Best Heart Worm Medication?

[Rich S]

This year we put Magnum on Revolution. For the area in Canada we live, this was the best choice.

Revolution Flea Medicine:

Revolution flea control is quite exceptional in flea care as it targets and controls various other parasites and prevents sarcoptic mange. Revolution flea and tick control also targets hookworm, roundworm, and ear mites.

Revolution flea medicine is absorbed through the skin and enters the bloodstream. It moves into the pet’s intestines where it kills parasites, then returns to the skin and hair follicles where it attacks fleas, mange and ear mites.

[Big Red Machine]

We put Newman on Revolution this year, our vet recommended it.

So far so good.

[Tombo]

I hope my baby doesn't get heart worm :)

[roses]

My vet provided me with Heartgard. She recommended that I give one pill every 45 days starting May 1st - the beginning of our mosquito season in my country (India) and stopping giving the pills in October when cold weather kills off the mosquitoes. Both the doctor and I agree that we just don't want to give the dogs any more medication than is absolutely necessary; the pills are effective for 45 days. I don't know of any other heartworm medicine to compare it with.

[RedDobeLuvr]

I used to always give my dogs Heartguard. But, since i have gotten my Dobe, I have used Advantage Multi. It is a preventative for flea, ticks, heartworm, and other worms. I like it because it's all in one.

[jelly8bean]

I worry about these ever since they had that flea medication that was causing all those problems and some deaths. I'm very careful about what I use. I use heartguard for all three of mine and I use Frontline on them in the spring thru fall.. I do stop each year in the winter dispite the recommendations that it should be year round use. I think they need a break.

[Dizzy0427]

I use Heartguard Plus at the moment. But heartguard did recently lose its patent, and some other (what vets call "generic") brands are the EXACT same thing, like Tri Heart Plus.

[DynamicDuo]

My vet just prescribed Interceptor for heartworms (Novartis) although I think in the past we used Heartguard. To tell you the truth I have not used heartworm pills for a few years. I thought they were a waste of $$. BUT now it seems as though our area is being taken over by mosquitoes ( I live in Pa), so I thought it better to put them on meds. We spend a lot of time near creeks, lakes, waterways, etc.... and I've even noticed more skeeters flying in my home at night from doors being opened and shut.

[MLR]

Because my male dobe, Hercules, has Van Wilebrands desease he has a host of medicines he can't be given as it would excabrate his condition. My vet first prescribed Advantage but Hercules got a flea bite rash and I was getting fleas in the house when he was on that. Turns out Advantage doesn't kill the fleas, it only streralizes them. So you end up with a house full of altered fleas which still have the ability to bite and spread infection.

When Hercules developed the rash I took him back to the vet and he put both my dobe's on Intercepter for heartworm and other worms and dispite my reservations I am now using Frontline again for fleas on all my animals. My oldest cat also had a flea rash at that time and an internal flea infection from a flea bite which almost killed him. Frontline actually kills any flea that bites an animal so the fleas in the house, also, went away after that. I think I used some carpet sprinkles made by Roach Proof, too. This stuff kills any hard shelled bug like ants, roaches and fleas.

My reservation about going bact to Frontline was that I have a strong hunch that it killed one of my cats and made one of my friends cats seriously ill. I suspect it caused some kind of nerve damage. At four years old his voice became high pitched and soft like a kitten's. He also couldn't jump up on things like he used to, or get down off things if he managed to get on top of the dresser, for instance. The same thing happened to my friends cat but she had the foresight to rush hers to the vet who gave him steriods and he survived. (Neither of us knew about the other's cat being ill at the time or I might have followed her lead and gotten help for mine before it was too late.) I had never experienced this behavior in any of my cats before because I had, up to then, always used flea collars on them. But when the government banned dursban as an ingredient in flea collars they didn't work to kill the fleas anymore. I think they have modified the formula of Frontline since that experience 4 years ago and so far so good for all my animals.

I only use the tratements from May through October like Jelly8bean because I live in Michigan. She's right; no sense in over medicating any animal if there is no need.

[triplecminis]

Some of the meds do not cover dogs over 88 lbs... Heartguard plus goes up to 100 but does nothing for the fleas.... Some people are using Heartgaurd compined with Comfortis for the fleas.... I used Frontline for many years with no problems but I am not sure what to use now...as i know Ozzy will go over 88 lbs

[DynamicDuo]

I use Front Line for fleas and ticks and it works well considering we live near the woods and have both (fleas and ticks) nearby!