Save Your Dog’s Life with Interceptor Heartworm Medicine Using

Posted on March 30th, 2008 in Heartworm Medication by heartgard

Heartworm is a parasite that lives in the heart of the infected dog. This kind of parasite is from mosquito bites. The disease has no symptoms at all until the condition is advanced. The signs of having an advanced condition are coughing, enlarged abdomen, difficulty in breathing, and dull coat. It can be fatal for your dog if left untreated.

To avoid this, your dog should undergo a series of tests to detect if heartworm is present in the dog’s body. Usually the dog undergoes some blood tests to diagnosed heartworm.

Veterinarians use medicines like the interceptor to kill the adult heartworm parasites and its young. The interceptor heartworm is in the form of flavored chewable tablet. Interceptor heartworms medication is not only use to cure the already infected dog but also to prevent further infection of such parasites. It is also use to control other parasites like whipworms.

To use interceptor heartworm you need to have prescription from your veterinarian. Not all dogs are applicable to use interceptor heartworm. It is best to consult your veterinarian to give your dog some tests to determine if it is suitable for your dog to use it.

Other dog breeds are allergic to interceptor heartworm medication. Normally, the interceptors are given to dogs as early as eight weeks of age. When they are seven months old, they undergo some tests before receiving medications. The tests include blood samples, x-rays, and antigen tests. If your dog starts in preventive medication without being diagnosed first, it is possible for your dog to develop some reactions or allergies.

Interceptor heartworms stopped the growth of larvae that the mosquito deposits in the skins of your pet. It is best to start early, giving your pet interceptor heartworm even if they are not infected. This will save your dog’s life and your pocket. The medications of interceptor heartworm are expensive especially if your dog is already infected.

Treating infected dogs of heartworms are difficult and take a lot of time to cure completely the disease. Sometimes it takes a year or more for your dog to be completely free of heartworms. For the advanced condition of heartworms, your dog’s life is at risk and you might loss your precious dog. There are cases that dogs died even when they are given proper medication. It mostly happens in severe cases.

It is wise to give your dog proper health care to make sure that your dog will live a healthy long life and would not suffer from heartworm.

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Treatment Regimens for Heartworm Medications

Posted on March 1st, 2008 in Heartworm Medication by heartgard

Being a potentially deadly condition that can instantly kill your pet, heartworm disease should be eradicated and controlled from occurring and affecting your pets. Transmitted through mosquito bites, this deadly disease can severely damage your pet’s vital organs particularly the heart and lungs and could extend its systemic effects to brain and kidneys.

Preventive therapy is highly encouraged with the use of heartworm medications. But in case heartworm disease is already transmitted to your pet, preventive heartworm medication is no longer effective. The treatment approach will be to administer treatment heartworm medication. There is a distinction between a preventive and treatment heartworm medications.

The preventive heartworm medication may be in the form of chewable tablets of varied tasty flavors and topical liquids that a veterinarian will prescribe but can be administered by the pet owner at home. The treatment heartworm medications usually are in the form of muscular injections applied by a vet in a clinic followed by adjunct tablets at homes.

The treatment of heartworm in dogs varies with the severity of the condition. Simple approach is used when a heartworm positive dogs does not manifest any symptoms compared to dogs suffering with very ill conditions. Surgery may be the option in severe cases of heavy infections such as those causing extensive liver damage.

Surgery is potentially a risky and dangerous procedure with higher morbidity compared with treatment heartworm medication. Only a single drug is currently registered which can kill the adult heartworms found in dogs. Treatment heartworm medication uses the drug Immiticide to kill adult heartworms of over 4 months of age and is not an effective drug in killing immature worms.

The treatment regimen using this heartworm medication is divided into two. The first regimen is intended for dogs with mild symptoms of the disease and the second for dogs with severe symptom manifestations. Standard regime is giving the heartworm medication via injection to the lumbar muscles. It can kill the adult heartworms only.

A fast acting regimen that quickly kills the adult worm consists of two injections of the heartworm medication along the lumbar muscles by 24 hours interval. An alternate regimen is one injection to the lumbar muscle and after a month, 2 more injections are applied with a 24 hours interval. This will slowly kill the adult worms.

Inflammatory reaction can occur after the treatment heartworm medication regimen and vets usually incorporate anti-inflammatory and/or anti-clotting agent along with the heartworm medication.

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