Sentences with phrase «survive heartworm treatment»

Unfortunately many dogs, already weakened by the infection, are unable to survive heartworm treatment.

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For this reason, use of heartworm preventative administration as a treatment for heartworm disease alone is not always advised, as adults can continue to survive.

These dogs will not survive ordinary heartworm treatment, and must have the worms surgically removed if they are to have any hope of survival.

Heartworm disease is curable with the proper treatment, but without it many of these dogs won't be able to survive.

The sooner heartworm infestations are caught, the better the chance that a dog will survive treatment because there will be less damage to major organs.

Cats very often «spontaneously clear» heartworm, meaning the worms do not survive to adulthood or die soon after becoming adults; therefore treatment focuses on managing the respiratory signs until the worms die off.

Heartworm treatment is a long, painful process that some dogs do not survive, but prevention is easy.