07 May 2011

Understanding Your Pet's Heartworm Medicine - Part 2

One of the key points for understanding your pet's heartworm medication is that they do not actually prevent heartworm parasite they become infected. Heartworm meds do nothing to deter mosquito biting your pet and goes to the larvae stage of heartworms. What they do though is to ensure that any of these parasites were destroyed before they can grow into adults, race and damage your pet's internal organs.


One of the key points for understanding your pet's heartworm medication is that they do not actually prevent heartworm parasite they become infected. Heartworm meds do nothing to deter mosquito biting your pet and goes to the larvae stage of heartworms. What they do though is to ensure that any of these parasites were destroyed before they can grow into adults, race and damage your pet's internal organs.

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There are differences between the active ingredients used in a variety of heartworm medications, and how big the worm larvae can deal with. In fact one of the key ingredients, Ivermectin is widely used to destroy worms in adult dogs who have fully blown version of the disease. However, the doses used in the heartworm preventive meds are so small that only the larvae that are in your pets system for 30 days or less, which will surely be destroyed.

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key to ensuring your pet never succumb to heartworm disease is to give all the heartworm medication that you have chosen a very timely manner. Without regular treatment monthly heartworm pill or topical treatments can have a future meds will affect you. So, set a reminder for yourself to ensure you are never late administration of drugs for your pets.

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