ticks, some oral medications also prevent heartworm disease.

Iverhart Max - This oral medication prevents heartworm disease and deworms for three common intestinal parasites (round worms, hookworms, and tapeworms).

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.

One example was Lilly, a puppy mill breeding Dachshund who had dental disease so bad that there was a hole that formed from from her palate through to her nose (an oral nasal fistula); she also had a giant hernia, mammary cancer, and heartworm disease.

Until recently we've focused mainly on oral or injectable heartworm preventives in fighting the disease.

Some interesting results came out of a study of Ceva's Vectra 3D flea / tick / mosquito repellant: It turns out it's a powerful tool in the fight against canine heartworm disease, relying on what the company calls the «double defense» of a topical mosquito repellant combined with oral heartworm preventive.

Veterinary professionals have a wealth of effective, Food and Drug Administration — approved products, including oral, topical, and injectable formulations, that make heartworm disease preventable.