Sentences with phrase «slow kill heartworm»

Zeus is currently undergoing slow kill heartworm treatment and will need to continue the treatment until heartworm free.

He is currently undergoing slow kill heartworm treatment in order to not add any additional stress to his body.

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Accordingly, Dr. Levy concluded that Seamus» heartworms could be treated through the «slow kill» method, which involves administering an initial course of antibiotics, followed by monthly ivermectrin (HeartGuard), which is the same oral medicine every southern dog should take to prevent heartworms.

The so - called «slow kill» method of heartworm treatment involves administering monthly heartworm preventive medications (usually ivermectin - based) and waiting for the adult worms in the heart to die a natural death.

While I would still term Babe's heartworm experience as a slow - kill - I have no doubt that we supported her body's immune system, and prevented many of the complications common with heartworm kill and die - off.

(ref1, ref2) That means there is even less pressure on heartworms to become resistant to monthly heartworm preventatives or the «Slow Kill» method of treatment.

They proposed that using the slow kill method would produce a super-strain of drug - resistant heartworms.

One of the most common misconceptions is that using ivermectin - based heartworm preventive medications for a «slow kill» is the preferred way to treat canine heartworm disease.

In these situations, in addition to monthly ivermectin administration functioning as a «slow kill» way to rid the infected dog of heartworms, it also clears the infected dog's bloodstream of the larval form of heartworms (microfilaria).

Often, the «slow kill» method of heartworm treatment is used because of financial considerations.

As of August 2013, the experts recommend against using heartworm preventative medications like Ivermectin in a «slow - kill» method because it may encourage drug - resistance in the heartworm, and so make it more difficult to successfully treat or protect dogs.

A passage in the CAPC guidelines written in capital letters practically shouts the importance of using approved «adulticide» products to treat heartworm infected dogs rather than the «slow - kill» method of using macrocyclic lactone preventives to gradually treat an adult heartworm infection.

The problem with using the slow - kill technique to kill adult heartworms, experts say, is this: If there are microfilariae in the infected dog that are resistant to the macrocyclic lactone drug used, those parasites will be transmitted to mosquitoes, potentially finding their way to a new dog in which to reproduce, increasing the risk to all dogs in the area.

Discontinue the use of macrocyclic lactones as a «slow kill» protocol for known heartworm infections; it is NOT recommended by the American Heartwormheartworm infections; it is NOT recommended by the American HeartwormHeartworm Society.

I hear many rescues tell how they are using the «slow kill» method for asymptomatic heartworm positive dogs.

If by «slow kill» you mean just stayingon heatworm preventive for years, I have lost faith in that process, and the American Heartworm Society no longer endorses it.

Resistance has emerged because of inappropriate use of preventives (i.e. the «slow kill» treatment of heartworm infection).

She is heartworm positive, but we have started the slow kill method for her.

The Companion Animal Parasite Council now recommends that the slow kill protocol using heartworm preventives NEVER be used regardless of whether the patient is in class I stage of infection or not.

Previously, the slow kill method of heartworm treatment was deemed acceptable for dogs in the class I (early) stage of heart disease but this has changed given confirmation of resistant strains.

In other words, this slow kill method of treating heartworm infection leads to strains of heartworm that can not be stopped by any of the heartworm preventives available on the market.

The American Heartworm Society no longer recommends the «slow kill» method.

A Complete Interactive Continuing Education Program on Heartworm Disease - Hear the latest information on controversial topics such as «slow kill» and macrocyclic lactone lack of efficacy investigations.

«Slow kill,» meaning the administration of ivermectin products alone to kill adult heartworms, is not recommended.

Ivermectin is also used in the so - called «slow - kill» or «soft - kill» method of heartworm treatment — although this is a bit of a misnomer.