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Heartworm medicine and medication

May 10, 2009 | Permalink

What are heartworm medicine and medication

Heartworm medicine, are successful at 99%. The medication will kill adult worms with the help of an adulticide and larvae (microfilariae) with the help of a microfilaricide.  At your dog next visit to the vetenerian, don’t forget to ask about heartworms.

Heartworm medicationhave to be effective in killing heatworms (adults and larvae) with minimal side effects to the dog.  Treatments against the parasite tend to be more successful in dogs showing low to moderate symptoms. This is why the use of heartworm medicine such as ivermectin or selamectin is usually recommended.

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Show you dog love, treat your dog with heartworm medicine.

Heartworm diagnosis

April 29, 2009 | Permalink

Determine if you dog has heartworms

To determine the presence of heartworms, your veterinary will perform a blood test on your dog.  The blood test will allow the doctor to determine the presence of an a product released by the female worm. This particular diagnosis is very specific to heartworms and tests are accurate more than 90% of the time. Sometimes, negative results can happen, due to a too low number of worms, early stage infections or no presence of female worms in the dog.

After your dog has been tested positive to this first blood test, you can also get your vet to test for the presence of microfilariae (larvae), using concentring filter test.

X-Rays

Finally X-ray can be done to evaluate how much lung damage has been caused by the heartworms. It is important to treat your dog with heartworm medicine every year to prevent the infestation by worms.

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X ray are performed to determine the amount of damages done to the lung

X ray are performed to determine the amount of damages done to the lungs

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Don’t let your dog suffer, treat him with heartworm medicine.

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