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.
This
includes the Lab 4Dx Plus Test, the Lyme Quant C6 Test to measure active Lyme
infection, the best available fecal flotation by centrifugation, and new breakthrough fecal antigen ELISAs for hookworm, roundworm, and
whipworm detection.