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Does Dewormer take care of heartworms?

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Dewormer medicine kills intestinal parasites such as hookworms and roundworms. But they do not kill heartworms. In fact, heartworms live in the blood vessels and not the intestines, so dewormers have no effect on them. Heartworm preventative is the only medicine that can prevent heartworms.


Can I give heartworm and Dewormer together?

You can't give your pet preventative medication if he is already infected with heartworm. This can actually cause health complications for your pet to become even more serious if he does indeed have heartworm.

What happens if you worm a dog with heartworm?

Heartworm preventives do not kill adult heartworms. Also, giving a heartworm preventive to a dog infected with adult heartworms may be harmful or deadly. If microfilariae are in the dog's bloodstream, the preventive may cause the microfilariae to suddenly die, triggering a shock-like reaction and possibly death.

Are heartworms and intestinal worms the same?

What is Heartworm? Like intestinal worms, heartworm disease is a result of an internal parasite and rather than taking over and living in the intestinal tract of a dog; worms live in the heart, lungs, and associated blood vessels.

Can a dog completely be cured of heartworms?

Heartworm antigen testing is the most reliable method of confirming that all of the adult heartworms have been eliminated. Although many dogs are antigen-negative 16 weeks after treatment, it can take longer for the antigen to be completely cleared from some dogs.

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