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Originally Posted by Ellie May  But then again, from my understanding 1/5 of the milbemycin oxime in Interceptor would control heartworms. They add the other 4/5 for intestinal worms. I think there is a safe heart dose available (not in the US) for just heartworms. So those who want to protect against heartworms alone are overdosing by 4/5.  |
Hopefully those folks know to use Ivermectin (Heartguard)...then again, the weight breakdown for H.guard is not something I like (less specific toward small dogs). So then you'd be overdosing there, just in a different way, you know? That has always bugged me.
And I was also reading that while some heartworm meds lower the seizure threshold (
), Interceptor is the one w/ the least amount of chance of doing that -- can't tell whether this is anecdotal or not, yet. Do you know?
And then (I need to stop reading), if you look at the Australian version of Interceptor - which is Interceptor Spectrum - that version also treats for tapeworm...so now I wonder why we don't treat for that here as well. Confusing.