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Sick Puppy. Reaction to Frontline???
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 18413" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>About the Frontline - years ago when products like this first came onto the market, my sister dosed her dog (a small terrier) and the dog got dreadfully sick - vomiting, lost weight, looked just like a poisoning case. The dog did recover but it was a near thing.</p><p></p><p>I think it does depend on the dog, whether it's got s sensitivity reaction and how much it grooms itself.</p><p></p><p>The mucousy diarrhea - that could be an indication of intestinal inflammation. It would be worth checking it for other nasty things, but it could also be the Frontline.</p><p></p><p>My sister nursed her dog through it. The vet didn't believe it could have been the Frontline, until everything else was ruled out. She was able to use flea powder on him and other things, just not Frontline or similar products. She never used them again, just stuck to regular flea shampoos and dusting the sleeping area.</p><p></p><p>Can you get your hands on the product that stops the fleas from forming pupae? It's similar to the juvenile hormone pesticide used on cockroaches. I haven't seen the flea one advertised much lately (or the roach one, for that matter) but they first developed these for flies, back in about 1981 I think. We had it in Australia for blowflies and the sheep industry. Our market name, while it was being researched, for the flies was called Vetrazyn. The flea one and the cockroach one had different names. But because they're only designed to work on insects (and even then, only some kinds of insects) these pesticides have a low mammalian toxicity.</p><p></p><p>I would talk to the vet about alternative flea treatments. Ask about juvenile hormone.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 18413, member: 1991"] About the Frontline - years ago when products like this first came onto the market, my sister dosed her dog (a small terrier) and the dog got dreadfully sick - vomiting, lost weight, looked just like a poisoning case. The dog did recover but it was a near thing. I think it does depend on the dog, whether it's got s sensitivity reaction and how much it grooms itself. The mucousy diarrhea - that could be an indication of intestinal inflammation. It would be worth checking it for other nasty things, but it could also be the Frontline. My sister nursed her dog through it. The vet didn't believe it could have been the Frontline, until everything else was ruled out. She was able to use flea powder on him and other things, just not Frontline or similar products. She never used them again, just stuck to regular flea shampoos and dusting the sleeping area. Can you get your hands on the product that stops the fleas from forming pupae? It's similar to the juvenile hormone pesticide used on cockroaches. I haven't seen the flea one advertised much lately (or the roach one, for that matter) but they first developed these for flies, back in about 1981 I think. We had it in Australia for blowflies and the sheep industry. Our market name, while it was being researched, for the flies was called Vetrazyn. The flea one and the cockroach one had different names. But because they're only designed to work on insects (and even then, only some kinds of insects) these pesticides have a low mammalian toxicity. I would talk to the vet about alternative flea treatments. Ask about juvenile hormone. Marg [/QUOTE]
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