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V Oh no, a lot of ticks on my body….what
should i do?

Dog owners may face with this problem even though they take several approaches to
prevent their dogs from tick and flea i.e. bathing, spot on medicine, spray, injection
or any other methods. However, they still cannot get rid of tick and flea from their
dogs. This makes owners worry about some disease that can be transmitted by those
insects like blood parasite also known as tick fever which is sometime fetal.

So, what should we do?
At first, we need to understand that life cycle of tick and flea does not exist only on
animals’ body, yet more importantly is in environment i.e. backyard or cage and this
is the reason why it is very difficult to prevent them.
What we should do is to start looking at our pets first. There are several ways to
control tick and flea infestation on dogs’ body such as injection, spot on medicine
and bathing. All different approaches that owners apply can certainly prevent tick
and flea, but it really depends on type, concentration, frequency and variety of the
medicine being administered.
Generally, vet would recommend alternating several approaches together. For
example, injection alternate with spot on and combine with bathing once a week.
After checking our pets then we need to examine the environment which is not just
the backyard, but also include floor, corner of the room or damp area. Preventing
method is to normally clean the area that your dogs stay and to use the products
which can kill tick and flea as well.

If we get all the things done, will we be able to eliminate tick
and flea?
Although we did all the things we still cannot eliminate tick and flea for a hundred
percent, but this will tremendously reduce the amount of tick and flea and the risk of
having tick fever.
Finally, if you are worried that your dogs may have blood parasites from tick and flea
infestation, the best way to do is to take your dogs to see veterinarian so that your
dogs will be examined thoroughly.

iVet Center, Hanoi (Veterinarian Clinic)
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