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Turramurra Vet Hospital Flea and Tick Prevention

Turramurra Vet Hospital specialises in advising clients on the best treatment plans for flea and tick prevention. Especially during the warmer months, tick paralysis cases are bought to the practice regularly.

Undetected for a period of time, a single tick bite can be fatal. Ticks suck blood to fertilise their eggs and secrete a paralysing toxin resulting in signs such as breathing difficulties, coughing, vomiting, or wobbly legs. On sighting these symptoms, please contact Turramurra Vet - speedy action may save your pet's life.

While there are excellent tick and flea prevention products on the market (Frontline and Advantix), it is impossible to keep your pet 100% free from fleas and ticks. It is important to regularly check your pet for ticks and fleas. Never solely rely on a product to protect your pet.

Note that both flea and tick prevention is dependent on correct dosages with preventatives. It is strongly advisable to bring your pet in for free weighing to more accurately assess the correct dose.

Tick Prevention Tips

A number of simple measures can reduce the risk of illness in your pet from ticks:

search your pets daily for ticks checking any lumps;
especially check the neck, head and ears;
remove any ticks immediately using tweezers or fingernails;
regularly apply a preventative product;
keep your pet's coat clipped if it is a long-haired species;
immediately contact Turramurra Vet on tick bite symptoms -
vomiting, coughing, weakness or collapse;
contact Turramurra Vet for advice on discovering a tick.

Tick Clips

Turramurra Vet Hospital offers a professional tick clipping service. A trained vet nurse clips the coat of long-haired dogs or cats reducing the incidence of ticks and making them easier to discover. With any tick clipping service, Turramurra Vet will provide a comprehensive check of your pet and the latest advice on tick prevention and care.

Flea Prevention

The difficulty of flea control is that adult fleas seen on pets are only “the tip of the iceberg.” Each adult flea can lay thousands of eggs and the majority of the flea population (95%) is eggs and larvae where your pet lives (bedding, carpets, yard). Controlling adult fleas may still leave large numbers of viable eggs and larvae untouched. These hatch and develop into adults, causing re-infestation. Eggs may take up to three months to hatch – so control of adults on all pets may be needed for three months until the flea population declines.

If you are having problems with flea control, please ask us for advice.

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