#DogsofMastodon Public Service Announcement: Flea season is approaching in the west and is likely here in the #PNW due to a mild mild winter.
All corporate flea medicines are pesticides. but some of the new ones - that your Vet will tell you are perfectly safe - are incredibly dangerous. Specifically products containing Isoxazoline (brand names: Bravecto, Nexgard, Credelio, and Simparica (brand names for fluralaner, afoxolaner, lotilaner, and sarolaner)). Credelio ultimately killed my 10 year old shitzu but he suffered along time with severe neurological issues - we had to retrain him on how to drink water and eat food, that's how toxic this shit is.
Please please consider other means of flea control for the pets you love.
Here is an article that explains some of this: https://vetmed.illinois.edu/pet-health-columns/fda-alert-on-flea-medications/
And here is an article from 2018 (they've known this for along time!): https://www.today.com/health/fda-warns-about-flea-tick-products-containing-isoxazoline-t137954
#Dogs #Fleas #FleaMeds
FDA Alert on Flea Medications - Veterinary Medicine at Illinois

What Pet Owners Need to Know The FDA recently alerted the pet-owning and veterinary public about the potential for neurologic adverse events in dogs and cats treated with drugs that are in the isoxazoline class.... Read More >

Veterinary Medicine at Illinois
@Petesmom So sorry about your dog! Was that one dose that cased the neurologic symptoms, or did those start after you've been giving them a while?
@mikemccaffrey
It was the first and only time I had done the chewable - he was super sick within 8 hours. I couldnt get any vet to treat him - they kept saying he couldnt have had a reaction. The worst part is the FDA wouldnt take a report which tells me whatever #s the company that makes it is giving for frequency of reaction is deeply skewed. So people cant make informed choices.
Thanks for asking
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