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Dog vomiting after flea treatment
My vet gave Baxter some Advantage spot on flea and worm treatment on Tuesday morning. It appears to have killed the fleas already. However, he started vomiting yesterday morning and had a very noisy stomach. He is prone to upset tummies but never vomits, just starves himself for the day and poos a lot.
He seemed to come right last night and ate a can of dog food. An hour later he was vomiting again and we spent most of the night taking him out to eat grass.
Anyone else had problems with this flea treatment? The vet didn't give me any info on possible side effects so I had to google them. Am now freaking at the possibility of neurological problems after essentially giving my dog a pesticide.
He seemed to come right last night and ate a can of dog food. An hour later he was vomiting again and we spent most of the night taking him out to eat grass.
Anyone else had problems with this flea treatment? The vet didn't give me any info on possible side effects so I had to google them. Am now freaking at the possibility of neurological problems after essentially giving my dog a pesticide.
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When my dog has a stomach upset I withhold food for 24 hours then introduce something bland like chicken and rice.
As for grass, she has always been a grass eater well or not. Usually if we meet someone when out and I pause to chat she starts tearing up the grass around her and eating it. With her it's a sort of attention seeking. I've learnt to stop her eating it if I don't want to be up in the night
They do know how to worry us don't they?
Sounds like he's on the mend. Fingers crossed!:)
I didn't realise Advantage was a wormer as well. It can give them upset tummies, being wormed, eh, so hopefully that's all you were seeing there. I found Advantage to work fine on my very old lady and the slightest thing usually set her off. But they are all different.
Advantage is a wormer but doesn't include protection for tapeworm, so I will still need to treat him for that.
I think perhaps he received too large a dose. The vet gave him a large dog dose and also a small dog dose as a top up because he weighs 43 kilos and the large dog one is for dogs up to 40 kilos. But that meant that the top up he was given took him up to 52 kilos dosage.
After my cats recent reaction to Advantage i am really cautious about dosing them with anything. My big 12 years old male cat goes out a lot so I bought Drontal along with the Advantage, Drontal being for tape worms, but reluctant to give it to him after the Advantage made him vomit. I have always trusted these drugs and want my cats to have the best protection, but I'm wondering if the ingredients have changed or is it just that my cats being older, are not able to tolerate these drungs as well as they did when they were younger? i feel that this is certainly the case with my 22 year old female cat, and as she doesn't go outside, and her having such a severe reaction to the last dose of Advantage, she isn't treated with anything anymore.