Here are some great videos from the people at Expertvillage at youtube.com have about Frontline Plus for Dogs and Frontline Plus for Cats. The few videos are about Side Effects of Frontline Plus for Cats, How to use Frontline Plus and how Frontline Plus works.
Flea Control Video: How to use Frontline Plus Video
Flea Control: How to use Frontline Plus
Let's talk about how to actually use Frontline Plus. The first thing to think about is whether or not your pet has been bathed or not. You have to wait forty eight hours before or after a bath. They cannot be wet. Frontline Plus works by getting into the oil glands and then spreading over the body during natural processes called translocation. So, it takes twenty four hours for that product to cover the whole body, and so they have to be dry. The second thing you want to do is remove the collar. This product is a great product! It will however, wick into collars and so that's the first thing to do, is remove it.
Now, you take your applicator, and what you'll want to do is to trim off the top of the applicator so you can open the packaging. Sometimes it's not easy. Remove the back part of the packaging. So now, remove the applicator and face it away from you. Now what you want to do, there's a little opening tab, a little separation right here. You want to clip that away from you and you always apply Frontline Plus between the shoulder blades, right in between, and you want to do that on the skin itself. You dont want to actually just put it on top of the hair because it does not do, or get into the oil glands like it's supposed to. So, you find in between the shoulder blades, which are right here, you pull the hair away from the skin, and then apply the producat all in that one area. Making a small circular motion sometimes helps distribute that between the hair and in the skin. So, then when you're finished, just throw away the applicator.
Your pet should have an oily spot between the shoulder blades for at least twenty for hours, and so its going to look like that untill it dries and actually starts working. And that is you apply Frontline Plus onto dogs and cats.
Flea Control Video: How does Frontline Plus work video
Flea Control: How does Frontline Plus work?
Let's talk about how Frontline Plus works. Frontline Plus is a great flea and tick medication, it's used topically once a month. The way it works is, it's incorporated into oil glands, so when you place Frontline Plus on your pet, it is incorporated into those oil glands, and then by natural processes, the oil is spread throughout the skin within twenty for hours, by a process called trans location. So, therefore, those oil glands spread the product over the whole body. That's why you can place Frontline Plus right between the shoulder blades and within twenty four hours it will spread over the rest of the body.
What Frontline does is SNS, or central nervous system inhibitor for fleas, and so fleas on contact with Frontline Plus will die. The plus part of Frontline is methopryne, which is an insect growth regulator, and what this does is basically, stop larvae production, and stop the production of eggs, thus breaking the cycle of flea.
Flea Control Video: Side Effect of Frontline Plus for Pets Video
Flea Control: Side Effects of Frontline Plus for Pets
Let's talk about the potential side effects for Frontline or Frontline Plus. Frontline Plus is generally well tolerated and side effects are mild to none in most animals. Few reports of side effects include hair loss at the site of placement, also mild irritaion at the placement of the product. Always check with your veterinarian as far as is this product safe for your pet, and if you think there are any types of side effects. So what you would watch for would basically be generally an area of redness or hair loos right at the back between the shoulder blades, because that's where you're generally placing the product. Frontline Plus should never be used in debilitated or very geriatric patients. Again, always check with your veterinarian first.
But Frontline Plus is very safe and it usually does a very good job of flea and ticks and is well tolerated in most dogs and cats. Always make sure that you're using the right product that is for the right size dog or cat, and that you're using a cat for cat product (Frontline Plus for Cats), a dog for dog product (Frontline Plus for Dogs).
Flea Control Video: What Kills Flea Eggs Video
Flea Control: What Kills Flea Eggs?
Let's talk about what kills flea eggs. And honestly, there are not alot of things that do. Flea eggs are very, very hardy. Fleas like to jump off your pet and lay eggs in carpeting or pet bedding. And this is the first part of the flea cycle. There are some commercial products the are out there that claim to kill flea eggs, but always check with your veterinarian first to make sure that it is safe to apply to your carpeting or to your pet's bedding.
As far as other products that can directly kill flea eggs, it's very difficult to accomplish. However, secondarily, preventing eggs from being hatched is a good way to go. Something like Frontline Plus - the plus part actually is S Methoprene, which is an insect growth regulator. So what that does, essentially, is prevent fleas from being able to hatch eggs and to have ggs. And so by doing that, that breaks the cycle and thus prevents more eggs from building up.
A first line of defense to kill flea eggs is honestly just waching bedding. Washing eliminates and killa flea eggs just by default. The other way to deal with flea eggs in an environment is lots of vacuuming, especially in carpeting. Carpeting is a very, very common place for flea eggs to build up. Fleas like to lay eggs in there, and so vacuuming can eliminate that, and waching can kill flea eggs as well.