Sandy, we use heartworm preventative year round and it doesn't hurt them. I would do it if I were you.
Also, I lived in the Chicago area in the 1970s and it is worse for mosquitoes than the Deep South. This is probably because the land is flat there and doesn't drain well. Those corn fields were full of mosquitoes. I remember a news story about a prison escape where the convicts ran into a corn field to hide. The police used dogs to trace them to the fields so cops and dogs went in after the convicts. The mosquitoes were a black cloud. First, the dogs came back out of the fields, then the cops, and finally the convicts couldn't take it anymore and came out with hands up. This is a true story. It was in the Chicago paper with photos. I don't doubt that heartworm is bad in your area. All the best, Susan Cochran ----- Original Message ----- From: "sandy liston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [CKCS-L] injectable heartguard-another ? > --- Mel & Hilarie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 10:59 AM 04/26/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > But there is injectable ivermectin which is what is in heartguard. > > I > > >believe high does of ivermectin, injected, is how you can cure > > >heartworm also.??? I could be wrong, I am just repeating what I was > > >told. > > > Sandy > > > > Hi Sandy - > > > > About 10 years ago a study was done in France that concluded that > > ivermectin could be successfully used to treat dogs with heartworm - > > by > > continuing to treat on a monthly basis no larva would be able to > > mature and > > the mature worms already residing in the heart would live live out > > their > > natural life spans and die one at a time. This poses less risk of > > clots to > > the affected dog than the traditional treatment which kills ALL of > > the > > adult worms at once. It also can be used to treat dogs that have > > liver > > problems that preclude using the traditional treatment. I do not > > believe > > that a larger dose was called for, and I think that oral dosing would > > work, > > just as it does for prevention. > > > > Hilarie > > Hilarie Gibbs-Sykes > > Mel Sykes > > > > Hob Nob Cavaliers > > Sarasota, FL > > http://www.geocities.com/locustlee > > > > > Thanks Hilarie, That is good to know. I know of someone who recently > put down there dog because a different vet (not mine) said treatment > for her heartworm positive dog was going to be 100's of dollars. > One this subject: My vet wants me to put my dogs on heartgard year > round. We live in the Chicago area and I am not sure it is necessary. > His practice has had an average of 30 dogs/year diagnosed with > heartworm. Does anyone have strong feelings one way or another? > Sandy Liston > > ===== > Sandy liston > www.iluvcavaliers.net > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more > http://games.yahoo.com/ > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
