MITCHAM VETERINARY CLINIC

Important Information about Flea Treatments

 

In an article in Veterinary Times (Vol 20:8 August 2000, page 27), the manufacturers of a leading injectable flea treatment state that:

 

"The fact that (our product) does not treat adult fleas raises some important issues…

 

…if  (fleas) are seen in large numbers (in pets treated with our product), they can often be traced to a visited household…

 

… if the household is "open", especially with roaming cats (i.e. if your pets are not kept indoors) this will require environmental control with regular use of adulticide".

 

This is an admission by the manufacturers that their product alone is NOT effective in controlling fleas in households where pets are allowed outside, because that product is not an "adulticide", i.e. doesn't kill adult fleas.

 

 

 

For this reason, MITCHAM VETERINARY CLINIC will only supply flea products containing adulticides, since we recognise that the majority of our clients keep dogs and cats in normal circumstances where they are given outdoor exercise, and are therefore very likely to come into contact with sources of fleas outside their own household.

 

We therefore recommend modern, safe, adulticide flea treatments such as ADVANTAGE, FRONTLINE or STRONGHOLD "spot-on" products, together, where necessary, with environmental sprays containing both adulticide and flea development inhibitors such as ACCLAIM 2000 or NORSHIELD.

 

Please ask our vets or nurses for advice on these highly effective and economical treatments and preventives.

 

Mitcham Veterinary Clinic

info@mitchamvet.co.uk

(020) 8640 5766