How it works? Drops from fleas and ticks on withers

Drops from fleas and ticks along with collars and sprays are the most popular means of combating parasites in pets.

They are versatile, easy to use and inexpensive.

Let's try to understand them in more detail.

How to act

All drops are the same.

1. Active ingredients accumulate in the epidermis, hair follicles, and subcutaneous fat. Practically not absorbed in the blood.
2. Components block flea and tick nerve impulses, in parasites coordination is disturbed, paralysis occurs, and they die.

What are they made up of?

Preparations are conventionally divided into:

• preparations based on insecticides of the phenylpyrazole group (fipronil and pyriprol);
• preparations based on pyrethroid insecticides (permethrin, phenotrin, etofenprox, cypermethrin) or organophosphate compounds (diazinon).

Drops of vegetable components stand apart (tea tree oil, eucalyptus, citronella, aloe extract, tansy, ginseng). They are safe have anti-fungal, antiseptic effect. Perfectly deter parasites.

How to use

1. Apply, parted wool on the skin animal between the shoulder blades or in the neck.
2. Detailed dosage and safety information is provided in the instructions..
3. HDo not use if skin is damaged or wet..
4. Cannot be used with flea sprays and collars..
5. If the drops are applied for the first time, the animal may experience drooling, hypersalization. The animal may be anxious, look depressed.
6. In case of violation of the dosage or incorrect application (animal lick means) possible overdose. It is expressed in frequent breathing, drooling, shivering, anxiety. Vomiting and diarrhea may occur.
7. In case of an overdose, you need to wash your pet with soap.. Signs of overdose should disappear in two days.

To spread the drug on the skin surface will take 2-3 days. After that, the protection of the animal will work in full force.

Precautionary measures:

1. Working with the drug can not smoke, drink and eat.
2. Empty packaging is recycled..
3. Wash hands with soap and water at the end of work..
4. If you are allergic to the drug you need to see a doctor. It is advisable to bring instructions.
5. Exclude contact of the animal with young children for at least a day.

Against worms

Pharmaceutical companies, other than flea and tick drops, release complex antiparasitic drugsthat affect not only fleas and ticks, but also remove worms.

In preparations two active substances. One thing fights arthropods (fipronil, imidacloprid), and the second (moxidectin, ivermectrin, cidectin), penetrating the body through the skin, spreading through the blood through the body, concentrated in the intestine and stomach, infects round and tapeworm worms.

Rules for applying drops exactly same as for flea and tick drops.

The duration of the anthelmintic action from 8 to 12 days.

Choose the best

On the shelves of shops and veterinary pharmacies presents dozens of drugs. Their cost fluctuates from 50 rubles per packdeveloped in Russia by BlokhNET, up to 1500 rubles for the import lawyer.

It all depends on the dosage and prestige of manufacturers. For example, Bayer made in Germany is much more expensive than popular domestic brands. But this does not mean that domestic ones are less effective. Import is always more expensive, it is pegged to the Euro.

Ectoparasites can carry dangerous infections (plague bacillus, salmonella, infectious hepatitis). In order not to put themselves at risk need to fight parasites in pets. And it will help easy-to-use, inexpensive and effective drops.