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How do you decide which heartworm prevention medication is best?

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Talk to our helpful staff about which of the heartworm prevention treatments is best for your pet.

AHS is urging both veterinarians and pet owners to follow its guidelines, which call for year - round heartworm prevention and annual testing of pets for heartworm infection.

We recommend year - round flea prevention and have safe, effective products available including Trifexis which also works as a heartworm prevention.

Remember, when you give heartworm prevention, you are deworming your dog, which is one of the reasons I like to do it.

As you stated in your review, your other visit was for preventative care (vaccines, heartworm / flea and tick prevention, etc.), which is excluded from coverage.

The overuse of vaccines parallels the pharmaceutical push for heartworm prevention medication which often presents equivalent or greater risks to the canine immune system than do heartworm larvae to the heart!

Prior to adoption our pets are fully vetted, which includes updated vaccinations (including rabies), disease testing, treatment for heartworm (if necessary), flea and tick and heartworm prevention, spay or neuter, and micro-chip.

It is recommended that dogs be on monthly heartworm prevention year round which can only be purchased in your veterinarian's office.

Heartworms can cause serious symptoms of disease or even death in pets that contract them, which is why it's important to administer heartworm prevention medication to your pets.

Produced by Bayer Pharma to compete with Pfizer Pharma's Revolution, Advantage Multi ® aka aka Advocate Spot On ® is a product which combines imidacloprid for flea control and moxidectin for heartworm prevention in one product.

Spinosad is also available in another Elanco product called Trifexis ®, which combines spinosad and milbemycin oxime, a broad spectrum dewormer so as to provide heartworm prevention, intestinal parasite protection and flea control in one tablet.

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

Many flea control and / or heartworm prevention products provide a monthly deworming, which is especially helpful in minimizing environmental contamination.

A yearly heartworm blood test is necessary to make sure that your pet is not infected before starting the prevention tabs.This preventative medicine can cause a systemic inflammatory cascade and cause damage to the heart and lungs if given to a pet which is infected with the parasite.

Heartworm prevention is a monthly dewormer, which is good since most pets will continue to be exposed to eggs in the soil in their environment.

Practicing in an urban setting, we don't see too many pets with worms, partly because the city lifestyle reduces exposure to fleas and vermin which transmit worms and partly because I follow the Companion Animal Parasite Council and recommend year round heartworm prevention.

Our animal hospital carries a variety of heartworm prevention products, many of which contain other ingredients that are effective against certain intestinal worms (such as roundworms and hookworms) and other parasites (such as fleas and ear mites).

«Dogs are infected with heartworms by mosquitoes, but it takes a long time for heartworm larvae to mature into adult, reproducing worms that can strangle the heart,» says Jennifer Miller, President of FOTAS, «so heartworm disease in a healthy, young dog is treatable with a course of antibiotics, which weakens any maturing worms, followed by monthly heartworm prevention medicine, like Heartguard, which every dog in the South should be on anyway.»

Thanks to the help of Dolly's Dream, adopters are able to bring home their four - legged friends with all of the essentials which include: a training crate, a no - pull harness with leash, a branded collar, a personalized identification tag, food and water bowls, a training treat bag, a six month supply of heartworm prevention, specialty shampoo, two chew toys and one ball.

It's been said above that heartworm treatments can be dangerous, which makes prevention the best means to lower your pet's risk of developing the disease.

Puppies can then be started on monthly heartworm prevention which helps control and prevent intestinal worms, in addition to heartworms.

The best option for deterring insects from pestering your pet is to talk with your family veterinarian about flea & tick preventatives and heartworm prevention, which are specifically designed to be safe for your pet.

The team at Animal Hospital of San Luis Obispo has chosen the following websites, which provide beneficial pet information, ranging from rescues, pet loss, adoption, general health, and heartworm prevention.

If you are interested in this option, please go to the Volunteer section of the website and fill out a Foster Application and email it to [email protected] and we will send you a contract which outlines what Dogma will do to assist you (such as pay for certain veterinary bills, food, monthly heartworm and flea prevention, etc.) and Dogma's expectations of you.

Treating heartworms can be expensive and dangerous to your dog - which is why we recommend PREVENTION year round (with warmer temperatures some mosquitoes are surviving the winter).

Perhaps the biggest contribution of the discovery of avermectins in veterinary medicine is the prevention of heartworm disease, which is nearly 100 % preventable with monthly micro-doses of these compounds available in any number of commercial products.

Niko had not seen a veterinarian recently, so he was not current on his heartworm prevention, but luckily he tested negative for heartworm and intestinal parasites which could compromise his immune system.

Most importantly of which is you can't purchase heartworm prevention over the counter at a pet store, and even indoor pets can get heartworms.