Rainbow City Pet Clinic veterinarians are the best reference, with expert knowledge of the parasites your pet and family can be exposed to in our region. Providing continuous protection against harmful parasites is not only essential in protecting the overall health of your dogs and cats but also for humans, especially kids.
Now that dogs and cats are treated like family members, we share our home with them. Therefore, it is even more significant to keep your fur family members on monthly parasite prevention to reduce the risks associated with the transmission of parasitic diseases from pets to people.
Rainbow City Pet Clinic recommends and offers several brands of year-round parasite prevention to protect your fur and human family members. We have our opinions of the BEST products for your pet so let us help you with a recommendation!
Hookworms: Hookworms attach to the intestinal tract of dogs and cats, where they are voracious bloodsuckers. The internal blood loss can be severe, especially in puppies and kittens. Puppies may not survive this anemia without a blood transfusion. In addition, the patients will often have dark diarrhea and weight loss, even adults. The hookworm larvae enter the body through the skin, and some dogs will have lesions between their toes as evidence of this migration.
Hookworms can infect humans by penetrating the skin when walking barefoot on the beach, working in the garden, or where pets may deposit feces. This invasion causes an itching sensation with a serpentine lesion on the skin. These lesions generally go away on their own. This condition is called cutaneous larva migrans. One species of hookworm in dogs is known to go away independently. This condition is called cutaneous larva migrans. One species of hookworm in dogs is known to develop in the human intestine, where it causes visceral larva migrans. This reaction causes severe abdominal pain and eosinophilia in people.
For more information on parasites, visit https://www.petsandparasites.org/
