Hi Carolyn: I made this post to another list and should have done so on this as well.
I had one of my puppy owner call me last week. She had taken he little guy to the vets for the regular heartworm meds. As she says she was never really good about remembering to give the pill once a month she thought that the injectable 6 in 1 would be better. The injectable is a gel not a liquid and within a few minutes he was vomiting. The vet rushed him into the back and 25 minutes later when she saw him he was on oxygen and an IV drip. He had collapsed. He then spend the next 3 days in the emergency hospital on oxygen and IV then he started to bleed from his rectum which took a while to get it to stop. He is home now, shaved throat are, both legs and his rear. She has to take him back weekly for testing on his liver and they had no idea how his immune system will be nor his liver nor how this might affect how long he lives. He will be 3 on August 31st. One thing to remember is this is injectable so there is no taking it back it has to go through the whole system. It might not happen to others, but for me I would not take a chance. I have phone all my puppy owners and they in turn have told their vets as did I. By the way her vet sent all remaining gel back to the company. Myself, I test yearly only the dogs being shown as we do not have a very high incident rate here. I would test yearly and only do meds should they develope heartworm as the treatment now for it is a lot safer than the poision we put into these little guys. Hope this helps. Donna Robillard, Winrob Reg'd Ottawa, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 6:17 PM Subject: [CKCS-L] Injectable Heartworm Med > Dear List, > > My dogs have an appointment next week for their annual checkup. I was > thinking about trying the new injectable heartworm med. Does anyone have > experience with it? Any adverse effects? > > Thanks! > > Carolyn Dunn > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ========================================================= > "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.
