subject: Facts About Fleas, Ticks And Frontline Spray [print this page] Do you know that flea can bite your pet more than 400 times. In this bite count, fleas can consume more that its body weight of the blood of your pets. And before the female flea through in infesting your pets she can lay hundreds of eggs on your pets, ensuring that its work will be carried out until her next generation to come. In this problem a frontline spray is helpful.
In some of our pets a flea bites is really nuisance, to them, but in some they can be dangerous. Flea bite can cause dermatitis, this is an allergic reaction to proteins that is found in flea saliva. Your pets can have a permanent hair loss and other skin problems, this due to constant scratching to rid itself of fleas.
And sometimes the pets can have a tapeworm if it eats a flea that has one. Flea infestations on the blood of pets can lead to anemia and in rare cases lead to death.
But fleas are not the only enemies of your pets, tick also, their bite can give infections in your pet such as Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. And ticks can give those same infections to you.
Today, fleas and ticks are getting easier to control by using frontline spray. Frontline spray also help kill ticks. Treating only the pet using frontline spray often take care of the problem. But still is there is a severe flea infestation or if the problem persists, you may still need to treat the pet's environment.
There is a lot of pesticides, frontline spray, repellants and growth inhibitors are approved to control fleas and ticks infestations in your pets, not only in your pet but also in the environment.
Products that does not require a prescription by the veterinarian, like shampoos dips, powders and collars, some of this product are available in retail store. Medication that are applied directly to your pet skin is what we called a spot-ons, this is a liquid product. Some of the medication course of action is to kill only ticks or adult fleas, some break the flea life cycle by preventing flea eggs from developing into adult fleas. Frontline Spray provides fast acting, effective flea and tick control for adult dogs and cats and for puppies and kittens 8 weeks of age or older.
To provide important safety information to the client, some fleas and ticks products are not a prescription drugs, which is available only through veterinarians. The collar, it contains an insecticide amitraz, this chemical paralyzes ticks. Collar can kills ticks by interfering the ability of ticks to feed themselves on your pets.
It is best to administer frontline spray in your pet at the beginning of flea and tick season. The severity and length of the flea season vary depending on which part of the country you live in. Fleas also can live inside a warm house all year-round.
Using frontline spray and other fleas and ticks product, you need first to read the label carefully before you use. Follow the direction exactly on how to use frontline spray. If the frontline spray is intended only for dogs then do not use it to cats or other animals or pets. After you apply the product wash first your hands immediately with soap and water. You can use a protective glove. Store products away from food and out of the reach of children.
