Advantage Flea Medicine
Having a pet that is constantly scratching is always distressing. Most times this behaviour is due to an infestation of fleas on the skin of your pet. One of the treatments available is Advantage flea medicine. This should be able to help you control the problem of fleas in your pets by stopping the spread of fleas and killing the fleas that try to bite your pet. By following the instructions for the use of Advantage flea medicine, you will be able to work at ridding your pets and home of these troublesome pests. It is very important the fleas are removed from your home, as they can carry diseases and cause discomfort you and your family as well as your pet dogs, or cats.
Advantage flea medicine is easy to apply. It comes in either in pill or lotion format. You treat your pet with the medication as per instructions on the packaging of the medicine. After application, your pet then absorbs the medication into their blood stream. When a flea bites them or comes in contact with the medication, they are poisoned. This prevents the fleas from reproducing, as well as resulting in the death of each flea on the skin of your pet. By interrupting their reproductive cycle the medication prevents a re-infestation and the number of fleas is rapidly reduced and cleared. In effect you can use your pet as a flea removal tool. Even though you have cleared all the fleas from your pet, they will still be present in carpets and furnishings in your home. These fleas can re-infest your pet. So it will be necessary to continue the treament for some time.
Advantage flea medicine can be used year round, but it is suggested that for those who do not want to treat their pets all of the time, it is applied several weeks prior to the start of flea season. The Flea season usually begins in April, so it is suggested that you start treatments in early March. Medication should continue until after flea season has ended, which occurs in December. As such, only January and February are realistically safe for your pets to go untreated.
If you have a flea problem, Advantage flea medication can help remove the problem. However, this method takes time. If you have a serious infestation, you may need to use flea foggers or other products to quickly remove fleas. As flea bites can linger for up to two weeks, fleas can cause a great deal of discomfort for both yourself and your pets. As fleas will bite anything warm with blood, they are also prime candidates for spreading disease. While they are not quite as good at transmitting diseases as airborne carriers such as the mosquito, it is still a concern worth addressing.
What Advantage flea medicine can do for you is prevent an infestation from occurring. This is particularly important if your pet goes outside, as the majority of flea infestations begin with a pet who has gone outside and has brought so much as a single flea indoors. This problem can occur both in towns and cities as well as in the countryside.
If you are trying to remove a flea infestation from your home, regular use of vacuum cleaning of carpets and furnishings can help. Remember you should take care to dispose carefully of the contents of the vacuum bags, since this is where any remaining fleas may breed.
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Brian Waybridge, the author of this article, had to deal with fleas and ticks on his dogs and cats